Sunday. 10th. Not backdating ;) Leftover roast pork with a whole bunch of freshly roasted veggies for dinner. Watched The Pursuit of Happyness which wasn't bad. It did remind me of sometimes when we were kids getting home late from something, and we'd pretend to be asleep in the car so Mum and Dad would carry us upstairs and put us to bed :)
Monday. Slept fairly well. Day went pretty quickly - busy fixing up proxy profiles. Saw all the birds at lunch. Leftover chicken wings from a club night with rice and cabbage for dinner. Finally hit 20000 photos labelled!! 197 done all up, only 15 behind (into Legoland Billund).
Tuesday. Took *forever* to get to sleep - stressing about All The Things, holidays, health, having to go to the chemist etc etc etc. Then I woke up at 3am hungry and needing to pee, so did that, then saw an email from the cruise company with bad news about our trip next year (I'm trying to get out of it because too many retarded Americans won't get vaccinated) so then it took *forever* to get back to sleep. Zombie tired all day, didn't really get much done all day. Was too tired and depressed to feel like weeding or music practise or labelling, so instead had a couple of beers, watched an episode of Connected (Clouds), and had an early night. I really need to keep reminding myself that even if we lose all the thousands of dollars we've spent on our holidays we might not be able to go on, we're still a helluva a lot better off than so many other people this pandemic. We still have jobs, food, a roof over our heads, and haven't gotten sick from covid (so far).
Wednesday. After the early night actually slept quite well for a change. Busy day, although didn't get to do the *one thing* I wanted to do because of interruptions and people wanting stuff. Did some weeding and music practise, but had a tv dinner for dinner. 208 photos labelled all up, now 115 behind.
Sometimes I get down about fish keeping, because tanks get manky and fish die. Then I get a tank like this which i super healthy and all the plants are growing like crazy and no algae and the little fishies are breeding like rabbits. Such a joy this tank.
Thursday. Somewhat broken sleep, not helped by a couple of storms rolling through. Headed out early to get blood tests done for a checkup. Got to see a bit of floriade in Belco.
Ok day. Got rained on seeing the birds, but they were pretty eager. No virtual drinks this week. Started watching 50 Shades of Grey, but only made it about half an hour in. Really didn't like the guy at all. Watched Lie to Me instead.
Friday. Awake from 3-5am so zombie morning (although somewhat better afternoon). Did manage to achieve some stuff too which was useful. Watched Inferno in the evening which we hadn't seen before. Pretty much just like the other two, and fun distractions with the been-theres in Turkey :)
Saturday. Up at stoopid o'clock and then spent the entire day doing upgrades, first with HBZ then with Con. A few hiccoughs along the way, but I think we got there in the end. See what happens Monday I guess. Did some weeding and music and talked to the mother type person. She ended up cancelling our Oberammergau trip because the tour company were being pooheads. I would certainly never travel with them again. Mainly because they were *hideously* expensive for what you got. Basically all it included was hotels, a coach and a tour guide - no lunches, very few dinners, and not much in the way of attraction entries either - it was all "free time in the town". If I'm paying that much, I want them to take me to as many places as possible, not just dump us in a town and tell us to fend for ourselves. If I wanted to do that I could take a train. So we're actually considering doing that - taking trains around northern Italy, and maybe hire a car for a few days to see some harder to get to places in the mountains. And even after all the money we lost, the trip will probably still be cheaper to do it ourselves. The sweetie got Chong Co for dinner, and we watched Tora! Tora! Tora! (on Disney, even though I inherted Dad's DVD of it - shoulda watched the DVD though - Disney's subtitles were a bit hit and miss in places - like only flashing for a fraction of a second and not giving you enough time to read them).
Sunday. Today. Up at stoopid o'clock to finally go do food shopping at Coles (first time since 8 September!!). Then came home and finally got to have my weekend. Spent all morning doing all the usual weekend stuff I need to get done, then weeding, lunch, music, photo processing and blogging. And now's just after 3pm and I'm about to go spend a few hours cooking all the food so I don't have to do much in the next week or two.
Sylvia Johnson
I had to laugh, I used to pretend to be asleep in the car and get carried to bed by dad when I was a kid. First I have heard about you doing it!
If we DIY tour, the 8th September is the earliest date I would want to leave home.