Thursday 25 April 2024

Anzac day today, so no school for the children and no work for Troy. I took advantage of having people with free time and non-arthritic joints to get the final bits of furniture into the back room, so after packing everything up for the carpet install a month and a half ago it’s all finally back where it belongs. It was only one bookcase and a desk to go out there – the desk can hold our bookbinding stuff, so if we don’t keep doing that we can always move it back to the garage. But it will be good to have a space to leave the things to dry the glue, and it’s got plenty of drawers to hold supplies.

I finished making the list of all our books. I’ve saved it as a page on this journal (so if you ever want to know if I have a particular book you want to borrow, you can look at the top menu and check the ‘library’ tab I suppose?) so now I can stop buying multiple copies of things. Lists of books are such satisfying things. Although making it I kept finding things I wanted to read again, so that held me up a bit.

I’ve cleared out that dead bush in the yard, apart from the trunk of it since that was really too big to cut through with the pruning saw. It turned out that there actually were two bushes there, and the other one still looks pretty healthy. So I cut the dead one up and dragged it over to the concrete on the other side of the yard (we’ll just add it to the green waste bin as we can). It left a pretty big gap in the garden bed – I’m hoping the remaining bush will grow out and fill it in, but we’ll have to see.

Soren had an orthodontist appointment yesterday, and he’s all set to get his braces off in another week and a bit. He’ll have an appointment first thing in the morning to take the braces off and make a mould of his teeth, then he’ll go back after school and they’ll have his retainer ready. Then we can come home and celebrate by eating all the braces-unfriendly foods he’s been supposedly avoiding for a year and a half.

Gratitude

• Our house if finally back together after getting the carpet done
• The desk fit in the back room and didn’t even require the mounted vacuum to be moved
• The pudding I ate while waiting for Ashley to have their appointment in Creswick this evening

Here’s our library with the nice new blue sofa bed.

Sunday 21 April 2024

This weekend has mostly been filled with doing jobs around the house. It does feel a bit like it never ends, as soon as one thing is taken care of then something else crops up. However at the moment a lot of the jobs are about getting the house back together after the carpet, so they’re both pleasing in terms of it looking nice and also not things that will likely need to be redone anytime soon. (Unlike the endless rounds of laundry and dishes and cleaning things).

Troy and I built the sofa bed yesterday – I think it’s definitely Ikea level advanced, but we’re pretty experienced at deciphering flat pack directions by now and we got it done in an hour without doing anything very wrong. It won’t get heaps of use, but it’s there if we have two guests who need someplace to sleep and it will get sat on a bit more often, since the kids sit on it when they talk to us at work. I’m really happy with how it turned out – it’s a lovely colour, and it’s good to have the front room all sorted.

I did some work out in the yard this morning. There’s a bushy tree over by the side fence that’s died – actually, I’m not sure if it’s only part of a tree that’s died, or if there are two planted close together and one is still alive. Anyway, I want to get rid of all the dead parts in case it is one tree, maybe that will help the rest of it survive. Although a dead bush in the garden isn’t exactly a great aesthetic either, so whichever way you look at it the thing has to come out. I chopped up as much as would fit in the green waste bin on top of the other crap in there, and then filled one of the black holding bins with more, but considering I can only fill one green waste bin a fortnight I think this is going to be a long term project. It makes me miss the burning heap at Dixons Creek!

In the afternoon Troy and I worked on rehanging the curtains in the living room, so we had to go to Bunnings. The brackets for the curtains can’t be attached to the studs in the wall (the spacing doesn’t work) and even using the wall plugs the curtains seem to be too big and heavy for screwing them into the plaster to work. So we thought we’d try screwing a timber batten into the wall and then attaching the curtain brackets to that. It’s not exactly going to win a design award, but hopefully it does the job! So far we’ve screwed the timber into the wall and I’ve painted it, so I’m hoping once the curtains are up it won’t be too noticeable. We have to wait for the paint to dry, but the curtains should be back up by tomorrow and I can stop feeling like there’s some kind of crazy killer watching us from the backyard every night.

Hockey started this weekend, so that’s going to be a thing for the next couple of months. Troy is coaching the under 16s, who play late morning on Saturdays, and has also decided to give playing another go, which happens Sunday mornings. Neither of his teams won this weekend, but he did assist in the goal that was scored so that was good. He’s pretty sore tonight, but hopefully it will wear off soon – I have to admit that I don’t love having weekends revolve around hockey again, but I’m really glad Troy is playing again. He enjoys it, and I think it will be good for him.

