It is now Saturday that I am writing this, but there are a couple things that stick in my head from Monday. I'll give you a quick run through.
It was great that I was able to pick the keys to the house that all of us are going to stay in right after I finished work. I dropped off a car load of things that I had packed the other day in the house. I had initially planned to leave them in my car for a couple days, while I was borrowing a big car to pick up the girls at the airport, but now, as always it seems, everything was working out quite simply. I guess that is what happens when you don't over plan, or worry about anything. Everything seemed to fall into place.
When I got the car (a very big car for picking up the girls from the airport) I thought I had time to pack up my room, and clean the house, before Sally arrived, as she had arranged to come down at 1100.
Guess what – it didn't happen!!!
As I backed the car down the driveway, all I was greeted with was a shrill rant about keys, and stuff being left, and why someone else had left some thing – (it never ended, as you could imagine with Sally). I stepped out the car and said "Good Morning", but that didn't even pause the onslaught. None of the verbal onslaught was actually aimed at me, except of one. I was supposed to have collected some keys off Mark, when he moved out the day before, but as he was still there when I went to work, he said he would leave them on the table, and forgot.
Well, you would have thought I had lost the only set of keys to the Crown Jewels, instead of 1 bedroom door key that there are copies of, and a front door key, but she was changing the locks anyway, so I didn't see the problem. After listening to about 1 hour of "keys, Mark is a terrible man, Hagen said he would do this, and hasn't, and on, and on, and on." I'd had enough.
Finally I said "Listen Sally, I've asked you a lot of times not to include me in your argument with Mark. I like the guy, and you upset me constantly telling me how horrible he is. It is my fault about not getting the keys (it wasn't, it was a genuine mistake), and I'm sorry. I've been awake all night, and I am very tired, just leave me alone to move out in peace. You will get your money for the last two days, and yes, I will make sure the floor is moped, and the dishes (only 1 mug and 1 plate) are all washed and put away."
Finally I was gone. It was a relief.
After unpacking my stuff at the new house, and stocking up the cupboards, it was time to go to the airport to pick up the girls, and start a new chapter in our life as a family of Heaths.
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