Friday, I’m in love

yes I know it’s only Tuesday, well probably technically Wednesday, but my experience at this host is very much hating it in in the mornings, feeling better in the afternoons and going to bed thinking actually everyone is lovely after all.

And it’s not just the wine, although I’m sure that does help…

Today I have done more door sanding. And it’s rained. And Andy has pissed me off. He is generally a nice bloke but is also very sexist, patronising and tells lots of unfunny, smutty jokes. And prefers Ady to me (which frankly after 18 years together is something I am used to most people doing but not quite so ouvertly usually!). He keeps talking to me like I am an idiot / little woman / about four years old and is more often than not wrong anyway. There have been about four examples of stuff to do with the doors I’ve been sanding when he has wandered over and said something which has been critical and then been proved wrong eg ‘you’ve put that door handle on upside down. Have you done both sides? Oh dear, I’ll get a screwdriver and take them back off for you’ at which point I suggest actually I am right and they are the correct way up and maybe he should check. He does, I am indeed right and he then sort of scuttles off without a word of apology. Today we were moving some very heavy glass panels and I made about four suggestions of more efficient / sensible / not so bloody stupid ways to do things which he either ignored or pooh=poohed and all turned out to be right. I am mostly settling for scoring points against him in my head but would quite like some actual recognition of my superiority 😉 And yes he is reducing me to rather childlike mentalities 😆

Davies and Scarlett came and helped me for a while which was nice. While we waited for the varnish to dry before we could turn the door over to do the other side we all mimed to the radio using our paintbrushes as microphones to sing along to Instant Reply. And we danced to Come On Eileen too (which Scarlett sings ‘poison ivy’ to instead) and stamped our feet lots on the decking which was fun. Ady did some standing on a roof clearing gutters, some lugging wood about and attempted to break a large chunk of wood with a sledgehammer until I pointed out the foolishness of it. Am I sounding like I might be being annoying at the moment yet? I suspect I am 🙂

We rehung the last door and I helped with dinner. After dinner the kids and I and then Ady played a couple of games and then the kids went up to bed and I decided to tidy out the games cupboards which Ruth had mentioned as a job which needed doing. That turned into a very festive hour of so with everyone joining in and a bottle or two of wine being opened as I sat on the floor pulling out games and then we played a couple of rounds of Scattergories which I’d not played before but enjoyed. Ruth, Yannica and I had a chat about books and authors and then it was suddenly midnight and we all headed off to bed. The door sanding has ended so I have no real idea what might be on the agenda tomorrow but as we are now at Wednesday I guess we are on wind down really.