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February 05 Rosier IndeedA couple of days ago I mentioned that the future might be looking a little rosier, and indeed at this juncture it certainly seems that way! M has been swapping emails and texts and the tone has improved markedly. Needless to say, I feel much better about life all-together.
I've been asked by my priest to get involved with the running of the Alpha course, with a view to taking over the leadership along with another lady (Bev) who is also quite deeply involved in the church. I agreed although I feel quite apprehensive about it because my strengths are not administrative! Anyway, I've decided to give it a go and try my best to help further God's kingdom.
The leadership of our church are heading out for a retreat this weekend, and I'm in charge of the music. So far I've got exactly nowhere in choosing the songs, and I just know I'm going to blink a few times and discover that it's Friday! I bet the weekend will be a high point for me, but I can't say I enjoy the preparation. I find it somewhat ironic that God seems to enjoy pushing me in directions which make me uncomfortable, but I suppose I was moaning that I didn't know where my life was going last year, so I shouldn't complain when God starts using me! February 02 So dark, and no tea!What it is to live in Africa ...
If you live somewhere other than Africa, you've probably not experienced much in the way of power outages. South Africa is currently suffering from a combination of reasonably rapid economic growth, coupled with bad planning at high levels of government. Our new (well new-ish by now) government was so eager to get rid of white faces in para-statals that they chased away most of the experienced engineers - especially in one particular company known as Eskom. Eskom is our one and only power utility, and they have an absolute monopoly.
With the influx of new blood during the ousting of the old guard, empires were on the make, and the main focus was cost containment with a view to garnering fat bonuses for the top executives. Most of this cost saving was achieved by cutting capital expenditure - in english: "These fools haven't built a new power station since 1994!"
So here we are in 2008 with an economy which has grown at around 5% per year, and yes, power usage has escalated at the same pace! But that's not all ... there has been a massive drive to bring electricty to all previously disadvantaged households as well. This is all beautiful except that the reserves present for peak load periods and scheduled maintenance which were present in 1994, have now all been used in general supply!
Why am I going on about all this? Well - I'm sitting in the dark hoping my laptop's battery will last until I finish ths blog! I'm connected to the internet through the wonder of my cellular phone's modem capability, because at least the cellphone companies had the foresight to cater for power outages in their cell towers. But that's it, outside it is as black as the country side, and I'm in the middle of a city!
Oh, and one more thing: As if brown-outs weren't enough, the African criminal community have taken to using the switch-offs as golden opportunity for stealing the copper cables used to convey our electricty! This means that often when the supply is restored, we still don't have power until new cables are installed. What a mess :-(
Anyway, that said I am still proud to be a South African. All my country needs now is strong leadership, someone like Britain's Maggie Thatcher to take on the lazy, and the corrupt and set things straight. I think we have the right people, they just need to "step up." If you're a believer, pray for South Africa's leadership every day. Prayer led us to a peaceful transition from "Aparteid," and God can bring us good leaders too.
Enough about my country.
I promised more about my romantic life, and here it is: M broke it off mostly because her ex husband had been giving her a hard time about hooking up with someone so soon after her divorce. He maintained that it was "not proper" and he was making her life miserable as a result. She couldn't just walk away because they share a son! Last weekend she stopped by his place to make sure her son had enough clothing to last the weekend, and was stopped in the passage by her ex because he had someone there! Evidently the "proper" rule only operates in one direction.
My take on all this is that it changes everything between her and I. With her ex involved with someone, he can't very well be insisting that she stay single, and this seems to be coming out in her communication with me. She has sent many more messages in the last few days, and the tone has definitely softened considerably! I'm very pleased :-)
I'm not counting my chickens just yet, but the future just might look a little rosier...
January 31 Soft foods for meI went
to visit my dentist yesterday. He did a filling about eight months
ago which "caved in" after a couple of months. I kept meaning to go back,
but you know how it is: There's always something else more important, and
visiting any health-care practitioner involves taking time off work.
Anyway, he decided to make use of the opportunity to take a complete set of
x-rays and do something called a "scale and polish" (I think) - can't
remember the exact term he used. The filling turned out to be quite a
major job because he needed to make it thicker and take a little off the top
molar to try and reduce the heaviness of my bite. He did a lot of stuff in
there and whilst I couldn't feel anything, I just knew it was going to ache
later!
