Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

Christmas Soundtrack Day 9 - Assembly Required

Until this morning, I had never heard today’s track before in my life. It made me smile, but that was about it. However, as today went on, it became more and more apt.

I started my day trying to get some paperwork done. I needed a copy of our marriage certificate for something. Hmm… I looked for it for about and hour and a half. It was under the sofa! I have no idea why or how.

I then needed to get some Christmas presents done. Most people are getting photos in frames. I’m not going to lie, this is because we had a free £70 Ikea voucher to use up. So, we’ve saved a fortune. But putting 18 photos in 18 frames was a bit tedious.

To continue the theme of presents that require effort, I needed to do some work on Chris’ present. I’m making him a scrapbook of all our wedding cards. He is very sentimental and desparately wanted to keep them all. But we got so many, I could see them taking up space as they were. However, to do this, I’ve had to cut out all the messages and pictures. It has taken hours so far, and now I have to put it all together.

At about 4pm, I got a bit fed up and poured myself a glass of wine (its okay, it’s Christmas!). I decided to make some mince pies, very quickly wishing I hadn’t. I have no idea what happened, but the pastry would not stop sticking to me. I definitely couldn’t roll it out. I literally just had to press it into the tray. It took forever! They looked horrendously bad when I put them in the oven. I thought they would never be edible, but I had to cook them to be able to get the bloody stuff out of the tray again…

They’re not bad actually! Go figure!

Therefore, based on the foundations of my day….