Happy Monday!

So it’s been quite a week. On Wednesday, Ma got a date for her first cataract replacement, on Saturday. Cataract surgery is a fairly straightforward procedure but it is recommended that you have someone with you afterwards and my brother isn’t in the country right now. So all birthday activity was cancelled because we can’t wait another 18 weeks because she’ll be blind by then!

I don’t have great luck with milestone birthdays and I have lowered expectations for them, which was useful, but even with a damp squib of a 50th birthday, life is alright.

Work was full on and didn’t quite go the way I wanted, to do some of the things I needed to do, where reliant on other people completing work and they hadn’t. So I was starting behind and I just ran out of time, so I just decided that I’d delay my leave and go to work on Monday. That way I can get everything done and go on leave on Tuesday, with a clear conscience.

Also the aircon in the office was off all week, by Thursday, I was wearing gloves in the office like a victorian spinster fallen on hard times.

By Friday night, I felt like my brain was about to explode, I went to the plot and collected produce to take to Ma’s. On Saturday, I dropped Ma at the hospital at 8am and wondered in the rain around Kingston. I bought some new trainers, and some glasses because it was my birthday weekend. Ma was all done by 11am and we went home. I’m happy to report that she’s good and her sight is already much better.

Yesterday, was quiet and lowkey. It wasn’t the 50th birthday I planned but Ma’s 50th was cancelled at the last minute because the restaurant went bust, and I’ve had some lovely presents and messages. It’s fine!

Today, I’m working and for the rest of the week, I’m off work and trying to catch up on everything I need to do at home and on the plot!

Have a good week!