Week 260: Saltdean

August 26, 2023

On Monday I took the day off because somebody needed to look after E (as it is still the summer holidays). I decided that we wouldn’t do anything fun and instead I would clean the mouldy conservatory and throw out the mouldy blinds and she would have to entertain herself like kids did in the old days. I gave her a card that entitled her to three games of OutFoxed redeemable at any point in the day.
It took me 4 hours to clean the conservatory. Wow it was disgusting.
On Friday I also spent the day looking after E and this time we had a grand day out that included:
- Taking all the 2ps we could find to Brighton Pier (E won a toy from one of the machines- what a thrill)
- Getting a bus to Rottingdean beach for chips and rock climbing
- Going to Saltdean lido which was a bit cold tbh but still fun
- Doing some geocaching on the way back
Since I came back from holiday I’ve felt hugely burdened by how much stuff there is everywhere in our house. Not like super-hoarder levels of stuff but just… you know… too much and especially too much because two people in this family spend their lives moving objects from one place to another and then leaving them there.
Going back to work from a holiday is the worst. I take my summer holidays two weeks at a time purely to reduce the number of times I have to go back to work from them.
Since I started working four days a week I’ve felt much happier and less stressed (although, uh, still, um, operating at quite a high frequency but that’s, you know, more sort of fundamentally um my personality, you know). This has meant that I accidentally didn’t take any holiday between January and August and I was totally fine.