Saturday

I didn't get much sleep Thursday night, again. Friday work was hectic, I'm handing over the production part, trying to catch up with the week's mails and orders - and at one there's that horrid disciplinary.

Something strange happened: at one point, for no apparent reason, the room seemed to start spinning around me! I'm not prone to such, so I have no clue why. It passed, though, but I found it difficult to focus or concentrate.

I was glad when it was time to go home. On the way, I got another bottle of milk - it's really lovely! At home, I let the mippies out, I watered the garden - my landlord had also watered on Tuesday! I thought so, but wasn't sure.

The first Nasturtium is flowering happily, the Geranium now has three flowers and the white Geranium also looks ready to burst into flower very soon. 

Back inside, we had our round of treats - first the mippies have theirs, then I share my dinner and lastly, I had a bowl of ice cream, which was also shared. And then ... Mewthos went into the bathroom and came out with blood on his chin!

It's along his jaw-bone, around about where I pulled the tick out. That area had been a bit swollen and bumpy all week. I'm guessing that it was infested and just broke open last night - although all I could see was blood, nothing else. I washed it with water, then cleaned it with the ointment and lastly put the healing ointment on. He did wriggle a bit, but overall he did hold still and I had little trouble taking care of it.

And then it started raining! And raining, so hard my poor mippies were quite scared - it's so loud on the zinc roof! And then it started hailing! When I stood at the open door for a smoke, I heard the sounds of the rain, not ping, ping but ziiiing ... which was really strange. It carried on and on and on. I had quite a time calming mippies. And then my landlord stood outside my window - asking if I wanted them closed! That was very considerate of him, going out in that rain. But as it wasn't coming in, not even touching the window panes, I was quite happy to leave them open.

Another sleepless night - I really don't know why. But at least I could sleep late, and I only got up about half past six this morning. It's quite cold outside before sunrise nowadays, below 10°C. During the day temperatures go up as high as 30°C sometimes, but rarely below 25°C. I'm not suffering much with the cold this year, as I'm still acclimatised to the colder PE; next year will be a very different matter, though. Summer should be more bearable, but the winter? I am not looking forward to that. But that's only next year ...

I can't decide what I want to do today. I'm feeling somewhat drained. As if I had been through some strong emotional upset - I guess in a way I have. I think, today, I should spend some time pampering my stomach, as I haven't been eating well this week. Even though I had some rice & veggie meals - well, the last of it is still in the fridge.

The laundry is well under way, the last load is now in the machine. Sigh, I just opened the kitchen cupboards for a look - and saw Mewthos jumping onto the shelf with all my bottles! Elephant & china shop situation! I got him out without any of my oils falling out.

Well, as usual, when I can't decide what to do, I start with a nap. A nice, cozy, long nap. Afterwards I strolled through the garden and started working on the layout for my game city - that, at least, completely took my mind off work. I finally have something that can work - it's not ideal, but it will work. A bit late, though, since I'm sure another new chapter is due soon.

I also got to thinking that, since I'm no longer in charge of the production staff, I don't really have to keep up the morning meetings - I'll let them vote on Monday. It's a bit of a nasty move, since they'll probably think no morning meetings means free time for coffee and breakfast, like it was before I started the morning meetings. But that, too, is not my problem. If they vote to stop the meetings, I can sleep an extra half hour at least - which means I can stay up another half hour every evening = more time with my mippies.

This re-structure may hurt my pride a little, but in every other respect it's nothing but good news for me and my mippies! So much less stress, so much less responsibility - it will be such a relief!

I had two rolls this afternoon, I put some Rollmops on - lovely! As a result, I'm not really hungry tonight, yet I'm craving chocolate again. Tomorrow I'll spend some time on meal planning - now that my game city has a plan. Uhm, well there's still the other city ... ha ha! That can wait. I'd like to turn the whole flat into my home now. The garden is doing well, just needs watering. The ground was lovely and soft today, after last nights rains, but I just wasn't in the mood.

And now, I'm watching another episode of Space 1999 before going to bed.