I’ve been making a list of all our books. The four books I thought I had doubles of turned into quite a few more, so I think a list that I can check before I buy op shop finds is a good idea! I’ve just typed it up in Word and will copy and paste it as a page of my journal, which will be easy to find on my phone and easy to change in the future. At the moment the list has 893 books on it – I haven’t added the BSC books to it yet, and there’s still a couple of boxes of books in the back room that need to be unpacked before I can add them, so there’s still a bit to do. The list also doesn’t include the books in the kids’ rooms, but I don’t buy them random op shop books that much anymore so that probably doesn’t matter.

Gratitude

• The new sofa bed
• The freshly sharpened secateurs when I was chopping up that tree
• The lovely weather today

Wednesday 17 April 2024

All the books that belong on the shelves in the front room are unpacked. I didn’t end up alphabetising though – as much as I loved the idea of it all being so organised, it was logistically too difficult to unpack so many books into a limited space and then try and sort them. I also already had the BSC books in their own section and all the pony books in their own section, and then I thought having to sort into children/adult fiction before I could alphabetise would make it even more difficult. So there is some vague sections and at least I managed to collect together all books by any one author. Except Ann M Martin, since her non-BSC books wouldn’t fit in that section, so they’re in another spot. This job took me hours and hours, but it was mostly enjoyable – I love my books, and looking at them all back on the shelves and all together was very satisfying. There’s even a couple of empty shelves, so room for the inevitable expansion!

Admittedly we do still have one bookcase that wouldn’t really fit in the front room so it’s going to go into the back room. I’ve put aside the non-fiction books and they’ll go there, not that we have that much nonfiction.

I think I’m going to go through and make a list of all the books I own though. I found four books that I had more than one copy of, just because I found it at an op shop and couldn’t remember if I already had it. I mean, there are several other books that I have more than one copy of just because I like to have different editions, but that’s on purpose! Anyway, I’ll just take the extras and put them in the free library next time I’m at the shopping centre, hopefully someone will pick them up.

I also returned all my nativity sets to the cabinet in the back room – this was very fiddly and I have absolutely zero room for expansion. If I ever get another nativity I’ll have to start some kind of rotation system for display space. Once the nativities were all back in place I got Claire to help me bring the hammock back inside, so all the back room now needs is the bookshelf and the desk and then it will finally be back to normal after getting new carpet. The front room just needs the sofa bed to be constructed, which is probably a much bigger job than shoving a desk and bookshelf into place.

Gratitude

• Books. That they exist, that I have so many I love
• The dog finally got a haircut today
• We got a new doona – it’s two joined together for winter weight and it felt like a fluffy cloud when we wrestled it into the cover and on to the bed. It made me feel like I’ve been sleeping under a flannel, my old doona was so flat and worn in comparison.

Here’s a picture of all my work today. Giant box in the foreground is the sofa bed, which will sit in front of the shelves and cover some of this up, but it’s low backed enough that it should still all be most accessible. And the other picture is the rubber matting and exercise equipment in the back room, so Troy can feel like he’s at a proper gym.

Monday 15 April 2024

Back to school for the children today. They both had reasonable days but came home very tired – after two weeks of relaxation it’s pretty hard to get straight back into it. I keep thinking that we’re only three terms away now from Ashley finishing school altogether, and the last one of those terms is really only a few weeks and then exams so that makes it even shorter than it sounds like. It’s a very weird thought.

Troy and I had a successful Ikea trip yesterday. We bought the bookshelves and sofa bed that we went for, and didn’t go too off track with anything else. Troy bought two monitor stands for work and we bought some new cushions to go with the sofa bed and an alien soft toy for Ashley’s birthday (which they asked for) but that’s all. The cushions were kind of necessary though, the sofa bed is a little too deep to be totally comfortable for sitting on (since it has to be wide enough to be a bed) but an extra cushion to lean on solves that problem.

We nearly couldn’t fit the sofa bed boxes into the van though. It hadn’t really occurred to me that we’d need to check – since when does Ikea sell anything that’s packaged too large to fit in the van?!?! The bookshelf boxes went in fine at the regular Ikea, then we actually had to drive around to a secondary location to pick up the sofa bed and had to do a bit of hard work to jam it in at an angle and then slam the back door to hold it all in. We managed though, but it’s a lesson for next time I suppose!

