The house has the fragrance of spices. Sham and BW are
cooking. They brought me a sample of their food, but I couldn’t eat it. It was
far too spicy. But it smells nice. They cooked salt and pepper chips with a
stir fry.
We have cut into our
Christmas cake. I can see me giving so
much food away as we have too much. Did I tell you what happened with our
grocery order? I booked a slot for delivery weeks ago. I just clicked
everything into the basket kind of panic shopped. Just to get in quick with a
slot. As if you don’t book your slot about four weeks before Christmas, you
miss out on the reasonable charges for delivery. You can pay £10 to have your
food delivered at Christmas if you don’t get in early, around here anyway, but
everything here, is so expensive.
I ended up paying £5 For
delivery. So, my intention was to go into my basket three days before and
remove what we don’t need and put in what we do need.
Normally, I pay nothing at all for delivery or a couple of
pounds. And normally you just go into your basket the night before and sort it
out. Well, a full 48 hours before my shopping was due, I went in to remove
loads of junk I threw in there just to get it to over forty pounds as that is
the only way you can get a slot. It has to be over a certain amount. But over the few weeks, I was adding what we
needed. Only thing was, we freaked out days before our order was due and managed
to get a slot as long as we spent over seventy pounds. So, I was so anxious two
days before Christmas, I wouldn’t get half the stuff as it would be out of
stock, so I bought things that were already in our Christmas basket, that
wouldn’t go off… and ordered another shop six day before Christmas… from
another shop…
Well, as I said, half what was in my Christmas shop, the one
I ordered weeks earlier, the one that was due two days before Christmas… I went
into to remove more than half of what was in there.
Oops… one problem… I was too late.
There must be a mistake I shrieked.
I called Morisons. They said no, because it’s Christmas, it’s
72 hours before it’s due. That’s cut-off point.
Oh
My
Goodness.
So, in the end there was £90 worth of food I didn’t need.
We always buy more at Christmas, like two weeks’ worth of
food in one.
Only, we had four loads of shopping.
In two shops!
Well as I waddle where by my stomach is starting to match my
backside, I have decided I can’t possibly eat another thing. Hub has put on
about a stone over the holiday, that’s 14lbs. our Son just does too much exercise
to put on weight. Also, because he’s a vegan, it’s hard to be fat if you don’t
eat dairy.
I love dairy, I wish I could be as strong as my son, but I can’t
I’m a failure… but I don’t eat meat or fish, or anything with a brain or heartbeat.
But chocolate and bread is on my menu sadly daily.
Our lovely lady who walks our dogs came today. Bless her,
she is loaded with cold… as by the way is my Husband… but this poor lady still
came and took my dogs out. I told her as soon as I realised, not to take them
and to get home, but she insisted she took them. I begged her to only be half
as long though. Bless her heart, she is a good kind person. Very selfless. She thanked
me so much for the gifts I bought her for Christmas, and really, they weren’t
expensive at all. But you would have thought I gave her a winning lottery
ticket. It seems the more you spend on people, the less they think of you and
the least you spend, people really appreciate you.
I guess that is the same in life in general. This year has
said goodbye to a load of rubbish in our lives. And it’s a relief. New Year,
new us…
Talking of new me, kind of, I’m thinking of employing a PT… not
to shout orders at me as if I am in the army, but to get moving fast and more often.
My friend Rita said she would go for walks with me, but she then started saying
she has a program where she walks for so many seconds, then jogs for so many
seconds.
Oh, heck…. Em, not sure the world is ready for a jogging
Fifi… but I really like her and I do hope she and I do go for walks. I simply
have to. I have been talking the talk for so many years, but to stick around to
see our Grand Children, is important to me. My Son didn’t have any Grandparents
sadly, I don’t want his children to go through the same. Hub and I will love
our Grand Children, and need to be fit for them. With only having one child, I guess
the most Grand children we may have will be three… and to think about being
active with those babies, makes my heart full of joy, now it just needs to be
healthy too… having said that, I was out with a friend the other day who is
half my age… just getting out of her car into her house, she was out of breath…
I was shocked by that. OK, it’s a bit of a walk from her car parking space to
her house, and it’s up a slight hill, but still, she is half my age and half my
weight. I said to her, if you are like that now, what on earth are you going to
be like when you are my, age?
Not sure she was impressed… haha.
My highlight of our holiday, was seeing the people who mean
something to us. And there is one more family to see and they are expecting us
next week. It was lovely to see Hubs brother and sister in law. He’s a lovely guy we had a fab day, and I get
on with my sister in law Leigh, very well.
Next week we are
visiting friends and I really am looking forward to seeing them. And then life
gets back to normal. And I guess that is when I need to start my new life and
stick to it.
To end this blog, I shall leave you with some of my quotes
from the year and before.
“people can throw
stones at you, it’s up to you if you stand still or choose to move.””
“Dance in the rain and you will sing in the sun””
“After the storm, comes the sun””
“choose to be with those who make you smile, turn your back
on those who put you down””
“What at the time seems painful and impossible, turns out to
be a blessing in disguise.””
It’s nice to have a pot of gold, but sometimes it’s better
for our soul to paint the rainbow sit back and enjoy the colours of life.””
© Fiona Cummings
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