Sure enough, my jaw
had a throbbing ache later that evening, and I was glad that I didn't have to go
out anywhere! The most irriating thing about it all is that I have to
avoid pressure on the amalgam for 48 hours to ensure it sets properly, and after
having to have it redone so soon, I decided not to take any chances. I had
a liquid supper, oats for breakfast and a liquid lunch, but now I am really
hungry. There are still another 24 hours to go :-(
News on the
romantic front is interesting. M (I'm going to call her that for now)
seems undecided about how things should run from here on out. I sent her
an email on Tuesday asking how she was doing, and I received what seemed to me a
rather indifferent reply. Yesterday I was feeling quite rotten (some
strange virus I think because it's gone today,) and in exchanging emails
she mentioned that she was having coffee with a friend nearby, and perhaps I
would like to pop in and say hi ...
What a
question! Of course I wanted to, and I duly made an appearance.
Thing is I was feeling dizzy and faint (just like when my blood-sugar drops) and
I can't have been at my best. I managed some kind
of conversation, or so I remember, and shortly thereafter she was ready to
leave. The leaving was a bit awkward because it's hard to know what is
acceptable to someone who's told you: "It's over." It ended up in the
hallway with her trying to pay the bill and me wondering where to stand. I
decided on a quick exit, gave her shoulder a squeeze and mumbled some kind of a
goodbye.
After that I went
home and got myself into bed for a rest - bearing in mind, of course, that I had
to be up for the dentist later. The rest actually helped a lot, and during
that time she sent a text asking how I was doing and saying it had been good to
see me. Yeah well I feel pretty much the same but I'm still not sure where
this is or isn't going. Anyway, I guess the best thing to do is just to
let her work out for herself what she wants. I'm all for
"drawing lines in the sand," but there's a time for that and I
believe this isn't it.
There's more to
this story but I've run out of blogging time, so watch this space for
another mostly boring episode of "a day in the life of
Steve."
:-)
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January 28 What to thinkI had a pretty dark
weekend, mostly because I was missing a certain lady terribly, but also because
I was pretty tired. (Events last week contrived to rob me of some
much-needed sleep.) Anyway, on Saturday I finally made it out of bed
around 9:30, and then took until about eleven to get out and about.
Feeling like doing nothing at all, but needing to get out of the house I headed
over to my folks' place and spent a few hours with them. My mother is an
angel, and she smeared on the sympathy nice and thick - just the way I need it
:-)
Still, even the
ministrations of my dear-sweet mother were not enough to keep the blues away for
more than a few hours. I finished Saturday curled up on my bed with two
"chick flicks," hoping to ease my own pain with someone else's. It worked
to a degree and I felt quite a lot better on Sunday. There was decent
cricket on the TV so I settled down to a day of being a couch pototoe!
True to form though, sitting still for the whole weekend was getting too much
for me, and I headed out in the afternoon for a hard ride on my
bicycle.
I came back feeling
tired but good - the endorphin rush of hard exercise always improves my
mood! That's when it happened (the crux of this entry:) I received a
sms from said lady, asking how it was going with me and if I was ok. My
reply was simple: "Hey u :-) I still think about you all the time and miss
you like crazy!" A few minutes later she sent another detailing how she
almost phoned to come over the previous evening!
I must admit that I
was hoping that something like this might happen. This is why I decided
not to pester her or "try to be friends" right after a break-up. I was
hoping that a clean break might get her thinking about the good times, and what
she is now doing without. Perhaps it's a little early to tell, but it
seems that what I was hoping for is happening. I can only hope - I
really like this girl!
January 23 Seems like a MondaySome days start
badly and get worse. Today was such a day. It started when I
attempted to gain access to a laptop I've been fixing up for a friend who needs
one. After trying various options I decided that I was going to have to
reinstall windows, so I settled down to the long task. That's when the
laptop decided that it had had enough of life, and gave up the ghost! One
minute it was doing its thing, the next it was dead. Stone
dead.
From there things
just got worse. The users decided that today they would spend the day
submitting tasks for us programmers to complete. I would not be much
surprised if that's all they did today, because the list of tasks has grown to
an alarming degree. Of course completing the actual tasks became more
difficult today as well, because things that normally work out relatively simply
decided that today they were going to "dig their heals in."