Once we got home we built the bookshelves, which was totally simple, and then fixed the corner ones into place which was anything but. Our house is built so crookedly! What we wanted to do was have bookshelves along three walls of the office, with the small bookshelves joining the corners at an angle. Ikea sells a little corner kit to do this with and I feel like it should have been simple but it was just ridiculously difficult. I was ready to give it all up as impossible, but fortunately on this occasion Troy had more fortitude than me and we eventually got it all in place and bolted together. Unfortunately the varying age of all the shelves does mean that there’s a varying degree of whiteness, but once I put all the books back I’m sure it won’t be as noticeable. Really I’m just so happy that we got it all fixed together, and that the room (as crookedly built as it might be!) was the right size to have bookshelves covering one entire wall and turning the corners on both ends.

The sofa bed remains in a stack of two giant boxes in the middle of the room. I thought it would be easier to reshelve all the books without a couch in the way, and that the box will actually be a convenient table to put books on while I organise the arrangement on the shelves. The reviews also said it took a long time to put together and I just couldn’t face it on Sunday after all the angst of doing the shelves, or today after working all day. Next weekend is soon enough.  

Gratitude

• The bookshelves. I love our library.
• Troy fixed my work computer today when it kept shutting down on me.
• Elijah came around for a quick visit this afternoon.

Saturday 13 April 2024

We’re slowly putting our house back together with the new carpet. The office computers, desks and printers all had to be set up on Thursday so we could work, and today we moved all the bookshelves back into the front room. In the back room Troy’s put the electronics and devices back, and then this morning we actually just covered up half the new carpet with rubber gym mats and put the exercise equipment back in there – kind of seems stupid to cover up the new carpet, but really I just don’t know why we didn’t do it before. It just kind of delineates the exercise space from the rest of the space and should make the room look a bit more organised, as well as protect the floor from the exercise equipment. There are still all the books and photo albums and scrapbooks to go back in and quite a few other bits and pieces too, but we’re getting there.

Troy and I are going to go to Ikea tomorrow. We need another bookshelf (that’s why we put all the other ones back today, to measure the space and figure out how best to fill in the remainder) and a sofa bed for the front room. That’s the plan anyway, but it’s Ikea – I don’t think I’ve ever been there and not found something so nifty that I had to buy it.

Of course while we’re putting our house back together in one way it’s falling apart in another – the curtain rail for the glass sliding doors onto the deck ripped out of the wall today. It probably got caught on something that’s yanked it too hard as we’ve been moving furniture around, but it’s torn a big chunk out of the wall and so we’re going to have to do something different to rehang them because there’s no way to put them back where they were.

Ashley had work today, so Troy and I took them to that (well, Ashley drove – almost at 83 hours!) and then went to the market at the gardens. The knife sharpening guy was there today so we gave him our secateurs and then just had a look around the market while he was sharpening them. After that we went to the appliance shop and had a look at dryers – their cheapest dryer was a few hundred more than the ones we were looking at online, so we didn’t buy anything. I mean, four hundred dollars saved on a dryer is going to pay for most of a sofa bed, so at this point that’s what we’re going to have to do. We went to Aldi for groceries, then home (to move furniture around for a bit) then I went to collect Ashley from work. Troy took Soren to his friend’s house to play dnd, more furniture moving around, then I went and bought more groceries later on (once we realised we could go to Ikea tomorrow, but that we ought to leave the children some bread for lunch) and picked Soren up. So a bit of back and forth and nothing exciting, but at least we got a few things done.

Gratitude

• Sharp secateurs
• I fell off a chair while we were getting the curtains down and didn’t break my neck (yes, would probably have been better not to fall off a chair, but small things!)
• Ikea trip tomorrow

Wednesday 10 April 2024

The new carpet is in! It actually went down without any issues on Monday, and it looks so much better. The carpet people got here a little before 9.30 and were finished around 2. It was quicker than I expected – there were two of them, but they carpeted three rooms and a wardrobe in less time than it took a single person to lay the carpet in Soren’s room and the hallway when the insurance did that last year.

