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todayiamadaisy) wrote2021-03-19 09:38 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2021-03-19 09:38 pm
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Are false arguments valid?
First of my two weeks of leave is nearly over. What have I done? A lot of admin that I haven't had the will to do while working. Organised my flu vax. Organised my mother's flu vax. Organised no-one's covid vax because our terrible government is as useless as it is terrible. Changed the electricity and gas plans. Washed all the cushion covers. Took the cover off the stuffed ottoman to wash it. Vacuumed up the styrofoam beans that the ottoman was unexpectedly full of. Threw out the ottoman and all the beans.
It's my birthday next week and I have received emailed discounts from all sorts of shops trying to lure me into purchases. Only one successful so far. I need some new winter shoes, so I used my birthday discount at the shoe shop to get some new teal ankle boots.
No discount, but I've also done some garden shopping. New garlic bulbs for planting. Hyacinths and jonquils to go with my many, many tulip bulbs in a layered bulb lasagne.
I've been out to lunch at a new café. Tried the salt and pepper squid, my test dish at any new place. It was okay. I've been to the theatre, to see two of Australia's big musical stars doing a greatest hits collection. It was also okay. I liked their gossipy chat the best. One of them auditioned for Phantom, the original production, at Andrew Lloyd Webber's house back in the day. The house had a life-size oil painting of Sarah Brightman in the loo.
I looked back at my entries from this time last year to see when I started working from home. March 24, a year next week. How empty the world was then. Nothing in the shops, no-one on the streets. Taped Xs to mark where to queue. A year on it's all masks and QR codes, printed STAND HERE stickers on the ground and perspex panels at every checkout.
I've been catching up on all the podcasts that have been banking up. An English nature podcast from six months ago, a woman walking around talking about the arrival of autumn, timely now that autumn is arriving here. Listening to her talk about pheasants while parrots flit overhead.
It has been a long time since I saw a pair of shoes that made me both gasp and laugh in horror, but: these are both ridiculous and magnificent.
It's my birthday next week and I have received emailed discounts from all sorts of shops trying to lure me into purchases. Only one successful so far. I need some new winter shoes, so I used my birthday discount at the shoe shop to get some new teal ankle boots.
No discount, but I've also done some garden shopping. New garlic bulbs for planting. Hyacinths and jonquils to go with my many, many tulip bulbs in a layered bulb lasagne.
I've been out to lunch at a new café. Tried the salt and pepper squid, my test dish at any new place. It was okay. I've been to the theatre, to see two of Australia's big musical stars doing a greatest hits collection. It was also okay. I liked their gossipy chat the best. One of them auditioned for Phantom, the original production, at Andrew Lloyd Webber's house back in the day. The house had a life-size oil painting of Sarah Brightman in the loo.
I looked back at my entries from this time last year to see when I started working from home. March 24, a year next week. How empty the world was then. Nothing in the shops, no-one on the streets. Taped Xs to mark where to queue. A year on it's all masks and QR codes, printed STAND HERE stickers on the ground and perspex panels at every checkout.
I've been catching up on all the podcasts that have been banking up. An English nature podcast from six months ago, a woman walking around talking about the arrival of autumn, timely now that autumn is arriving here. Listening to her talk about pheasants while parrots flit overhead.
It has been a long time since I saw a pair of shoes that made me both gasp and laugh in horror, but: these are both ridiculous and magnificent.