Sunday night and back in the unit.
Dec. 16th, 2001 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathpixieMoved back home today, even tho' Mum and Dad offered to let me stay another week. I preferred not to - I love my parents to bits, but I can't live with them. We're all too set in our own ways of doing things. So I've had to give up the spa and cable TV. Wah.
We made some progress on the garden shed today - it's been bolted down and the doors are assembled: they just need hanging and then we can move various stuff into it and I can find the box with my gardening stuff in it again. Which I need, seeing how the vegie patch has gone ballistic in the two weeks I've been away. There's a teeny-tiny zucchini on one of the bushes. And more tomatoes than you can point a stick at. Which is great, 'cause it will save me some money.
Money's a big worry at the moment. I have $120 in my account for the next fortnight, and I haven't bought Christmas presents yet. I also have no idea how much is on my credit card - hopefully enough for Brisbane - and rent is due again on the 4th of January. *sighs* I'm tired of worrying about money; full time can't come soon enough. Of course, in the scheme of things I'm better off than a lot of people I know, but debt makes me twitchy. Extremely so. And I really dislike not having my usual 'safety net' in case something goes wrong. Like an unexpected bill or something. I also don't know how I'm going to get Christmas cards out - looks like I'll have to wait and call them Happy January cards. Again.
Feeling a bit flat and a bit tired tonight. I crashed for a couple of hours on the couch earlier, and woke up with a headache. Could be the after-effects of the kidney infection I picked up during the Melbourne leg of AusCon. It looks like that kidney is going to be a recurring problem after the infection I got year before last. BAh. It's frustrating when that happens. I like being healthy and fit, and whenever I get evidence to the contrary it feels like my body has betrayed me somehow. And I hate taking antibiotics - they leave me feeling kinda funky for days afterwards, until my system realigns itself.
Something I noticed walking back to Mum and Dad's place after it got too hot to finish the shed - it's been low thirties (Celsius) here today - was that it smells like Christmas now. For me, growing up in the country, Christmas always smells like dry grass and dust and eucalyptus, and that's the smell I noticed walking through the park. Smells are something you don't consciously apreciate in the city, but they're more noticeable out here. Like the smell of approaching rain. Or the scent of a hundred different types of blossom on the breeze. Or the dead animal stench you notice as you ride your bike down some country road.
So, it's starting to feel a bit more Christmassy for me, the various decorations notwithstanding. :)
We made some progress on the garden shed today - it's been bolted down and the doors are assembled: they just need hanging and then we can move various stuff into it and I can find the box with my gardening stuff in it again. Which I need, seeing how the vegie patch has gone ballistic in the two weeks I've been away. There's a teeny-tiny zucchini on one of the bushes. And more tomatoes than you can point a stick at. Which is great, 'cause it will save me some money.
Money's a big worry at the moment. I have $120 in my account for the next fortnight, and I haven't bought Christmas presents yet. I also have no idea how much is on my credit card - hopefully enough for Brisbane - and rent is due again on the 4th of January. *sighs* I'm tired of worrying about money; full time can't come soon enough. Of course, in the scheme of things I'm better off than a lot of people I know, but debt makes me twitchy. Extremely so. And I really dislike not having my usual 'safety net' in case something goes wrong. Like an unexpected bill or something. I also don't know how I'm going to get Christmas cards out - looks like I'll have to wait and call them Happy January cards. Again.
Feeling a bit flat and a bit tired tonight. I crashed for a couple of hours on the couch earlier, and woke up with a headache. Could be the after-effects of the kidney infection I picked up during the Melbourne leg of AusCon. It looks like that kidney is going to be a recurring problem after the infection I got year before last. BAh. It's frustrating when that happens. I like being healthy and fit, and whenever I get evidence to the contrary it feels like my body has betrayed me somehow. And I hate taking antibiotics - they leave me feeling kinda funky for days afterwards, until my system realigns itself.
Something I noticed walking back to Mum and Dad's place after it got too hot to finish the shed - it's been low thirties (Celsius) here today - was that it smells like Christmas now. For me, growing up in the country, Christmas always smells like dry grass and dust and eucalyptus, and that's the smell I noticed walking through the park. Smells are something you don't consciously apreciate in the city, but they're more noticeable out here. Like the smell of approaching rain. Or the scent of a hundred different types of blossom on the breeze. Or the dead animal stench you notice as you ride your bike down some country road.
So, it's starting to feel a bit more Christmassy for me, the various decorations notwithstanding. :)