Troy and I put our room back together Monday night, but he had to go down to the office as usual first thing on Tuesday so not too much else is done. The desks are back in the office (they only got moved as far as the kitchen for the carpet to go in), as are the two cube bookshelves and two filing cabinets and the dog’s bed, and the tub chairs and nativity cabinet are in the back room, but there’s still most of it to do. We’ll have to do the computers and desk chairs so Troy can work tomorrow, but the bookshelves and exercise equipment can probably wait til the weekend. Although we are also going to have to go to Ikea and buy another bookcase and a sofa bed to really finish sorting it out, and I have no idea how long that will take. Hockey is starting soon so Ikea trips will be a little harder to organise, but we’ll work it out. I also think I’m going to (mostly) alphabetise the books when I shelve them, so that’s going to take a while. It won’t be strict, I’ll keep picture books and non fiction books separate and probably shelved by height there, and all the BSC books and pony books will be in their collections, but everything else can probably go in lovely alphabetical order. I used to have things alphabetised when we first moved to Yarra Glen and had the library – it was so satisfying.

School holidays continue, which the children are appreciative of. So far it’s been pretty good – Ashley had their comedy shows and has hung out with friends a couple of times, Soren and his friends went bowling one day and are going to organise a dnd session for the weekend, so it hasn’t been solely at home. Claire (who is not on school holidays but unfortunately still unemployed) has been listening to every single number 1 song on the US charts in chronological order, so at least they have a project.

I ripped out most of the hat I’ve been knitting today. It wasn’t going to fit right, and I figured that the pain of spending an hour unravelling and picking up stitches would probably be worth it in the long run if I reknit it better. Using the thinner yarn makes it a slower knit than all the other hats I’ve made (it has 136 stiches in a round), but really I just like to knit – who cares if I spend another week reknitting the same item, I’m not on a deadline.

Gratitude

• this yarn I’m knitting with is really nice, I think I’m going to like the beanie once it’s done
• the new carpet, it was only cheap but it feels so luxurious compared to the ratty old mess!
• It was cold enough today to use the new heating system, and it seems a whole lot more effective than the old heating

Here’s the dog looking pathetic in the empty office while we were waiting for the carpet people. (Note giant stain on the carpet where she ate a bowl of whipped cream and then threw up under a desk and it took weeks for the smell to go!)

And here she is looking marginally less pathetic once we moved her bed back in to the nice new carpeted room!

Sunday 7 April 2024

We have too much stuff. Way too much stuff. And I am the worst housekeeper on the planet because my house is disgustingly filthy. Only we never knew because it was all hidden behind the INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF STUFF WE OWN.

Next time I want to buy anything, I need to be stopped.

Obviously today was spent dealing with piles of furniture and everything else we have apparently filled our house with. I don’t know, I really didn’t think it LOOKED all that cluttered but once we were packing everything up and moving things it just turned into SO MUCH. And it was only three rooms! (And a walk in robe I suppose – although we left everything on the upper shelf in there).

There was so much cleaning involved too. I have been feeling smugly like I keep a much cleaner house than I ever did, but the amount of dust under/behind/around furniture was just unbelievable. Everything has been dusted and wiped and cleaned as it was moved and can be wiped again as it goes back in, so at least I’ll know it’s all clean then. I’d like to say I’ll be sure to do a better job from here on out, but I actually won’t – it’s not like I can move bookshelves or my king sized bed around by myself when I’m vacuuming, so it’ll all end up like that again in another six plus years! (Which is how long we’ve lived here, and the furniture has just been sitting there).

I’ve got to say though, now that I’m looking at the carpet in a bare room, it’s actually worse than I thought it was and we are really overdue for new flooring. There are so many marks and stains, and chunks that have been eaten away by (I assume) some kind of carpet eating insect, and unravelled bits and worn away sections, it’s really a disaster. It’s going to make such a difference to have it new.

Realising how bad it really is made me want to do the kids’ rooms too, but moving everything out of the three rooms we did made me think absolutely not. It’s really Claire’s room that’s the sticking point – they probably have more stuffed jammed into their tiny room than the other two combined and I can’t face the thought of having to sort it out. And yes, yes, it’s their stuff and they should be able to sort it out themselves…but I doubt that. Plus their furniture – everything in that room would have to be dismantled completely to get it out (it’s awkwardly inaccessible because of the angle of the hallway), and there’s just no way I can do that and then build it all back again. So I’m waiting until they move out, then I’ll sell the bed set up (it’s a Bunkers brand loft bed with drawers and desk, we bought it second hand eleven years ago but they last forever – an equivalent new one retails for $2,200 so it will be worth dealing with Facebook marketplace to sell this one) and whoever buys it can dismantle it themselves and then it won’t be my problem.

