is what you need when your kettle packs up 😉
We seem to be suffering from electrical gremlins just now – the kettle demised yesterday, and one of the phone handsets is stubbornly refusing to charge. Lack of a kettle in this house is a traumatic event – we both drink copious quantities of hot drinks. Tim isn’t too badly off, as he has a Gaggia, and given that his Christmas present from me was a coffee mill and a supply of roasted coffee beans, I think he’s fairly happy. Given my current requirements for lemsips though, I could do without having to mess around with the camping kettle (that seems to have lost its whistle, don’t know how that happened 🙁 )
It’s not quite boiled. I’m waiting for it to boil, so that I can have my lemsip, and then go shopping. I want to go shopping for once, I keep doing Tim lists and sending him out, but I want to go and shop and pay lots of miscellaneous cheques into accounts (Christmas has been good to us that way 😉 ). Should I buy a new kettle? I don’t think we’ve had this one very long – I think it may even have been a Christmas present a couple of years ago. Pretty pathetic for it to give up so quickly (and no, it isn’t the fuse, we’ve checked that).
Ah, that’s better. I have my lemsip now. It’s too hot to drink of course, but that’s only to be expected. Now I need to gather cheques together, and try to work out where the paying in slips go. How does that work? Each time I do this, I bring a supply of envelopes and paying in slips back, and each time I need to use them, can I find them?
Hohum. That underlines the problem throughout this house, too much stuff, in disorganised piles. Will sort it out. Later.
And that’s the second part of the problem, procrastination. And this machine is a large part of it. I have a tendency to switch it on, and then hide from the world behind it, while pretending that what I’m doing is having a (n electrical) social life. Let’s face it though, I’m not really, as with the honourable exception of Gill 😉 most of you are actually off living life (which in some cases means sleeping!) while I’m reading and she’s blogging.
So there will be less machine switching on, which none of you will notice as I can still blog just as often without sitting here for 80% of my non working waiting time. At least until we’ve excavated the house and moved.
I’m still working on my 101 in 1001 list. Which is slightly worrying, as I’m probably several weeks into the allotted time, and I haven’t worked out what I’m aiming to do in it. Will aim to get that finished and posted up visibly today. Part of the problem there is that I’m prone to make huge sweeping goals for myself which are completely non measurable or achievable, and then feel bad when I don’t get there. 101 is supposed to be achievable and measurable, so pruning my aims and ambitions down is a little painful, but I’m sure worthwhile in the long run.
Right, I think I’ve waffled long enough for my lemsip to have cooled down, so I’m off to get dressed and shop. See you all later no doubt. 😀
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