At least this trip did not end with police reports, broken locks or windows, and insurance assessments. The carport shutters were screwed tight, The annex door was screwed tight. The upper window has metal screening. The shutters were down on all the side and back windows. Our delightful neighbors were in and out for mail. Another friend did walk thrus, cared for the car, and plants. Thus all was well at Jade House when we arrived home. Thanks to everyone we spent not one paranoid moment!
We dropped all 10 of our bags in the dining room which immediately became a cluttered mayhem of a staging center. Boy decided to leave for his house that very night to check his premises and so he could get to the U to sign in for his study year, perhaps take aptitude and interest tests to help decide his future. That eliminated two bags but his tooth still needs looking at....and the dentist had no room til next week.
Sweetpea declared that she would take care of her belongings so that eliminated two more bags still leaving 60 Kilos of mostly stinky sweaty dirty clothes for me to unpack (peee-euw), sort and wash.
Himself had booked the next day (Wednesday) off to recover from jet lag. And jet lag has been the millstone ever since. Both of us have had a hard time getting our internal clock reset. Today (Monday) i still have not had a decent night sleep. I was up at 3:30 am Wednesday sorting and unpacking. Then I took a nap while Himself went about unscrewing and opening up the house. Then he napped.
I got up and did laundry until I went to bed at 6:30 pm because I couldn't stand up anymore.
Thursday morning I was up at 3:30 am again to do laundry, then we both got dressed and went to the office because he had a meeting (I caught up on emails and administration): at 1200 we fetched Sweetpea from the house and went to a church member's funeral and burial. He dropped us off at home and went to another meeting. I started yet another wash load and went to bed. He dragged in about 7pm, made dinner and we both died in bed after.
Friday was a bit better. I was up at 6, he rode his bike to work after we cleaned up the kitchen from the night before. I sorted out some more belongings one big bag for upstairs, one big bag for in storage. Then I got dressed and went back to church for another funeral. This was a large group. so I stayed to pitch in and serve and cleanup after the reception. But by the time I got home it was all I could do to go up and crawl in bed. Boy came home early so he made dinner. Again, early to bed.
And so it was in the weekend. We dropped gifts for the neighbors and had coffee, we did some grocery shopping, the sewing machines were serviced and picked up, we went to church, we went to Clan headquarters for dinner, we stopped by Brother2 to drop off a loaned camera. More washing and folding. Suitcases put away. Some photos viewing. All while feeling like molasses in January.
Today everyone else starts the University year. I need to get my house back in order. MEH.
I think I will take a nap.
Nap well, my friend. You've earned it.
ReplyDeleteAnd the laundry? You have my sympathy. That's one of the first things I do on a return. Except this last time, but that was because our washing machine was busted and it took a few days for it to get fixed. Ah well...
I hope you recover quickly. :)
Um, would it be possible for you to open up the commenting for name/url? I'd like to leave a link to my own blog, but that's on my own site, not one of these major aggregates... :)