Gratitude – ugh, this feel kind of hard tonight

• Troy and the children being able to move all the heavy furniture, so I could save my wrists a bit
• Elijah safely back from Sydney
• that we managed to find space for three rooms worth of furniture and possessions so that we’re ready to go with carpet tomorrow.

Saturday 6 April 2024

Spoke too soon about the reversing camera! They got the second hand camera but it didn’t solve the problem – turns out this whole thing is super expensive once it goes wrong. I guess it’s the thing about everything in the car being integrated – yes, it’s very nice being able to control my music from the steering wheel and all, but once one part of it all breaks then it rapidly spirals out of control in terms of cost to fix, since you have to basically pull apart and rewire the entire car. Anyway, long story short we talked to the guy for ages when we went to collect the van on Friday and we’re going to get an aftermarket reversing camera fitted, it will be a separate screen and so not as good as what we had, but still much better than nothing and once I’m used to it I’ll probably forget that it’s different.

I’ve got to say that I did appreciate the auto electrician though. I mean, the end result is a little disappointing and it’s still going to be an expensive fix, but he really seemed like he was trying to find a solution for us rather than just making us pay an exorbitant price  for what would be the easiest fix for him to implement. He tried to source second hand cameras and head units before he went to the new thing, and he gave us as many options for fixing things as he could. There were two options for the aftermarket camera/screen setups and he actually took both of them out to the car to show us how they’d fit (one over the rear view mirror, one attached to the windscreen) so we could make a decision on which we wanted. Anyway, it’s booked in to be done next Thursday, hopefully all goes well.

Hopefully the carpet install goes ahead on Monday without any dramas. We spent quite a bit of today moving furniture around, so the house is all in a bit of disarray and I would like for this to last as short a time as possible. We’ve still got quite a bit to do tomorrow too – all the bookshelves are in the garage, the nativity cabinet and tub chairs are in the loungeroom, all the office desk stuff and electronics in the back room are boxed up and everything has been taken off the floor of our wardrobe, but we still have to empty out our room (bed, crates under the bed,  bedside tables, Troy’s cabinet of watches, armchair, dresser, shelves and hanging stuff in the wardrobe) move desks and file cabinets from the office, and exercise equipment and Poang chair from the back room. So it’s still quite a bit or work. And it’s all kind of gross and dusty and dirty, but on the plus side everything is being cleaned as it’s being moved so it should be better once it’s all back in place?

I spent a while at Elijah’s house today, petting her cats while I read and watching them roam around her apartment. She’s gone to Sydney with Antonia to see West Side Story – Sydney was pummelled by torrential rain yesterday so the outdoor performance was cancelled, they got replacement tickets for tonight and managed to rearrange everything to stay another day. We were happy to feed the cats for an extra day, but they’re shut in the laundry/bathroom while she’s gone and it’s a pretty small space for two rather big cats to spend days on end so I stayed for a bit today to give them some freedom. They’re getting so big, and they’re so fluffy it’s crazy – I am always a bit doubtful about fancy cats (why, when a regular plain cat is so nice?) but they are definitely very pretty and it was quite relaxing reading my book and petting them.

Claire did not find this as amusing as Troy and I did, but this afternoon they were plagued by a cicada who had somehow found their way into their room and continued to chirp loudly and frequently. They came out to ask us to identify the chirping, as it was driving them crazy, and we were able to tell them it was a cicada but that was as far as we could help. Their room is chaotic, there was no way I was going to be able to pick through their mess and try and find the thing. However I guess rage over nature’s noisemaker was enough to drive Claire to dig around, because they ended up actually finding the creature hiding in a boot and evicted it.

Gratitude

• To Troy for doing so much work today moving stuff around for the carpet
• furry cats
• I’m reading a good book at the moment that’s really long, so I can spend a couple of hours reading it for several days and not finish it – I am a fast enough reader that this is not actually all that common, and I appreciate it!

