You won't while you're ill, don't beat yourself up for stupid decisions when not feeling well. I hope the chocolate tasted good before it made you feel sick!
Too much emotional stuff today after too little sleep. My own fault, a friend and I did a 'quick' zoom meeting before bed, feeling safe because those meetings time out after 40 minutes. Except when you both have a zoom account you can alternate hosts and before you know you're two hours in and have had too much to drink.
Still, it was a very nice meeting, catching up and discussing all kinds of random stuff.
Today was swimming pool first, going to bed too late is no excuse to skip.
Lots of grocery shopping.
Working on a fun but rather complicated thing, of which I'd promised I'd finish it today. I did.
I visited the neighbour who lost her partner in that horrible hiking accident in the mountains. The cremation will be tomorrow and I wanted to say a last goodbye now he's finally home from Andorra. Falling from a mountain and it having taken a week for him to be brought home of course means a closed coffin, but I spent some time alone with him in their atelier (both of them are artists for a living) before having tea and a talk with his partner. Very glad I went, I'll miss him, and this private goodbye before tomorrows busy cremation helped.
A phonecall from a very depressed and panicking friend. She'll have her birthday early next month, she feels she should have her party in her house, her house is currently an exploded mess (of the kind you see in cheap reality shows), and her depression makes her thoughts keep going in circles.
I contacted neighbours Tale and Astrid (yes, those are the ones with the complicated stuff) to ask if they would be willing to help out. We did the same thing last year, it will take the 3 of us about 4 to 5 hours to get her house in order again. Which won't help with the depression but at least it will solve a practical problem and relieve an extra reason for panic and self loathing.
Then some very intense whatsapp contact with Astrid, who is going though a ridiculously hard time with her idiot husband. Did some understanding and thoughtful replying before deciding that enough was enough, I'll be there again tomorrow, and proposed we'll go for a swim after the other neighbour's cremation.
Chopped onions and garlic, cleaned the pot I was going to use, and decided proper cooking can wait until tomorrow, I'm tired.
So I had a pan fried toastie with cheese, chorizo and a mayonnaise based dip instead. Very tasty too!
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And on a more positive note, I'll be visiting the UK again in October, two years after my last visit.
A keto lunch will be had on 13 Oct in Frinton with
@MrsA2 before I return to the Netherlands, and we're hoping some other members will be interested in joining in!
I'll start a thread on it later and link to it in this thread, watch this space!
