You get me early tonight...
dh has been away all day and wont be home till tomorrow inshallah...
we're moving through time at a different pace right now... funny how not having a man in the house can alter the flow of a day.
I wont pretend to understand the science behind it, I know I enjoy it for brief spells, I also know if left to my own devices for too long I tend to get far too caught up in my tendency to do only the things I like doing. The fact that they usually only involve food, the sofa, books and yarn is what holds me back if dh is away for too long... I'm a much more productive person when there's someone more grown up and responsible to keep me in check.
Right now, dd20 is very very kindly relieving me of my nightly chore and is in the kitchen making cinnamon bread and a couple of batches of vanilla biscotti... for this I am truly grateful... being in my kitchen at anytime of the day is grim... suffering it at night is worse... I don't actually mind the new, nightly bread making ritual... but tonight I'm feeling the monthly bleughs and even I can delegate if I really have to.
The dress yoke I mentioned yesterday is happening nicely... I'm really hoping to have it finished over the weekend, and I even managed to get out for a walk and buy the cotton I need to finish a dress for dd20... so even that might see it's rightful owner sometime soon.
If it does, it will be nothing short of a miracle, my personal quirk is to start lots of things and finish almost none.. it's something I've perfected over the years and I really feel there are few who could match my capability at it...
Our water was off for almost the whole day yesterday, which isn't unusual for us.. we quite often go without water.. for anything from half an hour to day long stretches. It's usually fine, we save water in 5ltr bottles in the kitchen and use them if we have to.
One of the children had filled a bottle in the bathroom; and because the water came back no-one used it... rather worryingly, a day later a layer of sand has settled at the bottom of the bottle.
We don't drink tap water... we cook with it... but now I'm not so sure I'll even be doing that!
one of my neighbours was sent to hospital for tests last summer; complaining of severe abdominal pain... the doctors discovered sand in her belly.
We have a third world water system and strangely enough I don't mind it half as much as the third world mentality this country seems to suffer from. I mean how can we ever claim to be making progress when people don't even have clean drinking water?
I love Algeria, but it's so frustrating at times...
Tomorrow all the jobs I had earmarked for today will at last hopefully happen inshallah....
the washing is breeding, having no water has encouraged it to spread and if I don't deal with it soon it's going to get scary...
dh has been away all day and wont be home till tomorrow inshallah...
we're moving through time at a different pace right now... funny how not having a man in the house can alter the flow of a day.
I wont pretend to understand the science behind it, I know I enjoy it for brief spells, I also know if left to my own devices for too long I tend to get far too caught up in my tendency to do only the things I like doing. The fact that they usually only involve food, the sofa, books and yarn is what holds me back if dh is away for too long... I'm a much more productive person when there's someone more grown up and responsible to keep me in check.
Right now, dd20 is very very kindly relieving me of my nightly chore and is in the kitchen making cinnamon bread and a couple of batches of vanilla biscotti... for this I am truly grateful... being in my kitchen at anytime of the day is grim... suffering it at night is worse... I don't actually mind the new, nightly bread making ritual... but tonight I'm feeling the monthly bleughs and even I can delegate if I really have to.
The dress yoke I mentioned yesterday is happening nicely... I'm really hoping to have it finished over the weekend, and I even managed to get out for a walk and buy the cotton I need to finish a dress for dd20... so even that might see it's rightful owner sometime soon.
If it does, it will be nothing short of a miracle, my personal quirk is to start lots of things and finish almost none.. it's something I've perfected over the years and I really feel there are few who could match my capability at it...
Our water was off for almost the whole day yesterday, which isn't unusual for us.. we quite often go without water.. for anything from half an hour to day long stretches. It's usually fine, we save water in 5ltr bottles in the kitchen and use them if we have to.
One of the children had filled a bottle in the bathroom; and because the water came back no-one used it... rather worryingly, a day later a layer of sand has settled at the bottom of the bottle.
We don't drink tap water... we cook with it... but now I'm not so sure I'll even be doing that!
one of my neighbours was sent to hospital for tests last summer; complaining of severe abdominal pain... the doctors discovered sand in her belly.
We have a third world water system and strangely enough I don't mind it half as much as the third world mentality this country seems to suffer from. I mean how can we ever claim to be making progress when people don't even have clean drinking water?
I love Algeria, but it's so frustrating at times...
Tomorrow all the jobs I had earmarked for today will at last hopefully happen inshallah....
the washing is breeding, having no water has encouraged it to spread and if I don't deal with it soon it's going to get scary...
whoa. whoa. You read my mind! My husband is away for a few days, too, and in the meantime all I want to do is knit/crochet, read, and sip tea slowly. aaaand, the water cut here too for two.5 days! Weird!
ReplyDeleteBut seriously, I understand your statement about the third world water not worrying you like the third world mentality. we live in a tiny city in norther egypt, made up mostly of country folk and village people who saves all their money and built 1/3 of their dream house and are waiting for their kids and grandkids to finish it, so we have 1/3 and 1/2 finished houses all over.
subhanallah the Algerians and Egyptians have no idea how much they share in terms of culture and attitude...
DeleteThe same thing goes with the housing here too... Algeria in places looks like a huge unfinished building site because of all the houses at different stages of being built!
and the breeding dirty laundry? Oh my. Oh my my my. ha ha ha. Why oh why can't it wash/spin/rinse/spin and hang itself?
ReplyDeleteenjoy the manless moments..i know i'm going to...10 whole days!!!! salaams xxx
ReplyDelete10 days!!! you lucky girl!!
Deletewhatcha gonna do then??
xxx
Wow! I'm not the only one who gets like that when the cats away (I mean the man's away... lol) I love that yoke and funny enough started that same one some time last year! But when I started making a shrug I frogged it to finish the shrug with that yarn! It'll be nice to see how it comes out. SO in sha Allah, YES, you can do Kate! You can finish a project! We know you can! GO ON!
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame about the water really. Alhamdulillah we don't have that exact problem, but we sometimes get rusty pipes which makes it impossible to drink the water. The sewage system though, aaaggghhh, that's a whole different story!
The yoke is coming along really nicely.. the back is done, I've just started the front and I couldn't resist pinning the back yoke to the fabric I'm using just so that i can see how yummy it looks together... only trouble is two of my other girls have asked me to make one each for them too... lol
Deletenext time I'm going to crochet in secret...lol