This week has been, well not the best. We all have weeks like that sometimes so it is nothing earth shattering, but I have not been on top of my blogging game. I did come across this beautiful quote however, which really works wonders if you literally practice it! Do the SMILE bit!
I will have to qualify that slightly. Don't breathe in too deeply if you have a dead rat in a tiny crawl space under your bath, and this week the temperatures have been over 30C all week! I kept on wondering how long it would take for this thing to fully decompose? What makes it worse is I have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. I could already smell it on Sunday. The rest of the family only started to notice it last night. This morning I poured an entire can of Jeyes fluid into the small hole. It helped immediately, but I wonder if the relief will last? (I am at work now).
Monday began with a visit to the doctor. My youngest son has a viral chest infection, so no antibiotics will help to speed his healing. He is on cortisone, inhalers and cough mixture and still remains sick. He has been off school since last week Thursday and I am thinking of keeping him home until next term. I have also been suffering from a lingering cold and sore throat (like 90% of our town at the moment).
I had already dedicated this week to sorting out a few administrative tasks, especially as the cash accepting ATM swallowed a cash deposit without crediting my account on Friday. After the doctor's visit on Monday I had to spend an hour an a half waiting in the bank to to report the matter. Fortunately I took a novel with. I used the opportunity to see to a few other issues with my account as well. I was also supposed to visit the new bank I am slowly busy moving over to, but have not had the energy.
This is the second to last week of the due date for handing in my application for the renewal of my Secondhand Dealers Licence, which I have to do every 5 years. I can never remember exactly what documents are needed (and the requirements regularly change) so often I have to make repeated trips to the police station, where the renewal application needs to be handed in.
I reluctantly tackled this task yesterday. The office I need to visit is at the back of the police station, which is shaped like a rectangle. And it is filthy. The paint is flaking and there are no cleaners. The stairs are a travesty. The ground floor is just basically corridors. The first floor at the back seems largely abandoned. And smells horrendous. I think people have been relieving themselves there. The office I needed is on the second floor, which looks marginally better, but also smells of urine. There are no elevators, just stairs, not much fun if you are feeling sick. I was told to go have my finger prints taken at Room 117. Nobody was there, I returned upstairs where I was informed someone definitely was there. Downstairs again, and after knocking loudly, seriously, no-one was there!!! Upstairs again. It turned out I needed Room 117 in the front building. I also had to get my documents certified, which required yet another trip. At last the whole performance was over. But all that stair climbing made me feel extremely sick, with my lingering cold.
I did have one piece of really good news this week though, a major courier company moved into town! Our town is no longer classed as an outlying area, which means I can offer my online clients much better postage options! I am so excited about that!!! Basically this is all I have energy for! I am going to spend the afternoon at home resting. (And peeping at my husband's auction finds!)
