What a weird day.

I have to get my car repaired after I scraped the passenger side door on a concrete pillar at my parking space.

 I had become very annoyed with my insurance company because it was so difficult to get onto them by either phone or online to lodge the claim. This has not been the case previously.  I was so incensed that after I finally (three days later!) got to lodge the claim I sent an angry note via the feedback facility.  It turns out they had moved to a national call centre. No wonder it took so long. Anyway they responded to my feedback with great apologies and hurried through all the necessary extras such as organising a hire car. They also explained that they were taking back the answering service because of the negative feedback over poor service. Yeah!!! 

In the throws of organising this process and talking to them about my complaint I had several phone calls, the phone went flat, I needed the bathroom, the electrician was trying to contact me. On the phone, off the phone, on the phone, pull over and park, get home more phone calls. Ridiculous. 

Yesterday I enticed a friend to come to Pilates with me. It was a great session and afterwards we went our separate ways. Within a few minutes ( enough time to put my slippers on) she rang and said we were invited up to 807, directly above my place but two floors up, for drinks. It was such a nice impromptu get together with some other residents too. About an hour and half later I returned to have dinner proper.  That is one of the nicest aspects of living here. The ability to just be spontaneous because we all live in the same complex. 

I have converted all my lights to LED down lights to save money and energy. The last electricity bill was $ 300 for the quarter which isn't too bad but all savings  are important.  They are a fraction cooler in light tone but I am very happy and it only cost me the price of converting the dimmer switch. It is a government scheme and the lights are free.

The family are back from Japan today so I am excited to see them on the weekend.

I had a great time at art on Monday and feel really pleased with my pastel face. I let my inhibitions go and was very quick. It was exhilarating.

 I spent a couple of hours at the city library looking through art books for images to paint for our next class. The pho copier was broken and there was a queue at the other so I decided I would have to lug them home but I remembered the student lounge at CAE near seniors art store and they have a copier. What a relief. I was able to copy the pictures and then return the heavy books to the library; an excellent solution.