Uncle Chunder

Sorry for neglecting you all - Uncle Chunder has paid me numerous visits this week ( that's a vomiting bug to anyone other than Vicki and anyone else reading who may remember Uncle Chunder!) so i have not felt like posting and in any case, had nothing to report. So, here i am, it's Saturday and i am all on my lonesome, having convinced ( not quite sure how!) Adrian to take the girls to Rotorua to visit his parents.

At first the silence was deafening and i almost ran after them and told them all to come back, but after i thought about it and rationalised that probably Adrian would be able to make it down there in one piece without his non-driving wife occasionally shouting "watch that truck!" every time a truck goes past, i relaxed into my day and am having a grand old time - currently listening to Queen very loudly and drinking wine, which in turn is making me sing rather loudly as well, he he!! But all is good because no-one is here to tell me how crap my cd collection is or how awful i am at singing!

So far today in my re-visited singleton bliss i have:

• Sat in my pyjamas until 10am
  
• Browsed the internet without anyone saying "when is it myyyyyyyy turn?" or "we want cbeeeeeebies on the computer".
• Gone to the shops and bought nice things to eat like strawberries and asparagus and chocolate ( what was most disturbing was that the checkout boy asked me if i was planning a romantic meal - he obviously thought i was what with all my aphrodisiac foods (!) - i just blushed and said something like "hrmmmmmrph" or something similarly indisinguishable - i was loathe to inform him that i was going to eat it all myself!)
• Bought sweeties to eat, and i will be able to eat them in the lounge! Usually i am reduced to hiding and scoffing them in the pantry without the children noticing.
• Perused a local book fair and bought 6 books.
• Remembered what a bummer it is to actually have to carry shopping bags home opposed to bunging them in the bottom of the buggy.
• Saw a hot air balloon and my mothering reflexes made me point up in the air to show the (not present) children, then made myself giggle realising this and looked like a fool walking along the road chuckling to myself.
• Watched a programme about triplets and got to be all mushy without adrian making fun of me
• Read some of my new Spike Milligan book and laughed a lot
  
• had a nap
• Eventually did some study for impending exams next week
• Made dinner for one

And i am going out to watch adrian's brother's band this evening and then enjoy my inevitable hangover tomorrow without having to think of anyone but myself.

Other funny things that happened today were

• watching 2 old ladies squabbling over a puzzle at the book fair
• being "wooo"ed at from behind by a passing truck driver, which i know i should be offended at, but it's nice to be complimented when you're a worn-out mother. I did have a paranoid moment that perhaps he was shouting "eww" instead of "woo", but i do have a nice bum so i think it was a "woo". Modest, moi???!! Buns of steel , me, from all that pushing my own body weight in children and buggy 4 times a day!
• seeing the postlady getting "woo"ed at by ( a different) truck driver, except she told them to F*** Off, rather loudly, which also made me giggle.

Simple pleasures! It's been a fab day, and i plan to spend tomorrow watching videos that adrian won't let me watch, yes, because i'm sad and like girly movies with happy endings. Right, off to watch more wine and get ready :) I AM missing adrian and the girls, honest!!

Lots of love xxx