Mind you, it's
probably not as bad as it seems: Much of this is probably due to the fact
that the laptop's dying irritated me a great deal, so my thoughts were not the
calm, cool-headed thoughts that they usually are. I had another go with
the laptop this evening - I completely dismantled it and then reassembled it in
the hope that "something loose" would become "something tight," but to no
avail. It still refuses to show signs of life.
So there it is: A
day I will be glad to shut my eyes on!
Sweet memoryAh, dear possessor
of my heart,
how long will
I ache for thee?
Time has slowed,
the days lengthen.
Would that
I once more thy smile might see.
The image of
your face becomes
a
sweet and fading memory.
Far too soon
these wonderous
times have flown from
me.
January 22 Just when I thought everything was coolFirst a quick note
to anyone who may read this: I'm not going to be visiting my space very
often. I'm going to blog via email with automatic publishing because the
site just consumes too much of my precious bandwitdh (This is, after all
deepest, darkest Africa, where bandwitdh costs ten times as much as anywhere
else in the world - grrrr) So ... if you leave a comment it's quite likely
that I won't see it for a while.
Hmmm, so the year
started pretty well but it has deteriorated a little since last week. I
had been seeing a lovely lady who I was rapidly losing my heart to. There
were complications of course. She is freshly divorced (six
months) and lives around the corner from her ex who makes it his business to
stick his nose in everywhere. The net result is that she decided that
seeing me was becoming too complicated, so she called the whole thing
off.
I'm not completely
devastated, but I'm feeling pretty sad about the whole thing because I thought
it was going to be a real love story :-( Ah well, such is life I
guess. I just hope I'll meet someone new quite soon. Or maybe she'll
come around and change her mind! Not likely
:-(
January 01 Well I never!I haven't been around windows live spaces for...ev...er! How things have changed!
Suddenly there's this feed thing just like I have in Facebook (yes, I have a facebook profile now.) I stopped blogging here (or anywhere for that matter) a while back because I just didn't have the time anymore. I don't really have the time now, but I reckon my poor space is getting lonely :-)
It seems that I have picked up few new friends while I wasn't looking. Amazing - isn't technology wonderful!?
Anyway, a new year started today, and although 2007 wasn't too bad, I reckon 2008 can be even better. Here's to a fantastic year...
 August 30 Thursday the 30thFor those who wanted to know: My birthday was on the first.
August has been a tough month for me, and I suspect that work stress has a lot to do with it. Usually I am able to be fairly upbeat about life in general, but when the stress gets too much I struggle a lot.
Still, the down times have meant that I've allocated a much higher priority to my relationship with God. My quiet time has become an extremely important part of my day, and as Guinevere rightly points out, focusing on my relationship with my creator is where the ultimate solution lies.
I've just come home from a song-group practice, and then drinks with the guys afterwards. I was actually quite pleased that they felt I was "cool" enough to invite along - I am a good 15 years older than the oldest! Anyway, we had a good time and I am reminded of the importance of social human interaction to one's emotional well-being. More simply put: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!"
What's going on in my life right now? Not a lot besides work actually. Two things spring immediately to mind though: The first is that the young girl I mentioned in a previous entry, who hooked up with the friend named Paul, has since broken up with both him and another boyfriend, and now seems reasonably interested in spending some time with me. Second is that it looks to me like it may be time to buy a new car. Being a South African guy, buying a car is one of life's major decisions - cars are very expensive here, so making the right choice is fairly important! August 16 Ok, so maybe I'm feeling a little betterI think my modd is improving, and this evening I feel way better than I did when I last posted! Work has been an absolute nightmare in the last few months because of impossible deadlines and huge expectations from many players. Things don't look like slowing down for a while either, but I think I am beginning to find ways to cope with the stress.
One thing that I have been very grateful for is that I haven't been sick for a while. I went onto a rather strict regimen of at least five fruits a day a few months back, and so far it looks like the discipline has been worth it! I've managed to dodge the various colds that have gone around, and so far I am still healthy even in the midst of this huge work stress. I am gradually getting my exercise schedule back on stream, and I guess it is helping to improve my mood as well.
My daily quite-time is starting to take some real form again, and this is also proving to be a very important part of my day. My mother and brother (bless their hearts) gave me an awesome leather-bound book of devotions for my birthday, and already I'm am finding much inspiration in the words contained in it. I guess I must admit that God has been watching over me even though I wasn't "feeling" his prescence all the time.
