WHERE AM I?

I am here but getting nowhere fast.  Do you know that feeling perhaps?  Lots to do and not getting it done.  We should be having the carpet laid next week and it is the one of our choice too.  Not sure how the carpet firm managed it, but manage it they did.  So glad too as the one the insurance company chose was dreadful and one I doubt anyone would want unless it was for perhaps a verandah that was going to have constant traffic on it.  Really hard.   Now we have to pack up all the books and other items in the three bookcases but do you think we can find boxes.  Asked at several store but no luck.  Phil is off again to ask again.  Also have to move small furniture but that's not a problem.

Pest control here next Tuesday to do their annual inspection so had to work that in before new carpet as they do make a bit of a mess 'cos of the insulation bits that come down with them after they inspect the part between the ceilings and the roof.  We are fortunate that all the timber is jarrah which white ants aren't all that keen on and also the stumps under the house are capped.  $190 this year for the inspection and we are going to make sure they do everything on their list as sometimes I think they are a little careless and don't check everything, i.e. door frames, skirting boards etc.

I'm afraid my head is spinning and I have to try and sit still and gather my thoughts and get a hold of myself, and get on with everything.

I will be back with Telling it on Tuesday, hopefully next week, but need to find photographs and put them in some kind of order and that too will take time as the albums are among the things that also need to be moved out of the living room.  I may bring them out here where at least I can get to them.

Do I sound muddled up?  I guess it's because I feel that way.  Once when I was able to move around without a problem none of this would have got to me but these days five minutes and I have to sit down to ease my back and everything has to be done ever so slowly.  An hour's job can take me half a day which makes me feel ever so useless at times.  Thank goodness for Phil; he is ever so patient with me when I get in a tizz.

I am still popping in to check my favourite blogs even if not leaving comments each time but you can rest assured I am still round the place..somewhere.

MONDAY MURMURINGS

Actually I'm not murmuring about anything today....just murmured out for now with all that's been going on and more to come.  Hopefully carpet problem has been solved.  I had to ring GIO and check it out with them.  I think I've sorted out the confusion and am looking forward to hearing from local firm Choices sometime this week to say their head office has told them to go ahead with the work.  It will mean more upheaval of course but will be great to have it over and done with. 

I hope all mums had a great mother's day yesterday.  I know I did.  Karen and her hubby came here for afternoon tea and I received a frangipani and a lovely card from them.  Phil also gave me a frangipani so now I have three of them.  Karen has lots of them and I decided they were one plant you don't have to do a lot to keep them happy so look forward to some lovely blooms next season and all different as well.   These new plants both have a pink tinge and the one I have now is the standard white/yellow one.

More medical stuff ahead....dentist for both of us this afternoon, doctor for me tomorrow to have my B12 injection and off to SKG for Phil tomorrow to have liver ultrasound to make sure whatever it was showed on his CT scan is nothing to worry about.  Better sure than sorry.

After that, once the carpet is done and dusted, perhaps we can look forward to more peaceful days.  Younger folk probably wonder why I seek peaceful days and it is difficult to explain.  Small tasks that I once took for granted now take so much longer to perform so when all these extra 'things' come along I feel crowded if that makes sense.  Not enough time to be properly organised but I guess in the end we'll get there....we usually do, eventually.

Have a great week everyone and thanks, once again, for bearing with me when I have a bit of a moan.  Normally, I'm a rather cheerful soul but sometimes events catch up with me and then I just have to have a grizzle.