Things that strike me

Today was one of those days that sounds more productive than it actually was. I:

• started another lacy cardigan and am on row 4.
• washed 3 towels and 2 swimsuits
• sorted out the swimming drawer
• tidied the boot of the car and made room, sort of, for the kite equipment.
• tried on my harness. ugh. Put the IKSA tag on it. I am now ready for kitesurfing. Let us have some SSE winds please, at say, 4pm, weekdays. Let me get up at 7am so as to be at work early enough to get out to exploit those SSE winds before the boys arrive.
• started watching Dolmen DVD box set.
• Stopped watching Dolmen DVD box set after murder number 1 and the family fight but before the good looking Parisian detective arrived. Realised the script was even worse than I remember.
• went swimming at 8.30 this morning. Will be going swimming again at around 6.30 and this time I will do the 500m.
• Replaced the godawful chocolate yoghurt that I bought yesterday, thinking it was hazelnut yoghurt.
• Ate dinner and breakfast at reasonable times.

So far, today I have not played either Angry Birds or Bejewelled. I intend, however, to do the swimming lark again.

The worst experience was the packing of the car. In theory, the idea is that I get the kitesurfing gear into the boot of the car so that I am ready to roack and roll. I own a Fiesta. I know from past experience that the packing of the car is a precision event  because I own a Fiesta. In fact, I own a Fiesta and I like things to be tidy. Which is why typically, I pack stuff into plastic boxes, tidily. This is probably not the most effective use of space. Also, the board doesn’t fit into the boot of the car either so that usually travels in the passenger seat, belted into place. My kiteboard is nothing if not safely boarded in.

I have a couple of friends who drive cars like Opel Vectras and Ford Mondeos. In fact, I have friends who drive vans as well but we’ll skip them. I envy them. They have big boots in their cars. I don’t need all that boot space for shopping in Brown Thomas. I am entertaining the purchase of a Ford Focus, however, to get the kite gear into the carboot along with the swimming gear, the climbing gear and the photography gear. Because right now, if I learned nothing today, I learned that it didn’t get any easier between last year and this year. Bah.