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A new start for Mooloo

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  • Savvy_sewing
    Savvy_sewing Posts: 11,580 Forumite
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    peppa-pig wrote: »
    They say that life begins at 40 Mooloo!! xx

    Ha ha:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.
    But most people dont get to have 2 goes at 40!!
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
  • floss2
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    Mooloo, I met my OH in 2003 when we were both 39 - we got married last month at the age of 46, after I moved away from my home town of 31 years to be with him.......so age is no barrier!

    Are there any supportive housing team staff? Sometimes they will be able to help with removals etc - or what about the dreaded SW team? Surely they must be able to come up with some funds to help you & DGD move to a better place? Or even the OT team?

    Just think, you may well be in and cosy before the winter kicks in.....how nice to be able to plan a warm Christmas!
  • Savvy_sewing
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    floss2 wrote: »
    Mooloo, I met my OH in 2003 when we were both 39 - we got married last month at the age of 46, after I moved away from my home town of 31 years to be with him.......so age is no barrier!

    Are there any supportive housing team staff? Sometimes they will be able to help with removals etc - or what about the dreaded SW team? Surely they must be able to come up with some funds to help you & DGD move to a better place? Or even the OT team?

    Just think, you may well be in and cosy before the winter kicks in.....how nice to be able to plan a warm Christmas!


    Oh Floss, I am pleased that things worked out for you.
    Next year I will be 50. I have had more changes and restarts then I can remember at times. Its probably just as well I write journals/diaries etc. As my memory fades the catalogues are there. However at the moment, they are dotted all over the place.So organising them all together and getting them in order would be interesting at some point! Although i think every single one of them starts with "I must get organised". I am such a scatter brain. I think I have been ever since my first child arrived.
    Strange. When i was at work, I was very very organised. All of them. Yet at the moment, I am still struggling to find a filing system that works for me.
    Or a routine, or anything really.

    But now is the time to get my act together for the next big change of life.

    At least I know how to move, and I have managed to do it in a hurry so many times. At least this time, I have some forwarning that its going to happen sooner rather then later, and that a couple of months will fly by.!

    What I am also trying to do, is remember that its only a nomination, not a given fact. So I need to start to prepare here for Christmas just in case. So the things that need to be done around here I also need to put on my Todo List.

    I am currently in Chaos, yet again, but am sure that once I get my head onto a Todo List, and then prioritise it. Break it down into small chunks, then I will get back on track. Especially as I have the help of Molly. And sometimes her daughter, who comes and plays with DGD. DGD is always asking when she is going to see her again.

    I think Storage boxes are definitely my NEED, not just a want. So I will invest in some. Things that will stack, but that I can access. Then I can organise the sewing/craft things. The childrens toys that are now beginning to overcrowd the front room.
    Its going to be more difficult due to my physical problems but it will be fun to imagine a home I can actually decorate myself, and NO MORE CREAM CARPETS!!!! As I will not buy cream.!

    My arm is still very bad today. My back is a little better then yesterday. I was able to walk to the car etc and take DS and Twin2 to the bus for College this morning. Without using a stick. Bonus.

    DGD is painting at the moment. Early start. What a mess. I see a bath coming up very soon.

    Time to start making my notes and my todo lists. Get my head around the jobs I want to get out of the way first etc etc.

    Thanks everyone for all the positive posts.
    I am a lucky person after all.

    Hugs, Mooloo
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
  • Savvy_sewing
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    Well I have had a small fly around the front room. Moved what I could and hoovered around. Including movng the rugs! The table and DGD's toys. She managed to make a wonderful mess with her paint and had to have a bath. But thats ok. I used plenty of news paper and an old Shirt of BF's to cover her and her surroundings.
    Its time for a cup of tea and a rest. Thats all I can do for a while. I am pooped out!.

    Back to listing then!.
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
  • Hi Mooloo. I lurk on your diary quite a lot, and I have to say you put me to shame. You do so much for others, despite your own physical limitations, yet I am currently sitting here on my bottom looking at my mess and wondering if I can summon the will to deal with it. I bet you would pay good money to have a working 30 year old body and just one child asleep in bed and another at school! I will take a leaf out of your book and will get off my behind and do something!

    Anywho, I think you are marvellous and inspirational, so just wanted to let you know. X
    Debt free as of July 2010 :j
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    £147,000 in 100 months!
  • Savvy_sewing
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    SkintGypsy wrote: »
    Hi Mooloo. I lurk on your diary quite a lot, and I have to say you put me to shame. You do so much for others, despite your own physical limitations, yet I am currently sitting here on my bottom looking at my mess and wondering if I can summon the will to deal with it. I bet you would pay good money to have a working 30 year old body and just one child asleep in bed and another at school! I will take a leaf out of your book and will get off my behind and do something!

    Anywho, I think you are marvellous and inspirational, so just wanted to let you know. X

    Gosh what praise!
    Hello SkintGypsy. I recon your name would suit me, the amount of times I have moved home!.

