Mostly domesticity
Mar. 17th, 2007 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prunesquallormdUp and doing since 6 this morning, which is just plain wrong for a Saturday (I'd done the washing up, machine and hand washing by 7.30 and was dressed by 10). Too much energy.
Now, of course, I want to spend the rest of the afternoon asleep, but I don't have that choice because I'm been picked up at 1 ish to drive down to Wales (Abergavenny to be specific), for Tom and Rebecca's house warning, combined with their son's first birthday (in what I consider to be a fairly major lapse of taste they called it Callum, a name I've never been a fan of. I can't comment on the middle name as, because he was born in South Africa, it's something in Zulu that I can never remember. Got to be better than Callum though).
Fortunately my back, which had been playing up rather more than usual for the last few days, thus making me miserable and extremely snappy, has calmed down a little, so I may actually manage to be vaguely civil company.
I finally cracked and made an appointment with a chiropractor, as doctors tend to be sod all use as far as back problems go. I'd been hesitant, at least partly due to the expense, until it crossed my mind that I spend a ridiculous amount of money just keeping my car on the road, and that's just a piece of metal.
First appointment on Monday, so we'll see. Naturally I'm hoping for a miracle ...
The last couple of months have been an experiment in living on a budget. It's the first time I've had to for ages - one of the reasons (although not by any means the only one) that I stuck it out at Kev's for so long was that it was so cheap (a teeny bit over two hundred pounds a month, rent and bills. It seems unbelievable now) - obviously, if I can't afford to live here on my own I'll have to get a lodger in, which I'm very keen to avoid. So far I've been surprisingly successful, but we'll see how it goes when Spring and Summer, and the urge to actually do stuff, kick in...
Anyway, more in a little while. Must finish packing, and then I'll have about half an hour to relax before we're Wales bound.
Now, of course, I want to spend the rest of the afternoon asleep, but I don't have that choice because I'm been picked up at 1 ish to drive down to Wales (Abergavenny to be specific), for Tom and Rebecca's house warning, combined with their son's first birthday (in what I consider to be a fairly major lapse of taste they called it Callum, a name I've never been a fan of. I can't comment on the middle name as, because he was born in South Africa, it's something in Zulu that I can never remember. Got to be better than Callum though).
Fortunately my back, which had been playing up rather more than usual for the last few days, thus making me miserable and extremely snappy, has calmed down a little, so I may actually manage to be vaguely civil company.
I finally cracked and made an appointment with a chiropractor, as doctors tend to be sod all use as far as back problems go. I'd been hesitant, at least partly due to the expense, until it crossed my mind that I spend a ridiculous amount of money just keeping my car on the road, and that's just a piece of metal.
First appointment on Monday, so we'll see. Naturally I'm hoping for a miracle ...
The last couple of months have been an experiment in living on a budget. It's the first time I've had to for ages - one of the reasons (although not by any means the only one) that I stuck it out at Kev's for so long was that it was so cheap (a teeny bit over two hundred pounds a month, rent and bills. It seems unbelievable now) - obviously, if I can't afford to live here on my own I'll have to get a lodger in, which I'm very keen to avoid. So far I've been surprisingly successful, but we'll see how it goes when Spring and Summer, and the urge to actually do stuff, kick in...
Anyway, more in a little while. Must finish packing, and then I'll have about half an hour to relax before we're Wales bound.
