Plumbing the depths - In the name of Thiago - Day 11
In
the name of Thiago
Okay I’ll admit the title for today’s blog entry is a little
melodramatic but as I’ve always been a person who has ridiculous emotional
extremes, you’ll have to excuse me.
I slept like a log last night, too much so in fact, not waking up until
a minute after my daughter Elisa had left and gone to school. The fact that I
slept for so long gave me a sense of failure, (I warned you about the extremes).
Even if I haven’t got a particularly busy day planned, I still like to
rise reasonably early. I find that if I don’t, it can leave me feeling quite
gloomy. Clearly, I’ve done a lot of feeling sad lately so that gloominess doesn’t
need any encouragement but today it just got the better of me and stayed there
all day.
Then there was the matter of the burst water pipe under our sink, which is
positioned at an insanely impossible angle to get at in such eventualities.
Angelica was already downstairs, sleeves rolled up attacking the cupboards with
gusto with the big man performing a supervisory role. After smashing the shelving on the cupboards to bits, it was time to
call SuperSteve.
SuperSteve should actually be a bone fide super hero in my eyes. So just
to avoid confusion, this is not the same Steve who is my walking partner, though
that Steve is also thoroughly outstanding. This is Steve my next door neighbour.
SuperSteve repaired our boiler, changed the toilet system and today has
repaired our piping under the sink.
SuperSteve is one of those blokes that if you have in your life, you
feel very lucky. He knows I am absolutely incompetent when it comes to anything
remotely practical but he never makes me feel bad for that. I have tried but I’m
just shit.
I do feel bad though for the fact that he doesn’t let us pay him a
proper rate for the amount of times he helps us. Without SuperSteve I’d have
been a lot gloomier today without a doubt.
Sometimes, I think you have to write a day off. That was today for me.
The positives are that I am able to do so without having been rude or
short-tempered with anyone. Soon I shall retire to my room, read my book set my
alarm an hour earlier and endeavour to make more of tomorrow. Wow, what a lousy
blog eh?
I do remember some years ago burning your hand on our leaky boiler...
ReplyDeleteHa ha, wonderful memories of very different times. And to think I had to do my practical teaching assessment for our TEFL course that day with my hand out of commission! 😊
ReplyDeleteI do remember that day clearly. Chris with mummified hands, couldn't do much for days. Or used that as an excuse for not doing much
ReplyDeleteAaaaah...my dad was a SuperSteve too... Very difficult to live up to someone like SuperSteve or my dad... No one is ever as good as them... I have to live with that 🤣🤣🤣
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