Oh! Mr Darcy!
Today was the last day of my holidays :-(
I could get very used to not working.* Better start buying lottery tickets.
Today I’ve made a substantial dent in my chores list, and I’m satisfied with that.
My day went as such:
Mop kitchen floor.
Clean bathrooms.
Sit and watch Pride and Prejudice** and knit.
Sweep the patio. (A magpie has removed most of the soil from the plant pots and scattered it all over the place. It’s either looking for slugs, which is fine, or bumblebees, which is not)
Sit and watch Pride and Prejudice and knit.
Rinse chick peas that have been soaking overnight. Put on to boil and then simmer.
Make pizza dough. Knead until my arms hurt and I can’t do it any more. (10 minutes.) Leave to rise.
Sit and watch Pride and Prejudice and knit.
Make sandwich with delicious home made bread, and eat while watching Pride and Prejudice.
Take chick peas off the heat and leave to cool.
Knock back pizza dough, divide up, roll out and bake.
Sit and watch Pride and Prejudice and knit.
Make houmous with chick peas.
Do a little work (no way around it, and it was just a little bit).
Sit and watch Pride and Prejudice and knit.
Clean up the big mess I’ve made in the kitchen.
Have dinner. (Pasta with a delicious roast mediterranean vegetable and tomato sauce)
Sit and watch Pride and Prejudice and knit, this time with my new microwaveable heated slippers on. Feel immense satisfaction with how it all worked out.
Finish one toddler sized baby sock. (Good thing about babies is that they grow).
Write this, with a beer. Mmmm.
As a result of the last 2 days, I now have clean bathrooms and kitchen, a swept patio, one finished baby sock, home made pizza sauce, pizza bases and houmous in the freezer, food in the fridge and cupboards, and best of all, I’m very relaxed.
Lets just not talk about the rest of the to do list.
*With the caveat that it would have to be through choice, looking for work is no fun at all.
** The 1995 BBC production. Colin Firth is the only Mr Darcy for me.
And now, ever after, whenever you see Colin Firth in anything, does it confuse you? He was SO Mr. Darcy that I can’t see him as anything else, ever again. It’s sad, really … or, well, kinda not, because he’s such a GOOD Mr. Darcy!
Careful on that staying home bit - you’ll turn all relaxed & happy, and then what good would you be? :)
04 Jan 2008 at 2:54 pm
Now is the time to bring up the story I always bring up: “you know, I was Colin Firth’s stand-in on a movie they filmed in Illinois about ten years ago…”
Jessica Lange also touched my butt.
04 Jan 2008 at 5:46 pm
DaviMack: Yes, totally, but I really don’t mind. it’s like Mr Darcy pops up in all sorts of unexpected places like a lovely treat.
Brian: I don’t know whether to be impressed or bemused. Although I have to say the resemblance between you and Colin Firth is uncanny. Uncanny.
05 Jan 2008 at 12:18 am
whatever about mr darcy - I like your list…
was on a knife edge for a while wondering what you did with the pizza dough when I saw you’d had pasta for dinner but can relax now I know it is in the freezer - phew!
I want some microwaveable slippers (and this is not just a random want - my slippers do actually need replacing and my kids are planning to do so for my birthday, or so I hope. I think I have dropped enough hints!)
glad I found your blog. It seems like a nice place
08 Jan 2008 at 8:25 pm
I got the BBC edition for Christmas and have been indulging in whole days of Mr Darcy for a while now :-)
Continued success with the blog in 2008!
09 Jan 2008 at 3:38 pm
Of COURSE the 1995 P&P is the only one that matters! I recently watched the 2006 version - is it just me, or did everybody just look incredibly GRUBBY? And since when does Lizzy hang out with dirty feet and stringy hair? Ugh!
10 Jan 2008 at 7:40 pm