Hello dear Reader,
I decided that my theme for blogging today would be having a moan....and before you raise your eyes to the heavens and mumble to yourself "what's new then?" I actually consider that moaning is therapeutic as I'm preventing myself getting a sore throat or hoarse voice (see a couple of posts previously for explanation, lol).
Yesterday was my lovely lady's birthday. I got her what she asked for and I wanted to get her a few little incidentals in a birthday bag to spoil her a little but due to the fact that I have been considerably more incapacitated by my foot op than I expected to be I was not able to go out like I wanted and get them :( - yep rubbish partner that I am, complete 'bloke' in the present department I could have been prepared and got them months ago but did I? NO!! So I thought I'd go online and get some flowers delivered, I ordered what I considered a lovely bouquet and upgraded to 'large' as opposed to regular and as I was going to be here at her's I decided as the kids were having their's delivered to work (thought that would absolutely delight her) I had mine delivered to the house. They arrived shortly after 9am in a box so I couldn't see them, the box looked quite small to me so I was a bit concerned about the size of the bouquet. I rang Interflora who checked the order and it was the upgraded one supplied so I thought maybe it was like a Tardis in the box, leastways I was hoping....
She texted that she had received the kid's flowers and was delighted phew!! Okay so far so good, well pleased with that and I knew they would be over the moon when they knew. SHe popped home at lunch time, I nervously waited for her to open the Interflora box, she did and got them out - - - - - - - It was not a Tardis like box, the flowers were fresh looking but I worked out that they actually charged approx. £8 per stem!! :( Now I know we give for the joy of giving, and it gives me great joy to give something I consider worth giving! But I have to offset the amount of work I do to earn the amount I spend on anything as I literally live from hand to mouth. The amount spent on the obviously very special bunch of flowers I could have bought her a couple of tops in Next or something else far more useful if only I had taken the time to be prepared before the event! I am so cross with myself but I am working on letting it go very quickly, hence this outpouring exercise of emotion to help facilitate this as I lost my positive thought mode for a bit and that's not a nice place to be once you get into the habit of thinking positively all the time. I need to get back to it.
Apart from this dear Reader, I shall never buy flowers for an occasion again as her sister capped the lot by having a humungous bunch of roses delivered to her that would make the hanging gardens of Babylon look lacking (she can afford it) - so all in all LESSON LEARNT!
Back to my calm, happy positive thinking mode :D...Have a good day y'all.
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