weekend roundup

It’s been a reasonably good weekend, if too short (of course).

I had a good morning yesterday.  I finally got SO some work pants that are the correct size – 97S (that’s 38 inches, to those of you unconverted to the metric system).  Poor darling, even though they were short length, I still needed to take them up.  This is something I loathe doing more than you would believe.  I actually did start on them last night.  It took me over an hour to change the thread colour on my overlocker, and I broke four needles along the way.  Enough said about that, I think.

I also bought my friend a few presents for her newborn girl, and her other two children.  For the older kids, I got them a hardcover book each (‘Disney Princess Stories’ for the four year old girl, ‘Winnie the Pooh’ for the two year old boy – not bad at $8 a pop).  For the baby, I got a couple of towels with hoods, an all-in-one, and a cute little bib.  Now all I need to do is wrap and post everything, and we’ll be set!

I visited my mum today.  After telling her I was fine, I ended up crying.  She’s worried about me, and about SO, as we’ve had to borrow a significant amount of money from her to pay our rates.  The money isn’t a problem for her, but she’s worried about the stress it’s causing us to have to borrow it.  If we didn’t have a five-month ongoing reno project which is costing us money instead of providing us with an income, it wouldn’t be an issue.  Sigh.  As she keeps telling me, it’s only money.  We have our health.  Well, our physical health at least.  Our mental health is somewhat tenuous.