Song of the
day: “Human”, by Christina Perri, gorgeous song, admittedly, but it has been in
my head a bit too long now. It’s been going on and on and on for about three
days now, so I wouldn’t mind if it went elsewhere…you want to take it as an
earworm? You’re welcome to it. Hah.
Right. Time
for an update, isn’t it? Should have done it earlier, but I’ve recently had a
bad cold and am only now well on the way of recovery. It was bad there, for a
bit, with me coughing like and idiot for almost a week, but now all I’m left
with is an occasional tickle, so I’ll apparently survive. *sigh* Big brother is
still in the midst of his cold, I’ll have you know, and he’s struggling with
it. It doesn’t help that he refuses to wear scarfs, and sometimes even
sweaters, and that he doesn’t like to use stuff like vaporub and whatnot, but
that’s choice, I suppose. He’s spending a lot of time in bed, sleeping it off,
so lucky for him he didn’t need to work much this past week or two.
Not a lot of
interesting things happened since the last blog, at least nothing that will titillate
you into reading more of this, I could of course make stuff up, but that just
wouldn’t be fair.
First off, I
did manage to do some writing, so the past few weeks weren’t a complete loss.
(pats self on the head) Nothing earth shattering, but added several pages,
which is definitely a plus. Gotta get that book written and the way to write a
book is one page at a time, naturally. Characters are still developing nicely,
so all in all it is not going all that bad.
The
chauffeur job for the hotel didn’t work out. They could only guarantee four
hours a week, which just wouldn’t do. Drat. Would have liked that kind of work,
I’ll admit. Regretfully that one is out of the picture now.
Been
steadily applying for jobs, of course, just like I’m supposed to. At the moment I am aiming for facility
management, night reception clerk for hotels and courier. There’s quite a few
jobs out there for that, now all I’ve gotta do is snatch one…of course I am not
really in a hurry at the moment. I would like to continue writing a bit longer
if at all possible. That of course hangs in the balance of not liking being
unemployed and not having sufficient funds coming in, but you can’t have
everything, I guess.
Cooking has
been somewhat uneventful lately. Basically survival food. Lots of salads with
pasta, etc, small snacks in-between recovery naps. Did have a gorgeous
cauliflower soup that worked out really well last week. And this week I did a
nice tomato soup, which was a bit on the spicy side, and therefore extremely
good. I love spicy tomato soup.
Once I was
on the road to recovery I also finally managed to do some serious cleaning
around the house. Vacuumed, removed spider webs and cleaned horizontal surfaces. Was pretty necessary after
I was pretty much out of it for a week. Much relieved by the improvement, can’t
stand messes much these days.
Heard that
our former teamleader’s baby was born, so we’re going to have to go for a visit
one of these days and see junior. Very happy for them.
Went to
visit tenant the other day. Brought her a present. A really nice paint and
drawing set that she was really happy to get. Was good to see her pleased, especially
since she said she was at the moment avoiding eating in the dining room because
all the “old folk” were not doing any conversation during dinner. It just wasn’t
cosy there, she claimed and that made me
a little sad.
Also visited
with our father and stepmother down south, which is a trip that takes more than
two hours in total. Very unhandy, but it was a nice afternoon at their new
place. They made quite a bit of headway with their garden, which is starting to
look nicely spacious. Later in the day they took us out for dinner at a cute
little Italian restaurant in Germany. I would love to have something like that
place. It’s tiny and runs more on take away than anything because their place
is so tiny, but they are stacked most nights. Was nice, despite having to
travel a long way afterward. I was so tired at one point that big brother had
to take over driving. He did, for fifteen minutes, when he had the same problem
(he was still very sick that day). At this time I had gotten a five minute nap,
and managed to drive the rest of the way without trouble. Phew. Was afraid
there for a moment that we would have to sleep by the side of the road
somewhere. Hah.
The weather
has turned to genuine winter. We’ve had wind storms, rain storms, fog, and as
of yesterday the temps dropped below the freezing point. Yikes. It gets cold
here with a capital C. What with winds coming from the north, it’ll hit you in
the face like an icy four by four. Clothes don’t seem to help all that much,
and most of the time I am now struggling with keeping my core temperature high
enough not to end up with chattering teeth most days.
Well, I’m
going to leave it at this. I can hardly start telling y’all about even more
boring little titbits than I already have. Jeez. Let’s hope I have some nicer
stuff to talk about next time, right? I’ll even try to spruce things up a
little. Gotta go.