Perhaps I'm finally on the mend, although I'm not holding my breath just yet. I think God has a lot of work to do on this humble vessel ... August 02 My word, how things have changed!Wow! I log on after a few months and everything has changed! All the menus look different, there's a summary of all the comments I've received (which I like,) but it took me a good three minutes to find where to add a blog.
I wasn't going to add a blog by the way. In fact I'm not entirely sure why I logged on at all. Why did I stop blogging, you may ask (if you've been here before.) Well, part of the reason is that I've not had much time. My new business took a great deal more time than I expected, and when I get home at night, I want to sleep - not log on and write blogs.
I've been alright, not fantastic, and life has rushed by for a few months. I imported my children for three weeks in early July, and the time we had together was uplifting for both them and me. I couldn't take time off so my mother very kindly took care of them during the day. It was a special time, but in some ways it has only served to highlight for me how much I miss them.
The relationship I started (and ended) earlier this year left me feeling somewhat down, not because of the relationship itself, but because of the implications of its shortness and what that means to me. I guess the real problem is that my heart still belongs to someone else. Recently I have made some moves towards a divorcee who seems to have much the same value system as I, and who probably needs a friend. Unfortunately this is progressing in small fits and starts because she works at a client that I don't visit very often, and she is (understandably) a little wary of all beings male at this stage. I've left that whole thing in God's hands, and we shall see where it goes.
Still, even if things go well with this potential female interest, my heart is still aching. A dull ache it is, but an ache none-the-less. I can't seem to put my feelings behind me, and it frustrates me no end! How long will it take for me to heal from this wound of love? Will I ever feel completely fine again? I'm not terribly hopeful at this juncture. It's been years now, and although I have times of feeling ok, I always come back down to this aching heart.
Anyway, for those of you who have worried about my abscence, please don't. Another reason for my lack of writing has been that mostly my mind is on the same thing day after day, and that's self pity which you would soon grow tired of reading about!
So ... I feel that I've moved backwards for the last few months. I have a spiritual life, but I am not feeling fulfilled, and even work is just sheer drudgery. Dark sentiments these are indeed, but they are mine and I own them without guilt. May 03 Where's the colour?The Alpha weekend was great, just too short! Somehow we only got rain on the Friday evening, even though it rained the entire weekend pretty much all around us! I came home exhausted but having had a good time.
I've being struggling with the drudgery of life lately. I seem to end up in this position time and time again. What is the purpose of this day to day grind? Where is there excitement in life? In the last few days everything seems to go by in shades of grey. About the only place I find solace is in my dreams, but they always seem to be over far too quickly.
Perhaps it is just fatigue that is getting me down. Life has been far too full of deadlines lately, and what I probably need is some decent rest. Alas, it's not going to happen any time soon! There is a ton of stuff to acheive this year, and it is going to continue to be "nose to the grindstone" all the way through.
I can only hope that God in His inifinite mercy will lift me up somewhere along the line. He knows I'm not doing too well on my own... April 26 Physical FrustrationI've made good progress on my fitness in the last few weeks! I've lost a couple of kilos, my waistline is diminishing, some tone is starting to show and I feel strong. Except for one thing. My right wrist has decided that it's had enough of supporting my hand, and it complains loudly when I use it too much. I had this problem recently and I visited a physio-therapist who recommended plenty of rest. That's exactly what I did, but it seems the rest wasn't enough because I'm experiencing pain again. It's really
frustrating because I was just getting going! Growing old is irritating.
On another tack altogether, I read a few blogs last night, and one struck a particular chord with me. It was written by an online friend and spoke of regrets over past actions and in-actions. I can relate whole-heartedly, in fact regret has been a hallmark of the last few days of my life. I know why it's happening as well. Every now and then I spend a few days out of regular contact with friends etc, and I get to thinking about my life as a whole. One of the things I always think of, is missed opportunities.
Today at work we had a farewell for a woman who has been around for just a few months, and has just been through a divorce. I've always admired her for her forthright and competent personality, and at times I wished that it was appropriate to spend some time getting to know her. Of course, with her getting divorced, it would be theoretically ok to express some interest. Thing is, I don't have much to do with her on a day-to-day basis, so there's never really been a good opening for me. So now she's gone. I guess that's how life goes sometimes.
