The company launched a product a few weeks back and last Friday, a party was held to celebrate that launch. I stayed back longer than planned and actually had more to drink than I would have liked.
Saturday morning therefore was a bit sore but after a lot of water and some coffee, we started work on our packing and other preparatory stuff for the move in a few days. We continued to pack the odd items of books, CD’s, pictures and other stuff like that. Then the guy who bought our fridge (we decided to get one with a larger capacity) decided to pick it up that morning itself. I had agreed with him that he would call a few days ahead before picking it up but it seemed the right time notwithstanding the late notice and also notwithstanding that we would be without a fridge for 5 days. So we cleared the fridge, starting with the notices and magnets on the outside.
We went out to do a final pre-settlement inspection of the new property, came back to attend to the guy who picked up the fridge, and took Kiddo out for some lunch before dropping her off to tuition. We then went to shop for a replacement fridge before picking Kiddo up from her class and going home to cook some instant noodles for our own lunch. Kiddo wanted to do a video presentation for a church friend’s birthday party so we busied ourselves with that and helped her out. We tried to figure out how to transfer a presentation mounted on Microsoft’s window movie maker to a DVD which can then be played back on a dvd player hooked to a television. It didn’t work and she had to settle for a USB mounted format, to be played on a PC.
When she was ready, we sent her to the birthday party and then came back to pack some more. I dismantled the DVD player cabling, the DVD recorder, the play station stuff and all the speaker units from around the lounge area. The area behind the TV was dusty and that was when I picked up a nasty eye-irritation which stayed on well into Monday. My eye became steadily more red and teary, and by Sunday morning had taken on a bit of a swell as well. Anyway, all the AV stuff were packed away and the TV area now looks so bare. The whole house is actually starting to look bare – fridge gone as well. In their places, though not directly, are boxes stacked ini a couple of corners. I hope they find their way to the new home safe and sound, in a few days’ time.
It was pretty late at night when Theresa and I decided to cook and eat some of the thawed food which we had removed from the fridge earlier in the day. We made some pork ball soup and microwaved a large piece of salmon. After dinner and washing up, we finally got a chance to put our feet up but couldn’t go to sleep as we had to pick kiddo from that party. That only happened around 11.30pm. My eye had also deteriorated and I was beginning to think if it might be a spot of conjunctivitis.
Church the next morning was a bit tricky as I woke up with a very red and swollen right eye. It didn’t hurt but it was very just a slit and it was constantly welling up with tears. The fact that it didn’t hurt gave me a lot of comfort as conjunctivitis would have been painful. All of the external signs suggested it was – it could possibly be a case of God protecting me and the family by sparing the pain and minimising the contagion effect.
Ante 