Daydreaming with Tetsubinatu

Good
Dinner, chiefly the fact that I made it. I've been very tired after the move and relying on a lot of pre-made food - tv dinners, soup in pouches etc. Admittedly a tater tot casserole is not the height of healthy eating, but it's a step in the right direction! Veal, french onion soup, frozen vegies, tater tots, sliced ham, cherry tomatoes and real cheese on one side, vegan 'cheese' on the other. 

Bad
The ex is not well. He hasn't looked well recently, and now he's having dizzy spells. The doctors are doing all the tests but nothing is showing up. :/

Educational 
The things you learn from virology podcasts! Recommended by melannen, This Week in Virology is chatty and occasionally a bit scary.
http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

Something Good/happy: a day at home... yay!

Something Bad/sad: We are all sick today. I'm exhausted after yesterday, Kit has a tummy bug and MrP has been sleeping as a vocation since he handed in his last essay of the Semester!

Something new: My friend's DIL is such an ass! She cancelled the toddler's nanny for the length of their visit from another country. As Kit said "presumptuous!"

Something Good/happy: I feel happy that today I got a lot done (by my standards). I dropped off and collected Kit from work experience; I took them to buy shoes and insoles because 8 hours on their feet was a shock to the system; I made dinner, washed up and put the bins out. Normally I would get no more than two of those done in a day.

Something Bad/sad: I hope Kit isn't getting sick.

Something new: Eldest sent pictures of where he is working this month. It looks pretty different from anything I've seen.

Something Good/Happy: Today my eldest sent me photos from Shenzhen, where he is starting a month's internship. He sounds as if he's doing ok. He's not a chatty guy so I was happy to hear from him at all!

Something Bad/Sad: Today my 15yo gave me a scare. They volunteer once a fortnight at RSPCA and normally I drop them off and their father picks them up, keeps them overnight and brings them home on Sunday afternoon. Today, however, he was sick, so the kid was planning to come straight home by public transport.  Unfortunately they boarded the wrong bus.  They should have been home well before dark, so when they weren't I rang and got 'this phone is out of range'.  At that point I was seriously stressed and by the time the kid asked a passerby to let them call me on their phone I was in the car checking the local streets in the dark and rain between home and the bus/train stops. I hugged that child very hard when I finally had them safe in my car!  

Then I stopped at an intersection a bit jerkily (wet road, bad angle, shaky Mum) and the car behind me ran into me. No damage to my car but my towbar did a bit of damage to hers. The kid started crying again, but it could have been so much worse! The young lass who ran into me was dreadfully apologetic.

Something new: When I arrived home the cat had tunnelled under my bedclothes and she gave me quite a shock! It's been very cold and she's been snuggling under the blankets with me but I've always been there to let her in. I left her by her food bowl when I went out so I had no reason to  believe she was in my bed and I nearly sat on her!