Today...

...as well as the usual round of work and dog walking, I also did the following:

* made a child cry by smiling at them
     ~ go me.

* fell over the dog
     ~ ouch.

* lied to a telemarketer
     ~  this is something I do regularly. I know it is mean. I know they have a job to do and that they are only doing it to pay the bills, just like everyone else (including me). I also knew that the man that rang today was asking for me - they always are. I really, really, really wish I hadn't been stupid enough to feel sorry for one of those phone survey people and then agreeing to answer a hellishly long list of seemingly innocuous questions... - but thankfully they always manage to butcher my name, so I simply smile into the phone and say "oh, nobody by that name here, sorry!" or something of that ilk.

* vacuumed
     ~ turns out that under all that dust, a house lives.

* wiped the bathroom
     ~ some parts of it are white. ...who knew?

* written half a sentence of The Story
     ~ but those 6 words are brilliantly clever and integral to the plot. Yup =nods=.

* recalled and typed up the cleaning rota that the two full time cleaners - are supposed to - follow ready for when Supervisor The Second* does her very first solo shift on Monday morning
     ~ go me again. I be stylin'.

* watched an episode of Q.I.
     ~ I am up to series 'J'.

* purchased a yellow carnation
     ~ ooh, mysterious! "Why, Alice?" I hear you cry; "What for...??"

*  trod on the dog
     ~ separate incident from the falling.

* scolded the cat.
     ~ she has a litter tray. She knows where it is, and uses it. It's cleaned regularly. Why does she choose to deposit little smelly landmines in our bathroom, for crying out loud? And why right next to her water bowl?

* rescued a tiny spider from an untimely bleachy death in the toilet bowl
     ~ go me a third time.

* checked to see if today's lottery prize draw has been taken yet so that The Grandmama could see if her birthday Lottery ticket had made her a millionaire
     ~ it hadn't, so we still have no clue.


.....and that was my day.

Exciting, no?

Alice x

* Supervisor The First has escaped, temporarily, to have a baby. She is due back April 2016.