Soren headed off to school camp today. He’s going to Anglesea until Friday; hopefully he has fun and it’s not too rainy. Emma is also gone, she’s spending the next three days with Steve and Jean going to Benambra. So it’s a very quiet house tonight.
Today I was actually alone at home all day, which hardly ever happens. I sometimes think back to before Covid when this was just like a regular occurrence and I can’t believe I was ever so lucky. I don’t even know, I just feel like I need that solitude to breathe sometimes.
It makes a difference not having to pick Emma up from work too. The actual driving and collecting her is like a ten minute job, it’s not that it takes up so much time that is the issue. It’s just that it means I have to be constantly aware of the time, and yet still be waiting for her text because she doesn’t have an exact finishing time. Depending on what time she starts I know roughly what time she should finish, but she could be half an hour early to two hours later than that, so it can be frustrating feeling like I have to be always ready at any moment. It’s not until there’s a day like today when I don’t have to do it that I think about how relaxing it is to have the day free.
Although I did have to leave the house today when I didn’t really want to because it was raining and Jericho had work after school, so I picked him up and drove him. At least he was grateful? I also picked him up from work and we went to Maccas – since it was just the two of us home for dinner it hardly seemed worth cooking anything.
I’m feeling a lot better, but I think I’m still not well. I’m still so tired, I actually went back to bed today after I dropped Soren at school for camp and Jericho had left for school and I slept half the morning. The glands in my neck are still swollen and painful, but the sore throat itself and the cough is gone, so hopefully I will pick up a bit more soon. Although I have to go back to work tomorrow, that’s not a cheerful thought.
I’ve made a photobook of our Tasmania holiday. I had some good photos, it was quite hard to cut them down really. Although I was talking to Troy about it and I sometimes wonder how much longer I’ll take my big camera around to all these things, given how good phone photos are now. I really love taking photos with the camera, but I would think given another upgrade or perhaps two to my phone it will easily take photos that are better than anything I can take so it would be dumb to persist. I guess I’ll wait and see, but it was just something that occurred to me while we were on holiday.
I also laid out all the squares I crocheted on our Tasmania holiday. I took crochet for the car and boat times and made squares, which are really the ideal holiday project – they’re small, the pattern is easily memorised, I can pick it up and put it down without having to get to the end of the row like knitting. I went with a pretty simple black and yellow pattern, and looking at it all together I think it’s going to look pretty good. I got twenty squares made on the holiday and once I measured them I think I want about 56, so I had to buy more yarn. Unfortunately I was only able to find it with an international ebay seller, so I’ll have to wait a few weeks for postage. At least I can go back and finish the waves and chevrons blanket I was working on beforehand (although the yarn feels a bit more horrible after working with the nice yarn from the holiday squares blanket!).
Feeling the Sun From Both Sides 