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starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2010-06-01 11:24 pm
starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2010-06-01 11:24 pm
Because it's June!
2010 is half gone. I...I don't even know how to process that at the
moment. I'm not even sure I want to *remember* what the past two
weeks have been like, but it is a new month, thank the Lord, and I
live in the eternal hope that things will be better.
Today wasn't half bad, considering. We'll leave the weather out of it
- the heat wave continues, even with the occasional, extremely brief
spurts of rain. The kind that lasts long enough for the earth to
release all the heat it's absorbed over the days, then stops and lets
the humidity take over. AUGH. The kind that makes you wake up soaked
to the skin in sweat when the the timer on the electric fan runs out
before you're done sleeping. The kind that's strong enough to render
pillows dry in the space of four hours *bounce* after they've been run
through the washing machine.
Everyone's laundry but mine has been done. By the time I get around
to doing mine, there is the definite probability (not merely
possibility) that I will use up all the washlines.
The cook needs to have her rough edges smoothed down further. I am
this close to snapping at her - I don't like playing the heavy-handed
mistress, but I also do not like being spoken to in a confrontational
manner. Example: cook announced she has the toothache and asked if we
had medicine for the pain. I said we had the usual pain relievers,
paracetamol and ibuprofen. She said she normally takes amoxicillin
(!!) and was insistent that any corner store had it. Which set my
hackles up, because in this village, at least, one gets one's
amoxicillin at the local drugstore - with a prescription, too. I
mentioned this, and still she insisted that she could get it any old
where.
Which had the result of my snapping that this gated village operates
on very different methods from the place where she used to work. I
will do my duty and drag her to the barangay dentist to see about that
toothache; tomorrow, after bringing Dad to Alphaland for his ingrown
toenails day at the salon.
The young maid needs to be reminded at regular intervals that it is
work first, and playing with kittens second. Ramon has taken to
locking the rescue kittens in the carrier and taking them out to play
in the lanai while the maid cleans our room, the better for the room
to be thoroughly swept out and dusted. It works rather well - Ramon
and the rescues get a good dose of morning sun, and the room is
cleaned.
Have set up the DVR for the month's ration of movies. This pleases me mightily.
Prickly heat powder and baby powder have become my best friends
through this past month of May.
I am feeling less run-down and drained than I have been of late. One
of the things I'd like to do when I'm at Alphaland tomorrow, is pick
up a bunch of vitamins. I have actually run out of my usual
supplements, a good opportunity to visit The Generics Pharmacy branch.
I also need to pick up a new wireless router from CD-R King, seeing as
how the old one up and died after about two years or so of faithful
service.
Did I mention that I rearranged the office space yet again? If I did,
sorry for the redundancy - and for those just now joining the convo, I
flipped things around, turning my narra desk into my computer
workstation, the computer desk into the telephone station, while the
video station remains the same. There was much repurposing of
shelving and storage space as a result. Organizers were emptied as
contents were either trashed, set aside for donation, or consolidated
in new groupings; some were repurposed and the rest set aside for
future use.
The room appears to have regained floor space and storage space. When
the donation boxes are delivered, then there will be a definite sigh
of relief around here.
Amazing, how cleaning up one corner of a room can lead to a gradual
spring-cleaning!
Heck, I even checked into foursquare.com and categorized all my
check-ins. @___@
Life's good. It will be better. *nods*
moment. I'm not even sure I want to *remember* what the past two
weeks have been like, but it is a new month, thank the Lord, and I
live in the eternal hope that things will be better.
Today wasn't half bad, considering. We'll leave the weather out of it
- the heat wave continues, even with the occasional, extremely brief
spurts of rain. The kind that lasts long enough for the earth to
release all the heat it's absorbed over the days, then stops and lets
the humidity take over. AUGH. The kind that makes you wake up soaked
to the skin in sweat when the the timer on the electric fan runs out
before you're done sleeping. The kind that's strong enough to render
pillows dry in the space of four hours *bounce* after they've been run
through the washing machine.
Everyone's laundry but mine has been done. By the time I get around
to doing mine, there is the definite probability (not merely
possibility) that I will use up all the washlines.
The cook needs to have her rough edges smoothed down further. I am
this close to snapping at her - I don't like playing the heavy-handed
mistress, but I also do not like being spoken to in a confrontational
manner. Example: cook announced she has the toothache and asked if we
had medicine for the pain. I said we had the usual pain relievers,
paracetamol and ibuprofen. She said she normally takes amoxicillin
(!!) and was insistent that any corner store had it. Which set my
hackles up, because in this village, at least, one gets one's
amoxicillin at the local drugstore - with a prescription, too. I
mentioned this, and still she insisted that she could get it any old
where.
Which had the result of my snapping that this gated village operates
on very different methods from the place where she used to work. I
will do my duty and drag her to the barangay dentist to see about that
toothache; tomorrow, after bringing Dad to Alphaland for his ingrown
toenails day at the salon.
The young maid needs to be reminded at regular intervals that it is
work first, and playing with kittens second. Ramon has taken to
locking the rescue kittens in the carrier and taking them out to play
in the lanai while the maid cleans our room, the better for the room
to be thoroughly swept out and dusted. It works rather well - Ramon
and the rescues get a good dose of morning sun, and the room is
cleaned.
Have set up the DVR for the month's ration of movies. This pleases me mightily.
Prickly heat powder and baby powder have become my best friends
through this past month of May.
I am feeling less run-down and drained than I have been of late. One
of the things I'd like to do when I'm at Alphaland tomorrow, is pick
up a bunch of vitamins. I have actually run out of my usual
supplements, a good opportunity to visit The Generics Pharmacy branch.
I also need to pick up a new wireless router from CD-R King, seeing as
how the old one up and died after about two years or so of faithful
service.
Did I mention that I rearranged the office space yet again? If I did,
sorry for the redundancy - and for those just now joining the convo, I
flipped things around, turning my narra desk into my computer
workstation, the computer desk into the telephone station, while the
video station remains the same. There was much repurposing of
shelving and storage space as a result. Organizers were emptied as
contents were either trashed, set aside for donation, or consolidated
in new groupings; some were repurposed and the rest set aside for
future use.
The room appears to have regained floor space and storage space. When
the donation boxes are delivered, then there will be a definite sigh
of relief around here.
Amazing, how cleaning up one corner of a room can lead to a gradual
spring-cleaning!
Heck, I even checked into foursquare.com and categorized all my
check-ins. @___@
Life's good. It will be better. *nods*