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Dec. 23rd, 2018 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsIn the last week I've been to the meal for James' birthday. It was good but Shauna, Kayleigh's girlfriend, couldn't come as she's a manager of a shop and obviously run off her feet atm, and Kay herself was dealing with new med side-affects, so while it was a lovely evening it was pretty low-key and chill. Which is probably what we all needed, really.
My MiL and FiL came earlier that day and we had a good time with them. I roasted chestnuts, made a nice dinner, served cake and many coffees, and again, it was a good chilled out time. The only problem being my MiL gets so frustrated at her terrible mobility. She's in the situation where she's piling on weight as she can't walk well at all so needs a heavy duty wheelchair so gets embarrassed at anyone having to push her. As we can't get our car to our door she's got no choice but to be pushed to the house and we spent a lot of time reassuring her that pushing her wasn't a thing. I do wish she'd come visit more, but understand why she won't even though she has a nice time every time she's here.
The pantomime was so great! I'm so glad I agreed to go as it was funny and I really enjoyed seeing the reaction of the children that were sitting around us. They were so into what was happening on stage and by the end I felt I could believe in fairies, too. Plus, they had a harness and rig thing that meant that Peter Pan could fly right up into the top balcony, and seeing him up there, glitter trailing behind him was a wow moment.
My bandom holidays story is finished and getting beta read. It's already been read over once so I know all it needs is a few typo corrections so I'll be done well in time. So that can be 90% checked off my list too.
I don't know if someone has been mentioning my stories somewhere but I've been getting some incredibly lovely comments lately. One of the favourite being someone overjoyed they'd found a particular story again as they'd been searching for ages and apparently Googling 'Ryan strung up on a billboard' didn't bring any answers. Which really, such a fail, Google!
I braved Asda for the last grocery shop yesterday. I was dreading it as the crowds at the shops had been building up day by day, but in the end it was fine. I caught the bus exactly, was at the shopping place in fifteen minutes and managed to buy some needed presents and then sat having a coffee at Costa while James finished work and met me at Asda. Then as we were close we decided to call in The Company Shop on the way home. That's the shop for NHS workers that sells off surplice food incredibly cheap. They'd obviously had truck loads of some things come in as they were giving away big family packs of bananas and selling turkey breast meat from Waitrose at 10p a packet. We also got a turkey crown at half the labelled price. I've never actually shopped in a Waitrose, for two reasons, one there isn't one close and two, we couldn't afford to. But now because of Company I'm getting quite a taste for their food.
Today I need to wrap the last of the presents and tidy the house as Corey is coming home with James after work. Maybe a cheeky nap as I had a bad nights sleep last night. Though I don't really nap at all, so I suspect coffee will have to do it. Some online catching up, too. But first, present wrapping, and a quick walk to Lidl as despite all that shopping we forgot the lettuce.
My MiL and FiL came earlier that day and we had a good time with them. I roasted chestnuts, made a nice dinner, served cake and many coffees, and again, it was a good chilled out time. The only problem being my MiL gets so frustrated at her terrible mobility. She's in the situation where she's piling on weight as she can't walk well at all so needs a heavy duty wheelchair so gets embarrassed at anyone having to push her. As we can't get our car to our door she's got no choice but to be pushed to the house and we spent a lot of time reassuring her that pushing her wasn't a thing. I do wish she'd come visit more, but understand why she won't even though she has a nice time every time she's here.
The pantomime was so great! I'm so glad I agreed to go as it was funny and I really enjoyed seeing the reaction of the children that were sitting around us. They were so into what was happening on stage and by the end I felt I could believe in fairies, too. Plus, they had a harness and rig thing that meant that Peter Pan could fly right up into the top balcony, and seeing him up there, glitter trailing behind him was a wow moment.
My bandom holidays story is finished and getting beta read. It's already been read over once so I know all it needs is a few typo corrections so I'll be done well in time. So that can be 90% checked off my list too.
I don't know if someone has been mentioning my stories somewhere but I've been getting some incredibly lovely comments lately. One of the favourite being someone overjoyed they'd found a particular story again as they'd been searching for ages and apparently Googling 'Ryan strung up on a billboard' didn't bring any answers. Which really, such a fail, Google!
I braved Asda for the last grocery shop yesterday. I was dreading it as the crowds at the shops had been building up day by day, but in the end it was fine. I caught the bus exactly, was at the shopping place in fifteen minutes and managed to buy some needed presents and then sat having a coffee at Costa while James finished work and met me at Asda. Then as we were close we decided to call in The Company Shop on the way home. That's the shop for NHS workers that sells off surplice food incredibly cheap. They'd obviously had truck loads of some things come in as they were giving away big family packs of bananas and selling turkey breast meat from Waitrose at 10p a packet. We also got a turkey crown at half the labelled price. I've never actually shopped in a Waitrose, for two reasons, one there isn't one close and two, we couldn't afford to. But now because of Company I'm getting quite a taste for their food.
Today I need to wrap the last of the presents and tidy the house as Corey is coming home with James after work. Maybe a cheeky nap as I had a bad nights sleep last night. Though I don't really nap at all, so I suspect coffee will have to do it. Some online catching up, too. But first, present wrapping, and a quick walk to Lidl as despite all that shopping we forgot the lettuce.
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Date: 2018-12-24 12:30 pm (UTC)Yay for feedback and nice comments. It's always nice when that happens.
And yay bandom story! I knew you could do it!
I hope you got the lettuce. *g*
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Date: 2018-12-27 04:04 pm (UTC)I really enjoyed the comments, but it does always make me wonder if someone has been reccing. Or a few people decide to comment by coincidence. Whatever it is I was happy about it.
I did do it!
And yes, I did get the lettuce. Thank goodness!