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Hovel_lady

Thanks for those miggy. I'll be writing them down xx

miggy

No declutterind yet today, but I have been hit by a bout of 'just-do-it'ness.

I wasn't in the mood for shopping but some of my winter stuff is worse for wear and I knew I should try to replace a few old favourites. It's more dificult when I'm in an MS mood as I 'know I should save' but tbh this month there is enough (!!! :j) and not only is DH tired of my shapeless fleeces but I decided a while ago that I need to 'love myself' and take more care of my appearance. Anyway I went on Ebay, found no less than 3 nice fleeces and put bids on! I may win them all, I may not. I really haven't space so something very worn will have to go. (they only get to be very worn by being old favourites but the test is: if I tried this on in a shop would I still like it enough to want to buy it?)

I can tell myself it's still MS (a few pence short of £16 if I win all three).

Why fleeces not something more glamourous?! Comfy, warm and easy to care for - need I say more? Oh, and there's a bit of a nip in the air this morning.

SouthernBellE*

Morning my love, hope you slept well last night?

I'm glad you feel I've read you quite well, not that I'm naturally intuitive or anything but there are some of you that I identify with in a kindred spirit kind of way, maybe we're all related or something? :rotfl:

I've known for a long time that you and many of the other friends I've made on Mike's thread are natural 'looker afters' and how we all try to 'fix' and 'make it better', maybe we all have some pollyanna syndrome. I know I find it almost physically painful to see someone hurting or desperately sad & do try to help even if just a little but the hardest part is realising there is only so much I can do when I wanted to do so much more, not 'fixing' someone's pain then hurts me, even though that's excessive and obsessive! (hope that makes sense).
I know I tend to feel pulled in a million different directions and spread between so many different worries that I end up a little overwhelmed at times and find it hard to deal with anything in the end, I think a lot of us do. I used to think it was just cancerians! :rotfl:
The carrying things around with you..same here but we can't carry the weight of the world around with us. I accept I can't make everyone happy in their life (not even my own most of the time) but I know I can be sure I never make anyone miserable in life (maybe my OH but he SO deserves it!)

Glad you liked the Charlie Chaplin post, also relieved it didn't turn out to be a quote from Bevis or Butthead too! :rotfl:

The lillies of the field passage was too deep for me to really 'get it' but 'Therefore do not worry about tomorrow' made perfect sense. Straight away I thought of the serenity prayer.

Thanks too for the Dorothy Dix one, fear of the unknown and all those what if's? :eek:

I'm so glad that you find your job so rewarding and involves improving quality of life for people. It's so much harder and saddening though when it's 'one of your own' and you see that life is so much harder for them than you wanted it to be. Glad too that your collegue finds it so worthwhile to. Money isn't everything and doesn't always make you happy, it's what you do and the people you have around you that are important. :T

I loved the Herman Melville quote. I don't think it only applies to rich and poor and just shows that everyone should be more understanding of each other. Easy to kick a man when he's down, isn't that when we should offer them our hand to pick them up? Anything else just seems cruel.

Oscar Wilde...I can so easily relate to that now. Just from using the forum. I can assure you that the heart of SB is for real but if she ever appears to have life sussed and is on top of things, it's an illusion. The JP behind SB is just as confuddled as anyone else. Little to offer but hugs and hobnobs, comfort to some but patronising and irritating to others! Ho hum! :rotfl:

I'll be here all day at this rate so I best step away from the puter!

Before I go and to break you free from pondering quotes all day.... Whack the volume up and have a listen, hope you're a Dolly Parton fan, 'Yes Sb Loves Country Music', she's also a secret Gleeker! :D

Anyway it was the sernity prayer that made me think of it & it just seemed appropriate today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHuxngPU36c

I think you'd like 'Jesus & Gravity' too but listen to it loudly!

See you later & have a lovely day
X

miggy

Ten minutes of listening to Dolly Parton followed by Led Zepplin and I think I'd better go and do somethingthat isn't computer!

See you later.

miggy

Miggy's totally amazing declutter an item or more a day for 46 days till 7th October list:

1. 23rd August pretty Christmas bag, plant label, handful of receipts, broken dried flowers (all rubbish shoved into a bag in a quick tidy!)
2. 24th August a few weeds from the garden, and finished up one of the plant feeds so more space on that shelf.

