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Thursday, 17 July, 2008

Sunday 15/6/08

I woke up, had a shower and then got distracted by Ben so took a long time getting ready because I had to print stuff. While I was online, Guan asked us if we could pick up Bec as she had no wheels. That wasn't a problem; the problem was we were running late and it was raining. Oh well! So we ended up getting to Guan's at 11 instead of 10:30. We had been planning to walk to The Spot but it was sprinkling so we drove and got a good park.

We went to The Sweet Spot Patisserie. I had a chai latte and a slice of cheesecake for breakfast (so not healthy!) I was also still on Vick's and echinacea so maybe it wasn't a good idea for me to be out on this day. But I had been looking forward to having a writing day for a while.

We sat and wrote (or tried to write) for about an hour and a half, and then we hit the wall. We went to Noodi Noodi and got takeaway for lunch, brought it back to Guan's and ate it. After that, we played with Guan's Wii for a couple of hours which was pretty amusing—particularly when Ben and I were doing the boxing against each other (I won!)

At around 4:30 we left and drove to church. Church was good though the congregation was very small that evening. We had dinner afterwards at Real Thai, and we sat with Guy and Sam and Kurt.

I was pretty tired by the end of it, but still after getting home, I did stuff for The Faithful Writer and went to bed too late.

Monday 16/6/08

I went into work at 7:30. Work consisted of dealing with email, The Sola Panel, little web jobs and the compilation of The Daily Reading Bible (Volume 17). I should have stayed on the meds for a bit longer; I felt myself getting sicker and sicker. I left work at 4 and did the fruit and veg shopping, then came home and dealt with my home email and the laundry (changed the sheets). I made risoni for dinner then thought, “Okay, I'm definitely sick now”. We spent the evening watching last week's TV, I did the washing up, had a shower, photographed my bag (the white one), cut my nails and went to bed.

I have nice nails.

Tuesday 17/6/08

I woke up with a sore throat and decided not to go to work. I slept in, emailed work to say I was sick, then spent the day on the computer dealing with my email. In the afternoon, I watched some Veronica Mars and did some knitting. We ate leftovers and spent the evening watching NCIS and Richard Dawkins's The Enemies of Reason (apparently you can watch it in 10 minute increments on YouTube). I was surprised at how much I found myself agreeing with Dawkins: like him, I'm against superstition and the slavery that superstition brings; like him, I'm angry at people who exploit other people's vulnerability and gullibility; but unlike him, I don't have as much faith in science and reason. Ben and I spent a bit of time talking about it afterwards—so much so, we went to bed at 1.

Wednesday 18/6/08

I slept in pretty much until 11 or 12 which was a good rest for me. I had leftovers for lunch and spent the afternoon catching up on my reading of The New York Times and Salon.com. Bec and I talked on IM for a bit. Ben went for a walk with Malcolm in the afternoon. When he returned, I made grilled dory with bok choy, rice and crispy onions and garlic. We watched the news and a bit of Ugly Betty, then I went off and blogged.

Thursday 19/6/08

I was feeling better so I was in at work by 7:30. I brought my breakfast with me, and read the Bible and prayed while eating it. Work felt like fighting foo: I dealt with my work email, edited Sola Panel stuff and did online web stuff. We had a cake made by Jess for morning tea to celebrate Anna's birthday. Staff lunch was Indonesian from Ratu Sari (yum!) The occasion was made even fancier as we covered the table in the boardroom with a tablecloth, we had candles on it plus a centrepiece of Anna's flowers, and we all had plastic champagne flutes with fake champagne. But we weren't just celebrating Anna's birthday; we were also farewelling Dave and Simon.

In the afternoon, I finally got to finishing up the minutes from the last Faithful Writer committee meeting (over a month late, I think!) Then I went home and worked on more Faithful Writer stuff. I caught Karen on IM and chatted to her for a while. We had leftovers for dinner and then went out with Fish to San Churros in Glebe for chili hot chocolate and churros:

Afterwards, he dropped us home and we went to bed.

Friday 20/6/08

Ben and I went to work together and arrived around 9:30 am. I had hoped to do some writing—I'd even brought all my books for my children of divorce article—but I had to do Faithful Writer stuff first. Then a problem with The Sola Panel came up and I spent most of the day trying to fix it, only to discover that PEBKAC; I'd neglected to add the mail function in my PHP code. How embarrassing! *Sigh!* I was so irritated because I really wanted to get to the writing part.

In the afternoon, Ben left to go to counselling and I worked on Faithful Writer stuff (suggested bookstall list, etc.) Ben returned around 6:30 to pick me up. He dropped me home and then went to see Luke. I stayed home and ate leftovers for dinner and watched Aeon Flux (which I know is a poor movie but I love the visuals—I love the design of the whole thing—I love the architecture and the costumes and the locations they used in Berlin—I think the acting wasn't too bad, it was just the script that let them down. And of course it's a very different beast to Peter Chung's original animated series). I also finally watched Pretty in Pink (borrowed off George) while knitting the Booga Bag. Ben came home around midnight.

Saturday 21/6/08

I woke up around 9:30 but didn't get up 'til 10:30. I had a shower, then went out to the shops to buy milk. While I was there, I decided to make bacon and eggs for brunch. I woke Ben up when I got back and made him brunch. Then he went off to help Fish move house. I stayed home and spent the afternoon hanging out on Facebook (egg hunting) and blogging. In the evening, Ben was invited out to dinner by Naomi and Simon but I didn't feel like being social so I stayed home and watched Some Kind of Wonderful (which went in a direction I didn't expect it to) and then, in the vein of high school movies, Mean Girls. Ben came home around midnight.

Sunday 22/6/08

I woke up at 9:30 or so, and got up and went for a walk around Stanmore, Annandale and Leichhardt. I found the bead shop people kept telling me about and was overwhelmed at the amount and variety of beads they had. I also stopped in at Shearers on Norton and found My Parents are Getting Divorced: How to keep it together when your mom and dad are splitting up. In JB Hi Fi I tried to find the set of three BBC Austen movies that Jess had but they didn't have it. I did find Colour the Small One by Sia (which I like a lot better than Healing is Difficult.

Then I realised my time was running out. I came home and had a shower. Ben wasn't quite up yet. I ate lunch and watched a bit of She's the Man, then drove to Bec's and picked her up. We went to see Prince Caspian at the Ritz. Unfortunately we were sharing the cinema with a bunch of noisy children who were there as part of a birthday party. One of the women near us was so frustrated, she went out halfway through the film to complain to the staff. Unfortunately it didn't do much good. Still, I enjoyed the movie. I felt like it sagged a bit in the middle and I don't understand why they made some of the changes they did, but other than that, I liked it and would like to see it again.

Afterwards, we drove to Wild Street and heard a great sermon from Kurt (very challenging). I dropped Bec home and then came back to church and talked to George. I was feeling very down. She encouraged me to think of something nice I could do for myself in the coming week. Why is it so hard to think of nice things to do when you feel down? I know I have a list somewhere on this blog; I should bookmark it.

We had dinner in the hall: soup and bread (very nice). I met Dave who is married to Emily. Then I drove home, did some blogging and prepared for the following day before going to bed.

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