The usual Friday office conversation turned
to the weekend and what’s on. I’m always interested to know what my work mates
get up to. ‘What about you?’ one asked. ‘Not much’, I replied. ‘And I’m quite
happy about that as last weekend was so busy.’ Last weekend I’d had a working bee, a shoot and my school reunion on Saturday, a charity run
Sunday morning, followed by an induction for E’s rep netball and finally, the writing, shopping and setting up of a Cub program for Monday. Stupidly busy.
So this weekend my diary indicated NOTHING!
Bliss. In addition, George was on
a school camp in Queensland, so I decided Friday night would be date night. We
had a lovely dinner and indulged in Gold Class for Midnight In Paris (a
great film BTW). A great start to the weekend. And sadly, the end of my relaxing
ambitions.
Saturday I had pilates, picked up the
little one from a sleepover, went to the greengrocer and bakery, dropped that
stuff home, went to the supermarket and butcher, put everything away, tidied
out the pantries while I was at it, then it was time to go to the airport to
pick up George. Got home, made dinner, read the front of the paper, cleaned up
and was frankly, bloody tired! So as the rest settled in for X Men, I retired
to my bedroom with a large glass of very nice red, my laptop and season two of
The Tudors (I’m such a dag).
I did read a bit on Sunday morning, then
went for a run, then tackled that goddamned barbecue I incinerated a while
back. As I scrubbed and scoured, I did ask my better half what did he think of
an insurance claim? But on I went. Hours it took. It is significantly better
but it’ll never be what it once was.
Not content with the size of that job and
while I was still filthy from running and scrubbing, I decided to tackle the
compost bit – shoveling loads of worm-ridden soil from the bottom, spreading and toweling
it into a couple of beds – and that did me.
Back inside to read the second half of the
paper, get the dinner on and do some emails…..so much for ‘nothing on’.
And even now as I sit down, I think I could
spend a whole day tidying out cupboards, another in the garden, one in the
attic, one in the shed, one attending to the filing and paper, one sorting out
the IT and iPod issues…..it’s endless!!
Do you have the same problem? Filling every
waking moment that’s free, with jobs?