DS1 is home for the day and has finished last night's lasagne so that's one less item for the fridge - the freezer has mysteriously replenished itself and now hardly shuts so while I need to make casserole to finish up a chicken this evening, I also need to think 'freezer'. Bother - was doing quite well there too!

By the way this is Not My Fault - at least I don't think so - think DS1 and DD may have added to freezer contents while we were on holiday?

MS day yesterday - used one of those coupons for £3 off £20 and didn't buy junk... unless you count a packet of custard creams.

Off to get some shopping and birthday cards then drop card round to Mum to post to recipient... gets complicated shopping on behalf of others!

miggy

Miggy's totally amazing declutter an item or more a day for 46 days till 7th October list:

1. 23rd August pretty Christmas bag, plant label, handful of receipts, broken dried flowers (all rubbish shoved into a bag in a quick tidy!)
2. 24th August a few weeds, plant food bottle, 3 Avon catalogues, finally finished unpacking my suitcase - and DS2 has thrown out a carrier bag's worth of old clothes and donated a bin liner full to charity. :A Cushion cover, video, bag of screwed up wrapping paper, scraps of cloth, few receipts, two mobile phone pockets.

On the other hand the kids and I had fun oohing and ahhing over some of their clothes from way back but these have gone firmly and sentimentally back in the bag!

I have also put various things back in their proper places.

There is still a great deal to go - I am sure I shall be right up to the wire on this one - but without the list I would have forgotten about it tonight and had more gloom and panic nearer the time.

miggy

I think I've got to the bottom of what's bothering me - mum's memory seems so much worse the last couple of visits. However, she temporarily in another room which has disorientated her quite a bit so this isn't going to be a realistic picture.

Once she's back in her own room (hopefully tomorrow) and give a few days or so for her to settle in again, and there may be some improvement. Today she had a butterfly for a mind: I was trying to get her to write two birthday cards and had to do it one at a time because she was forgeting who they were for and thinking that a card someone had sent her was for sending. Yet - mental facilities being the strange things they are - this is the same woman who helped me out on a general knowledge quiz yesterday (Anubis was the dog-god of the Egyptians).

I'm bound to grieve that her mind is deteriorating, but I'm relieved it doesn't seem to cause her any distress as it did to Dad when it happened to him, and I know she's well looked-after.

Hovel_lady

I don't have any words of wisdom just wanted to send big ((hugs)) xx

miggy

Thank you - hugs are the best! xx

miggy

Whose clever idea was it to put The Sims on Facebook? :eek::D

Several hours later... well, I have had a few phone calls as well, none of them my idea. Two for Mum and two for work, who asked me if I could cover from four tonight instead of nine. I went through the options with the person who phoned and realised I was indeed her best bet but at the same time I was thinking 'I can't do it. Not a fifteen and a half hour shift followed by two nights.' I rang management and said I could fill in if they could find someone to cover one of the nights: the upshot is I'm not doing the earlier start as they would have even more trouble covering a night shift. Breathe again. I was scared I would be falling asleep on shift if I had to do those hours.

Apart from that nothing much to note. I'm aiming for this to be a no shops day though I won a top on Ebay (about £3.50). As mentioned before, I need to replace tatty favourites and this is to replace one I've had about 10 years and which is very threadbare (if much loved).

SB, the 'lilies of the field' thing probably had its own associations to me so, sorry if it didn't make sense to you. It's a passage I've always loved so I was thinking of it in the wider context which is along the lines of God knows what we need and will supply it if we seek his kingdom first. Will teach me to quote in context. (I suspect Ani would have an opinion on this. )

And my declutter list for today, updated as I go along as usual:

Miggy's totally amazing *declutter an item or more a day* for 46 days till 7th October list:

1. 23rd August pretty Christmas bag, plant label, handful of receipts, broken dried flowers (all rubbish shoved into a bag in a quick tidy!)
2. 24th August a few weeds, plant food bottle, 3 Avon catalogues, finally finished unpacking my suitcase - and DS2 has thrown out a carrier bag's worth of old clothes and donated a bin liner full to charity. :A Cushion cover, video, bag of screwed up wrapping paper, scraps of cloth, few receipts, two mobile phone pockets.
3. 25th August 2 catalogues, carrier bags, receipts, 3 water bottles, 4 books, assorted clothes, forgotten what else.

Found a few interesting things: cake mix and the hoof of a china horse spring to mind.

Edit: Bringing this up to date at 7.50pm, off to work and not around much for a few days to come though of course I don't intend not to drop in and read... er... and declutter an item or so.