It was almost a Weekend of Disappointment. A Friday night of loneliness after not feeling well and watching Buzzcocks all afternoon. A Saturday of Women's Wimbledon final, power grocery shopping, and CLEANING UNDERNEATH THE KITCHEN ISLAND. Honestly, what has gotten into me that I'm suddenly unwilling to just sit around and actually want to get things done? Anyway, we came up with like three boxes of stuff to donate and neatened things up and THEN I felt I earned sitting on the couch and watching Sex and the City with Mum, which has become a new thing we do. I had so much trouble sleeping though--I know it was the heat but it was also the fact that earlier that day there had been a fast-crawling spider going across my wall right near my bed...and then later I found a bug that I hope just fell of one of the cats on the bed. Mum sprayed eucalyptus, which is supposed to ward them off naturally but I still avoided the wall. -_-
Today we watched men's Wimbledon final. Then there was a brief down period before I loaded up the car to go to Goodwill, where I managed to get the steering wheel slightly stuck. Then Mum got it even MORE stuck and we were sat in the oppressive heat outside the donation door for like, well it must've just been 5-7 minutes, but it was embarrassing because one guy kept going by us to throw out boxes. Finally, when I was despairing and considering just calling AAA, I got out of the car and asked one of the guys working there if he was "good at cars", which honestly I'm a bit embarrassed about now. But he said yes and I explained what happened so he hopped in, phenaggled for about a minute and got it started!! To which I exclaimed "You're brilliant!! Thank you so much!!" And we drove off...around the corner to go into the actual store. But I prided myself on my damsel in distress abilities. (For the record, we did try and it was REALLY stuck.) Went to Target after that and had to pry Mum's fingers off of sales rack baby clothes but she ended up buying a dress and I insisted on a Dr. Suess t-shirt.
Ben was home when we got there and we were all upstairs crooning over Violet. Then I began to make dinner and we had all-out Mexican: tacos, Spanish rice, corn mush, homemade guacamole. I ate too much and then had to clean up the kitchen, which was exhausting. The sink is full of dishes which I will have to do tomorrow because I did a shitload earlier today and apparently we can't run the dishwasher too much or it will make the water bill get too high. We played three rounds of euchre which was good down in my belly. I watched British shows with Ben, and he admitted that he had a hard time understanding/keeping up with the accents in the Inbetweeners. Now I have the albums I wanted and my mousepad is slightly sticky. I am exhausted. Ben is going home tomorrow but Violet is staying here and I will watch her Tuesday for the whole day all by myself. Then he and Ashley will come spend a night. It's going to be a busy week cus I need to have an errand day, do chores (laundry!), see people, and read/do book club. But it's all good in the hood!
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