The Evening is Here

Good Evening,

Your letter arrived in the mail today. As did my credit card, which I am very thankful for. Your letter that is, the card was just a bonus!! I actually plan to sit down and write you a letter tonight, maybe spread it over a few nights. Don't know, depends on how much I end up writing, if any at all. Depends on how engrossed I become in my book :-) Am very determined to finish it within the next week, here's to hoping!

It hasn't been too bad today. First day back in the office and Pax Lodge lost power for about two hours. No work :-) Spent nearly an hour with Janet going over things which had been done and just in general how the house assistants are doing and who I thought should stay on for an extra month we now have vacant. She only works half days at the moment. But other than that, I was in the office which was kind of sucky but it's something to do I guess.

Not sure what went on with the HAs today. There were 2 Rovers and a House. There were 14 rooms to be cleaned (left over from yesterday) and when I went up at like 2pm, only 6 had been cleaned and none vacuumed. Good grief. Apparently Erin had said she'd been busy with laundry, so what were the other two doing? Anyhows, Doreen fired them up. They did more in an hour than they'd done all day.

Meal times have become interesting. It's now the Detox people on one table and the non detox on the other. Tonight we (non detox) sat there and laughed ourselves stupid. It was like being at the table with Monique again! There were some injokes being thrown around accompanied by some rather curious facial expressions. I am now filled in on the happening over Christmas. Apparently Kristina and her Boyfriend 'christened' her room and Doreen heard, making the comment that you could put a duvet along the wall to muffle the sound...yep, good job Kristina!! I have never seen her more red in her life!

Breanne is back from Rome and Sally is rather excited to have her back.

Shanna, Ruth and I are going to Speakers Corner on Sunday which I am looking forward to. And we're going to see Memoirs of A Geisha tomorrow night -if I feel up to it.

Anyhows, no doubt I'll come back down to the basement later on, I usually do around 10pm before I crawl into bed with my book. Sometimes at 10:30, just depends on how I am doing.

Hope this find you well and at least smiling a little.

Things will get better over time, I know that.

Rachael :-)