Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

taxi73

Thanks have a good rest xx

hypno06

what you say makes perfect sense KC......look after yourself x

EssexHebridean

Sounds like you need to prioritise living properly over everything else KC - you owe it to yourself and your family to eat healthily and if that means that the debt falls a little more slowly, so be it. I have to admit I cringe sometimes over on the OS boards listening to the way some of them eat - and, worse, feed their families - in a bit to save the pennies! (I should add that it's not by any means the majority way over there, just one every now and then!)

taxi73

You can't fall below a certain category as it's important to have enough vitamins..it's perfectly fine to have frozen fruit and veg as it's at it's best and is very reasonable price for instance.

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

Hmmm... those are some ideas, thanks guys.... I think the corner I found it in might have been getting damp for a while.... and that its only been this autumn - so it might have something to do with it. OTOH, I don't spend much time in that part of the house - its only about ten hours a week, I live at the front of the house where there's no damp whatsoever.

In all honesty, I think the real issue is that this is the worst year I've ever had - sitting with my brother in law while he passed, coping with supporting my sister through the immediate and ongoing nightmare of her early widowhood, getting swine flu on the first holiday after that, my financial situation deteriorating....... its been the worst year of my adult life, and when my stress gets to a certain level, it bubbles over onto the physical. That said, I have to address both the physical symptoms and the way I live my life - I've tried to keep on going and stay with cutting down outgoings to the minimum, and maybe I've cut my minimum too far. I suspect I have - so its back to more varied food and less of a focus on debt cutting. This sounds like a cheap shot, but its not - I don't want to work myself into an early grave.

Okay, normal service resumed: The Wall is down - and a normal size skip is completely full! It only took them 5 hours, it was amazing. I was in an out all the time, completely exhausted, went to bed after they'd gone.

EH - thanks for the tip on the skip driver - noted!

My next task is to find as much actual cash as I can, to pay the guys........ off now for a very quick mooch around the diaries......

Makes a lot of sense Karma, you can't deal with normal life and debt busting and everything else that gets thrown at you if you're not healthy. Hope you're feeling better today and that cough is on its way out! x

Karmacat

shaun40400 wrote: »

real time whats that then

Its just that Taxi was online at the same time, it ended up being a conversation.... like msn or something..... cos I'm not doing anything, and I can't even talk on the phone, I'm a bit lonely right now..........

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Sounds like you need to prioritise living properly over everything else KC - you owe it to yourself and your family to eat healthily and if that means that the debt falls a little more slowly, so be it. I have to admit I cringe sometimes over on the OS boards listening to the way some of them eat - and, worse, feed their families - in a bit to save the pennies! (I should add that it's not by any means the majority way over there, just one every now and then!)

Yep. I'm used to really good, really pure food, and a good variety of it at that, thats one of the things I spent my money on when I was well off - the only thing I haven't compromised on is eggs (oh, and pesto!), I still buy organic free range, I don't like what they put in the bog standard stuff, for the chicken or for me. Otherwise, with buying value size packs not normal single size, I can eat the same few veg for days on end, and I don't have a proper freezer to buy enough variety of frozen food to use it properly. Yet another reason to move house.

Update: I was in and out of the house all morning - making sure the neighbour moved his car before the skip was collected (he wasn't being horrible the other day - his wife had driven him to an appointment at the diabetic clinic ) but they're so defensive when I talk to them, I think they know they haven't exactly been good neighbours over this. Skip has gone, building materials sitting on the drive, builders' tools sitting locked in the garage. They're starting tomorrow - I will *not* go out as much as today.

Called the doctor, got a home visit after a *lot* of pleading - no visit, phone consult, antibiotics - no, I don't have anyone to collect them, make me feel good why don't you? Prescription service, free of charge, has just delivered them, bless them.

Oh yes. And we had a power cut yesterday morning, and the central heating wouldn't come back on afterwards. Its still off, but the gas fire is on - balancing the two was always difficult anyway (long story I'm not up to typing) and I'll put the electric convector heater in the hallway and then the bedroom when I'm due to go to bed.

What a life. I should've just married my millionaire (=oil survey worker) when I was in my twenties, or my TV heir when I was in my thirties, life would be *so* simple :rolleyes:

Shaun! You have a new Shaun! He's sweet.

Double_Trouble

Millionaires -TV heirs - you've had an exciting life

Glad the wall's going well

Sorry you are still yucky hope the prescription helps.

Just a quickie I have loads to do before going off tomorrow but I have neglected the diaries so much I just want a quick catch up.

DTxx

hypno06

Hi KC, I am glad you have got something to take now - I hope they kick in soon and help you feel much better over the weekend.

taxi73

Hope the antibiotics kick in soon.
Your background sounds really interesting...

Karmacat

I've had a day's worth of antibiotics now - I'm now wildly enthusiastic about all these prescription delivery systems you see around, I thought it was just for people like my mum, but its d*mn handy for people like me too mind you, I got more criticism from my mother for not taking two at once, instead of just heading straight into the prescribed method of taking them, which is what I actually did. Can't please some people.......... but I can just about feel the antibiotics starting to work now, I'm a *very* happy camper about that

Anyway, um, I *slightly* exaggerated my oil worker's net worth but a minimalist top floor flat in Kingston with a white piano *felt* millionaire-ish to me :rotfl:And the TV heir .... well, he *was* a TV heir, and had had a lot of the loot signed over to him. He was also sometimes fairly crazy - truth is, last I heard he was sleeping in a haystack in Scotland, with winter coming on ..... there's a reason I left him!

Enough of my chequered relationships! The builders were hard at work today, and the concrete strengtheners, the new bricks, the concrete backfill and the fir fixes (or however you spell them) are all up and running - they couldn't do as much as they wanted because of the rain, all the bricks were soaked and apparently you can only lay so many in that sort of condition. I *wish* I was well, it was fascinating. I just need to make sure on Monday, when they come back, that they put drainage holes in.

What was really interesting is that I thought the front garden was sort of bedrock - nope. After the house was built, they chucked a load of rubble where the front garden was going to be, then put gravel/sand/stones/whatever to act as subsoil, and *then* put a bit of soil in. Eight feet down, there were still bits of brick and drainpipe, it was amazing.