Good morning @lucysmam and everyone.
@Judgejudysno1fan Happy Birthday! I hope your pregnancy discomforts resolve soon. I had both mine before I was 24 so I don't really know what it's like as a slightly older mum... but my youngest had hers in her very late 30s and I know she had frightful pubis symphisis pain when she was pregnant.
I woke up at 4.30 this morning with a nightmare - the kind where you wake up crying not the terrifying kind. It's the second I have had this week. Mr Dilemma is very concerned and wants to know what's behind it - I haven't the foggiest idea! As far as I know all my family relationships are good - and it was about those. Anyway... I went back to sleep around 6.30 and have only been awake about half an hour.
We have a busy (for me) day today. Laundry this morning - there is quite a lot of it as I ran out of washing leaves and my subscription wasn't delivered until late yesterday afternoon, so there are a couple of days to catch up on. We try to do it all during daylight hours as we get some free electricity from our solar panels, and if we put it on at night I get woken up by the water in the pipes in the ceiling above my bed.
This afternoon we are going to a concert given by the local Youth Orchestra, of which chorister grandson is a member. We have to go and pick up his father and brother to go to that - they live 5 miles from us in the wrong direction and the show is about 10 miles from us, maybe more, so it's going to add to the journey considerably. Then, of course, we have to take them home afterwards. Luckily my daughter and said grandson are getting a lift because we can't fit everyone in our car, let alone the large musical instrument! We have to get there early in the (probably vain) hope of finding a parking space. There is a car park right next to the hall but if there is no space in it Mr Dilemma will have to drop me off and go to find a space elsewhere, as I can't walk very far. The only other actual car park is a considerable distance away.
Tonight's meal is likely to be cold turkey, salad and jacket potatoes. We had roast turkey last night. We're going to be away over Christmas so we won't be all turkied out... and it's a good lean source of protein. I'm trying to eat healthily and to lose some weight. It was only a turkey crown, but there is enough of it to last several days AND for us to vacuum pack some slices for the freezer.
I also need to write to my elderly demented uncle and to send him a Christmas card. I have asked my sisters to organise a Christmas present from us all this year, but I'm not sure they have done anything about it - so I may have to do that as well. He is now extremely demented, has absolutely no idea who anyone is, and has lost all his inhibitions which, considering he used to be a Catholic priest, is very disturbing and would horrify him if he realised. It has now got to the stage where he doesn't have female carers and his regular female visitor (a former parishioner) no longer goes to see him on her own, she takes a male parishioner with her. It is very sad to see - and frightening to have to deal with. His nursing home are dealing with it very well, but I hope there doesn't come a point where they say he needs to go into more specialist care.
I have started packing to go to Butlins over Christmas. Anything that I'm not going to wear in the next few weeks, and which I need to take with me, is packed already.
We put our tree up and decorated it on Tuesday. I have Christmas cards ready to put through our immediate neighbours letterboxes, and I have a couple to pop in the post. All the presents from me are wrapped and ready, but Mr Dilemma has been saying that he needs to wrap his for a couple of weeks now. He will get more and more stressed if he doesn't do it - so I will have to TELL him to do it in the next couple of days. He is his own worst enemy that way... He will put it off and put it off, and get more and more stressed. If it wasn't that the only presents he need to wrap are for me I would do it myself! I like wrapping presents. There should be only one 'proper' present that needs wrapping anyway.... the rest are stocking presents and the rule in our house is that those should be wrapped badly in cheap paper. This is a throwback to the time when my grandmother did our stockings for us and she was exceptionally bad at wrapping.