Today is one of those days. Whilst everything is going OK (at work and at home, given all the situations), I have this slightly strange feeling that, in a single moment, one little thing could mean that everything starts unravelling and collapse in a jumble on the floor.

But let me update my regular readers:

The party was OK. The strange thing was that, as V had not made invitations early enough, none of our (nor his) friends came (apart from FfI and FfC). Instead, it was made up of friends of our FfI. It was like she was hosting the party – but in our flat! She also did most of the food although V bought it. It was all slightly surreal. It wasn’t horrible but it was as if I was a guest and none of the things that had been dogging me, i.e the things I thought could happen, happened, so that was good.

Then, on Saturday, most of the day was cleaning up after the party. The dogs were ill and it was a little worrying (and not so nice to clean up). But they seem OK in themselves so we’ll see how it goes in the next few days.

Then off to the bloody-out-of-town-designer-outlet-shopping-centre with friends senza V. We arrived there so late that we could only spend an hour (which was about an hour too long for me but, at least, bearable). After that, we booked a table at a restaurant I had never been to before – Al Valentino II – and had a really lovely, if quite expensive meal. The house wine was quite good, the pasta great and my fillet steak was perfect. We also eyed up the pizzas which looked really nice. The price of the pizzas was quite reasonable and, as the place was quite elegant – stone pillars in the centre of the dining room and 20s and 30s posters and prints on the walls, probably worth a visit for a pizza one night.

Also, the thing asked of me has been delayed, if not, shelved. Although, if it can’t be done, then there may be other things asked of me which would be just as bad and, maybe, even worse. After 20 years, I know V really well and can often forecast certain things, although I didn’t quite see this one coming, which was a bit stupid on my part. However, now I know what could be coming even if I probably won’t say no, still.

The other-job work that I should have done over the weekend wasn’t done. I thought I could do it at my-real-job work, but, so far it has been hectic and slightly crazy but I just needed a few moments to get my head together and so that’s why I’m writing this! But I intend to have a go at it this afternoon as it can’t really wait and my-real-job work seems to be going along much calmer right now.

Since I wrote the bit about the dogs (which was Sunday) they seem to have got a lot better but I did notice that they didn’t seem to want to eat the nice-but-more-expensive food I had been feeding them over the last few weeks. Now, if one of them wasn’t eating it then it’s just a problem with the dog but, if they are both turning up their nose then something is wrong with the food. So I bought some of the cheapest-you-can-find food that they used to have and that seemed to do the trick. I will be monitoring them carefully, obviously.

Last night was an apero party at the FfI’s friend’s shop in Isola. It was very good and a lot of fun. But, tonight will have to be an early night………..

And the unravelling? Let’s hope that it’s all in my head and doesn’t actually happen.