We are I think, becoming accustomed to being zombied out on alternate Friday nights. On these nights a few couples from church (and 1 from another church) meet up in our home to just catch up, chat and enjoy a glass of red or two. Sometimes 1-2 couples stay on after the rest have left. Generally most leave by about 10.30pm. Those who stay back invariably have other stuff they want to talk about. Sometimes therefore, it finishes after midnight.

Last Friday we stretched the boundary a bit. A couple of families stayed behind to chat some more about stuff. We finished just before 2am. Needless to say, at that hour I had turned the corner and sleep was no longer easy. So after everyone left I turned on the tele, poured myself a couple of shots of single malt and slowly sipped the stuff hoping to unwind and relax. I eventually went to bed after 2.30am.

It was a stinker the next morning. When I got up just after 8 it was light and very warm already. After gulping down some really cold water and juice, I headed out to the garden, and pottered around a little bit. While dumping stuff into the bin I realized how dirty the car was so I took it to the car wash. $6 (it was a coin operated self wash joint) and about 40 minutes later I got home with a much cleaner car. I put the Dyson to work and gave the rooms a good vacuuming. It all finished about noon, then we headed out to our usual coffee place for some brekky for kiddo and lunch for me.

Tress and I did our usual nasi lemak takeaway and some grocery shopping after dropping kiddo off for her class. We then picked kiddo up and headed home. We pottered around a little bit more before heading out to Oakleigh to check out a Schnoodle puppy there. Kiddo was all excited and really wanted us to go ahead and get the puppy then. I asked if we could pick it up 2-3 weeks later but they would not hold it for us.

We left the place after about 1 hour, and convinced kiddo we need to have a plan in place before bringing the puppy home. We agreed to work on the plan together and be prepared to bring the puppy home the next weekend. We got home, Alex and a friend of his from Malaysia (who is also a distant relative of Tress) dropped in for a beer and then I cooked dinner and went to bed relatively early.

On Sunday arvo after church we went to visit another friend, who has a business dealing in pet supplies. We got some basic stuff, and caught up with these very good old friends who whipped up a really delicious char koay teow for us. It was very warm the whole day but we have been under a very effective evaporative cooling unit in their house the whole arvo so the very delicious char koay teow was thoroughly enjoyed.

We left their home just after 8pm and Tress was yawning away in the car. It was partly the heat over the entire weekend but also possibly because for perhaps the first time in weeks we had some time doing pleasant stuff and although tired, felt a little less stressed. This coming week promises to be another stinker with temperatures ranging from low to mid thirties.