Life between coffees.
Dropped the kids off this morning and walking out to see such a beautiful day it was just too nice not to go for a walk around the ovals.
On the way I had a family say hi and overheard two women having a chat that finished with “would you like to continue your walk with me?”. Seems I wasn’t the only one whose spirits were lifted.
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Well, one project down for the long weekend. My desk has been cleared, cleaned and restructured. I even took the time to properly label the cords in to the power boards and USB ports, something I’ve never done before and curse every time I go looking for the right cord to unplug or jiggle.
This is my desk now, all tidy and ready for work. Nothing much to see. There’s my one antenna android, my Kogan retro DAB radio, the pinup coaster from Rae, and my pen caddy. One pen, one highlighter, one marker and one pencil makes it so much easier to just grab what you need. I know not that many people love them by I swear by Microsoft Natural keyboards, I’ve used them as long as I can remember and a ‘normal’ keyboard feels odd to me.
Project Two is the front and back garden which will now have to wait until tomorrow morning and with a bit of luck I may even get to make a start on Project Three – the overflowing bookcase here in the office.
He knows the truth, at 4.
This morning I asked Henry to pick up a plate from the floor.
“Yes Dadda.” He then paused and, oddly, said “I listen to you dad because your the boss of the fam…..no. I know who the boss of the family really is. It’s mamma.”
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Poor Mr Henry is barking like a seal today so he’ll be staying home from kinder and spending the day in bed.
I was talking to Moo and said “It will be a bit strange today, with no Henry at kinder with you.”
She looked up at me with those big eyes and said “Don’t worry Dadda, I can look after myself.”
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No there’s nothing wrong with my new phone – it’s beautiful and I couldn’t be happier with it. The Facebook app even runs okay on it. I’ll be happier still in a month when I can move my account away from Optus and start saving even more.
The trouble came when I was playing around with my Contacts. I went to edit Rae’s information and accidently deleted her mobile number. ‘No problem’ you say, ‘just put it back in’. Yes, well, thing is, um, I don’t know her number.
The exchange went a little like this.
“Hon, what’s your mobile number?”
”What?”
“Your mobile number, I need to put it in my phone ‘cause I accidently deleted it.”
“You don’t know my number?”
“Um, no, when I want to call you I just tap your face.”
“You hit me every time you want to call me?!”
Needless to say I’m making an effort to learn it now.
Seems I may have got a little ahead of myself yesterday. I just logged in to check the status of my back up glasses and it seems that, unlike Rae’s, mine are coming all the way from the States. Carlstadt, NJ, USA to be precise. The helpful database at i-parcel tells me they are ‘in transit to country of destination’ and should be here on March 2nd. So that’s down to two deliveries this week with a little luck.
The good thing is that if someone was to ask me where I got my new glasses from I can say ‘New Jersey’.
Big week for deliveries this week.
First off I’m waiting on a new pair of glasses. I’m for all intents and purposes blind without my glasses, I have a focal point of about 5cm in front of my nose so I’ve been tempting fate for far too long by only having one set when I am so dependent on them. Rae had great success with Clearly Contacts recently so I’ve ordered myself a back up pair. I’m a bit restricted in the frames I can get given the thickness of my lenses but they should look cool.
Second is a coffee machine, which I wish I hadn’t bought. My old machine gave up the ghost recently – it floods the bench whenever you use it. I found a great deal on Ebay for a replacement and feeling good that all of our major bills had been paid I thought ‘why not?’. Foolish, foolish me.
Over the weekend my phone, my lovely lovely phone, began to play up. It would restart itself instead of turning off, it would not respond to touch, it became almost impossible to turn on, it crashed for an hour when I tried to start Navigator and this afternoon it began to ring but the screen stayed blank. There was no way I could answer the call and now it won’t turn on again. The phone is crucial for my business, it’s the one number everyone has to call me on so I can’t be without one. I also use it a lot for email, calendar and notes for the business too so it’s not something I can be without for too long. I’ve ordered a replacement today which should be here in a few days and while I haven’t spent a fortune I wish I had the coffee machine money to put towards it. Sigh.
Hopefully by the end of the week I will have forgotten the expense and will be enjoying my new toys. Until then I reserve the right to mope about the money flowing out the door while I wait for the delivery vans to arrive.