This was certainly a week of running around and by Sunday afternoon, I was wrapped up in my blanket on the sofa desperately trying to finish the excellent book, ‘Hello Beautiful’ before the week started again. I would highly recommend this book, reading the blurb, it looks as if you could predict the story, however it was very different and beautiful to what I was expecting.
As the sole driver in the house at present, I always seem to be driving, life in a rural county means its many miles to anywhere. I was a bit alarmed when on Friday morning, I glanced my car’s reflection in a window and noticed one of my lights had gone. I did not need this, but I remembered the great customer service I had at Halfords a couple of years ago and that they did simple jobs onsite. I went online, ordered my part and booked a fitting slot for the next day as Halfords was on our route to football. What could have been a big drama, actually turned out to be very smooth and simple and I was even able to book my MOT for the end of the month.
My Saturday was a bit nuts, I ran my 99th parkrun, my Flake, came home cooked and ate a macaroni cheese from scratch, went to Halfords for the car repair, got to the football stadium to watch the big match and then picked up my daughter from a friends in a different town on the way home. We got home around 10ish and I was completely wiped. In really unfortunate timing, I had a 9am food delivery and then had to drive to ‘big’ town on Sunday too so Mr S could get his glasses mended and fitted. We were home by early afternoon and I had a few hours on the sofa, genuinely wondering where I had the energy for the coming week.
The highlight of the week was the football, I don’t normally go but as Mr S recovers, I am on football duty. It was a great atmosphere as the visitors were Man City, current treble holders and it did feel a little unreal to be so close to megastars. However they only scraped a 1-0 win and our team definitely deserved at least a draw. It was the best atmosphere I’ve experienced at the stadium and I was a little hoarse by the end of the game from shouting.
My final thing of the week was a new avatar to reflect my decision to stop colouring my hair, I’ve compared it above with the image in my Seaside Sparkles header which was drawn nearly a decade ago. The avatar was more for work and my class web page. I never share my photo online and use an avatar, but I felt my old picture didn’t reflect who I am now. I do think with this look, I need to be bolder with make up and accessories but that’s a task for a later date. Sadly life is so full on that I don’t really have the head space for frivolities at present.