Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Just back from sushi and scrabble with Mrs B, my friend's elderly ma who lives down the road. I won by getting all out two points ahead of her, but then she made three more words with her remaining letters and claimed victory for herself:-( You can't really argue with an 80-year-old so I made my excuses and left, discovering as I wandered up the road that the shouting and swearing that had been blown to us on the wind a little earlier were the foul mouthings of a woman in a BMW Mini who was stuck behind a delivery van. Three men were unloading what looked like hundreds of packets of cement and sand from the back and it was clear they'd be a while. Why didn't she just reverse out? Why give yourself stress having an argument you're going to lose? Stress was one of the subjects over lunch, as it happens - the growing number of people who almost deliberately write themselves lists of jobs that don't need to be done but must, or who set themselves goals that far exceed their needs and others' expectations, and then get angry and tired and depressed when they fail... I wouldn't mind if I then didn't have to spend half my life dealing with the fallout. Ho hum. Apart from lunch, and arranging a lunch with a young man on the dating site this morning;-), I've ironed several sets of sheets. I also washed the kitchen floor as my ex sister-in-law is arriving later with a job lot of kids, one at floor level, and a different husband. My youngest has yet to return from her sleepover, and the oldest is going shopping after school. This evening one of the joblot is being left behind - yes, the holidays are finally beginning in earnest. Will I ever get anything done against this background?
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