The Week That Was
Categories: family, friends, television, reading, food, cinema, life, bushwalking-hiking, writing
Date: 14 June 2010 08:40:53
First: thank you all for the very kind comments on my return. I was greatly touched.
An unexpected week of reading and DVDs: mainly as I was stuck in bed with a cold.
Dragged myself out to see my psychologist Tuesday: who was suitably shocked by my news of resigning. At the end of the hour she said she saw it definitely as a positive as it had me exploring other options.
Headed out on Wednesday, suitably rugged up, for lunch with a friend who has started her own business at the very posh Bambini Trust; a restaurant in the same building as her office. I had a pea soup with smoked pancetta -- and, as I did on another occasion with the same friend, dropped my spoon into the soup. An observant, and I am guessing bemused, waitress brought me a new one. Dessert was a dark chocolate and espresso tart.
The next day I woke up with conjunctivitis, something I get in a non-intense form rather regularly in my left eye. So more time off work. Friend above SMSed me on Friday asking what conjunctivits was: to my horror I had passed it on.
My two eldest nieces, Skye and Eden came over Thursday, Friday and for a sleepover Saturday. Keeping them at a reasonable distance from my eyes, and mouth, I had great fun with them. I am so blessed.
On Saturday and Sunday my cold seemed to intensify, so it was more reading and more DVDs. Missed church which I felt keenly; someone once said to me something along the lines of, 'When I go to church I can think it has no impact; but when I miss it I feel its absence in the week after.' and I agree. I'm struggling with patience and reacting poorly to the slightest inconvience more than usual and missing the Eucharist [I've absented myself from church for over a month, returning but not communicating last week] truly makes the fight harder from my perspective. I need to see my priest about Confession.
I also continued on my online Feature Writing course; I had submitted a 500 word profile on someone I interviewed last Sunday and will have a response by the assessor by tomorrow: looking forward to seeing how I can improve.
Today, the second Monday in June, is interestingly the public holiday in all states except WA [which has it on a different date] titled "Queen's Birthday Holiday": interesting as I know the UK does not have such a holiday. Its presence here should be seen as a love for holidays rather than some indicator of love of royalty. After being cooped up for several days, I needed an escape: and as it was a gloriously sunny Sydney winter's day I did two short bushwalks, and had a very pleasant lamb, honey and rosemary pie in-between at Pie in the Sky -- a place popular with cyclist and bikes which also has a glorious outlook over the bush. Went back after the second bushwalk to get a family-sized blueberry pie to take home. Memory of the day, which was a blessed one, must be what I captured below with my phone; not something you always see on a bushwalk. I feel suitably fortified for the, albeit short, working week ahead.
