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cosmolinguistI couldn't get to sleep until after 3am, my brain seemed all kinds of off-kilter. So the alarm being earlier was really hard to wake up for. I had to be at work early today.
But I was so much slower getting ready that I had to skip both a shower and walking the dog (he looks so hopeful when I'm getting ready to go, it's the worst thing to be leaving for work instead of taking him for a walk.
I did four hours' work, which I know isn't much for people who work full-time but I normally don't do more than two in a day. I feel bad because I've been flagging at work lately: I more often hear things like "You can make yourself a cup of tea too, Holly" or "we can save the phone calls until another day" (I have to do all the phone calls). I should be looking after them, not needing so much looking after myself. I was exhausted and headachy by the time I was waiting for the bus home.
I got home half an hour after Andrew woke up so as soon as he was ready we went into town. Andrew needed things from four shops, the last being his first foray into a mobile phone shop. He said he'd be more likely to use a mobile if he had "one that did apps" so rather than sending him to London this weekend with the usual old Nokia-style-brick, we got him a fairly inexpensive smartphone, with the friendly, competent help of the one shop assistant who wasn't a 20-year-old white boy. I was worried Andrew would get some macho kid trying to upsell him and just driving him away, but she was great.
It was all a lot of walking and crowds though, and there was a lot of rain.
Now I'm home and in an online meeting.
I should probably eat something? Can't imagine what though. I'd have gone to bed but I'm the only person who knows some stuff on the agenda.
But I was so much slower getting ready that I had to skip both a shower and walking the dog (he looks so hopeful when I'm getting ready to go, it's the worst thing to be leaving for work instead of taking him for a walk.
I did four hours' work, which I know isn't much for people who work full-time but I normally don't do more than two in a day. I feel bad because I've been flagging at work lately: I more often hear things like "You can make yourself a cup of tea too, Holly" or "we can save the phone calls until another day" (I have to do all the phone calls). I should be looking after them, not needing so much looking after myself. I was exhausted and headachy by the time I was waiting for the bus home.
I got home half an hour after Andrew woke up so as soon as he was ready we went into town. Andrew needed things from four shops, the last being his first foray into a mobile phone shop. He said he'd be more likely to use a mobile if he had "one that did apps" so rather than sending him to London this weekend with the usual old Nokia-style-brick, we got him a fairly inexpensive smartphone, with the friendly, competent help of the one shop assistant who wasn't a 20-year-old white boy. I was worried Andrew would get some macho kid trying to upsell him and just driving him away, but she was great.
It was all a lot of walking and crowds though, and there was a lot of rain.
Now I'm home and in an online meeting.
I should probably eat something? Can't imagine what though. I'd have gone to bed but I'm the only person who knows some stuff on the agenda.
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Date: 2019-06-17 08:45 pm (UTC)Light bulbs in this country come in so many confounding sizes and fittings that I couldn't face going downstairs to get the ladder and then taking the bulb out and then going back downstairs to see if any of my collection of light bulbs (some of which we inherited with the house but don't seem to fit any of the light sources here because I've had to go and buy light bulbs before) fit.
I just had to help change a light bulb at work today so it seems unfair to come home to the same problems!
Future Holly may curse me tomorrow if she's eating breakfast in the dark. But I am sure she'll remember what a state Current Holly is in and be sympathetic.
I just hope there's lots of sleep between these two Hollys. :)
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Date: 2019-06-17 09:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-17 11:12 pm (UTC)