Debs Daily Deliberations 150

Where were we.....Tuesday, first thing had to take my horse tablet of an anti-biotic as I had forgotten it the day before. I have to take them Monday - Wednesday - Friday for the 6 months I am on oral chemo, you'd think it would become routine right! wrong.....I still struggle to take my anti-convulsants morning and night and I've had them since last December!! I have become Dorey from Finding Nemo! Kids all fed, clothed and sent off with correct PE kit and lunches its just me and the dogs again. Hubby phoned to say the plumber suggested I tip hot water down our sink every hour as the glugging is probably because the vent is blocked.....which is just outside my kitchen window (on the ground obviously), we say it probably won't work but worth trying. So me being a domestic goddess now decides she will descale the kettle and kill two birds with one stone.....the water is very hard here and I've noticed the kettle taking longer and longer to boil, ordinarily I would complain and show off and Tony would buy me a new one.....but being a one wage family now I have to resort to being bloody Martha Stewart before prison! I find my "oust" and read instructions and follow them......except I don't put the kettle in the sink (never have before and its been ok) and this time the bloody stuff froths out all over the freakin place.....I quickly turn off the electric to the kettle and look at the mess........geez from one simple job I now have to mop the entire work surface and clean it down.....great we have run out of kitchen roll......I go grab the towel from the downstairs loo and begin mopping. There are some jobs you instantly wish you never started!!!! Still I have a sparkly kettle and sparkly work surface now....just a very soggy tea-towel and hand-towel to wash. Talking of washing I had a veritable mountain of laundry in my bathroom.......sorted it into colours (very strict with these) so end up with like 7 loads cos I wont mix greys with blacks or darks.......my own worst enemy but I do find the sound of the washing machine going comforting......like I really am a housewife LOL I looked up the Thames Festival website as we are thinking of going this weekend....will drive to the in-laws (or outlaws) and leave our car there while we take the Central Line into London Town! I hope I am up to this, it will be lots of walking and we are meeting my little sister and her partner and I am having thoughts already that I will slow everybody down cos I don't have the stamina anymore. Ah well, I'll play the "I'm sorry, I'm ill" card he he, my sis will probably slap me at that point LOL So Mr. Weatherman, I need you to tell me it will be dry......not hot....but dry, no rain either please, thank you very much. I did a little weeding today in the garden, in my new grassy savannah area....which is basically one tiny corner of my not so large garden. I love the way they swish in the wind, the tall stems waving but never breaking......ahhhhhh gone all Alan Titchmarsh!!!!!!!! Couldn't tell you their names though ;) Kids all home from school and as usual all hell breaks loose....Jack (15) and Lara (11) DO NOT GET ON.........at all, they insult each other, taunt each other, goad each other.....feckin endless!! Sean (13) is Swiss as in he tolerates Lara (she is at that age.....just got to secondary school and suddenly has drunk from the fountain of endless knowledge.......she KNOWS IT ALL) but gets on pretty well with big bro (just as well, they share a room).....they do playfight, but with them both being blackbelts in karate can get dangerously close to real fighting if one sticks in a good punch or kick! Of course all any of them have to say to their dear oldish mum is "whats for dinner and when is it, I am starving?". Well no cordon bleu today, kids are having salmon fishfingers and chips with pea's (gotta have some veg eh) and Tony and I are having scampi and chips and pea's.......haven't had that for ages and it was bloody handsome...although hubby insisted on having bread and butter at the table to which everyone promptly made chip butties!!!!!! I have a thing about bread and butter, I think it was my mum, she struggled as a single mum with 3 kids, 1 severely disabled - but we always ate well, she was and still is a food snob (no margerine in our house!) and said that people only had bread and butter as a filler when they couldn't afford enough food......so she left me with a hang up about it...mind you I did join in and have a chip buttie LOL Meanwhile, Tony had come home armed with rods and what looked like a chimney sweep tufty broom thing with other instruments of medievil torture to tackle the drain problem - borrowed from work - it took him nearly two hours in all and he almost didn't have enough rods to reach the blockage which was way out of house's boundary and under the middle of the road....he had a good work out pushing and pulling and pumping those rods to clear the blocked drain. Next he tackled the vent in our garden.......this clearly clogged with grease etc from washing up water, now I am very careful with what goes down the sink, I drain all fat into a jar and when its filled, throw it away but you can't stop every bit. But I am pleased to report, the bath water drains as fast as Lewis Hamilton doing a lap round Silverstone and our toilets no longer "talk" to us and glug! Tony went off to teach at his adult karate class tonight and I was left with a very VERY stressie Lara who had been set the task of learning the entire alphabet in French.....which she has to sing to Jock Jams "Ya'll Ready For This".......takes me back and I have this tune on my iPod (blushes) but its sooooooo fast, poor little love was in tears because she couldn't do it. Still, she's got to Friday and if she's still struggling I will pop a note in her planner about how many hours she has spent practising and how sick the entire family is of the song now!!!! This is the same teacher my eldest has a form tutor and thinks is a "male appendage" hmmmmmm lol Lara has only been at secondary 4 days and although (knowing everything) a tough little cookie, she still wants to make an impression and earn merits. Long may that last! Finally we calm her down and watch a little TV before Sean takes over with PS3 and we get to watch pretend cars zooming round a pretend track.....great! I turn in just before 10pm and read a bit more of Deception Point - which I am finding hard to get into frankly - while waiting for Tony to get home. Was it a hot night anywhere else in the UK last night........very difficult to drift off with it being so warm and no breeze coming in through our window and 2 dogs on the bed with us. Another day of retirement done! Thought for yesterday: Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prévert