wiseheart | I haz jam! (Reply)

Since I'm terribly addicted to my choices of crap telly, I got up early (for me, that is) and started making my strawberry jam around 7am. Since the wonderful strawberries had just the right consistency, it went faster than I'd hoped: by 9am - the time when Mum usually gets up - I was done.

After copious amounts of crap telly watching, I went into town to finally visit my favourite craft shops that are not exactly withing easy reach. To celebrate that fact, I bought some really pretty craft paper. And even more craft paper. And a whole reel of chequered pink ribbon and lovely little rhinestone hearts in lilac because they were on offer. We won't discuss the sum I spent there; let's just say that I usually buy food for a week for roughly the same sum. But it was worth every cent of it.

I then went straight to school for a short choir practice with the children's choir and met one of my favourite young (ex-)colleagues for about 20 minutes. That was the longest time we were able to spend in each other's company since Mum's birthday, back in January. It's usually just phone chats. *sigh*

Coming home, we had leftover soup and sandwiches for lunch, watched some more crap telly and then I took Mum out for a walk. By that time I was so drained that I needed a nap afterwards. This warm, humid weather is very hard for me to bear. The year I spend in the Netherlands, where the weather is always like this, was probably the hardest year in my life health-wise. Fortunately, I'm old enough to opt out of any strenuous activities if I don't feel up to them now.

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