I had peaked this week by Tuesday. Early I know, a tad premature. There is so much pressure to hit your targets, you work flat out to get ahead when you can before you're hit with unworkable work, which will take four times as long to complete. By Wednesday, I'd headed into the unworkable and the trend continued through Thursday. It was like wading through treacle but all was not lost, I finished early Thursday afternoon, came home in the glorious sunshine for a quick shower, then headed off to the cinema with B, who treated me to dinner at Frankie & Benny's. We shared a crab cake to start followed by warm chicken salad for me and fried calamari for B. We then headed for "Crazy Stupid Love," and not "Crazy Sexy Love," as I keep calling it. It stars; Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei. It was a combination of funny, very funny, sad, it dipped in the middle then recovered to finish strongly. Worth a trip to see it when it reaches your shores.
I woke at 4am this morning... my day off. Stayed in bed for as long as possible without falling back to sleep, then got up, checked emails, friend from work had given birth to a girl at 10.20pm last night, 6lb 2oz Lucy had finally arrived. Fought with my "frozen" iPod, jogged with my iPod once I'd unfrozen it, for 30 minutes, then hit the shower.
I was at the supermarket for 8 doing my monthly, now that it's payday, "bulk shop" of all the things I'll need that won't go off, coffee, salad dressing, toothpaste etc. I've developed a thing about people commenting about food I eat or buy, I stopped eating in work years ago because people are so pass remarkable, so, when the portly cashier at the checkout asked me; "what's with all the dressing?" I calmly replied; "It's a month's worth. I eat a lot of salad." I wanted to add... "you should try it," but thankfully, I'm only a cow in my head.
Rewind to me pushing my trolley up the coffee aisle and I saw, and she spotted me.. a customer from the old days. She told me I looked well and that I'd lost, "a lot" of weight. This is always a double edged comment but she's lovely and I know that she meant to be complimentary. Incidentally, I was never huge was I? And I don't think I've lost that much.
Anyway, lady is now 81 she tells me, she looks fabulous and not a day over 60. She updated me on people she obviously thought I knew but I didn't have a clue. Anyway, Rose has moved to a new and lovely bungalow and Maude's husband has Alzheimer's... or so they think. We had a lovely chat and she said she misses us girls, all of the older customers that I bump into say the same thing which is nice don't you think? It's good to be missed, damn it, we made a great team.
Just as the conversation was drawing to a close, I got the usual closer... "so, are you married yet?" Which is swiftly followed by, "that, look" when you tell people, "no, still single." It's funny really, to the older generation especially, not being married is something incomprehensible.
So, we've been basking in our Indian summer for a few days now. On the way to the cinema last night, it was 28 degrees.
At 11.30, I'm getting my brows waxed, love the finish of newly waxed brows. Not sure what the rest of the day holds... I'm torn.
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