Day 54 - Tuesday 12th May
Today is our wedding anniversary - 20 years which, perhaps ironically, is normally celebrated with china. I don't really feel like celebrating and anyway hubby sleeps in, so it's a normal morning for me. I write his card, put some ribbon around the box of cheeses I bought him as a gift and leave it on the table for him to find when he gets up. I'm not feeling great today - I have a tickle in my throat and I'm coughing; I also feel a bit dizzy. I hope it's not Covid but it's hard to see how I can have caught anything at all when I haven't been in close contact with anybody.
Yesterday I listed on eBay a couple of sweet vending machines I had bought for my team to use when I worked at my last company and today one of them sold! I get it packaged up, together with an order from my online shop. I take the latter across the road to the post box - and for the first time in ages have to wait to cross the road - but the vending machine is too big and hubby has offered to take it to the post office. We've decided against using the nearest one as the death rate in our area is the highest in our town. I attend a session of the online sustainability festival, where the speaker is somebody I know from years ago. Then I have a call with another old business contact, this time about some part-time work as a mentor helping young people who didn't excel at school with their reading, maths and life skills. It sounds really interesting and she seems keen to progress, although the job wouldn't actually begin until September. My anniversary gift arrives - some whisky miniatures for the tasting I've arranged with friends for Saturday, thanks to some heavy hint dropping.
I was supposed to complete a job application today but my son has asked us to get him out of bed and to be honest that is too much of a distraction to get enough focused time to do anything productive - he needs to be reminded every half an hour. We start to wake him at 12 and he finally emerges just before 4 - in time for a Skype chat with my daughter and grandson. She's in a dilemma because my grandson has outgrown his car seat and she and her husband can't go together to look at a new one for him because he's no longer able to go in the car and they aren't allowed to leave him with anybody. After that call, my son has one with his girlfriend.
We order dinner and while we wait for it to arrive I settle down for a webinar on materiality, with a glass of fizz to mark the occasion. It's coming from the united states and I find the style quite annoying - they start with a pointless game of jeopardy which feels like a waste of time. I bail out and catch up on some of the work I didn't get done earlier. Dinner arrives on time and after we eat we play an escape room game. It suggests a time budget of 2 hours for 3/4 players but we smash it in less than 1 hour and then make short work of the optional extra game. Our son goes off to start his uni work - at 10pm! - and hubby and I watch some TV before bed.
Today I'm grateful for an interesting job opportunity.
Yesterday I listed on eBay a couple of sweet vending machines I had bought for my team to use when I worked at my last company and today one of them sold! I get it packaged up, together with an order from my online shop. I take the latter across the road to the post box - and for the first time in ages have to wait to cross the road - but the vending machine is too big and hubby has offered to take it to the post office. We've decided against using the nearest one as the death rate in our area is the highest in our town. I attend a session of the online sustainability festival, where the speaker is somebody I know from years ago. Then I have a call with another old business contact, this time about some part-time work as a mentor helping young people who didn't excel at school with their reading, maths and life skills. It sounds really interesting and she seems keen to progress, although the job wouldn't actually begin until September. My anniversary gift arrives - some whisky miniatures for the tasting I've arranged with friends for Saturday, thanks to some heavy hint dropping.
I was supposed to complete a job application today but my son has asked us to get him out of bed and to be honest that is too much of a distraction to get enough focused time to do anything productive - he needs to be reminded every half an hour. We start to wake him at 12 and he finally emerges just before 4 - in time for a Skype chat with my daughter and grandson. She's in a dilemma because my grandson has outgrown his car seat and she and her husband can't go together to look at a new one for him because he's no longer able to go in the car and they aren't allowed to leave him with anybody. After that call, my son has one with his girlfriend.
We order dinner and while we wait for it to arrive I settle down for a webinar on materiality, with a glass of fizz to mark the occasion. It's coming from the united states and I find the style quite annoying - they start with a pointless game of jeopardy which feels like a waste of time. I bail out and catch up on some of the work I didn't get done earlier. Dinner arrives on time and after we eat we play an escape room game. It suggests a time budget of 2 hours for 3/4 players but we smash it in less than 1 hour and then make short work of the optional extra game. Our son goes off to start his uni work - at 10pm! - and hubby and I watch some TV before bed.
Today I'm grateful for an interesting job opportunity.
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