Love is a Maze
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todayiamadaisyThis week, ugh. Full of small things. People wanting me to do things and pulling me every which way. I was going to have a grumble about that, but I think the real problem is that the painters have been here seven days a week for the last couple of weeks. I am not getting my required amount of solitude, basically. I will feel better once it's done, which can't be far away. I hope.
In related news, I have a blue house. Blue! It looks good.
I had an exam yesterday. An exam! I haven't had to sit a proper exam for years. I had to write three short essays. I was happy with two of them. I was happy with the third one too, but I said everything I wanted to say in only thirty minutes instead of the forty-five allowed, so I spent the last fifteen minutes worried that I missed something. Oh well, it's over now. I have a month before the new term starts for Strategic Planning and Management. Doesn't that sound like fun?
Today my mother wanted to see Into the Woods, so we went to the 11:30 screening. When we bought the tickets, the girl warned us that it mightn't go ahead, due to problems with the projector in cinema 3. That was correct. At 11:45, the cinema manager came in and apologetically said that the digital projector just wasn't working, so we had three options: a refund, exchange our tickets for another film today (presumably as long as it wasn't in cinema 3), or take a voucher to use any other day. We took vouchers. There was a pair of elderly ladies sitting in front of us who had this conversation:
Lady 1: (loudly, to the cinema manager) What else is on that we could see, love?
Cinema manager: Blah, blah, blah, Theory of Everything at quarter to one.
Lady 2: Theory of Everything, is that the Stephen Hawking film?
Cinema manager: Yes.
Lady 1: (softer, to her friend) Do you want to see the Stephen Hawking film?
Lady 2: What's it about?
Lady 1: Stephen Hawking.
Lady 2: No.
The 10 Day Challenge
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. Clean my glasses
I've worn glasses since I was in primary school and for quite a few of the early years I didn't clean my glasses. Maybe once a week when my mother would tell me to look at the state of them, no wonder you can't see, hahaha. How I've changed. Now I clean them first thing in the morning, and often a couple of times later in the day. I have cleaning cloths everywhere.
2. Feed the cat
In the morning he has tinned food. He loves tins of tuna-based food from Applawse Natural Cat Food (100% dolphin friendly): Tuna Fillet, Tuna Fillet with Seaweed, Tuna Fillet with Prawns, Tender Tuna Fillet with Prawns in Broth (not the same as the previous one), Tuna Fillet with Cheese, Tuna Fillet with Whole Anchovies, Tuna Fillet with Sea Bream, Tender Tuna Fillet with Crab in Broth, Tender Tuna in a Tasty Jelly. He refuses to even look at Whole Tuna Loin. He can't imagine why I would think he might like it. In the evening he has dry biscuits, from which he will eat the red ones and leave the brown ones, and a little bit of fresh chicken breast (never thigh, heavens no) or gravy beef, preferably from the independent supermarket rather than one of the chains (it does look fresher, I must admit, so I assume it tastes fresher too. I am happy with this, because the independent supermarket sells it in smaller amounts, so it's less likely to go off as he works his way through it, and also because it is next door to my office, so it's easy to pop in and get some).
When he first moved in, he would eat anything.
3. Check the door and stove
Here is where we get into slightly worrying territory. I do not have OCD, but I am, let's say, facing in that direction. The back door and the stove top are two points of weakness. If I don't think about it, I will drift into a cycle of checking the back door, checking the stove, checking the back door, checking the... you get the idea. When I first realised I was doing that, I had a little chat with myself and came up with a solution. So now the last thing I do before I go to bed is lock the back door, try it three times and say aloud, 'The door is locked', then I will go and do the same thing with the stove. That seems to do the trick.
4. Clean
I used to avoid housework. 'Used to', ha. As though I seek it out now. No. But I am orderly, so I made myself a schedule, and I follow that. For Monday to Thursday, I have divided the house into areas, and will do 15 minutes in that day's area. I will set the kitchen timer, and do just that time. I will pick up where I left off last week, and next week I will pick up where I left off this week. Friday and Saturday are not timed: Friday I sweep all the hard floors, Saturday I vacuum. Sunday, I have off.
5. Read The Standard
Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catyah, who is also doing this meme, for making me realise that I read the local paper. Not every day, because it doesn't publish on Sundays, but I would definitely read it if it did. I complain about it and I mock it, but it's an important part of the local fabric. It's quite noticeable at work, actually, that the locals read it and the incomers don't. And they are wrong, because they are missing out.
Today's paper recorded the death of a man called Jex Frusher. Vale Jex. I'm sorry I didn't hear about your brilliant name before now.
6. Stick a fruit sticker in my diary
You know those little stickers that you get on fruit? When I have one, I stick it in my diary. I'm not sure what purpose is served by this, but I started doing it a couple of years ago and now I can't stop.
7. Eat breakfast
It's the most important meal of the day, you know. Most of the year I have a bowl of cereal (generally Be Natural's Manuka Honey, Clusters and Flakes) with dried apricots, chia seeds and LSA meal added. In winter, I will sometimes make porridge, with brown sugar and nuts added to the chia seeds and LSA meal.
8. Worry and fret
This takes up about half my day.
9. Think about putting my shoes away
And yet I never do.
In related news, I have a blue house. Blue! It looks good.
