How not to make a cup of tea

This is for real. This is how I spent my morning - well some of it.

I do quite a bit of knitting (machine mainly but some hand knitting) and crochet. I recently came by a fairly large quantity of coned yarn suitable for machine knitting. Too much for me ever to use really, so I listed some on ebay. Sold a few cones. No problem with that except of course with ebay you often have to post stuff. So today, since I wasn't working, I started wrapping the cones ready for the post. First though I had to pick the cones I had sold and sort them out. So I spent a while doing that. By which time I was thirsty. Off to the kitchen to put the kettle on. After that it got silly. Roughly it went like this

• Put water in kettle, turn kettle on
• Notice washing machine has finished cycle.
• Empty washing machine
• Hang washing on the clothes dryer
• Think "I am hungry"
• Go to kitchen to find something to eat
• Notice that number 2 son has left a couple of lancets on the worktop
• Remove lancets to sharps box
• Remember that there is more washing upstairs
• Go to get washing from upstairs
• While upstairs remember something that I need to look up on the computer - go and look it up
• Check email
• Have a quick look at Ebay
• Take washing downstairs
• Dump washing by the machine
• Sort washing and put a load on
• Go into living room to get cup for tea
• Notice a cone of yarn on my chair and try to remember if it has been sold and who bought it if so
• Go upstairs to computer to check
• Discover that it hasn't been sold
• Come back down stairs and put cone of yarn in box to give to a friend
• Go into kitchen to make tea
• Realise that I didn't bring the cup back before
• Go to get cup
• Turn kettle on again
• Notice disturbance at front door
• Check door and find that postman has been and brought a book for me and some letters (one of which is for somebody who lives at the same number as us but in a different road - that happens far too often)
• Unwrap book and put to one side to read while drinking tea
• Take rest of post upstairs to office
• Talk to cat and play tummy tickling games until she gets bored, which doesn't take long
• Notice curtains closed in bedroom so open curtains
• Check knitting on machine and what comes next in pattern
• Go back to kitchen, eat last slice of birthday cake
• Remember I promised to see if I have some small balls of wool I don't need that can be passed on to somebody who teaches knitting
• Rummage through several boxes extracting various balls of wool
• Find plastic bag and put wool into bag
• Take wool into living room and add to pile of stuff that will be posted
• Go back into kitchen
• Put kettle on again
• Put tea bag in cup
• Remember I need to take a loaf out of the freezer
• Take loaf out of freezer
• Finish making cup of tea
• Take tea into living room
• Sit down in chair
• Get up again and go to find new book
• Sit down and open book
• Realise that my glasses aren't here by my chair but over there
• Get glasses
• Drink tea

Elapsed time was something like an hour.

Next time I'll ignore the washing machine!

Date posted: 17 Jul 2008