Funny Chemistry

It's Sunday morning and I'm not going to church as really don't feel up to it. Throat is sore again, don't know why. P has gone off to new church. J is going to walk to old church. He would have come to new church but P has to get there an hour and a half before service starts to set up audio and that's a bit much for J which is understandable. Right now he's in the study doing his Chemistry homework. Strangely I keep hearing him laughing. I don't ever remember Chemistry being funny. Although with hindsight there was perhaps a bit of humour in the time my test tube sort of exploded and the contents shot across the room and hit the teacher on the face and burnt a hole in his beard and he chased me round the lab. I say with hindsight, definitely not funny at the time.

 

Can you just stop doing that?

Both P and J do this thing where I'm lounging on the sofa tapping out my blog and they walk past and either tickle my ears or pull my hoodie hood over my eyes. Thanks boys I really enjoy that.

J who is back at school on Monday has had a pile of homework to do over the hols so when did he start it? This afternoon. Still 3 subjects to do. Still that's his problem not mine.

Dudelsack

You've probably never thought about this before but do you know what the German for bagpipes is?

Dudelsack.

Isn't that a wonderful word?

I need to get out more. I really, really do. I haven't been out all week, the only people I've seen have been J and P, apart from saying Hello to our neighbour's brother over the fence.

Hopefully I'll be going to church tomorrow. I feel a bit nervous about it really. After my 'testimony' last week I feel people may think I've got a bit of a negative attitude. Perhaps I shouldn't have admitted to spending most of a day crying but what I think is that Jesus has already won the victory for us but sometimes as part of the process of appropriating that victory into our lives we need to deal with the bad stuff and letting it out by having a cry occasionally is ok.

But then people might not be thinking I'm negative at all, I might just be being paranoid.

Definitely need to get out more.

Dudelsack is what I say.

Our poor dog

Woke up at 5.30 feeling shivery and achey. Took some paracetamol and fell back to sleep. Woken at 9.00 by P bringing me tea. Was having a dream in which we were out for the day and our dog jumped into a water feature and went under the water and didn't come up. The lady who owned the feature said we had to find his body as it might block up the pipes. I was really distraught.

If you have read this blog before you might be thinking: 'But you haven't got a dog.' You're right,
  we haven't.
 
Anyway after I woke up again and had got over the loss of my imaginary dog I felt better and got up in time for lunch.Then my brother phoned which was nice and then a friend phoned which was nice. Then I even managed to put curtain rings in our new curtains for the study and P hung them up.I think they look quite good. He thinks they don't go with the walls. No problem, just paint the walls.

Now I've had a nice bath and am in bed nice and early. Wish I could stop saying nice.

German lesson for today:

'Hast du deine Hausaufgaben gemacht?'  Have you done your homework?

I think that will come in useful.

In bed with Schnupfen

Ich habe der Schnupfen. That's (I think) German for 'I have the sniffles' and I do have the sniffles, very, very bad sniffles. In bed all day. J is doing German GCSE and has a tutor which has improved his speaking skills no end but disadvantage is he keeps speaking to me in German which I don't understand. I have this idea of learning one word a day. How about this: 'Ich bin im Bett mit dem Schnupfen'? 'I am in bed with the sniffles'. I think it's dem not den, I just asked J and he didn't know. What am I paying the tutor for?

And something else, don't tell J but ich habe eine Schnachtel Pralinen auf meinem Bett.

Sun!

Spent New Year's Eve not going to party but in bed with cold. J went and slept over at Tim's, he got to sleep 2.30. 

I got up at midnight and saw fireworks through window.

Cold worse today but should soon be better. After what feels like weeks of rain has been sunny today!!! I love the subtle colours of the oak branches against the turquoisy winter sky. 

We finally finished turkey today. Note to self: next year get a smaller one.

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
HOPE 2013 IS A GREAT YEAR FOR YOU