I might eventually think of a subject line...

[wiseheart]

This was a day filled with small (but time-consuming tasks).



I started with taking out the rubbish to the selective bins. Then I went to Lidl to buy the stuff I didn't get yesterday at the Auchan supermarket. When I came back, both elevators were still out of order. A good thing I took that possibility under consideration and didn't buy too many heavy things. Even so, hauling my shopping bags up two storeys was less than pleasant, with my back still in a... delicate state. At least it were only two storeys for me. I felt for the lady - older than me - whom I met on my way back; she lives on the 4th floor.

In any case, I was tired enough to take a nice, long nap after all this was over and we had breakfast. Then I started preparing lunch. I actually dug out the tool for cutting the potatoes in the right shape for French fries; something I haven't done for at least twenty years! I bought some battered fish at Lidl, so we had our own version of fish and chips, with leftover soup and leftover salad. I fried everything in a pan, so the flat stank abysmally afterwards, but Mum loved it, and that's what counts.


Mum had a visit from the PT lady, during which I dismantled the artificial tree and wrestled it back into its paper box. It gets harder every year. Or I'm getting clumsier. One of the two, certainly.

The only truly positive aspect of the day is that I actually got a tiny bit of writing done. Just a few paragraphs, but every little bit counts.

Comments

[meathiel]

Oh dear ... I hope the elevators will be fixed soon!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They have been in the meantime.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

I received your Christmas card today! Thank you so much. I hope you and your Mum had Happy Holidays. It is cold here, so we are staying indoors as much as possible. Someone stole two packages (out of three, how weird) from the bench in our carport in broad daylight today. Luckily, the items in the packages were not costly and can be easily replaced. We have a picture of someone carrying away a box (picture of their back only) but not sure if they are the culprit, as they could have also been delivering. I am de-cluttering the house slowly, with help. What has been done is very satisfying, but I have a ways yet to go. All else is status quo. Glad to see you are getting some writing done and are doing well.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I used to hate it when my mum lived in a flat, even though it was the ground floor. Getting five or six bags into the taxi was easy enough, but getting the bags from the complex entrance to my mum's flat was horrendous. It was a very long hallway and, on the one occasion I decided to make two trips I returned to find a group of old biddies standing around the remaining bags, tutting and complaining about the 'mess'. I cannot begin to imagine what it would have been like with steps to negotiate.

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I hope it won't take much time to fix those elevators! Our daughter had to wait for seven weeks- and she lives on the 7th floor...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the card has finally arrived and that you liked it. :)
I hear you re: de-cluttering. It's a never ending struggle. *sigh*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

These idiot buildings are built so that you have to climb 12 steps before you could actually reach the elevator! They built thousands of such huge monstrosities back in the 1970s when accessibility clearly wasn't an issue.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That had to be a real torture! Fortunately, we've got a very capable janitor with connections, so by the late evening the elevators were running again.