Monday Madness

Monday was possibly my worst nightmare........... It started at 7:30am when my neighbour came over to have our morning coffee chat.  When she is up here we share a coffee and chat before anyone else gets up... usually for about an hour.  Monday she stayed till 10ish - cause she now has a teenager who doesn't wake up early and I don't have the lil one.

When she finally left I made the bed.... did the breakfast dishes... and tidied up.  I went outside around 11:30 to enjoy the peace and quiet and the sunshine when another neighbour stopped by.  She has been making masks for the lil one (5 of them so IF school starts back full time in September the lil one has enough masks) and she had made me three masks..... she wants to make Sir Steve some and wanted my advice on colours.... (le sigh - like Sir Steve is gonna colour co-ordinate his masks to his work clothes!)  Anyway she stayed for over an hour............

Now it's past lunch time so I go fix some lunch - leave it cooking in the microwave and came back out to read while it cooks .................

AND.......

the neighbour from across the road came over to chat.......... and chat and chat.

by the time he left it was 2:15 and my lunch was still in the microwave.  I gave the congealed meal a stir and popped it back in the microwave for another few minutes...... while it was cooking the mask lady dropped by again..........

Now it's 4 pm and my lunch is congealed again.... and really do I want to eat it this close to dinner time?? and my head hurts.... too much talking.... GAH!!

At 4:45 I go back inside to go to the bathroom.... I hear the chairs on the deck being moved and assume the dog has wrapped her rope about them........... while I am thinking that, I hear a knocking on the door.............. the early morning coffee neighbour has popped back over to visit for 30 mins before Sir Steve comes home (she knows our schedule THAT well!!)

By the time Sir Steve got home I was ravaged!!  ok ok I know ravaged is probably a bit of an overstatement...... BUT I don't like most people... I don't like chatting for chatting's sake....... and it exhausts me!  I know it is generally socially acceptable to visit with one's neighbours and friends........ BUT........ it tires me out and gives me a headache!!  I look forward to the weeks I don't have the lil one cause I can go ALL day and not talk to anyone!!  that's sheer joy for me!!

Monday night sitting around the fire with eldest daughter and SIL - I got teased about being such a social butterfly....... GAH!!  Eldest daughter volunteered to be a 'bouncer' on Tuesday - standing at the foot of our stairs and limiting the number of visitors (grinning).  She didn't and I didn't really need it.... though I did chase my coffee chat neighbour away before 9 and went into town to run some messages ....... which kept the neighbours away BUT I still had to talk to people in town.  (grinning) I think I am doomed!!

Life is good when people enjoy your company (gonna be my mantra from now on!)