Simplifying Life - Mark II

mary43

Lula - thanks for the positive thoughts -keep 'em coming..............as for the de-cluttering - yes, think I may well be doing a bit of that. Bin bag as the ready in the morning and I'll sling in all the folders I don't use or need and anything else that needs a new home. OH can pop them down the charity shop for me.
Then I'm delving into the spare room to sort out all the stuff I got for foster daughters gardening hamper -her birthdays not till march but might as well make a start on putting it together.
Then I just might amuse myself with the little scrapbooks I bought to stick some apt. quotes in for foster daughter and my two sons.
Bit of work............bit of pleasure..............just how life should be. Nice even balance of each.
Thanks for dragging up another one of Arials quotes..........another gem.

Checked my wardrobe this morning and I cleared that last year -stuff in there I hadn't worn so I dragged a skirt out this morning that I've never worn - felt so comfy and made me feel more confident that the old ones I slob about in so I wore that to go to the hospital along with a jumper and patterned waistcoat that hadn't seen the light of day for a while (you can tell we don't go out much when a trip to the hospital is an occasion to dress up...............lol:rotfl: )
Now to phone foster daughter and give her the news............then a bit of Holby City............like I've not had enough of hospitals today .........:rotfl:

pagangirl

Hi folks -

My thoughts were with you this morning Mary - hopefully, it will be something & nothing, but as others have said - better getting something caught early or having more frequent checks just to be sure you're ok.

Ceridwen - thanks for link to that pic of the donkeys - I love it. Not much simplifying gone on here this week, doing project for work and it's a nightmare. Hope everyone is ok and not been caught up in the bad storms.

firework

hi mary, been thinking about you lots, and sending you positive vibes and big hugs.

i love that quote about "let your boat of life....." it makes me feel quite uplifted when i read it and makes me feel happier and more "free" to have less stuff.

lol! the other day my OH was warbling on about having too much stuff and too many financial commitments here there and everywhere , and said he just needs to off load some of it and SIMPLIFY things!!!! :rotfl: rotfl!
I threw my hands in the air cheering and clapping and said " welcome to the world of simplified living - we've been waiting for you":T even he had to laugh. obviously i have him under my control now - have already brainwashed him into using his t-bag more than once and filling the flask with hot water on a morning so it saves us boiling the kettle 15 times a day:eek: . probably saved us £50 a year in wasted t-bags (he likes ringtons) and wasted electric.

... now if i can just get him to simplify his wardrobe - ie get rid of some of the holey t-shirts he has had for the last 20+ years.

mary43

firework - he'll get there..........took my OH a while. He's pretty good on general stuff but clothes..........well I didn't realise he had so many pairs of jeans till he took advantage of a charity bag collection - twice !! Course after that I wanted an old pair of jeans to make something from and they'd gone..............lol

pagan girl - thanks for the kind thoughts. It means a lot. I'm ever hopeful that's its nothing too awful but well, if it is, me worrying will help no-one will it.

I've stuck to my plan of action today.............hurled some unwanted stuff into a bin liner and made my very first little scrapbook to pop in with my sons stuff for his birthday.............well not quite finished..........I need to pop some little artistic type quotes in it for him........it's only a tiny one so don't need many but I want to pick the right ones.
So, thats my next thing to do.

mary43

Well, my heads in a right spin today - get a phone call from hospital to say I can have biopsy tomorrow (dr. chap is on holiday next week and can fit me in) 'Yes' says I, anxious to get it all over and done with. Young lad comes home from school saying he's not going tomorrow - they're doing leisure activities none of which seem to appeal to the young sir !! Can just imagine him sat in a hospital waiting room for an hour creating havoc !! The powers that be not a lot of help when I ask for a support work to take him so I can keep my appt. with as little stress as possible and now, lo and behold the snows have come so even the weather's against me ! At the rate its going we'd not get the 20 miles there !!:mad: So, my brain is anything but simplified - with nature against me there's not much I can do except make another appt which won't be till the week after next now -and to think I could have had the results next Wednesday :mad:
So, excuse rant..............................feel better now and at least tomorrow if I can't get out I can do something positive and throw out a load more stuff.......snow or not !

