Song of the day: “Unwritten” by Natasha Beddingfield. It’s been a while since I had that one, isn’t it? Hmmm. Still a good song.
Right. Where did I leave off the other day? The new cabin, right? Well, we’re still working on that, meaning that yesterday cousin Ed and I spend the majority of the day on ladders hammering in the boards that make up the roof. Seriously, we put up more than forty of them, spent more than four hours balancing on rungs and window sills until finally the whole thing was done, making the cabin officially a room. Yay. Of course I could barely walk afterward, but what the heck. As it turns out, standing on a ladder that long while you have Plantars, is not a smart idea. Was mighty uncomfortable for the remainder of the day, in particular since we had to go to hospital later in the afternoon and then do quite a bit of walking.
In case you’re wondering, the hospital of this area is located on a spot that has been under construction for the past five years or so. This means that parking there is a friggin’ mess, and even though I managed to find a spot close the hospital there was still some odd mile to walk to the entrance, up the stairs toward the main reception hall and then the elevators. Now normally I take the stairs, but my friggin’ feet were killing me, so I opted for the elevator instead.
Gawd, ya don’t wanna know what my foot felt like this morning. I’m betting I’m having a massive inflammation in there again. Aaargh.
This morning, when we went for another visit, in hopes of getting to know Sally’s test results (there was a possibility that they’d come in today). We didn’t, seeing as they hadn’t come in, so instead we just visited for a bit and then headed home again. But I’m getting ahead of myself…or rather not. Let’s keep this remotely interesting and let’s must mix up the last couple of days into one big day. Hah.
I was in a traffic jam, thank you very much. On the way to hospital, there’s a big market on Wednesday, so everything got stuck over there. Took about half an hour to cross a single mile, which was when the coppers got involved and got traffic moving again. I never believed I’d say this but, Yay! For the coppers. Hah
Visitor got robbed at a local shop. One moment she had her wallet and passport in her backpack and the next it was all gone. That sure put a damper on her vacation. She and mom spent the better part of the past couple of mornings at the police station filling in forms and such.
Another near disaster was big brother who (very smartly) left his wallet lying on the hood of the car. We’d been driving for some odd seven miles or so, when suddenly he sees something flutter passed the passenger window. There’s this moment of “hood, black, square, slap…Shit. Wallet” While he jogged back up the mountain in search for the darn thing, I backed up the Land Rover and followed him. Hah.
It’s a miracle the darn thing didn’t fall off sooner!
Had an exhausting trip to a variety of stores in search of computer bargains. Big brother’s computer now really gave the spirit, meaning he will have to settle for a Windows computer, rather than a Mac. No way can we afford a Mac at this time. He’s having some trouble saying goodbye to his favorite computer, but is trying to look at the whole thing as making due so we can practice our chosen careers.
Poor fella. I had the same trouble when I had to downgrade from a normal laptop to a Netbook with ten hours of battery life. Now at least I can work for five hours on end without needing power. It was a trade off.
Writing. It’s been going slowly with all that’s been going on. Writing and meals have been suffering most under the time limits that are at present my banes (does that make sense? Hmmm. I’m not sure), which isn’t smart at all. I can’t afford skipping nutritious meals, nor should I slack on the writing.
Sitabah only coughed once, for as far as I heard, in the past few days, so I think that the anti-inflammatory she got did the trick. Will keep a close eye on her, but I do hope that it will pass without the aid of the offered antibiotics. I really don’t want to use that stuff if I don’t have to.
Chaos, at the moment, is most displeased with our visitor. Whenever he sees her he’ll pale and start balking at her from a fifteen-foot distance, acting like some scaredy cat baby who doesn’t like strangers, for crying out loud. The only relief is that he would never really bit someone, which is more than I can say of Sitabah and Tadaika. I’m keeping a close eye on the two of them.
Most of the afternoon was spent inside the cabin. Cousin Ed and I (after coming back from the hospital) decided to just go for it and managed to put in about half of the parquet. It will be faux wood, of course, with six lines of anthracite and four mahoganies. I would have preferred going for solely anthracite, but regretfully I didn’t have enough of those and have a budget to work with. It looks nice, though. Fancy, and warm because of the mahogany. Managed to finish half the floor today, meaning we’re back to that tomorrow. Yay.
What did involve cooking was a big batch of zucchini soup, which tenant absolutely loved. This was partly due to the fact that I didn’t have time to do much fiddling with it. Basically it was pure zucchini and onion with some broth blocks in it. Which explained why she liked it a lot, while I liked very little of it.
There was of course laundry to hand and fold, and dog food to make, feed and cut, but that is really boring to write about, so I’ll save you from that. Hah.
As for the rest…well, there’s bits and pieces, but I think I’ve managed to hit the highlights again, at least. Being busy doesn’t make up for excitement, does it? Hah. Ah well, better luck next time.
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