I have decided to post more ‘diary’ entries: posts about nothing much else than what I’m doing or did on a certain day, no matter how boring or irrelevant\u00c2\u00a0to others (or myself). I even created a new category for it ‘diary’.<\/p>\n

Take today: The morning started fairly early for a Saturday: Dawnell left early for her yoghurt class, gleefully reminding me of my excursion to the vet. Her smile, when she left, screamed<\/em> the German word ‘Schadenfreude<\/a>‘!<\/p>\n

I saw her again at the vet, where she dropped by when the kids were already safely back in the carrier, while the vet and his assistants were changing their shredded and blood soaked scrubs. She was on her way down to Jupiter to meet her daughter Laurilee who needed a new ‘ensemble’ for her interview next week, and God knows, a 30 year old child can NOT buy clothes all by herself.<\/p>\n

So I was all by myself for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

What did I do?<\/p>\n

Absolutely nothing!<\/p>\n

So. There you have it.<\/p>\n

Let me break it down for you.<\/p>\n

First, since I had to get up in the middle of the night (9 am) to take the kids to their annual torture, I went back to bed.<\/p>\n

Then, after\u00c2\u00a0having\u00c2\u00a0felt REALLY pittyful and sorry about himself in the closet for a while,\u00c2\u00a0Clyde snuggled up with me and informed me he would forgive me if I would give him ‘wet’ food for the rest of the week .. and not just a serving he had to share with Bonnie, but FULL portions.<\/p>\n

I concurred, but now we have to find a way to hide this from Mamma, who does NOT condone such bargaining tactics, and calls Papa a ‘pushover’ whenever he falls for what is called here ‘the faces!’.<\/p>\n

After that … I went into the pool, swam ONE lap, then drifted\u00c2\u00a0on my floating throne, beer in hand, for a LONG time,\u00c2\u00a0got out, read a bit, dried up, went into the pool, skipped the swimming and went straight for the chair with a fresh cold beer, drifted around for a LONG time, got out, read a bit, dried up, went back into the pool … enfin, you get the idea… all the while listening to Beethoven in the background.<\/p>\n

Then I conceived of this ‘diary’ idea, went to my office, typed this post, and now I’m getting back to the pool, after\u00c2\u00a0making a slight but necessary detour,\u00c2\u00a0passing by the fridge to grab another fresh ice cold beer.<\/p>\n

Life is good.<\/p>\n

And if it’s not good, you have to MAKE it good.<\/p>\n

But it’s good.<\/p>\n

And short.<\/p>\n

So let’s keep it good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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