April 25 A wet weekendWe're having our Alpha weekend away from Friday, and guess what? The first winter storm is due tomorrow, and rain is forecast for the whole time we are away! What an irony. Still, the campsite we are going to has fire-places, so we'll light up and be cosy together. There'll be no barbecueing of meet on Saturday eveing though. That's a shame.
A very good friend of mine has come on the current course, and his spiritual life really seems to be taking off. It's wonderful to see. When I met him I felt like he would never come around, but God moves in mysterious ways. It never ceases to amaze me.
April 24 Do you have a nemesis?I've been meaning to write an entry on this for a while now! Anyone who has read a couple of my blog entries will know that I'm not given to superstition, but having said that, there is one seemingly disturbing coincidence. Almost every time I have met a woman that I am really interested in, someone called Paul has gotten in the way.
First there was a woman who stole my heart big time, and then met and ended up with a Paul who she is still happily connected with. This first time caused me huge pain and I needed professional help to get sorted.
Then there was a charming and beautiful girl I met at a function, who was full of promises and all sorts of plans. I discovered the next week that she had a boyfriend whose name was ... Paul of course! "Well," I thought, "she'll break up with him at some point and then I'll have my chance." Yeah right. Two years later she is happily married to him with a gorgeous child.
A few weeks ago I became interested in someone much younger, and there seemed to be a mutual response. Except for a guy who stole the moment called ... yep ... Paul! A guy who just happens to be a good friend of mine, and who I am very happy for in terms of his catch. It's just that I get the raw deal. Again.
So there it is. Paul is my nemesis. If there's a Paul around, I need to watch my back.
I think the next time I meet someone who I'm even remotely interested in, I'm first going to ask if she knows Paul. If she does, she may have to be a non-starter! April 17 Sometimes Tuesdays are goodFor those who live in countries that don't play cricket (on an international scale,) the last few weeks have been seeing out the cricket world cup in the West Indies. South Africa have been up and down in their fortunes, and I've been quite frustrated watching them on occasion in the last few weeks. Today though, they showed what they can do if they put their minds to it. We absolutely trounced England, and thereby assured our spot in the semi-finals! Of course the semi's are not going to be easy. We'll face the machine which calls itself Australia next week, and we'll have to pull something extraordinary out of the bag to beat them. Still, us South Africans hold out hope that our team may take us to victory...
That wasn't the only reason this Tuesdays was good though: Various aspects of my work are coming together, and although there is a lot still to be done, I can begin to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel! It's quite a relief because there is an enormous amount to accomplish, much of it very difficult. Anyway, tonight I shall sleep well knowing that significant progress has been made.
Another good thing for me is that I've been bowling consistently better recently, so much so that my average has come up from 140 to 151. That's no mean feat in just a few weeks! I hope that my form will continue to improve as the year progresses.
Lastly - here's an interesting thing: the thermometer next to my bed reads only one degree higher than yesterday, but subjectively I feel way warmer! The day was still cool, but I don't feel even nearly as chilly as I did yesterday! Funny how one can feel such a difference from one day to the next. I wonder if my internal body temperature has something to do with it, and if so, what different temperatures might mean. Maybe someone's done a study on it... April 16 Winter beginsI'm feeling so cold today! The whole day I've been feeling this chill, and even now sitting on my bed and quite warm, I still feel this nagging sensation of coldness. I wonder if the greyness of the day has gotten under my skin?
I'm off to tenpin league in a few minutes time, and then I'll crawl into bed sometime after midnight, only to wake again at around six. I'll head off to work sometime after seven, and try to get a mountain sorted in the few short hours available. And that's just the work for the client! I still have to look into letters of appointment for the staff members of my new company (yes - it's only just getting off the ground administratively now, after a good few months.) I have to consider their salaries and think about when their next increase needs to happen.
I think administration is the thing I dislike most about life. There always seems to be something more that needs doing, and these days most things seem to need doing twice. Have you noticed that you can never phone about something just once? You always have to follow up, and very few companies I've dealth with sort your problems out on the first try. You have to keep on nagging, over and over again. I even bought underware the other, carefully selected from the medium rack, only to find that it was extra large when I got around to unpacking it the next day! So now I have to go back to exchange it - like I have time for that. hen did packing stuff on the right shelf go out of fashion?
This leads me to my next rant. have you noticed how the large supermarkets move their stuff around from time to time? Their logic indicates that you'll see more things to buy if you have to search, and that's fine ... if you aren't in a hurry. I'm always in a hurry! Shopping is something I get done as quickly as possible so I can get on with life's important things. I'm not interested in some new, usually useless gimmick someone wants me to try out. If it's any good, someone will tell me about it, and then I'll buy one!
