The L&M woke me up at 5 a.m. A light touch and I was wide awake. Excitement does that. Sleep vanishes in a jiffy, leaving you fresh and ready to start the day. Today was the day, I told myself. I quickly performed my morning ablutions, gulped down my tea, changed into going-out clothes, stuffed the Kindle into my handbag, put on my mask, and was ready to wave Luci a cheery goodbye by 6-30 a.m.
Luci on the other hand wasn’t happy at all. She had on a long face. She hates going-out clothes. I thought I had cured you of this bad habit of wearing going-out clothes and disappearing, her reproachful look said. Be a good girl, I called out to her cheerfully, pretending to ignore the look. Mommy will be back soon. The L&M locked the gate, and soon we were in the car, on our way. The music from the pen drive, all my choices, started playing and I sat back happily to enjoy the long drive ……to the doctor’s clinic.
Yes, that’s where we were headed. I suppose it is inevitable that it should come to this. You virtually lock people away in their homes for months with no outings whatsoever and when they finally get a chance to go out, it fills them with so much elation, as if they are going on a school picnic. Never mind that in reality, the trip was only to the doctor’s clinic for the annual check up.
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Hope it all went okay and that nobody was too hard on you when you got homw!
It’s good that dogs have short memories. By the time I am back, Luci is in full ‘I am so happy you are home’ mode. 😄
Yes, I get excited about getting to go through the drive-thru fast-food restaurants these days.
I can so relate to that! 😄
Hope you got an all clear from the doc. These days it’s even a fun outing to get a swab shoved up my nose! (precautionary test)
Yes, I did, thank you 🙂 Hope your test went well too!
It was negative as I expected. 🙂 Thanks for checking.
Good to know 🙂
I know that feeling only too well!
Ahh, Anne. How we miss the outdoors!
Oh, I get excited about grocery shopping these days. Sad life.
Hope you are ok…doctor’s visit and all.
Yes, sad life. And here my husband does grocery shopping, though I try and prevent that by doing something exciting like ordering online 😄
The doctor gave me a clean chit, thank you 🙂
That’s what life has come too these days. I too get a thrill when I have to go to the grocer or chemist to pick up essentials
Hi there, I’m not sure if you know but your profile links to an adult site. I often click on profile links to find new bloggers, but in this case something is wrongly linked. Might be something for you to fix in your blog. 🙂
I just checked. You are right, S. I have removed the url in this comment, Unishta. I hope you have your blog checked.
Yes I know that . I am trying to set this right. I’m embarrassed with this disgusting link to my site and profile .
Unishta, refrain from entering your url when you comment, for the time being, till you get it sorted out. Why give them more hits?
I have deleted my Gravatar so hopefully this will sort out the problem
No. Your website url is still there in the comment. You have to remove that while commenting. I manually edited your last comment, deleted the website url. Please make sure you don’t enter it while commenting.