I should preface this by saying that I have now had a headache, probably 75% of the time, for almost three months. I’m on medication for it, I’m being monitored by my doctor, I’m seeing a psychiatrist later this week to discuss medications and dosages etc, so we’re figuring it out… but I just want you to bear it in mind.
Especially when you get to Saturday.
Monday
Let me tell you this for nothing – Beatrice and I are, four years in, getting very efficient at this whole podcasting lark!
This morning she comes over to my house bright and early where we set up in the kitchen and commence recording.
We’re recording Beatrice’s Desert Island Discs, and this is the nicest episode to record and the nicest episode to edit, despite all the fiddling around finding tracks etc. It’s just really relaxing, even if it takes twice as long because I listen to each song all the way through as a little break for myself.
She leaves a bit before 12.30pm – she has two meetings this afternoon, and I’ve to do some writing – and it’s only after she leaves that I open the Amazon package she’d brought in from my front porch.
THANKS BE TO GOD, says I, because inside are two boxes of Barry’s and two Terry’s Chocolate Oranges! One of each would definitely have been pilfered (I would have been guilted into giving them to her), had she seen them, so it’s quite the relief that I only open them now.
Then I head back to my boffice (bedroom/office) and get some writing done, for once getting all of my Monday work finished by the time Brandin gets home with the boys (and then runs around the corner to get Atlas at his babysitter’s).
I’m feeling very efficient today, so much so that I also pay my parking fine ($12.95) – although one could argue that true efficiency would be not getting a fine to begin with…
Anyway, we have pasta and bolognese for dinner (you may see a pattern in our Monday night dinners), then we all watch some Paw Patrol (for shame) before baths and bedtime.
Once the boys are down, Brandin and I watch an episode of Sex Education, which I love, despite feeling such betrayal each and every episode when the writers do something mean to yet another one of my fave characters.
My Book of the Month subscription comes out. ($17.11)
Daily total: $30.06
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