I am writing this on a beautiful sunny Sunday, the back door is open, and I am not cold, the birds have been singing, the local children playing happily outside, and at last it feels like Spring if not Summer. What a pity that everything doesn't always run smoothly, but then I would have no frustrations to blog about. My latest gripe is Weightwatchers. For ages they have been trying to lure me back with a promise of a cut price on-line scheme. It was the last day on Monday, so impulsively I signed up. I'm not sure that I am actually ready mentally to lose weight, as I am still dog tired, and not always sleeping well. I need to be in the correct frame of mind for good weight loss.
OK so I found out how many 'pro points' I was allowed, so far so good. Every time I tried to click on the plan manager, I got a window saying 'downloading your plan manager, this will take about two minutes'. Nothing happened; I waited still nothing, I tried again, still nothing, I tried another page, a similar message, but still nothing, so I fired off an e-mail, then went out, then went up to daughter's for my belated Mothering Sunday lunch. We had had a very good lunch, roasted veg and feta tart with salad; followed by raspberries blueberries and ice cream Mmmm! diet starts tomorrow! Poor baby was grizzly , wouldn't eat, and later we discovered why. He had the mother and father of nappy rashes. Out with the metanium, no babywipes just plain water, and muslin nappies for the afternoon, and frequent changes. Thankfully it cleared up in a couple of days.He has a snuffly nose and is teething so that may be the cause.
His commando crawl has come on apace and he can now travel the length of the room in his determination to get things.He is so curious about everything and even when things are hidden from him, he knows that they are still there, and has to be distracted with something else.
Tuesday was mostly a day for doing jobs around the house. tidying etc, pulling up the odd weed in the garden, looking and seeing that the lawn badly needed mowing, but strimmer needed first and that had been borrowed.
Wednesday after Sainsbury's and lunch, I went up to Daughter's and we went to parent and toddler's. It was the last one of the term, and Nathaniel's teeth and crawling skills were admired. He was however too young for the egg nests snack and a small Easter egg. It was a beautiful day, I had been too hot in a cardigan at Sainsbury's, I went home and was going to sit in the garden, but dozed indoors as I'm still catching up on the weekend.
Back to the Weightwatcher's saga, I had had an e-mail back saying that they would reply in a few days 'as they were experiencing a high volume due to the success of the new scheme'. Husband had tried everything, I retried every day but still got no further.Adding frustration to my tiredness, my 4pm snacking got a bit out of hand, so much for weight loss! On Thursday I made it to women's hour, one of the elders was speaking and we had cake as one of our members was 80 on Monday. Unfortunately she was not there, so half of the cake was to be delivered to her. As I went to the church kitchen, I heard a strange noise. There had been a small bouncy castle at parent and toddler's and C one of the leaders was attempting to pump the air out of it with a pump. She remarked 'it takes a couple of hours to inflate, but days to deflate'. H, another of our ladies came along and suggested we tried to squeeze the air out of it, so we all 3 got down and tried to push the air out. Whether we would be able to get up again was another matter, we squeezed and squeezed, and the air moved about, but some came out. I decided to sit on it, and H who was at the other end went up as I went down. We all collapsed giggling.We eventually got enough air out to enable C to take it home, she vowing that it would be a once a term treat only. By the time I got to the kitchen the tea cups had been washed and I was ribbed about playing rather than working.
I called in at Daughter's on the way home to take something to her, and was greeted by a harassed looking Daughter. She had had to remove all the imitation coals from the gas fire, and remove other things to a high shelf. I think I said 'welcome to parenthood'. Whilst we chatted, Babymoved across to the window area, pulled a central heating pipe from the wall and was about to bite it when I managed to grab hold of him. The pipe was not fixed to the wall very well, so that's another job. They also have a socket that is a bit loose so need to get that seen to. These are the sort of things that we don't usually notice when we view houses, they only come to light later. As I dangled him backwards from my lap, to play 'Down at the bottom of the deep blue sea', I could quite clearly see the next lot of teeth sitting in the top gum.
I think it was Friday that I found a number from an old Weightwatcher's book and rang them up for a moan. 'Oh but you don't need to download anything' is what I was told 'you just have to click on the icons' I patiently explained, twice during the conversation, that when I clicked on the icons nothing happened except the message 'Downloading your plan'. 'Perhaps your computer is treating it as a popup?' To which I replied I don't think so. I think I'd better have my money back'. I must check it has gone into Paypal. When I mentioned popups to husband he said 'that is the first thing that I checked'
Friday morning I got a small voucher from Tesco, so I decided to walk up there for my bit of shopping. All in all it took an hour, but I felt quite virtuous as I tucked into my roasted veg and feta cheese lunch. I went to the Doctor in the afternoon to kickstart my visit to the shoulder specialist, I got the usual 'Well the waiting list is quite long', but I cut in with' Yes but my husband has private cover through work', so he set the wheels in motion and told me what I need to do. We may as well use the private scheme before husband retires.
On Saturday we went to Daughter's to retrieve the strimmer, Husband hadn't seen baby for about 3 weeks and baby had difficulty recognising him. He sat gazing at Grandad for ages. Earlier I had done some planting of freesia bulbs and weeding of buttercups. We went into town, did the shopping and sat in the sun eating lunch.
I am always surprised how quickly Saturdays go, I phoned both sisters,and after spagg bol, tried the Telegraph general knowledge crossword, and fell into bed exhausted. I had been too hot during the week, and unable to sleep, so yesterday changed the duvet. I am always wary of warm Aprils they are often followed by cold Mays.
We had a different preacher today, our pastor is on recording duty at the Banner Youth Conference. Is it that time of year already? There was no children's talk, and a shorter sermon, so for once we had had lunch and were drinking coffee before 2 pm. We should have eaten outside, we didn't get much opportunity last summer. Will post some pics later as husband wants his computer back
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