Thursday 4 April 2024

Two more comedy performances down for Ashley. These were the Up Next shows, done as part of the Melbourne International Comedy festival. Yesterday they got to do the emceeing and basically had a triumph – it was the biggest crowd we’ve ever seen at one of these shows and Ashley did SO well and really enjoyed themselves. Tonight they were just doing a regular performance, and although the crowd was a bit of hard work (not as big as yesterday but still one of the biggest crowds they’ve had) Ashley’s performance was really pretty professional. It’s just so good to watch them build their skills and confidence over the time they’ve been doing this – I love that they’ve found their thing.

Two trips to Melbourne in two days is kind of tiring though. Yesterday Ashley talked six of their friends into going to watch them, and they all thought they’d hang out in Melbourne in the morning before Ashley did the workshop at 2 (2-4 is the workshop, then an hour break, then the performance at 5), so we picked up Charlie and dropped them both at the train station at 9. This plan ended up failing though, as there was some contamination on the tracks and Ashley and their friends ended up being booted off the train at Bacchus Marsh and having to wait for a replacement bus for so long that they didn’t get to Melbourne until almost two.

I took Soren and he and I caught the train from Wendouree at 2. We met Elijah and their friends Matilda and Antonia at the train station, so once we added in Troy (who drove from the office to the city) and Steve and Jean (and Stanley the dog) Ashley really had quite a lot of the crowd behind them. After the show Ashley and Elijah and their respective friends all caught the train back, and Troy and Soren and I drove.

Today just Troy and I went, so we sent Ashley on the train earlier so they could do the workshop and we drove. We went via Elijah’s house to feed their cats as they’ve gone to Sydney to see West Side Story, drove without drama and parked at the arts centre, then went and had an ice cream and a little walk before the show. We stopped to buy tea on the way home and then Ashley drove the rest of the way – 52 more minutes of their night hours requirement done now! So successful comedy show and one step closer to getting their license – it was all happening for them today.

We also took the van to the auto electrician this morning to get the broken reversing camera checked out. It is indeed broken (shocking), but unlike the $1300 Kia quotes us to replace it with a new one, the guy today said he could get a second hand camera and put it in for $250. So we’ll go with that – as I said to Troy, even if it doesn’t last as long (being second hand) we can buy five of them and still come out ahead.

Gratitude

• Ashley and their comedy
• The reversing camera on the van probably being fixed by tomorrow
• Convenient parking at the Arts Centre

Saturday 30 March 2024

So far we’ve having such a lovely and relaxing Easter weekend. It helps that the weather has been beautiful – it’s been so nice sitting out on the deck and reading and visiting.

Steve and Jean came to visit today, and Elijah came by after work so today was very sociable. Elijah has been very busy at work baking hot cross buns, which is not their favourite part of the job for sure, but at least it’s nearly over with for another year.

It was good to see Steve and Jean too, even if Stanley did chew up my knitting notebook! This is not at all a disaster though – it was basically full of meaningless numbers from where I’ve tried to work out stitch counts or tracked what I was doing so I was due for another one. Really I’m just glad that he didn’t grab the knitting – that would have been a disaster.

I gave the cabled mitts to Jean, so they’ve found a home. I’m knitting a new pair that I’ll probably keep – I just picked a lace pattern out of one of the stitch dictionaries and have altered the cable pattern as needed to make it all fit. I’ve finished one and it turned out quite well, although the lace is upside down to the way I intended it to be. Fortunately it’s a pattern that looks just as well going in the other direction, so honestly I didn’t even notice it until I’d pretty much finished a whole glove.

Ashley was breath tested on the drive home from Creswick on Thursday, which was a novel experience for them! It was pretty funny actually, the cops had set up outside the potato factory and it wasn’t initially really clear what they wanted us to do. So Ashley’s creeping forward so slowly that it eventually made all the cops kind of start laughing until one (who was so young he must be a beginner at this whole thing too!) waved his breathalyser so we knew who to go to. Anyway, they breath tested Ashley (including the “have you ever done one of these before?” question) and me as well, because you’re not allowed to get hammered and have your kid drive you home I guess. I just thought it was funny too, because they’ve only been driving for a few months – I’d been driving probably ten years or something before I was ever breath tested.

Gratitude

• Family visitos
• That Stanley didn’t grab my knitting when he was taking something off my table
• Elijah bought me apple and cinnamon hot cross buns from her work for me to have for breakfast tomorrow