Last Friday I rushed out of the office to get home as early as I could. Kiddo was going to play the keyboard for the pre-bible study worship and she had to get to church by 7pm.

I got home on time, and after dropping her off, Tress and I went for dinner at the Proud Peacock in Glen Waverley. Kiddo had been fed the teenage staple of Hungry Jacks earlier – Tress stopped to get “something healthy” from there on way home.

We went back to church just a bit after 8pm. I was coming down with a slight headache which came about from an unhappy Regional HR head just before I left office. That has since been resolved of course but at that time it sat uncomfortably with me. I thought he was just shooting the messenger when he had a go at me. Sometimes I wonder if I should challenge the message I am asked to deliver, if I half suspect I was going to be shot for delivering it. Maybe not.

Anyway the headache subsided in the course of the evening and thankfully it ended not too late. We had to drop someone off on the way home but again thankfully, that was only a short distance away from the church. We got home in pretty good time, to catch an old flick.

Kurt Russell in Executive Decision was a perfect tonic for a mindless escapade and Tress and I settled down in the couch to enjoy it. We didn’t finish it though, as the totally predictable outcome didn’t have enough to keep us out of bed.

After Tress put in a full load of laundry the next morning, she and I went to our usual coffee place. After that Tress went home to tidy up the garden and I went to church to do some work to fix the stage we had helped build a few weeks ago. The new parts of the stage needed some levelling work. Tim showed me what needed to be done, and a bit after that Brian showed up and the 3 of us got started. Tim had to go and once we settled down and sort of knew what to do, he left. I found out later that he had his own engagement party to prepare for. Poor guy – he didn’t even get a congratulatory handshake from me! Anyway a little while later David showed up and all 3 of us buckled down to get the work done.

We finished in the early part of the arvo and I went home to do some vacuuming. Meantime Tress dropped kiddo off for her class. After I finished at home we picked her up and went to do some grocery shopping. We came back home, Tress warmed up some fried rice and we settled down for that. I had to do some preparation for the communion, so I went into the study for a while. When all of that was done we settled down to just have a chat, dinner and television. I used the fried rice Tress cooked to be wrapped up in a thin omelette and kiddo enjoyed that.

We watched tele and played cards for the rest of the evening.

After church on Sunday, a few families went to the new house of David and LL. They bought a tenanted property and the tenants recently moved out and they just got the keys. We all went to offer our unsolicited opinions on how to renovate the place and after about an hour busying ourselves there Jason prayed (yes, a “house blessing”). We then adjourned to Sofia’s in Wheelers Hill – there were maybe 20 of us so that spacious, cheap and quick restaurant seemed the logical choice. Alex and I had couple of Crownies. We left after 3 and Tress and I went for some grocery shopping again to cook dinner.

I fried some noodles, froze less than half of it, refrigerated less than half, and Tress divvied up the remainder between lunch at work the next day (for her) and a little bowl for a small bite. Kiddo and I weren’t hungry and I had been sipping Chinese tea (West Lake brew) while cooking and didn’t feel like eating.

A bit after 6 we went out for a good walk, first in the cricket oval and then just around the neighbourhood. The weather had become cooler and it was a great walk.

We came back, watched 60 minutes while I made my own lunch after which Kiddo watched “So you think you can dance”. We went to bed early – just before 10 and that did heaps of good for me this morning. My 7.7km was relatively breezy and I have not felt this comfortable for a 40 minute run (with 5 mins cool down) at this pace for a long time now. I hope it wouldn’t be too long before I get back in the groove of doing my regular 45 minute runs getting in 8k without the cooling down minutes. When that happens, I can seriously work at eating less and reduce weight.