Not a good night, I’m afraid. I had another one of
those ideas buzzing around my head when I wanted to go to sleep. This time it
was to pack some of the last minute stuff into furniture, like the drawers.
Can’t be heavy things, because the furniture itself is heavy enough already –
but I was thinking the throws over the furniture (although, now I’m awake,
those had better cover that furniture during transport) and my bedding. Maybe
the cats’ toys, which are light. Or some clothes. Just light stuff I’d need
early on in the new home. I usually cart my bedding in the car and limit my
clothing to one suitcase. I could also put certain valuables in there, instead
of risking them in a box. Boxes have disappeared during moves – but furniture
hasn’t. Well, not in transit, only when I had to store it with someone I
trusted. Oh, no malice, they didn’t steal from me – they just didn’t care
enough to make sure when it was collected, that it all got collected. Oh, the
mistake was entirely mine – I burdened people with a responsibility they had no
obligation to take.
It’s a mistake I’ve made for the longest time, without
learning. Most of my life I assumed that good people shared the same values I
held; but just because they are good people, honest people, doesn’t mean their
life experiences have resulted in the same viewpoints and values. For example,
if someone accidentally breaks something belonging to someone else – some
people feel that since it was an accident, they aren’t responsible. Others feel
they should apologise, even though it was an accident. Some even feel fiscal
compensation is appropriate. But that is as far as anyone will go. I’ve never
heard anyone offering to actually replace the item they broke, accident or no
accident. Especially not, when the item was either damaged or broken through
careless handling. Yet those same people will whine about the time taken out of
their lives (e.g. driving around to find a shop selling that specific item) to
replace something of theirs, someone else broke!
Some people simply do not have the ability to see
anything from the other person’s viewpoint – even when they’ve been there
themselves in the past! Connecting those dots between the memory and the
current situation is simply beyond them. The most ironic example was, when I
overheard a co-worker during working hours on the work’s phone to a friend
complaining about her domestic using her home phone for private calls – the
irony that she was doing exactly what she was complaining about, simply did not
occur to her!
I’m often denigrated for thinking so much about the
past – yet at the same time just as frequently praised for my ‘wisdom’! It
would be hilarious, if it wasn’t so depressing. Whenever I hear someone say
“I’ve never thought of it like this” I just want to cry.
Anyway, I woke up later than yesterday and I’m not really
feeling too good. A bit queasy and feverish. Courtesy of Menopause – yet again!
Still, it’s merely unpleasant, not unbearable.
Ever since those no-water incidents, I’ve been
rotating my 4 ½ liter backup bottles. Can’t let it go stale, stand for too
long, so now I re-fill everything from those bottles, one after the other, then
re-fill the bottles from the tap. A secondary benefit from this habit is, that
I no longer get splashed when the plumbing acts up.
Today, I need to start tackling the kitchen. Tomorrow
marks the quarter milestone, and I’ve packed more than a quarter of each room,
except the kitchen. It’s about time I take that a bit further. I’ve done some,
but I can do more.
I’ve kept a lot of the original boxes for kitchen
equipment, so I’ve packed a lot of those boxes – items I use only rarely and
can do without for the next 2 ½ months. Like the stainless steel cooking pots –
I mostly use the ones that came with the Induction Plate, anyway. I’m also a
great one for squirreling things away, Ha Ha! So when I packed the pots, I
squirreled away a lot of spices and such in the gaps in and around the pots. The
pantry is looking quite bare now. I’ve packed a lot of specialty foods, like
Sushi rice. Yes, I still plan to cook some good meals for myself, but not quite
that elaborate.
Rose has made the appointment for my driver’s licence
application – unfortunately the earliest opening was on the 3rd
December. I’ll have to remember to ask what I need to do to give Rose
authorization to collect it on my behalf – since I’m not sure it’ll be ready in
time. They say 6-8 weeks, but with the year-end shutdown right in the middle of
that, it may take longer. Oh, and I must remember to get two ID photos for the
temporary licence. I think I’ll do that on Monday, when I go back to Greenacres
to get more socks.
I also still need to book mippies for their booster
shots & micro-chipping, but that will have to wait till after the next
pay-day. Sigh, we’re talking another heap of money. I hadn’t planned on
boosting their vaccinations this year, though I have been considering
micro-chipping them – after what happened to Snoopy! Not that it will prevent
anything happening to them, but at least I will know – I hope. It’s one of
those things which are better to have than to need – always hoping you’ll never
need it.
And then I need to get a quote for carpet cleaners –
that’s part of the rental agreement. No past tenant has ever fulfilled that
part of the contract – if they had, the carpet wouldn’t have been flea-infested
when I moved in!
Mewly, Lady and Romeo were waiting for their evening
treat – I called Ziva and she came bounding across the lawn, as always! First I
filled the Whiskas outside, then put the Petley chicken outside for Romeo –
Mewly and Ziva climbed into that … until they saw me get another sachet, ha ha!
I had to carry Romeo outside again – he complains and makes quite threatening
noises, but never so much as attempts to scratch me! Outside, he sat down to
his meal – but his tail was inside! It actually fits under the door, that’s how
big the gap is. He stayed just outside for quite a while, quietly for a change,
but I can see his shadow. Also Ziva mipped to go out and play with her
boyfriend. I had to sit with her for a while to quiet her down.
My PC started acting up in the evening, so I just shut
it down … hence the late posting.
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