Day 134........spending lots of time with my wonderful hubbie, even if it was just on skype.

Day 134........spending lots of time with my wonderful hubbie, even if it was just on skype.

3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.

Yesterday, as some of you will know, was Bills birthday. I won't tell you how old he is but he loves to cast up that he is younger than me. Being an April birthday myself, the gap in years got smaller with his January birthday. Now there is only a one year difference and so that gives his age away to anyone who knows mine.

I was able to connect with him pretty much as soon as he was up, which was not too long after I woke up. The wonders of time-difference. Bill stays on his nightshift schedule and so seldom sees a Scottish morning between the hours of six-thirty and noon. When I lived in Edinburgh, I tried to get my work slotted into mornings so that he and I could have afternoons together which meant we had a good chunk of time together, even when he was on a nightshift. The five hour time difference means that I can connect with him in the same way from here, which feels great.

Back to yesterday and we were happily typing back and forth when he mentioned that he was going to go shopping. Knowing that my sister was going to appear by 2ish, I stalled his trip to the store by asking him if he wanted to skype. I looked lovely in my new fluffy 'goonie

' and no make-up but he's used to seeing me in the morning so it wasn't too traumatic for him. Right on cue, my sister arrived with hers and our pressie for him. My first pressie had gone down like a ton of balloons -a bunch of red roses very kindly bought by my friend Debbie and left on our door-handle before 6am by her hubbie, whilst on his dog-walking duties. Deb, if you're reading this, I hope that you didn't wake up this morning to them on your door-handle because that's what he was threatening to do as he did not understand my gesture at all. I should have got you to drop off a cake.

It was really great to see my wee sister on camera but it was brief because she hid-lol. She is even worse than me when it comes to skype and that's not easy to beat. I am great, if it is a client or I am teaching but with friends and family-not so good although I am much better than I used to be. She, like Bill, found my appearance very fetching and the banter between the three of us was mainly about my terrible choosing of gifts for Bill, which did evoke a few giggles from all and some protestations from yours truly.

Bill decided to save his pressie for opening with the girls, later and when the skype session ended, I played catch-up with my morning routine. I did manage to get both my meditation and blog done before Jen appeared.

It was another day indoors and I did a bit of exploration on writing for income again. Signed up for another site which had a great wee test, to see how good your English was which I'm glad to say I passed. I only got 96% though and I'm wondering if it's because it's an American site. I will have to perhaps go with American English when writing articles. I now have to write a sample article but the categories don't fit into what I want to write about so I am wondering whether or not it was a wasted afternoon? Nah, no writing is ever wasted.

Jen got a bit of a wake-up call when her and Ali went round to the library because she had not worn a hat. Her face and ears were sore when she got home and I was glad that it was less than a ten minute walk. I bet lots of people find themselves in trouble with this weather. I know that I had a similar experience to Jen, many years ago during my first ever visit to Canada in 1983. When the plane landed it was -42c and I could count on one hand how many times I got out for a walk in my six plus weeks there. One tempting sunny day I decided to walk to the local store without a hat or earmuffs......big mistake. I had to walk along the road with my gloved-hands clasped around my ears.

Their library trip was to see if the second Twilight movie was in but it wasn't and so Jen and I settled for a wee movie called 'Sunshine Cleaning' which was not too bad. Not a Hollywood great but I like Amy Adams and Emily Blunt.

We got our $20 Pizza Pizza discount card-yippeee. That will pay for tomorrows dinner.

The toilet-roll Fairy sparked a discussion on how the toilet rolls don't need filled until the last one gets used and so I haven't refilled......we shall see what transpires.

The Dishwasher-Fairy caused a protest, as I knew she would because Jen emptied the dishwasher (for the first time) on Wednesday-lol.

I have thought of a new Fairyand she is the Hand-Soap-Filling Fairy. I buy refills for the liquid handsoap and fill up the bottles when empty. Last night, I went up to bed to find the 'pump' lying seperately from the bottle because the level was too low to get the soap out with the pump. I left it to see if the Fairy would do it overnight but nah, I will go do it after this.

And the bells haven't chimed nine yet-yippee. It's amazing what I can get done when Ali goes off to school early. She is getting some 'tutoring' from a friend before school starts, this week and so she's been out just after eight. She has a clown-workshop today with a visiting college-prof' and he is apparently very mean and rude. Her aim is simply not to let him make her cry.....wee scone. Acting is a tough business and they are just trying to get the kids prepared.

On that note, my stomach is growling and I am going to go eat breakfast. What to have? I finished the eggs a few days ago, finished the bagels yesterday, the bananas are over-ripe and heading for banana bread this evening and I don't fancy cold cereal. Mmm? Toast?

Love to all,

Lxxxx