I had an exam yesterday. An exam! I haven't had to sit a proper exam for years. I had to write three short essays. I was happy with two of them. I was happy with the third one too, but I said everything I wanted to say in only thirty minutes instead of the forty-five allowed, so I spent the last fifteen minutes worried that I missed something. Oh well, it's over now. I have a month before the new term starts for Strategic Planning and Management. Doesn't that sound like fun?
Today my mother wanted to see Into the Woods, so we went to the 11:30 screening. When we bought the tickets, the girl warned us that it mightn't go ahead, due to problems with the projector in cinema 3. That was correct. At 11:45, the cinema manager came in and apologetically said that the digital projector just wasn't working, so we had three options: a refund, exchange our tickets for another film today (presumably as long as it wasn't in cinema 3), or take a voucher to use any other day. We took vouchers. There was a pair of elderly ladies sitting in front of us who had this conversation:
Lady 1: (loudly, to the cinema manager) What else is on that we could see, love?
Cinema manager: Blah, blah, blah, Theory of Everything at quarter to one.
Lady 2: Theory of Everything, is that the Stephen Hawking film?
Cinema manager: Yes.
Lady 1: (softer, to her friend) Do you want to see the Stephen Hawking film?
Lady 2: What's it about?
Lady 1: Stephen Hawking.
Lady 2: No.
The 10 Day Challenge
Day 1 - Ten random facts about yourself
Day 2 - Nine things you do everyday
Day 3 - Eight things that annoy you
Day 4 - Seven fears/phobias
Day 5 - Six songs that you’re addicted to
Day 6 - Five things you can’t live without
Day 7 - Four memories you won’t forget
Day 8 - Three words you can’t go a day without
Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do
Day 10 - One person you can trust
1. Clean my glasses
I've worn glasses since I was in primary school and for quite a few of the early years I didn't clean my glasses. Maybe once a week when my mother would tell me to look at the state of them, no wonder you can't see, hahaha. How I've changed. Now I clean them first thing in the morning, and often a couple of times later in the day. I have cleaning cloths everywhere.
2. Feed the cat
In the morning he has tinned food. He loves tins of tuna-based food from Applawse Natural Cat Food (100% dolphin friendly): Tuna Fillet, Tuna Fillet with Seaweed, Tuna Fillet with Prawns, Tender Tuna Fillet with Prawns in Broth (not the same as the previous one), Tuna Fillet with Cheese, Tuna Fillet with Whole Anchovies, Tuna Fillet with Sea Bream, Tender Tuna Fillet with Crab in Broth, Tender Tuna in a Tasty Jelly. He refuses to even look at Whole Tuna Loin. He can't imagine why I would think he might like it. In the evening he has dry biscuits, from which he will eat the red ones and leave the brown ones, and a little bit of fresh chicken breast (never thigh, heavens no) or gravy beef, preferably from the independent supermarket rather than one of the chains (it does look fresher, I must admit, so I assume it tastes fresher too. I am happy with this, because the independent supermarket sells it in smaller amounts, so it's less likely to go off as he works his way through it, and also because it is next door to my office, so it's easy to pop in and get some).
When he first moved in, he would eat anything.
3. Check the door and stove
Here is where we get into slightly worrying territory. I do not have OCD, but I am, let's say, facing in that direction. The back door and the stove top are two points of weakness. If I don't think about it, I will drift into a cycle of checking the back door, checking the stove, checking the back door, checking the... you get the idea. When I first realised I was doing that, I had a little chat with myself and came up with a solution. So now the last thing I do before I go to bed is lock the back door, try it three times and say aloud, 'The door is locked', then I will go and do the same thing with the stove. That seems to do the trick.
4. Clean
I used to avoid housework. 'Used to', ha. As though I seek it out now. No. But I am orderly, so I made myself a schedule, and I follow that. For Monday to Thursday, I have divided the house into areas, and will do 15 minutes in that day's area. I will set the kitchen timer, and do just that time. I will pick up where I left off last week, and next week I will pick up where I left off this week. Friday and Saturday are not timed: Friday I sweep all the hard floors, Saturday I vacuum. Sunday, I have off.
5. Read The Standard
Thanks to
catyah, who is also doing this meme, for making me realise that I read the local paper. Not every day, because it doesn't publish on Sundays, but I would definitely read it if it did. I complain about it and I mock it, but it's an important part of the local fabric. It's quite noticeable at work, actually, that the locals read it and the incomers don't. And they are wrong, because they are missing out. Today's paper recorded the death of a man called Jex Frusher. Vale Jex. I'm sorry I didn't hear about your brilliant name before now.
6. Stick a fruit sticker in my diary
You know those little stickers that you get on fruit? When I have one, I stick it in my diary. I'm not sure what purpose is served by this, but I started doing it a couple of years ago and now I can't stop.
7. Eat breakfast
It's the most important meal of the day, you know. Most of the year I have a bowl of cereal (generally Be Natural's Manuka Honey, Clusters and Flakes) with dried apricots, chia seeds and LSA meal added. In winter, I will sometimes make porridge, with brown sugar and nuts added to the chia seeds and LSA meal.
8. Worry and fret
This takes up about half my day.
9. Think about putting my shoes away
And yet I never do.