I'll be in a better mood tomorrow..........honest:o

firework

oh mary, how very frustrating for you..... grrrrr!!!!! makes me mad when that kinda stuff happens, but then i have to wonder if it happens for a reason - like i'm just not meant to go on that day?

happened to us last october - we always go on hols in tatie picking week, every year without fail. last year i could not find a suitable hotel, then found a hotel but no flight, then found a flight but it got booked up b4 we got a chance to book it. next flights we found clashed with school hols dates, then found one in hol time but too dear.... and so it went on. in between all this we were waiting to hear about an upcoming contract for a new store opening, it was supposed to open beginning of oct - guess what... it got delayed till the end - right in our hols week. it just seemed to me like "alarm bells " were ringing in my mind saying don't go and i did get a bit spooked by it tbh. we eventually gave up trying to book up. on mon 27th october, first day of our hols (had we been away) - our lovely business associate and so-called friend of 20 years+ decided to kick us out of the business, for his own financial gain. he had planned it for our holiday week so that by the time he got back - our part of the business would be in tatters. :eek:

bet he was disappointed when he realised we weren't actually going away that time around.:p so there you go - we were just not meant to go on that holiday.


talking of being spooked - was clearing out some stuff from our long lost loft today and came across an inflatable punch bag belonging my DS of 7, i looked at it thinking huh, that old thing can go out - he'll never miss it. but something stopped me from binning it and i left it sitting there.

several hours later my DS came in from school, and said " mammy, do you think you can get that punch bag thingy out from the loft"... he did not even know i had been in the loft - i never told anyone i was going in or had been in. and he hasn't played with it or asked for it in almost a year. psychic connection or what?!

Lula-Hula

Hello all,

Mary - sorry about your frustrating wait but I agree with firework about stuff being meant not to happen at times. So often I have batttled against all sorts of hurdles to make something happen & compteley regretted ignoring all the signs :rolleyes: .

I'm still sending postive thoughts your way & will continue to do so I do hope you manage to keep very busy - if only you lived near me, my dining table is drowning under paper again

firework - uncanny how little ones have that ability to tap into your mind when you're about to do something that doesnt suit them. I had a very similar situation yesterday; I was thinking about removing some of DDs wooden farm set to the charity shop... she came out of the bath, went into her room & brought in the tractor & half the animals & set them up to play . Not a word was spoken but she made it very clear she knew what my plans had been .

Need to get on with stuff - have been flittering about worrying about things & doing not a lot :rolleyes: so will return with something positive when I have achieved it.

Best wishes & thoughts to all
lula
xx

mary43

Hi folks and thanks for those positive thoughts -keep em coming.

Snow cleared enough on the roads so we got to hospital ok -once young lad was transported to his aunts -no way would OH have coped with him in the waiting room particularly as when we got there and he wound down the window to get a car parking ticket from the machine the window shattered:eek:
All those bits on the car are electric so it'll probably cost more to fix than the poor old bangers worth. Have rung foster daughter who's OH's a mechanic - he might be able to sort us something out and we might get a few quid for scrap on the old one.
After an hour of xrays and needles we had a bit of a chilly ride home. OH has put some polythene over the window.........no idea why he bothered - not as if we're going anywhere in it. I packed him off to the pub for a well earned pint or several - (oh eck...........just remembered, he might be going to a funeral at 3pm..........and our older wayward lad is due back from his roamings this afternoon -bit of sorting out needs to be done with him !)
Somerfields couldn't deliver groceries yesterday as the driver didn't turn up so they came a minute ago and to restore my faith in all things human, the young lad delivering them carried them right through to the kitchen for me. I'm sure he'd have put them exactly where I wanted if I''d asked him to.

Got to go back to the hospital next Wednesday for my results.......foster daughter is asking for the afternoon off so we get there ok and she'll be supportive to both me and OH if its not good news. Doctor chappie was very reassuring though and said even if it''s not it can be treated so I feel much better about it now............though not in the de-cluttering mode yet.......maybe after wednesday.........

mags50_2

Don't post on here much...but have been following your progress Mary...pleased to hear that the appointment went ok...even though a little chilly on the way home...(why do things like that happen when you least want them too?)... hope you have a relaxing afternoon and will keep fingers crossed for you next week...you take good care of yourself....positive thoughts coming your way from North Lincolnshire x

mary43

mags - thanks. Hope the weather isnt too bad with you. Snow has cleared up all except for bits in our back garden that make it a bit dodgy going to the wheelie bin !
Trying to have relaxing afternoon but at the minute banging my head on brick wall with my printer -not literally.............lol
It decided not to work, keeps telling me papers jammer -it's not ! I've talked nice to it.......threatened it but still nothing. Unplugged it last night -thought it might forget its behaviour but no.............wouldn't be so bad but I've a load of stuff I wanted to print out :mad:
Oh well..........it's done this before.........maybe it'll work tomorrow ???