My home is a mess

bearcub

Afternoon Messies.

Yorkshirelass, it must be really tough for you, knowing quite where to stop helping. I know from experience just how hard it is to get the balance right, when you have one who has health problems (physical or mental) while the other is fine - and mine were in their late teens/early 20s. So easy to 'fuss'.

Sunny and warm here, too, although there are quite a few clouds around, the penalty for living so close to the sea. Must go and potter in the garden.

farmerswife75

Hi Messies!

Nice to see you are back Yorshirelass!! I will pm you at some point about Crohn's!!

Lovely weather here today, i got 2 loads washing out on the line, made some biscuits and had a tidy up in the kitchen this morning. Then I finished a cross stitch sampler that i've been doing for ages (when i say ages i mean years ) so it needs to go to the framers at some point! I then decided to ratch out another cross stitch that i started a while ago, so that's next on my list of things to be finished!

Hope everyone has had a good day!

Jx

Emm-in-a-pickle

Since my last post the sun came out again here (has now gone cloudy again though) so...
I`ve put out some washing -next doors` fire very brief - and got it dry and brought it in.
Cleared the grassy bits growing in cracks in front path, it looked scruffy.
Lobbed some overhanging privet that drips on the log shelter...AND
Cut my toenails, outside (the neighbours must`ve thought someone was shooting at them!)
Got supper planned too - farm shop sausages & eggs, a few chips, steam remains of the huge farmshop cauli we had on Sunday (about a quarter left as no room in steamer then). Also found some tired baby tomatoes, half an onion, and some weary cheese, so will fry up onion & toms, trim & grate weary cheese into the mix & pour over the cauli. Haven`t had cheesy tomatoes for ages.Yum, and using things up too...
pats self on head...

Fruball

Well folks - I have set a target of the beginning of the summer hols to get at least downstairs DONE and half of upstairs.

Why the rush? I am really, really poorly sick in bed with fever, D & V and pain all over my body which is excrutiating (took co-codamol a while ago and it took the edge off, hence being able to have laptop on my legs without it hurting - what if I needed a GP visit? :eek:

I have made some progress over the last few weeks, mostly mentally by watching the hoarding programmes - I don't hoard everything but can see hoarding tendancies!!! That coupled with a dose of laziness doesn't help matters! So, mentally I am ready to just get rid of stuff to charity shops. Physically I need to be better asap!

I have been in bed all day and will do the same tomorrow if necessary, which I hope it isn't, but I really do feel wretched


...just spoke to nhs direct and they believe I have norovirus

bearcub

Hello Frugal. I've not noticed you in here for a while.Sorry to hear you're feeling so rough, and I hope you pick up soon. Quite heroic still thinking of de-messying, bless you.

Emms, I think your meal is very MSE, but I love the description 'weary cheese'. I have this picture of a large chunk of cheddar yawning! I discovered, on another MSE thread, the term 'wobbleade', and had to ask my DD1 what it was, because I thought it might be beer or cider. Apparently, it's any alcoholic drink, so that will be a new expression I'll be using. :rotfl:

MessyMare

*hugs* Fru, hope you feel better soon xx

Fruball

The weirdest thing is, having spent a day in bed, frankly in agony at times, and with the most violent vomiting I have ever experienced, my mind wants to go and de-clutter the house!!!

Why IS that? Is it psychological do you think? Because I know I can't... If I got an urge to declutter this strongly any other time, I would plough thru it in now time!

Any ideas on how I can store this mindset for when I am better?

(thanks for the kind messages) xx

YORKSHIRELASS

Aww Frugal you take it easy. Get out a notepad and pen and make lists, empty all those decluttering plans out of your brain then rest. Dont be rushing to do loads when you are starting to get better either if its Norovirus you arent going to be all weak and washed out and will need time to get better. Spoken in my best bossy voice so make sure you take notice.

Emm I was laughing at the thought of your huge farmshop cauli. I bought a humongous bag of spring greens in Morrisons for £1 and everyone is starting to get a tiny bit fed up of them I think. DS1 asked for a liberal helping of gravy tonight and I dont think he was encouraged when I said how much iron was in his cabbage.

Busy day, lots done and I am tired now. Will watch the rest of the footie and think about an early night I think.

laurel7172

Ouch, Frugal, take care xx

Thank you, YorkshireLass

Cat-if you need to go into hospital, please go in as a voluntary if you can. When I was taken in (severe PND), the doctor said to me over and over again "I need you to nod to agree to this," until finally I managed to nod. Having known people who have been sectioned since, and heard of their struggle to get their legal independence back, I'm incredibly grateful for his kindness. xx

I remain two washloads, a dishwasherload and a couple of weekends from being unafraid to open the door. That is, about the situation I've been in since Christmas. DD has friends downstairs, so I can't even empty the dryer (which I need to do before I empty the wm) without risking a trail of knickers as I sneak across the hall. However, at least they have lifted the bed into the study for me . I've been tutoring, to B&Q twice for gravel, bought the paint I need last night, but it was on 3 for 2, so naturally, I *had* to buy paint for the hall as well...which even DD has noticed is looking grubby. Sigh. I would say it was like painting the Forth Bridge, but they finished that...:rotfl:

Urgently, I need to:

Weed the front border, (recently brick-edged by my dad), lay weed control fabric and dump gravel on top. It's mostly full of lavender, but if I can keep the weeds in between down that will be a job saved in the future...many times over, I hope.

Do the window wall in the toy room.

Do the whole toy room (second coat of the good stuff, third coat overall)

Woodwork in toy room. All of it. Twice.

Refit blind in toy room.

Change handle on toy room door.

Plant all the wilted 30p bedding that fell into my trolley at B&Q. :j (Assuming the soaking I've given it perks it up.)

Complete go through house. Hoovering, dusting, cleaning, tidying, paperwork...the works.

Oh, and did I mention I'm tutoring every night this week? Which is sort of good, obviously, but plays havoc with any hope of getting anything done in the evenings. Which reminds me, I've promised one kid I'll print something off for an Olympic project....and my printer won't work :eek:.

However...while I was out soaking my very sorry-looking lobelia, I noticed that an iris is in flower, and others will soon be joining it. I can't remember when I bought them, or when I shoved them into pots, but it made me smile. It always feels like a present...from a good day in the past to now.

bearcub

Nope, frugal, it's no good. You just CANNOT do de-messying atm. As yorkshirelass says, write lists of what you want to do, what you will do, when you're better and stronger. That way, you're contributing to the work, without weakening yourself any more. Do please take it easy.

Laurel, how very MSE, 30p bedding! :T Hmm, decorating, gardening and tutoring. Do you really think you have enough on your plate? I'm full of admiration, especially if you get anywhere near all of it done!

I feel shattered, and all I've done is sit at the pooter, trying to put a newsletter together. Oh, and email some sad news to a lot of people in the local churches. Not the best way to pass on news, but it would have taken ages otherwise. Very difficult to know how to word such an email.

I've just been out to the front garden and picked some sweet william flowers to put in our lounge, and there was, I assume, a family of rooks hopping around on the green. Nuisance birds a lot of the time, but so funny.