Bureaucracy: 2, me: 1

[wiseheart]

... and I've still won. Meaning that I've finally dealt with Mum's senior support issue. That unimpressive amount of money is going to reach her via postal service, starting next year. Yay!

After that, I went to various shops for sewing and crafting supplies, built tulle and organza for the little angels I'm going to make, then visited the Lindt shop and built a huge bag of chocolate balls as their price was reduced by 20%. Still outrageously expensive, but we need some bad habits, too. We don't drink, don't smoke, gave up on women (joke, joke!), horse racings are cold events, so - chocolate. *g*

Those activities (plus a visit to Lidl and to a local market) cost me the whole morning and more. It was 2pm when I got home, and combined with the day I had yesterday, I was completely floored. Thank God, I didn't have to cook, thanks to leftover Shepherd's Pie. After the belated midday meal I just collapsed on my bed, wrote about two paragraphs, just to prove myself that I was writing, and then fell asleep for about an hour and a half.

That lovely sleep was interrupted twice by phone calls for Mum, and a third time by a call from my friend Evie; but by then it was 6pm already. So I just stayed up, had supper with Mum, watched the GBBO - The Professionals, and now the day is over. Why has time to run so fast?

Comments

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Yay for getting the thing changed!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is a relief.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Yay for the bureaucracy victory!
I always joke that coffee is my last remaining vice and I dread the day I have to give it up! I love coffee, I grind my coffee beans.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I couldn’t live without coffee, either.

[jusummerhayes.livejournal.com]

Where does the time go? I'm 57 and I know it's a hackneyed expression that time speeds up the older you get (it feels there is less of it) but it's true.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I think we are slowing down as we age. I am 68; and I definitely need a lot more time for things than I used to.

[jusummerhayes.livejournal.com]

I find myself in a constant state of despair with the pace at which everyone wants to do things. What happened to a bit of breathing space?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I ask myself that question frequently. Of course, being the full-time caregiver of an elderly parent doesn't leave me much of a breathing space, and I have to cram so many things into that restricted me-time as humanly possible.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Yay for sheer determination. I'm sure Mum is suitable impressed by your battling skills with bureaucrats.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

She was... content. ;)

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

I watch hubby going through the TV programme each day. Often enough there´d be some baking contest to watch. Once hubby asked me sardonically if I´d love to watch the show- only that he was already at the channel showing another crime thriller. Serves him right- this way he´ll never have proper cakes and the like.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It's his own fault. If he prefers to eat crime thrillers, he deserves it.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Lindt! I like the 70% cacoa dark chocolate bar but it has been hard to find lately. I am envious that you have a shop near by.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The advantage of living in a big city, relatively close to the source. *g*
Me, I don't like dark chocolate too much. Plain milk chocolate or filled with delicious caramel, pistachio, etc. cream — that is my idea of a guilty pleasure.