Overall I think I handled it just fine.
It's one thing to know that you're going to have a week-end alone but then go back to your sweety. It's another thing to know that you're going to have the week-end alone followed by the entire week and the next week-end, etc. It IS different. With that said my goal was to stay active and I did.
Saturday:
Friday night I had to sleep on the air mattress in the living room as I had moved all the bed frame parts upstairs to the bedroom. In the morning, I got up hungry, made my fruit salad with yogurt and flax seed. I thought I'd really miss having smoothies, but I'm really enjoying making different combination fruit salads topped with yogurt - it takes longer to eat so I feel like I've actually had a breakfast. I putzed around the house for awhile and then went to RISE - the independent coffee shop in town for my morning coffee. So far this is my favorite coffee shop in town. Granted at this point I haven't been to the others but they are the chain shops - Starbucks, Costa Coffee. This is just a little independent place - as the name says! And they make a great Americano plus my favorite part is the milk that I ask for, comes in it's own little pitcher and they steam it - so it's nice and hot and it doesn't make your Americano cold. Yumm. I spent sometime there reading the paper and writing in my journal - something I'm trying to do much more regularly. It was amazingly sunny and in the back of the coffee shop where I sat it's like a little conservatory with glass windows so you can actually get quite warm sitting under the sun.
I went for a walk, picked up a driving map to study and then back home. I didn't want to go to far away as I was expecting a call for the guys to put together the bed. Around 1:30 I got the call and they came over about an hour later. I cleaned the house - yes, one person can make the house dirty. Plus stuff still needed to be organized. Oh - I ate a huge mango that Dariush bought before he left - it took a week to ripen, but if finally did. It was incredibly tasty - I had to eat it over the sink as juice was running down my fingers. Didn't you want to know that?
Okay - the delivery guys came over and put together the bed and I finished cleaning up the house. 3:15 time to get in the shower as I was heading over to friends (Daniel, Jill and daughter Chloe) to go out for dinner. We were going out for dinner early so I didn't eat lunch - excpet for that giant mango. :) Anyway I cabbed it over there as I didn't know how to drive there (24 pounds later - that's like $40 bucks!) I was there. As it turns out I'm glad I went. Jill is a talker and we had so much to learn about one another. Plus a couple glasses of white wine on an empty stomach didn't hurt. We went to a great little Italian restaurant - I had an arugula salad (they call it rocket; I have no idea why, but arugula = rocket) and pumpkin stuffed ravioli like pasta - it was delicious! I ate it all. They drove me home - thank god. I thought it must be 10, but no, it was 8pm. So I made myself some tea and waited for the dryer to finish drying the mattress cover. We have a small dryer and I think the mattress cover was too big. I took four different cycles to finally get it dry. Made the bed and then went to bed.
Sunday
I woke up and my back kinda ached. Not used to a real mattress I guess or the 700 pound mattress is worse than our air mattress! But then I havne't done yoga since I've been here so I think that has something to do with it.
Made breakfast; including a cup of coffee with my little stove top coffee maker. I love it.
I organized all the my clothes in the closets. For some reason, I hadn't done that yet. I had all my clothes in little piles in one of the guest bedrooms since we moved in. Partly because we needed to clean the closets, but then we were always running around and I just never got around to it. I was going to do it last week-end, but instead we spent both days in the city. Anyway, two hours later and the closets were organized. Finally, the entire house is as organized as it can be. I'm still waiting for living room furniture... but still things feel much better here.
By noon it was still pouring rain outside. I decided to be lazy and drive to the grocery store; on the way I stopped at a store called Lakeside. It's basically a Kitchen Kaboodle; picked up a few items for the house and decided to drive back home as it stopped raining and thought I could walk to the grocery store in my neighborhood - plus it's a nicer one. As I entered Wilmslow I saw the sign for the A34 to Alderly Edge - a cute little village just over 2 miles down the road. So I went, the freeways here really aren't freeways, they have all these round abouts which I successfully navigated. Anway after I was there I turned around and decided to drive to Didsbury (another little village) and see if I could navigate to my yoga studio. Suprisingly I made it; I stopped in Didsbury, picked up a couple of candles and two chocolate bars.
On the way back home I stopped at the grocery store in my neighborhood and did my shopping. Got home around 2:30 - starved. Fortunately had left over soup, heated it up - yummy. Called D and around 3:30 he was trying to convince me to take the train into Manchester to get a bedroom lamp - I was going to, but it's seemed like such a long trip to do solo. So instead I went to Starbuck's had another coffee and journaled. On my way home I picked up two new bed spreads that D had ordered before he left. Interestingly enough it was total bright sunshine outside (after such pourdowns!). So, I went for a long walk in the neighborhood, came home and finally, finally - did my yoga practice. After two and half weeks off I was quite suprised how easy it was. Showered and made a giant salad followed by a pot of mint tea and well, now it's 9:43pm.
I've been trying to Skype Dariush but he's out. Guess I'll go and read now. I'm still debating if I want to get a TV. I don't want to just plant myself in front of it when I'm lonely and I'm afraid that's all I'll do. So, I'm going to wait and see how I feel.
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