I woke a little after the alarm went off - still quite knackered. And with a headache! After deciding not to cook myself dinner, my stomach started growling ... but so late, I really didn't have the energy to get up again and cook.
Mewthos went running to the water fountain as soon as I got up, letting me know it's slurping (making a sucking noise), which means it's low on water. Filled that up first thing!
Made myself coffee, got dressed, enjoyed coffee ... then left about quarter past six, walked around the house, opened the garage, started the car, closed the garage, and went to work.
Traffic was quite busy, but really not bad. Nowhere near as bad as I had feared. Although there's a long stream of cars going the same road, traffic was moving. I managed to get into both main roads, with a bit of a wait, but nothing major.
At isn't at work today, I asked and he told me he's really sick today. Shame, hope he gets better soon!
I'm back to my old self at work now, so I'm catching up on some stuff I've let slide, as I hadn't been able to concentrate. Quickly went to the shop to get myself some fruit and a Dagwood sandwich - I think the headache is a lack of vitamins, as I've only been eating meat this past week, having packed everything else away. I still haven't found my pasta, either, so it's going to be a while. And I also got some headache powders - usually I get them from At, well, he buys them really cheap because he bulk buys them, so I always pay for a box, then get one as needed.
I was hoping to get to the bank today, so that I could sort out the electricity - I had a look on the website, but can't find the supplier, so I need to find out whether I can buy online. Shouldn't be a problem. But our production manager is running very late - may not come in at all, so I really shouldn't be away as well.
I can say it now: my biggest fear pre-move was that the country would go back into harder lock-down, prohibiting moving! I'm superstitious with stuff like that, so I didn't want to say it out loud, for fear of jinxing myself! I was so worried, with so much of my dry food and spices already in the new home - I would have had to cook in my new home, while stuck having to leave mippies and sleep in the old flat!
Remember two years ago, in PE? When I never mentioned much about when or where I'd move to? And the day that I finally did, to Rose, that same day my boss called to come see me and let me know my plans are cancelled and I'm moving asap! It's incidents like that which keep my superstitions alive :)
I was just as worried about it raining on Saturday, but as I wasn't the one to say it out loud, I was safe from the jinx. Weird thinking, I know. Especially from someone who's usually so rational and logical. But there it is ... we all have our quirks.
Damn! Whiskas prices have sky-rocketed! Gone up by 25%! Yikes! Should have purchased last week, eh? Still cheaper than then Royal Canin, though - and I'm only giving them Whiskas treats, it's not their staple.
Well, I've done my research and I'm planning on spending a lot of money ... sigh. But then again, my stock on everything is very low, because I spent nothing these past few weeks! I'm also indulging in a cat toy or two, grin. They deserve a little extra!
We took a load to the scrap dealers and on the way back I bought some produce from street hawkers. A bag of potatoes and an enormous bunch of spinach! Not sure how or when I'll find time to process that ...
When it was time to go home, it started to rain. Traffic was bad, I hoped to get home before the rain got too bad - no such luck. It was coming down in buckets, visibility was very bad and instead of 100 km/h, I crawled along around 60. All it takes is one puddle to skid out of control ... and I'm not familiar with the road, yet. The traffic was also bumper-to-bumper and people were driving like idiots! Passing traffic in the oncoming traffic lane! And when there was oncoming traffic, just pulling into whichever car was next to them, forcing them to either make space by slowing down or going off the road. It took me 40 minutes to get home.
I tried again to lock the garage door from inside, but I couldn't get any key to fit. So I offloaded the car, took everything through the door into the lounge, then went back outside, locked the garage, walked around the house - which doesn't have gutters, so the rain just pours off the roof, with mostly too narrow space between roof end and walls. I did get quite wet, but no worries!
Of course, soon after I was safely inside, the rain slowed! I was happy to see the power was on, turned on the geyser, then sat down to do shopping ... but the internet did not fare so well. I haven't got a strong signal - couldn't even open this blog! By half past eight I could finally do my shopping, and continue this post.
I passed the time by steaming potatoes for dinner, enjoying another bath, cuddling mippies - they were all in my bedroom, when I got home! They mipped and mewled, I treated them, brushed, picked up, cuddled and spent time with them. I thought of putting the spinach into a bowl of water, but ended up using a bucket; it barely fit! It's a really massive bunch! That'll be a lot of work cleaning and frying it! I'm looking forward to it, though!
Well, I'll have a lot of work processing groceries this weekend! There's the meat, the spinach and I'm thinking of going to Spar on Friday - maybe I should leave that for next week?
When mips mip and mewl I have to still remind myself that there's nothing pressuring me to do anything. I can stop anything I'm doing, anytime, and spend time with mippies when they need me!
Like now ... Mewthos is being naughty, looking at the PC wires to get my attention ... so, I'm going to publish, go to bed and tend to mippies! Well, it's just gone past ten so ... high time, anyway!
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