I totally figured out how to make passive aggressiveness work! Tell the other person you’re doing it.

Weasel and I practice the wash-dishes-as-you-use-them method. Sometimes if a Weasel is very busy she won’t wash hers. I’ll usually wash anything that’s hanging about when I wash mine so it’s not a problem. However, earlier this week I’d spent all my energy for the day so when I went to wash my bowl + spoon I couldn’t face washing hers too. So I left mine in the sink. Then I went to Weasel and told her that I’d passive aggressively left my dishes for her to wash in protest of her not washing hers. It totally worked cause she went and washed all the dishes after that.

I’m worrying a bit about book club this week. Our last book, Vanity Fair is very long and I haven’t moved as swiftly through it as I normally would. I have approximately 400 pages to read still, having read 470. I blame the beautiful words. He used ‘superciliously’ twice and whenever these lovely words show up they give me a little thrill and I pause to enjoy it. It makes for slow reading.

Today has been a challenging day. I think I’m doing that thing where because I’m fat I must be punished. I try not to do that because it doesn’t do me any good in the long run. Today I should have rested a bit from the last three and tried get my back to calm down. Instead, I took a shower and cleaned it while I was in there, went for a 40-minute walk, shopped*, made graham crackers and sandwiched them with fudge, caught up with The Young and the Restless [GAH! Victor & Sharon?! Seriously?!] and read the fat book in-between it all.

* Yes shopping. Nan has a no-mourning-clothes rule in place for her funeral. Unfortunately, my smart clothes are all black. I have a lovely purple shirt that I could wear, but I only have black skirts. So I decided to buy purple tights. I also have a grey top that requires a cami so I’ve bought blue one and a green one and matching tights. In theory this will give me at least one workable outfit. I’m also fairly annoyed with my lack of real clothes so I went on another bender to try and find something. I expect most of it will be returned, but I am hopeful that at least one thing will work.

Right, the lovely Mr Benedict Cumberbatch and his lovely cheekbones will be on TV in ten minutes so I best get myself prepared!