Elizabeth November 16th, 2011
Pro tip: if you really must have a sick day, I highly recommend doing it the way that I did. It’s essential that you stay in your PJs for three quarters of the day, and only change half an hour before your boyfriend is due home so that you can pretend that you’re all grown up.
Of course, this means that when the delivery guy shows up to your house in the middle of the day you’re not going to be wearing a bra. He’s either going to feel incredibly embarrassed or extraordinarily fortunate, but you know what? It’s too late to be worried about these things. This is one of those times when it’s okay to ignore your mother’s advice about standing with your shoulders back though.
And anyway, there are bigger things to be thinking about at a time like this. For example, “Why don’t I remember ordering something from a shop called Edible Blooms?” and, “oh shit, it’s not our anniversary, is it?”
(Relax. It’s not your anniversary.)
This amazing (and unexpected!) gift was from two Twitter friends that we’ve never even met! A couple of weeks ago we were almost resigned to the fact that our pretty old couches were heading for the footpath for hard rubbish collection. We’d tried to re-home them a couple of times, but although some of our friends were interested in them the timing was wrong. The charities didn’t want to take in any more couches either.
I was really sad about their fate, so I had a little whine about it on Twitter.
LUCKILY, @brethred was reading at the time and replied that she and her boy could give them a home! We were really happy that somebody else could use them and that they’d been saved from becoming landfill.
So today’s little surprise was a completely unnecessary but lovely gesture. We’re just happy to have helped somebody out, and to know that our couches live on!
Farewell, little couches!
Day 4 of the 30 Day Photo Challenge is The Sky. This is a quick and dirty long exposure of the sky above my house at about 9.30pm tonight, since the daytime sky was completely grey and uninspiring.
I wish I’d had more time to make this photo as good as it could be, but I’m trying to not be a perfectionist while I tackle this project. Enjoy the stars.
