Me and Richard O'Brien

Posted on Thu 22 November 2007 at 11:22

I got through a huge amount of packing today and feel better for having done it.  Even in amongst the landfill that is my home at the moment, there was some joy to be found.  Melissa gave me a beautiful enamelled seahorse that hangs on the wall, for my birthday 2 years ago and it went AWOL in the move here.  Well, we still had the most enormous bag of packing paper under the house, so I pulled it out today to start re-using it.  And lo and behold, still wrapped up in the middle of all that paper, there was my seahorse.  It really brought a smile to my face.  I felt quite bad when it disappeared as it seemed to denigrate the gift she had given me so as you may imagine, I’m just delighted to see it again.  As you may well have guessed, I’m meant to be packing but a girl can’t live by packing alone, so here I am, wasting a bit of time.

We went out to eat this evening, as it was the girl's birthday.  I did phone him up and ask him if he would like to take her, as I am trying so hard to to be reasonable, but he will take her out this weekend instead.  But I did offer.  So, I phoned my mate Christine, as I wanted some adult company.  So Melissa and her mate, me and Christine, we all went to Ghengys and we had a very pleasant evening. The girls ate like there was no tomorow - very impressed with their capacity.  Her friend is here now.  I am not keen on midweek sleepovers when they have to get up for school but for this occaision, it was the right thing to do.

That's me and Richard O'Brian

The statue is almost across the road from the restaurant so I now have proof positive that I have been to Hamilton!  In case you can't make it out, he is wearing a rather fetching little number from the Rocky Horror Picture Show - which he wrote.  Clever man.  He used to live here but I haven't seen him shopping in Pac & Save or Third World so I guess he's moved on!

Friday morning

Some good news on the house front - the lady who has already been through twice during open home came back again.  Apparently she has her furniture in storage and is looking for a house big enough for a massive dresser or some such.  She has now registerd an interest in the house so I'm praying she comes back once my furniture is gone.  My furniture is pretty big and the house will probably seems a lot bigger empty. 

Right, back to the packing - the end is in sight!  But I still have to leave it tidy for the open home this weekend and that is really difficult with all the boxes.