I’ve just squandered a week of my life. This is partly due to waiting for a call from the builder who never called, and partly due to laziness.
I have done nothing of importance, been nowhere and written nothing apart from the blog.
Unless you count replacing a plug on Julia’s reading lamp. That’s more difficult than you think in these days of moulded on plugs.
I had three choices. One was to replace the plug with one bought from the supermarket. Julia put a stop to that one by moving it. Women have a mysterious superpower where anything they move tends to disappear.
That left two choices.
As the fault with the plug was that someone (who may or may not be the person who moved the replacement) broke the main prong (the one that works the shutter and opens up the other two holes) there is an option of wedging the shutter open with matchsticks. However, even I consider this to be a tad dangerous, despite my history of alternative electrical arrangements.
So in the end I took the plug off another appliance and used that. This avoided the necessity of moving away from the TV and going out in the cold.
And that brings me back to the question of wasting a week. I’m feeling happy, rested and in tiptop mental condition. Maybe it isn’t a waste after all, maybe I should do more of it. And maybe, as a marketing exercise, I should rebrand it as “relaxation” or even “mindfulness“.
Sorry about the picture, I’m very lazy. If I could use Photoshop I’d bung a Santa Hat on a puffin, but as I can’t, it’s another robin.
Love the comment about rebranding your week as ‘relaxation’ or even ‘mindfulness’. I did laugh out loud at that 😊.
Thank you. 🙂
I am glad you are feeling better after your restful week.
Thank you. 🙂
🙂
I am very pleased to hear about the result of the rest and relaxation. I might try it as I am need of some brightening up myself.
I have decreased my stress and improved my happiness. Unfortunately it has increased my feelings of guilt at being lazy.
Tricky.
It is. I am conflicted.
The robin looks rotund enough to be a Christmas tree ornament. 🙂
They have a knack for it! 🙂
I suppose you could have bought a new lamp.
Bought a new lamp? Am I related to Rockefeller? I’m too tight to buy a second plug so the thought of a new lamp never even entered my head. 🙂
Didn’t think so 🙂
🙂 We found the plug. It will be replaced in the next half hour.
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Well, at least you fixed the plug and had a restful week. But, it appears you posted every day which I have to catch up on. After mom passed away and I moved into her bedroom, the lamp on her bed was acting whacky. Once I moved the head of the bed to another wall I found out the problem. When I unplugged the lamp, one of the prongs had broken off in the plug-in. I haven’t replaced the plug-in yet…
It’s surprising what you can work round…