Short Term Challenge

Karmacat

Morning all! Good grief, I'm tired. Its all that rummaging about in other people's cupboards, and sawing branches in my own garden wot does it. But my own life, and my own house, still need working on, and this short term challenge was *not* complete in just one week. :mad: So its extended. The original was this:

- 3 mystery shops done
- Star Trek nope
- sort out my bathroom cleaned but not spider proofed
- plant the plants I've got sitting on the patio done but not ambitious enough
- work on the French mortgage. done.

Okay, there are some lessons there, about balance. Um, balance is what this diary was about, but I obviously haven't learned my lesson yet :eek: These are the continuing goals of the Starship Karmacat. Her mission: to explore strange new worlds....

- 6 mystery shops booked this week! Four of them are phone calls, 2 are on the way to London on Friday, that'll be fine.
- social life: *much* more balance needed here, but coincidentally I'm going out twice - to see a friend on Thursday afternoon, and to the theatre with my sister and her daughter in London on Saturday. That was booked months ago.
- bathroom. Clean the floor, start spiderproofing.
- garden: saw and clear branches.
- France. "Answers" to my emails have arrived, so I can take that a bit further - try to get the mortgage online, and pay the accountant, for starters. Hopefully, I can think of other ways to get it ticking over more smoothly.

And thats that! As well as checking online banking, doing the scratches, blah blah. You know the drill. Off to start doing my thing now...

Karmacat

I forgot, I have to acknowledge what I arrived back with yesterday, from my sister's:
- a laptop rucksack! Nobody else in the family likes laptops, whereas I love mine, and this one is big enough and sturdy enough to also carry my scanner, helpful when I'm doing genealogy work.
- five books about various aspects of work - my brother in law was a life coach and a reiki master, so they're *really* good books.
- a super duper little mouse, v useful since mine has just died.
- lots of stationery, including one of those bendy things that designers use to draw curves - I have ambitions for an embroidered design on a plain duvet I bought, and this will be a big help.
- my mum paid for my veggie shopping!
- but she also brought from her house lots of letters I'd written to her and my dad, from the 1970s onwards. *My* decluttering gave her the idea :eek::mad::rotfl:I can't believe I've ended up shooting myself in the foot like that! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

shaun40400

I can't believe I've ended up shooting myself in the foot like that!

:rotfl::rotfl:

morning kc
got pm :cool:

busy busy ,,,been ,hiding presents,,,,,
got 10 presents for oh...hid them around the house
little thing like favourite soap bar,,,bar of choc free sample skin stuff and
perfumes eth she hunting down with clues found 4 so far
her proper preesy is a touch phone,,,,friend got it last month dident wont it so got for €40 bargain

c u later
hope you have a good day,,,,sound like you got a good haul from london,,,including your mums clutter:T:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat

Hi Shaun, that sounds great! What fun for her to come home to a treasure hunt! I forgot to say about your e.d., brill news that she's having such fun. I envy her Hawaii:j she'll have a lovely time there too, I'll be bound.

redsquirrel80

Just found this and popped in to say hello (grumbles about stoopid separate diary board...) .. anyway hello Karma :hello:

Karmacat

Squirrel!!!! Sweetie! Hiya:hello::j:j:j

Its not really a diary, but I thought I'd better put it here.... it may well turn into one, if I stay this slow at doing my "short term challenge"!

taka

Karmacat wrote: »

- but she also brought from her house lots of letters I'd written to her and my dad, from the 1970s onwards. *My* decluttering gave her the idea :eek::mad::rotfl:I can't believe I've ended up shooting myself in the foot like that! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oh I hear ya on this one... My Mum finally got up the courage to brave the wilds of the room formerly known as my bedroom (now her art studio/emergency dumping ground) and start declutteringa few weeks ago. I think all she managed was to uncover all sorts of ancient stuff of mine that was hiding at the top of a cupboard and pass this onto me! :mad: :eek: I now have several boxes of stuff like childhood birthday cards (ages 1-10 ) and books I loved as a kid (like all the narnia books except the Lion the witch and the wardrobe as I never had that one :rotfl:).

Karmacat

Isn't it typical! Everything *I* left at my parents' house has gone, especially since they moved house twice since I left home. But I didn't bargain on my letters being returned to me!:rotfl::rotfl:

What are you going to do with what she's [STRIKE]dumped on you[/STRIKE] given you, do you know? Mine's already been shoved to the back of the cupboard where I found those letters from her from the same era. Ooh, maybe I should give those back to her!!!! :D:D Nah, that would be evil! Funny, tho

taka

Currently the 2 boxes are glowering at me in the hall - I need to do a whole load more decluttering before they have a proper home. They seem to be ones I have gone through before - possibly ones that were in the loft for a while - so there is nothing I really can get rid of. It was definitely odd to see things like my early birthday cards again! It was rather poinient (sp?) looking at them - especially those from my Grandparents who are no longer with us. She also gave me my graduation present from my brother back too - a 2.5 foot teddy :eek:. What he was thinking of when he got me that (when I was 22, almost 23 :rolleyes:) I'll never know! :rotfl:

Now returning those letters... I like evil... that would be definitely be funny! :rotfl:

Karmacat

Tee hee on the evil funniness.... but it *is* poignant (I think thats it ) to see letters from ones who are gone, like my dad. His handwriting was so dashing, you'd never have thought it to look at him or even to know him. I can't quite suss that graduation present of yours, tho!

Stuff I've done today: not much.
- two of the mystery shops scheduled for today, and printed out the stuff for the next two.
- also, not on the list, I've packed up and posted a little Amazon sale, which got me a grand total of about 40p, even sending it second class. Hi ho.
- 2.5 hours paid work - just off to do the 2nd lot now, so probably won't be back on tonight.
- had to come back on to say that after I'd done that early evening work, I managed to hack away at some of the branches I had on my list, thats another bag of rubbish gone.

Have a good evening, all.