    When I started living in this cottage I had hoped it was my last move.!

    Well I had my rest. Decided the bathroom needed a clean and started on that. (I hate the fact that it is carpeted!). But the post man came, along with a Video from Keeping Motivated. Thankyou:T:T the Council have adjusted my bills, due to DS bunking off and Child Benefit stopping, and I got a FINAL Demand for £62.66:eek: for last year, and a bill for £240.89 for this year. With an immeidiate payment demand of £48.49 followed by monthly installments of the same.! :eek:
    So £100+ paid out over the phone after several questions and asking for different payment dates. Alas they will only accept a DD for the 1st of the month, so I will have to take that into account.
    So my joy at not using all my funds has been short lived.I was angry as they didnt give me an invoice at all. Though they said they did. Mind you a few months ago, they sent me someonelses demands etc so who is to say mine didnt go astray the same way!

    I will not be able to save 2/3 of the Tax credits now.! Perhaps it may be 1/3 at a push. But not this week.
    :AI just thank god, that for once in my life when I received an unexpected bill, I was in a positon to actually pay it, and can pigeon hole the stress I initially had, back in its box! I was close to tears, my voice broke, it was a stress trigger from the past, (bankruptcy in2007).:o

    My lovely tidy sitting room is no longer. While on the phone to the council, DGD decided to empty the contents of her kitchen things all over the place, as well as DS's soldiers, cars and bits of connect stuff!!
    Molly is due to viit in about half an hour. So when I have finished my crisp sandwhich, it will be time to do a quick washingup, and hopefully tidy up before she arrives.
    At least the bathroom is back on track! (For now).

    Skintgypsy, If I have inspired you to get moving, thats great. Its MSE that gets me moving. There are so many lovely people on here, most of us with more than money worries, who are a community in themselves.:T

    I hope you have managed to get on with your work, and that you can then have the glow of satisfaction afterwards. (or is that he glow of sweating too much??).:rotfl:
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
  • Errata
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    Not nice to get an unexpected bill, but v pleased to hear it didn't wipe you out emotionally. Good for you.
    I hope you and DGD put away all the stuff she'd scattered around together !
    Keep going - you're doing so well these days. If I had a broomstick I'd join you and Molly, have a good time.
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • Savvy_sewing
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    Errata wrote: »
    Not nice to get an unexpected bill, but v pleased to hear it didn't wipe you out emotionally. Good for you.
    I hope you and DGD put away all the stuff she'd scattered around together !
    Keep going - you're doing so well these days. If I had a broomstick I'd join you and Molly, have a good time.


    I had a lovely visit from Molly, we put the world to rights. Well our world. We have started a plan of action, and next Wednesday we are going to go to the big Ikea in MK, and I will get myself some storage etc. Going to go early and make a day of it. Take our time, she can use her mobility scooter, and I will just take it at my pace. DGD can go into the creche there. Sod the expense!!

    We discussed the pros and cons of the new property, and the move. I am going to start my declutter in earnest, and with the storage boxes etc, we will do a bit of each room, at a time.

    It has been decided that I will get some quotes for removals, and rough estimates for carpet cleaning here, and cookers etc that I will need. That I will then still apply for a community care grant and see if this time i can get it.
    I will investigate if any of the organisations that are working with me (or as it seems against me) can help me to obtain the things that I need.
    This evening I will have a go at re addressing my budget, now I have the extra council bills in.
    Then I will try and beaver away anything I can, so that I can cover the various expenses I am about to incurr moving.

    My nemisus is the idea of ebay/green metropolis etc. I shall have to get my hypnotherapy and remind myself that i can do this and start to sell off the surplus stuff that I am always talking about doing and am just to scared to do. Molly will hold my hand while I do things!!:rotfl:

    My arm is not good. There will not be anything more on the physical side today. its going to have to be lists etc. and getting all of these points into prespective, time frames etc etc.

    Just wish I was not in so much pain. That accupuncture yesterday has left me able to move my neck, but has left me with a lot of extra pain and bruising!!
    Not sure why the back is playing up.? change in the weather, sat funny? too much driving/or lifting, who knows.

    DGD is currently asleep. She went down for a sleep quite late. I should wake her up if I want her to go to bed at her normal time. But am enjoying the peace and quite. So I will leave it till 5, and wake her. then we will just push the evening routine back a bit.
    Better put the hot water on while I think of it. Bet if i put the kettle on she will wake up! :D
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
  • Errata
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    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • Savvy_sewing
    Savvy_sewing Posts: 11,580 Forumite
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    Errata wrote: »


    Oh dear I could spend a fortune! Looking at some CD cases for DS's stuff. Then some magazine/book storage for me, with some A4 paper storage boxes for my filing!
    Then I like a complete bedroom/den idea for DS's room,,,,, dream on girl, dream on,:D
    When I die I will know that I have lived, loved, mattered and made a difference, even if in a small way.
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