The Spectacled Steven

Posted on Sat 15 September 2007 at 11:46

I think Steve was secretly excited as he left the house this morning.  He had to pick his new specs up from the Opticians at 8.30 am.  He had his eyes tested through work and they also paid for the glasses.  Well, Steve had to pay $44 and they paid over $500 so that seems like a bargain by anyone’s  measure.   And a rather spiffing case to put them in.  I swear, he is like a kid with a new toy!

And the girl – her usual painey self.  But she is our pain and we love her just as she is.  She has perfected the art of looking into the middle distance with a dreamy gaze so that when she gets reminded about jobs she was meant to have done, she can say ‘oh sorry, I didn’t hear you’…………

I’m obsessed with the fitness thing at the moment.  I went into town and spent $100 on a half-decent pair of trainers to run in, then drove back to the Gym so I could park up and walk/jog round the lake.  The lake circuit is roughly 4k but I couldn’t jog it all, I had to alternate between the two.  But at least that was because I was out of breath, not because my knees hurt too much.  A bit sore but not excruciating this time. And as I was trundling round the lake, a lady handed me an entry form for the ‘Pink Walk’ which is an evening circuit of the lake in aid of Breast Cancer.  That’s on the 13^th October so that has gone on my list too.  I even stopped in at the local swimming pool on my way home to see if they were open but they continue to be closed for a major overhaul – must have been closed for several weeks now.    I paid my $10 at the Gym and will start their 8 week challenge on Monday.  Just for a change I feel really motivated – long may it continue.  And as I can only enthusiastic about one thing at a time, the housework and garden have now been sidelined in favour of my latest fad.  Well, there are worse thing to be gripped by……

We have finally got a little bit organised and intend to take the theory driving test next week.  So that means I have been doing the online practice:

http://www.communitylaw.org.nz/licence/test.php?q=dHlwZT0nR2VuZXJhbCBxdWVzdGlvbnMnIE9SIHR5cGU9J0xpZ2h0IHZlaGljbGUgcXVlc3Rpb25zJw==&lclass=Classes+L1+and+Class+1+(light%20vehicles)&questions=General+questions+and+Light+vehicle+questions

and pass more often than not.  I’ll keep doing a few each day and hopefully that will see me pass first time. 

A couple of weeks ago, we had a chap out to give us an estimate for cavity wall insulation.  After a bit of deliberation, we are getting it done in a fortnight.  It will cost about $3 500 but as it is meant to sound proof as well, we thought it was worth the money.  You need to ventilate properly so it may as well get done when the weather is reasonably warm and then we should be cosy next winter.

I pulled a pair of jeans out of the wardrobe that I haven’t worn for months.  In the pocket was a strip of 8 paracetemol and also 5 plasters.  I just stood and looked at  them.  I have no recollection of why they were in my pocket.  It sounds a bit like a biblical parable doesn’t it?

‘And lo, I say verily unto thee, bring me your sick and needy and I shall give them succour with the holy eightfold paracetemol and blessed 5 plasters’  And yea, didst the overhung and they of the skinned of knee, come unto the place of Karonious in their tens of ones and receive grace and healing from mine pockets.