How Not To Do It

I had AN IDEA this morning. It was a craft-related idea which isn't actually relevant here except for this: I needed a zip.

It had to be, preferably, a red zip.

I had no zip.

I definitely had no red zip.

BUT I have the gloriously wonderful The Little Sparrow Shop just down the road and they reopened today after being closed for Christmas/New Year.

Being a sensible person (ha!) I phoned them. Yes, they did indeed have red zips. One point for me!

I grabbed my powered wheelchair and nipped down there and poked their red zips until I finally decided to get all three different sizes because I wasn't sure which would work best for my idea. I also realised that I was almost out of red felt so I grabbed some red felt too. Then I wasted more energy looking at all the wonderful craft things but resisted the temptation to buy anything I didn't need.

On the way home I realised that it was so hot that once I got home I would have no energy to actually start making my wonderful new idea-project since I had just wasted all my energy driving around in my wheelchair.

Then I knocked a chunk out of my doorframe by failing to remember quite where the edges of my new wheelchair were.

Then I ran over the cat's water bowl while trying to park the chair, spilling water all over the floor.

Back in my nice coooooool air conditioned room in my comfy bed I realised that I was 35 minutes late in taking my midodrine, the tablets where I have to be accurate to about 15 minutes in the timing where I take them. Messing this up ensured that not only have I wasted all of today's energy but probably some of tomorrow's too.

Finally, writing this up, I realised that if I had just phoned my helper - who was doing my shopping very close by while the above farce was taking place - she would have happily picked up the zippers for me.

It's one of those days... but at least I'm laughing about it!

Happy New Year, friends :)
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