Sunday, August 27, 2006
I'm having a me weekend, no big plans, just chilling out and organising myself for South Africa in a couple of days... and making sure the cold that floored me during the week is well and truely gone. I've got Mundy's To You I Bestow blasting in background giving me the illusion that it's still Summer here, and the smell of roasting chicken making me more peckish by the minute. I like it when I have lots of time to cook, I prefer to cook for other people more than myself but today I'm doing a roast just for me. I think I'll even make stuffing and gravy!
I got my hair cut yesterday so it's now even redder than before, so no more jokes about it matching Colm's, mine's definitely redder now! Jury's still out on how much I like it, but I think it could be a keeper.
I have the house all to myself this weekend which I'm loving. As much as I'd get bored living on my own, there's something nice about having it all to myself every now and then. Ciara called down for breakfast to fill me in on her Asian adventures, and generally make me thoroughly jealous. Then she got a call from her mum asking her if she'd been to mass yet and she had to leave ... all of sudden not so jealous at all. The vast majority of my friends that still actually go to mass on a Sunday, which is minimal at this point and I think indictive of the unreligious nature of our generation of Irish, only do so to keep their parents happy. I had to laugh at the story of one college friend who would drive down to her local church with her brother, stick her head in the door to see which priest was saying mass and then sit in the car listening to the radio for the next 45 minutes before going home again. My mum and dad are relatively religious but luckily for me accepted years ago that I don't do mass, and this year I've managed to pair down my Easter and Christmas exceptions to just Christmas.
Speaking of not being so well during the week, I've been having ongoing problems with my throat, getting sore throats and infections way too often and the like, so decided I'd better actually do something about it. We have a public health system, it's not great, but I'm determined to use it. So my doc sent off my referal letter in mid July, I finally get a letter on Friday from the hospital about my specialist appointment ... for December 22nd! Woeful! Luckily this isn't the most urgent thing in the world, I figure I'll need my tonsils taken out (ouch!!) and I'll probably have to wait another 6 months to get a date for that ... but it's not exactly comforting that if I ever needed anything more urgently done, I'd have to go private and pay for it (ouch ouch!!).
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hhah! well, it's still better than then 40 million Americans we got nada!
Have a blast in S. Africa, you lucky bum! I'm sure you'll have a blast!
Hope you're feeling better!
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Have a blast in S. Africa, you lucky bum! I'm sure you'll have a blast!
Hope you're feeling better!
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