greent's mfw journey

Tahlullah.H

Congrats on the Premium Bonds win!!  Every little helps!

apple_muncher

Hope you had a chance to put your feet up at the weekend.

greent

Ahhhh - I feel alive again! I had a really busy week and weekend (2 nights out and a day spent ferrying DS1 to his new student house for his Masters) and then came down with a really evil cold 🤧 that floored me for the whole of last week - I'd get in from work and fall asleep on the sofa and then go to bed properly by 9pm. I also left work early most days (I'm in an office all by myself so wasn't particularly infecting anyone when in) Def a cold as half of Y7 seem to have got it (pesky pupils!) But today my head does not feel full of snot and cotton wool - I'm still tired, if I'm honest - but my brain is working and it feels soooo good! I had a good day getting various things done/ started (planning for Dec mocks already!!!) and it felt like things were clicking into place 🙌

I have, however, infected 🤧 all 4 members of my family still at home...... they are not impressed.with me!!

Totally skint in the current accounts - have transferred  rather a lot from savings to see us through... thankfully payday is tomorrow (me) and Thurs (DH) and we should be back straight again - although DH have around £700 in expenses still to claim....grrrr...  Oct shouldn't be too bad for spends - DH's bday and also planning a night away in DS's uni city during half term so ds1 and ds3 can see him. Oh and a trip to ikea which may involve a mattress purchase - and no doubt some smaller items! Hopefully some.Xmas prep/ purchases, too - will.need to be more organised than usual now! 😄

Currently sat outside a local High school where Ds3 is in a swimming lesson (parents not allowed in due to covid) so am trying to do some catching up.on here. School bells keep ringing, weirdly - not in a continual fire alarm way, just like a normal lesson change - but every minute or so! 🤷‍♀️


After tipping it down 🌧☔from around 5.30 - 7.30am this morning, the weather changed 🌝and it has been lovely  

apple_muncher

Good to hear that you are feeling alive again!

killerpeaty

Sorry to hear you have the evil cold, a friend of mine had it and it was with him for agggges.

The bell sounds annoying. I think I would have to go around the corner or something and come back.

Suffolk_lass

DH always got sick in the first month of a School year - the Y7 blend of new germs from different primary schools results in those evil viruses. I could usually bank on me catching it in October and it taking until December to clear properly (cold -> chest = pleurisy here) - but no more. So you have done well to get through the worst of it so quickly.

The other one they used to talk about was the deterioration in behaviour around full moon

Tahlullah.H

Were they all Werewolves or aspiring to be?

apple_muncher

When you have a full moon and it's windy, they become a new species...

Suffolk_lass

It's true - and maybe they don't howl like a werewolf (naooow!) but they were more emotional and excitable. As @apple_muncher says.

greent

Feeling alive all last week was great - especially as the other 4 people living in thus house were full of the cold instead! DH was really poorly and took the whole week off work and  had lots of lat flow tests and a pcr just to make sure as he totally lost his sense of smell and taste- all negative. I felt sniffy again this morning so was a bit peeved but thought maybe it was just the tail end rearing it's head back up, did a lat flow to check and was fine. Went to work amd felt groggy after lunch - came home at 3.30 shivering and with a sore throat - was dressed in thick trousers, a long sleeve top, cardigan, socks, slippers, 2 fleece blankets, a wheat bag, the central heating on and the fire on full. Finally warmed up but spent most of the night sucking str3psils or asleep. Just took a different lat flow and got a positive line straight away😷 - so have booked in for a pcr at 8am tomorrow morning. Sigh.... busy couple of weeks at work with CAT tests and A levels so I hope it's false positive. 🤞🤞 Good job I had a quiet weekend - I didn't even go to the shop- DH did. Que sera......