Not easy as Phi

Another busy day gone. And still more work to be done. Wednesday the real estate agent is coming to take the pictures. The house has got to be spotless and ready then. We have a deadline, and it's coming closer!

I spoke to Phizz on Skype yesterday, and it was nearly as much fun as hanging out in person. He left on another long trip today and won't be back for quite a while. But thankfully there is Skype. He told me something funny. Well, he nearly exclusively tells me funny things, but this one really cracked me up. And it kind of pissed me off too!
To save time and to multitask, he gets his Mac to read stuff to him while he does other stuff. There are several computer voices you can choose from, and the one he likes is called Alex. He gets Alex to read my blog to him. When I found this out, I felt weird. It's me here, writing this about my life, and Alex does not suit my writing or my life. I don't like Alex reading my blog! I don't know Alex, I don't trust him! So, if I can, I read my blog to Phizz myself. So yesterday, Phizz hadn't read my blog yet when we spoke on Skype, and he told me that when I write 'Phizz' Alex pronounces it Phi-zea-zea. PHIZEAZEA?Phi's easy? Fyseazea? Of course, this had me in hysterics. But then Phizz said that when I read my blog to him and call him Phizz, which is, you know, HIS NAME (well, actually, it's not, it's my name for him, but still) it sounds wrong to him. I sound wrong reading my own blog using the name I made up for him? What the? That took the cake: Alex is banned. If you let my blog be read to you by a computer voice, make sure it can read...hahaha! Phi's easy. Tsk. No, he's not, actually. He's fairly complicated and intriguing. Alex doesn't know what he's talking about. Or does he?

Anyway, it got fairly late because just like a naughty child who doesn't want to go to sleep, I tricked Phizz into two rounds of 21 questions and 3 clues, despite the fact he was tired and had stuff to do.  Oh, and he sent me a link to a very cool slow motion video of mosquitos being killed by lasers, because I was being attacked by one. I need a laser, it seems.

Then, today, in addition to being covered in mozzie bites, it was mother's day. Or mothers day, whichever. I wrote emails to all my mothers in Australia - I have quite a few: my two mothers in law and all the mums whose kids I look after. I had also gotten my own mother some flowers on behalf of my sister and myself yesterday, and we also wrote a card promising tickets to see a contemporary dance performance by our favourite choreographer William Forsythe called Bill & Mr. B. It doesn't go on sale until the 1st of June, so we couldn't get the tickets yet. We're all very excited about going, especially together.

We had tea and breakfast together on the deck, as it was already lovely weather in the morning. It was splendid to be together, just enjoying a lovely sunday morning. Then we had company for coffee, some of Mum's friends came past to say hello. Suddenly there wasn't much time for chores anymore! But we had to get into it, with a deadline looming.

After emptying out the pond yesterday, we relined it today, put the pebbles I cleaned yesterday back in, then the water plants, then the water. It went surprisingly quickly in comparison to emptying the damn thing, plus it was a lot less smelly! (I will upload some photos of it tomorrow, it's too late now.)

Then I hung some more curtains, which is more work than it seems. First I had to mount the new rail to hang it from, then I had to iron the curtains and shorten them to the right length, and then they had to be hung.  The result is pretty nice, though, the house is starting to look better than it ever has. I wish we could keep it.

Stella and I also did some more painting, the inside window frames upstairs are now nearly all white, but need another coat. Boring stuff, yeah.

Ooh, something that's not boring, was the delicious dessert my mother made yesterday! It was a minty mango delight - with, you guessed it, mint and mangos! It's mixed with greek yoghurt and cream, plus some honey. Totally delicious. Very summery, too.

Ok, I better go, I am writing this in total darkness, we've been enjoying the hedgehog show, we locked the cat inside and then we saw two hedgehogs today,  But now it's really dark and unfortunately the MacBook Air does not have backlighting behind the keyboard and I'm pretty tired so it's a bit of trial and error with typing the right letters. Am especially struggling with the letter i. So I better get into the shower and then into bed.

G'nite. x