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Easter bliss

I have spent the last couple of days in blissful solitude (apart from one or two social engagments to encourage me to actually leave the house). It is quite rare that I have the place to myself so I’ve been taking advantage of it – taking advantage to the extent that all the extreme aspects of my personality seem to have taken over in some kind of 14-year-old-going-crazy-when-the-parents-are-away vibe.

This means that I have been keeping myself busy:

  1. listening to my 70s MOR records really loudly (‘You’re Moving Out Today’ by Carole Bayer Sager on right now)
  2. eating crisp and fishfinger sandwiches whilst watching back-to-back episodes of Bewitched
  3. sitting around in my dressing gown for half the day reading my book
  4. unshamedly singing along loudly to Elaine Paige’s musical show on Radio 2
  5. watching old favourites like Calamity Jane and West Side Story with only a pile of Cherry Ripes and a whisky mac for company
  6. not doing the washing up

Although it is really freeing not doing anything for once in my life, the downside is that it has only taken 3 days for the house to turn into a tip. My parents are coming to visit on Wednesday. Time to get out the vacuum cleaner soon I think…

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5 Responses to “Easter bliss”

  1. Keith Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 4:42 am

    I hope you had a great weekend. Cheers!

  2. BLTP Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    Can I check your recipe for fishfinger sandwiches I hope it included cheap nasty bread, tarter sauce and or ketchup. I must admit the crisp are an inspired extra any particular flavour which works best?
    I not going to admit in public forum to listening to Elaine paige ooops….

  3. Cocktails Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 10:08 am

    Thanks Keith. Have a good week – I hope it doesn’t drag too much (shorter weeks always seem to go slowly for me…).

    BLTP, no tartar sauce or ketchup, but mayo instead. And lots of it. I only eat two flavours of crisps – plain and cheese & onion – and either of these are good. It is a taste sensation!! Goes well with beer too.

  4. ishouldbeworking Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    I spent a happy half hour last week in a Hiroshima hotel room, watching a Japanese-dubbed version of ‘Bewitched’! It works a treat in any language.

    Hope your parents aren’t going to spend too much time running their fingers along your skirting boards (like my family do when they visit).

  5. Cocktails Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    Bewitched in Japanese! Excellent. One of my most treasured memories of Japan was my host family (I was an exchange student there for a while) collectively looking at their watches after a meal in a restaurant, realising the time, scrambling for the car and rushing home to watch ‘The A Team’. Mr T in Japanese is priceless.

    My mother notices everything.

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