When I awoke this morning, at my usual time of 7ish, my intentions were to have coffee, then more coffee while watching the news and Sunday politics show and then walk up to Westfield with my 'Next' voucher and buy some new trousers for work. Nothing very ambitious, just see what the wider world was up to before some exercise and retail therapy before heading back to watch darts and FA Cup football and prepare for the week ahead. In other words, a quiet, undemanding day.
At around 10am, my peace was shattered when a zombie-like figure entered my room, asked where the toilet was and, after I had replied, "in the bathroom", it went out again and I heard it use the facilities. Very odd, until I explain that I share my flat with someone who drinks as many cans every 24 hours to provide a week's worth of alcohol units! Drowning somewhere in all that strong beer is my boyfriend, and although I haven't actually had the pleasure of his company for many months (hence my wanting a place of my own), I do keep a close eye on what the zombie does to him. Thankfully, when I went to check up on him, he was out for the count on the couch and I just turned off the tv and the light and made another cup of coffee. However, my desire to go out had evaporated with the daily hope that I needn't be a carer today. Maybe it's daft of me, but despite going out to work five days a week, at weekends I feel uneasy at leaving him alone when I know his brain is particularly pickled.
Anyway, a couple of hours later we had the pleasure of a visit from his Dad so it was just as well I was here to hear the doorbell. Lovely to have some company in the flat and good conversation but all too soon it was back to normal and I retreated to my room and Frimley Green. Boring, I know but the boredom did drive me to fully unpack from my Christmas holiday and then have a bath with some of the 'smellies' which I'd been given as presents. Took my Kindle to read while soaking and discovered a book which I didn't know I had but really needed - Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality. It is a really good history and explanation of quantum mechanics which has been puzzling me of late because I've been reading some Science of the Discworld and watching the BBC Christmas Lectures and struggling with the whole quantum thingy. Before Christmas I'd also been watching a series on tv about the subject and the concept of quantum biology was as fascinating as it was mind-boggling, so maybe in a few weeks I'll be able to improve my comprehension and learn what it's all about?
An odd day, but somehow satisfying.
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