Tuesday - Rainy and windy and cold
Reading back through my blogs as I do before I start writing the synopsis of my day, I discovered this paragraph from last year,
“Just reading back in my blog, it was a year ago I announced that I was going to have to move. A lot has happened in that year, and even though the move is over, I still don’t feel “settled in” and don’t think I will for the foreseeable future. I feel like I have had to give up too much of my independence and autonomy. I am slowly getting used to things here, but that is still a long way from being at home here.”
Yup. Still holds true. I think this will be our third year here and I still hate it. Nothing has been done to make this place better and I don’t think it ever will. I still refuse to call this my home.
Anyhoo…I got up this morning and watched the news. I dragged myself out of bed afterwards and got dressed. I did have a different breakfast for myself. I made oatmeal, or as I like to call it, porridge! I did it in the microwave and it was great. It didn’t boil over which did surprise me. It was quite nice having a warm breakfast for a change.
After breakfast and some of my dramas on the telly, I vacuumed the heater. It’s been needing it. I did a few areas in the room that needed it too but didn’t do an all-over, thorough job of it.
In the later part of the afternoon I decided to scan the postcards I wrote yesterday. I also had to scan the postcards I had received this year, did that, and also wrote a couple of entries for my Postcrossing blog. Whew!
Of course, I wasn’t planning to cook dinner tonight because there wasn’t any food in the house. Not really, I probably could have scraped something together, but we didn’t go shopping last night and we did need a re-stock anyway.
F came back to the house around 6 pm and actually suggested a few restaurants that I was thinking about too. We decided to go to Coco Ichibanya again for the Grandmother’s Curry. We took K with us too. We had a pretty nice meal, if a little quiet. I’ve found that since my dental appointment my jaw is a little sore and I’m not really that sure why.
We brought K back to the house after dinner and then went out again. We bought some groceries for the next couple of days. I’m going to make a cream stew tomorrow. Hopefully, it’ll last for a couple of days so Thursday’s meal is sorted too. Woot! After that, we picked up a couple of tanks of kerosene for the heater.
We came back to the house and I filled up our kerosene tank in the room upstairs. I also put away the groceries and brought some water upstairs for myself. Later on I took a shower and watched a little TV off the DVR. Tonight was a big recording night on TV, so I wanted to clear off a few things.
And that brings you up to date really. It’s sad that I feel much more at home in my sister’s house which is 3000 miles away than I do here in the place where I live. I think it has a lot to do with being tucked away on the second floor. I feel a bit like Mrs. Rochester or something. The scary family secret!
Anyway, that’s me for today. Join me tomorrow if you like and see what I get up to. Until tomorrow….
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