Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

redsquirrel80

Hooray for finishing the accounts :j

Enjoy your day, especially the fresh air

taxi73

You're doing great on the decluttering...I really must stop procastinating and at least make a start on mine.

Karmacat

I'm *so* good at procrastinating! The house needs so much decluttering because I've let it accumulate for so long.... after work today, I did 20 minutes of chucking dead stalks and brambles into the skip - I can now get to the garden without risking life and limb and some of the brambles that had self seeded have been pulled out by the roots. I'm really, *really* shattered now tho, just going to loll about on the couch.

Squizz - I love your new avatar!

taxi73

Well done on clearing brambles...I think the key to decluttering is a bit at a time..I must try harder.

Karmacat

I've just seen your list on your diary! I didn't do that much - it was only 20 minutes, remember, but at least it was getting rid of some of the newly rooted suckers. And it really, really tired me out, glands hurting, all of that. Hey ho - I just need to get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight - hope you sleep well
xx

Karmacat

The latest in idiotic ways to save money in hunting for some WD40 to ease the squeak in some window hinges, I found some "surface limescale cleaner" - I was just about to buy some, its smaller than the usual pack, but I think its more concentrated, hurray.

And I tidied a shelf in the bathroom in passing, and "found" a tub of Body Shop cocoa butter - just last Saturday, I was set to use that Daily Telegraph offer to buy some at a money off price. This tub was a Chrissie pressie, and I'd already forgotten all about it

Result, in both cases!

Today.... hmmm.... keep going on keeping the washing up down, for sure. I've got a couple of letters to send.... emails to write ... put the washing machine on as soon as paid work finishes .... what I *am* going to do in the garden is saw up a big branch thats just laying on the ground, and stick it in the skip. There's a lot of that sort of thing around, unfortunately - any potential buyers could well trip and, well, :eek::eek::eek: it does need to be tidied a little bit :o:o I'm deffo not going to give myself a relapse tho - two trips to the skip and thats it, I'm inside the house again.

Karmacat

And I've just remembered a rule I used to have, that I'd never do any housework over the weekend. As a single person, there isn't *that* much mess I make, that I need to do weekend housework! And I've let that slip, pretty badly sometimes - its a good rule, and I'm going back to it - there's a sub-rule too, about having the place looking good over the weekend. I let it go for a lot of reasons, I was going out a lot and it didn't seem sensible to get the place looking nice when I was hardly here... but its about keeping up to a standard I want to set for myself. So I'm going back to that.

No housework over the weekend! Hurray!

pania

morning stranger!!! just had a quick catch up and it sounds asthough you are doing really well at the moment and really motivated, good for you!
and yay to the bonus money saving find! that stuff costs a fortune!

xxx

redsquirrel80

Finding things is always good!

You sound quite energetic today

Karmacat

Hiya both! Not bad at all today, actually. For the first time in months, I feel like I'm getting my energy back - I still have to be careful, because I went down such a long way - and I haven't been out on my own or to the shops since November, so I'm not quite what I'd consider "up and running" again. HOWEVER (sorry to shout ) I do feel *so* much better, you're right. Its all about energy.

Speaking of which.... I was writing down a list of things I'd like to do in town, if I manage to get there over the weekend, and one thing is "look at buying paper CD cases" - the ones that have an envelope-type flap, you know? Partly space-saving, partly cost. Well, I looked on the web again, just to check - the only stuff I've found previously has been an astronomical cost, £14 for 500 or 1000, ridiculous. And I found the sweetest little site, https://www.papercdcase.com. You can input the name of the cd/dvd in the case, and print out the details onto a piece of A4 paper, it gives you origami instructions on how to fold the paper, and hey presto! I've just done one, to check it can be done, and it works! I've got loads of those very thick old CD cases that some of my DVDs copied from the tv are in - this will be a good way to store them, at least for now, and I'm sure I've got a nice little box to put them in, somewhere - less dust, less money spent, less clutter. Yay!