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Date: 25 September 2004 20:48:46
Hmmm.... yes... I do still ache. I am putting it down to feeling fluey - can't possibly be because of the exercise on Thursday can it?
I sent Tiddles to school yesterday but was called upon to fetch him home by the afternoon, poor boy. I think he and his brother regretted this illness later as, stripping his bed to make one up on the bedroom floor (so I could better check on him in the night) I discovered the hidden stash of things they'd "relocated" - biscuits, sweets, and more worryingly, matches. Little horrors! And to add insult to injury, I discovered why I had no slimfast bars left to see me through the weekend. They'd even nicked those! So they're now joining me on my diet. I did a clean sweep of the food cupboard and donated all the cakes and biscuits to the church coffee morning. It's the last time they take advantage of my Dad babysitting to sneak out and raid the pantry.
Mind you, I wish my diet and exercise routine would start showing some positive benefits. I haven't lost a single ounce. No, not an ounce. And I still need the bigger jacket for my massage class. To add insult to injury, I threw caution to the wind and made up the sofa bed alongside my boy to keep him company as he slept (he really was quite poorly last night) and, when getting up off it, went straight through the wooden slats that held up the mattress!
Today I am paying the price for my motherly sacrifice. Headache, earache and blocked up nose - what a delight! I had to cancel the course I was going on. I was really looking forward to it, too.... apart from seriously resenting the fact it was on a Saturday AND we had to take a packed lunch! Tiddles had to cancel his swimming in the Scout's swimming gala, which means it will be another year before he can get his swimming badge. And we won't be going to the Harvest Festival again tomorrow. Smudgelet made it to the Music Centre though... and thoroughly enjoyed his first ever experience of Junior Choir and Keyboards. I suffered a bit of "car park rage" though. There was nowhere to park when I went to pick him up so, as he was extremely nervous about being there on his own without Tiddles and as there were hundreds of children teeming out at the end of the music centre session, I pulled up out of the way where I was only blocking a couple of cars while I raced in and out to pick him up. The man I blocked in WAS NOT AMUSED. Didn't I realise it was the end of Music Centre and he was planning on picking up his child and going? I pointed out that I was doing the same and would be gone in less than two minutes, but patient was not his middle name. Bless him.
So, what am I going to eat now ?