Stressed? Moi?

Now why would I be stressed?

True we are leaving for Australia in a little over 36 hours, which is quite frightening as circumstances haven't really been conducive to calm preparation and the slow build up of excitement.

Here at home my bathroom is still without heating and the problems with the bath side panels have still not been sorted. Because of this we have not been able to  finish decorating in there.

The work in the bedroom is still not finished. We thought the joiner was coming today to fit the skirting board which would have allowed us to move some of the furniture back in there. As it is, our bedroom furniture is currently shared between the spare room (or Guest Room as all the property porn programs that I watch on TV would have it) and Son No 2's room. Sadly the contents of our wardrobe, to which we will need access for packing, are piled up on the bed in there, which is at the far end of the room.

 

However this is perhaps academic since we do not have enough flat floor space in a dust and/or cat free environment to put down the suitcase in order to pack it.

 

We made a list of things to do before we went, which was as long as a giant's arm, and quite a lot of it has been crossed off, but given that the postman kept bringing stuff that needs to be dealt with, we

haven't quite got to the bottom of it yet and I am entertaining doubts that we ever will. 

 

When I get back I have three weeks to produce 3000+/- quality words on 'my poet' and tragedy - although it's not as though I haven't thought about it quite a bit already.

 

I am worried about my blood pressure because for a while now I have been feeling dizzy when I got up from a sitting position and moved around. Which to me says low blood pressure. Equally over the past three days I have been having small spontaneous nose bleeds which sort of says high blood pressure. I comfort myself with the thought that the two cancel one another out. And the dizziness I think is to do with my deteriorating middle distance vision, and one of the multifarious things I did today was to make an appointment to see the optician almost as soon as I get home. So that should be sorted.

 

I shall cheer myself up by posting another picture.

 

 

Australia - gotta love it.