Dear diary
Well, what do you know? Two diary sessions in one week……mmm, someone is ‘up and about’! That can only be “mother dearest”. I know, cause she has been getting up so early every morning with this ‘project’ of hers, painting the flat etc. plus going to bed in the early hours of the morning as well. Between breaks she is ‘indulging’ in her emails and looking at some websites.
This brings me to this interesting website she has been referred to by an Author by the name of Bridget McNulty. My mom has been a follower of her blog. She referred to a topic about ‘good news’ and therefore she has recommended the website www.sagoodnews.co.za – not all news in South Africa is bad. My mom finds this website very ‘uplifting’, because I noticed the change in her ‘attitude’- much more happier, dancing around the flat, turning up the music and just being a complete different person. (Between you and me, I trust it has nothing to do about the contents of the paint)!
Here I am going on and on about my mom but “bless her”, I will give up my space so she can “let it all out” maybe that will do her good! My mom has a few ‘pet hates’, and I am sure so have a lot of you in your ‘adult world’ (as long as this pet, Barney, will always be loved) – at the same time, I am convinced you can relate to some of them, I have just experienced in your ‘adult world’ you are inclined to just accept it! My mom cannot accept “incompetence” in the Corporate World.
She worked ‘on all cylinders’ full time for a period of 30 years and once the children left the ‘nest’, she made the choice of becoming a ‘homemaker’. As she says “I have paid my school fees”! Nowadays, I noticed she gets hot under the collar if she does not get any response from people……..and lately it is rather a handful of people. For a few weeks she experienced the following: No response from her Broker, her Bank Consultant, their Bookkeeper’s Assistant, their Letting Agent re a claim for a broken Hob and the list goes on! My mom is not ‘pushy or demanding’ and she puts everything in writing! That way she has ‘back up’ in everything she does. Plus she has this major task with her ‘project’ of renovations.
Have you ever had the experience about small things that get you ‘down’! When she purchases a tin of coffee, cereal, horlicks, or for that matter anything that need to be opened and you cannot see inside, it normally is half full! She even purchased a tin of pears, which only had 1 pear in! We will not name the Brands, out of politeness! What is it with a commodity like a plain object like a toilet roll? The way they manufacture it, oh my, oh my, it seems they want you to spend a life time on the “throne” only to tear half of it ending on the floor……..but no, “they’ll show us…..you are going to work towards this roll, in order to start using it”!
Telephone etiquette! I always hear my mom speaking on the phone, because I have picked up the “dialling tone” and before she starts speaking, I would utter “hello”, and she has such a polite way of addressing people. When she is on the receiving end, I can hear how her voice start ‘faltering’, because the person on the other end is either so ‘rude’ or ‘interrupt’ her so much, she has difficulty in explaining herself. Mom, my advice to you as your beloved Barney – African Grey, become more assertive and stand up for yourself! Look up the word in the Oxford Dictionary that says “no more” and implement it! There you go, don’t you feel better, even though not one of the above has been solved yet!
Well guys, as far as I am concerned, I am still a happy chap in spite of all the ‘buzzing’ around the flat! My mom ‘shields’ me from the fumes of the paint and I get a lot of attention from them coming into my bedroom and spending quality time with me.
Ciao from a more bearable sunny Durbs and by this coming Friday this project will be in place……..or so the old lady promised. She is just waiting eagerly for the yearly ‘sardine run’…………….watch this space!