I reckon all this "in your face" advertising is finally getting to me. I'm so sick of being asked to buy something everywhere I turn. Marketers should take note and start asking themselves how much product they'll sell if they keep irritating people. I'm pretty sure I've missed a few things I might really have wanted because I make a point of not looking at everything that's shoved in my face, and not going to the fifty second sale this season by some clothing store!
Mmmm, seems I've gone off on a anti-advertising tangent, and I've run out of time... April 13 Now I know whyI know why I've been feeling down. Usually I shrug off all the nagging doubts that plague me from day to day, after all they're just noise generated inside my own head. The reason they've been getting airtime is that I've been coming down with a cold! It struck with full force yesterday in the afternoon, forcing me into retreat to the relative comfort of my bed. I had a miserable night, and I can't say I felt much better this morning.
Fortunately for me, I can do a full day's work by logging in to my work machine from home, so I sat in the sun which streamed through the window in my bedroom, with my laptop on my lap and trudged through the day's work. I'm always amazed at how much more work I get through when I'm undisturbed at home! Makes me wonder why I don't do it more often!
So here I am on Friday evening, not going anywhere because although I've recovered quite a lot, I'm by no means better. Still, better that I get this over with as soon as possible by getting all the rest I need. The memory of being ill for an extended period last year is still fresh in my mind. I don't want to go through that again!
This weekend is going to be one of work mostly. I've been asked to complete a body of work over and above what I can acheive during my ordinary work day, and although I usually turn this kind of thing down, they are desperate and will pay top dollar for it. So I guess it's partly because I'm a nice guy and partly because the money will be welcome! Anyway, regardless of the reasons, it's to the grindstone for me tomorrow.
Bear with me if you're reading all my blogs, usually it takes a little while for the inspiration to strike. In the meantime I just write whatever's on my mind...
April 11 Down, but not for longSometimes I go through bad patches. The last few days I have felt down, and the big question I've kept asking myself is why? This is the perplexing thing about it - there is no real reason why I should be feeling down. Life is running smoothly enough. Most things are on track. The only difference I can put my finger on is that I seem to be going through a minor cold. It isn't a bad cold though, and I know this for certain because I've had no trouble exercising in the last few days.
The weather has changed some - perhaps that's it. We're in the middle of our first winter cold front, and there's been some rain and a chilly breeze. The strange things is that I actually enjoy the occasional grey day! I was pleased to have some protection from the sun today, especially after the harsh summer we've just been through.
Anyway, this afternoon I completed a section of work which has been on my mind for some time now, and I'm somewhat relieved that the main part is completed. There is much to do still, but most of it is fixing the glitches and polishing the final product. This evening was also Alpha evening, and I came away from it feeling refreshed, even though I have to lead a group there. I guess in the context of eternity, my mood has very little to do with anything, and this fact in itself has already got me feeling better!
God is gracious in the way that He sends you support when you need it. People at work seem to have been extra understanding in the last two days, and I received an email from a friend which also lifted my spirits. So I guess I'm feeling considerably better than I did earlier today...
Where to from here? Well, I guess I'll take tomorrow as it comes. Hopefully I'll have renewed enthusiasm for my current work tasks, now that I've broken the back of them, and who knows what other serendipities will come my way tomorrow!
April 09 Sometimes I wishSometimes I wish that I could be a better sportsman. If I could just play cricket naturally and easliy like my friends. If I could just save goals for my team on the soccer field. But this just isn't one of my strong points. What little skill I have is hard won with much practice.
Sometimes I wish that I was better at organising things. I would love to get everything sorted out and running like a well-oiled machine in my home. Right now my ironing isn't done, the dryer still contains a load of washing, there's a security gate that needs fitting, and the dust is already gathering since I last vaccuumed - and this is the end of the weekend! This is when everthing should be ship-shape and ready for the work week.
Sometimes I wish that I had discovered the gym when I was much younger. Every time I get into a good routine, I get an injury and I have to rest and start over. My body just doesn't respond the way my mind wants it to.
Sometimes I wish that work could just "go away" for two months. I take breaks but they are never long enough! When I was at school and college, I used to be dying to get back to it by the end of the vacation. That never happens anymore.
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