What a week it has been! I’ve never been out of the house (doing other things apart from the school runs) that many times until this week - 4x to be exact on a schoolday and 6 days in total. And it has left this 49 year-old exhausted 😓.
The must do’s
The weekdays - I have to (1) cover all the mornings dropping lil’ one in school, (2) cooking meals to pack for school / work lunches and (3) cooking for dinner, (4) school pickups
de hele week
Monday (17th) - HBL so home the whole day. Yay! I love days like this.
Tuesday (18th) - After sending lil' one to school I went back home wanting to do housework for few hours before I leave later for my tuina + whatever things I had to do on a day when I'm out. I prefer to chiong whatever errands / grocery runs if I can in a day so that other days I can stay in at home until pickup time.
I thought I'll do a good deed to send che-che to work at S but she told me she's going to HQ at XX. What?! Can I take back my offer? Since I'll be out to send her THAT FAR I might as well just stay out. Housework - only vacumned the floor and threw laundry into the washing machine. Minimal work done.
(a) Went Tuina at AMK. Will have to make every Tuesdays for the next few weeks as tuina days.
(b) sent Apple watch to the authorised shop at Tai Seng to see if can repair (c) went PLQ mall since it's closer to Tai Seng. Wanted to grab lunch, drop by Scoops to pick W’s BD gift, drop by Popular to get wrapping paper for M’s grad gift, do some grocery shopping and pack dinner. After I placed my food order, che-che messaged me and asked if I can go over to Novena to pick her. Huh? She didn’t tell me she needed me to pick her up after her training. She met me at PLQ. Dropped the idea of doing my grocery run coz I don’t like it when I have someone following me, although she does help me carry stuffs, I just don’t like it when anyone is following me. I’m pretty much of a solo person where I can walk fast and grab; stop to look when I want to. Packed dinner from Donki and bored from dunno what else to do in a mall she requested I send her home first (they won’t have to fight for the bathroom later too). Left home in 15mins to pick lil one up. Didn’t have to cook dinner which is what I’m grateful for.
Wednesday (19th) - stayed out coz of the neither-here-nor-there timing dismissal. She’s dismissed from school 3hrs earlier at 12pm today, which means she’s only in school for 3 1/2hrs. Note : altho there’s a fixed timing on dismissal, many times she can be dismissed 15-35mins earlier. Had my breakfast in KFC. Dropped by florist to get for M a crochet bouquet. Kindda rested in the morning to prep myself for a huge cookout at home later. Cooked mee hoon kueh, fried basil pork for dunno which day’s meal, and fried rice for next day’s lunch for girls.
Thursday (20th)
Funny! Realised my blunder in the carpark 😂. Thank goodness the carpark is only less than 1min walk to my unit, tho I sent lil’ one to do the job for me. Insomnia + exhaustion barely few days and you get a blur mom.
Went home after dropping lil one in school. So tired so went back to sleep for another 2hrs. Did some housework then left to go Tampines. Che-Che worked from home today so instead of packing her lunch, told her to serve herself from rice cooker later.
Things I had to do : (a) send my watch for repair (b) pack Mister Donut and their dinner from Tampines1 (c) get a new printer in another mall. Another day where I didn’t want to cook dinner, makes sense right? If not, I’ll be slogging in the kitchen and rushing out of house for pick-up OR start cooking the moment I step into the house.
Friday (21st) - end school early at 12pm so stayed out of the house. Intended to stay in BK a little longer but crowds were coming in at 9+ close to 10am so the considerate me left the place. Shops weren’t open, technically I can go NTUC but I have nothing to buy at the moment. Walked past massage chairs so had a good massage. Not sure if it was a good idea after that coz my shoulder blade was already pain from tuina on Tuesday, the no gongfu round round balls in massage chair just roll up and down kiap kiap made it worse for me. But better than walking aimlessly in the malls with no shops opened. Sat there for a good 1/2hr with my AirPod, I fell asleep.
Packed her Redhill fishball for lunch and she can eat the leftover fried rice for dinner in case I don’t come back early. I took the time to quickly vacumn and mop the floor, no extra housework to do coz I re-assign on other days of the week.
Met S at NEX, I haven’t met her since last ??. It was a good 3hrs chatting with her. Che-che met me for dinner otw home. While waiting for che-che I walked around Isetan and saw these strawberries 🍓. I’d be posting a post on this soon, hopefully 😜 as I’m drafting it.
Saturday (22nd) - I was already getting so tired having spent almost 4 days out during the week. But I had no choice for today’s appointment for I had made arrangement to meet M with che-che. Time for her to buy her own insurance. Asked lil’ one to meet us when nearing to the end of our meet coz … yours truly left the cashcard in another shorts pocket 🤦🏻♀️ and 7-11 don’t sell them. I need it to exit the carpark!! and we had dinner outside. Coincidentally bro was coming to NEX for a movie and we met them for half hour while they were munching on their dinner before the show. We left for home after that.
Was supposed to clear some paper mess by scanning the holiday stuffs but I was so tired that all I wanted to do was to lay on the bed and rot. For the record, after having so many weeks of lack of sleep, I knocked out at around 10+.
Sunday (23rd) - Slept for a good whole 10hrs! But still can’t make up for the other days. Did simple housework and then had to bring che-che to PP for her haircut.
I’m not joking when usually their haircuts are lengthy wait coz will add treatment. I would usually take the time to run errands, do grocery run, pack food for dinner and still have time to burn. I didn’t have much errands or grocery to do so it was really boring to kill 2hrs. So boring that I sat on the massage chair for 1/2hr. Wah….
It’s really been a long time since che-che went to MParade so we stayed around the area in Project Açai for another 40 mins before adjourning home where housework is waiting for me, some clothes waiting to be pressed.
What a week it has been. I hope and planned not to have too many ‘staying outside’ for the next few weeks.
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