Catching up - friends and domestic

[ailbhe]

Well, I see I've been a little sparse on information lately. Hm. OK.

Mustard's Leg Injury

On Saturday the 18th, Rob took Mustard to the vet to have his stitches removed. This also meant that he could lose the cone around his head and have a wash for the first time in days; we had been removing the cone and letting him wash for minutes at a time, but he kept trying to untangle his stitches. He also got his booster shots at the same time, and is a fine healthy figure of a cat, and honestly seems not to have noticed that he was injured at all. The wound looks practically pretty now, it's so well-healed, and his fur is soft and silky, like a Pedigree Chum advert.

My best friend came to see me

On Friday evening (that's the 17th), my best friend Aoife (not to be confused with my other best friends) came to see me. She flew in to Heathrow and got the bus to Reading, arriving at our door by taxi shortly after 11 pm. We stayed up until 01:30 talking.

So on Saturday we were up and about by 9:30, and headed in to town for Aoife to take me shopping for maternity clothes. We tried just about every shop, stopping for refreshments a couple of times (yes, we had breakfast before leaving the house, but we both needed sustenance. Shopping and lack of sleep is a tiring combination) and finally found a pair of jeans in "Mamas and Papas", which seems to be mostly horrendously overpriced and had the weirdest fitting room I've ever met. Rob pootled in to join us in the afternoon for a hot chocolate and then we all pootled home in dribs and drabs. Aoife's L337 Sh0pp1ng Sk1llz are equal to Jen's.

We cooked stuffed pork tenderloin and apple pie, and played Trivial Pursuit, then stayed up until 1:30 am again. Aoife left in a taxi at 7:30 on Sunday morning.

Housework and Cleaning

We did get the house done on Friday, in time for Aoife to visit, and it has mostly stayed pretty tidy. We didn't get as far as the master bedroom, and Rob's office just doesn't count, but the bathroom, kitchen, dining room, library, spare room (wow!) and hallways got done. Rob had to do the hoovering, as my hands gave up totally after tidying the kitchen, dining room and spare room.

We have also been cooking real meals quite often - moussaka, roast meat and veg, macaroni cheese for lunch, that kind of thing.

Open University Exam

I got a taxi to the exam centre (he was late, and didn't know the way) and en route passed a big training truck with huge L-plates. A girl my age was learning to drive it. I really ought to learn to drive a car one day.

At the exam lots of people asked how I was (I missed a lot of tutorials with morning sickness) and then made squeally congratulations noises. I wrote for two hours, and sat and stared (and shivered) for one, then left. The exam centre was freezing cold, I thought. But I think I got about 50% or so, which is a pass.

My best friend came back from Hong Kong

Ellie came back from Hong Kong yesterday morning at stupid o'clock, and we had lunch together and she tried on a couple of my suits because she has some job interviews coming up soon. Then today we went shopping for a suit that would fit her, since mine are a leetle too tight around the waist. We also had lunch and stopped for tea and looked for a briefcase for her father, and eventually jetlag took over and she stopped responding. We had fun though.

Comments

Maternity clothes

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

I didn't buy many as we were broke when I was pregnant, but my mum bought me 2 pairs of jeans from Mothercare with the stretchy panel thing which were great. I bought a set of back lycra cottony clothes from M&S online & they were great too. Have given them away now, but thye would have prob been too big for you as they were a size 12.

Mamas & Papas has scarey prices, but the clothes & toys & stuff is lovely :)

Re: Maternity clothes

[ailbhe]

Mamas and Papas has very very scary prices. Mind you, Mothercare prices scare me a bit too. Funnily, none of the Mothercare clothes fit me - their size 10 seems to be too big and they don't stock size 8 in the branch near me. Luckily, I already have dungarees and am happy to wear trousers for a full week before washing them, or I'd be in trouble. These jeans are reportedly "under bump" and have a stretchy band at the top, which works nicely; I can tell that they'll fit even when I start to really grow.