My home is a mess

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi everyone - congratulations Laurel. I am sure you have worked hard for it so well done you.

Hope you are feeling OK farmers wife, I had a day like that last week, felt like I was starting with a stomach bug but it never came to anything thank goodness.

And yes we are getting the dog!!! We pick him up on Saturday, sooo excited. We have been advised by Blue Cross not to leave him alone at all for two weeks so it works out well with the kids on holiday. I am prepared for a bit of chaos until he settles in and I am sure he will get along with us just fine. DS is really excited and its maybe a bit much to hope the dog helps him with his depression but its giving him something to focus on so thats good.

bearcub

Congratulations, Laurel! :T I hope uou feel really encouraged. I've a friend on another forum who's a HLTA, and is having her job changed for next year, doing more small group and one-to-one work, which she thinks she'll enjoy. Personally, I think everyone who works with kids deserves medals. I worked for 12 years in a secondary school - support staff - then, after I retired here, was asked to help out with crafts at a holiday club. I did it for 2 years, then gave up. Loved the crafts, loved the older kids (10-12 year olds) but the younger ones I just wanted to clip round the ear. Sadly, violence was prohibited!

Good news about your OH clearing up, sonastin.

I'm sure that the dog will help your DS, yorkshirelass. They just need time to forge a bond, then DS can confide in him.

ScarletRaven

Hope you feel bettersoon FW.

sonastin wrote: »

bedroom is just a scary pit of (clean) clothes which don't seem to have a home but there's time to get those sorted.

I have the same problem - been getting on top of doing the washing, but now it's taken over our bedroom! What once was a desk is now a huge pile of clean washing almost taller than me! Determind to get that sorted this week.

I feel in such a good mood this evening. Been home alone most of the day and evening (fiance is just on his way home from work as I type this) and managed to achive so much. Usually when he works these late nights I have my worst times with the stress and ocd, as I have a real issue being alone as the night goes on, but I've managed to cope pretty well tonight and keeping busy has certainly helped.

Got the washing from last night dried outside today, and got our jeans and dark towels all washed today (my mum came to pick those up earlier to dry in her tumble dryer for us - she only lives down the road and knows we've been struggling with this weather to get our washing dry).

Tidied up my stepson's toys in the living room (can see the floor again, yay!) as he went home to his mum this afternoon. Cleaned and put away his high chair and sported out his changing bag. Put dishes away from last night. Then brought the washing in from outside before starting my most daunting task of the day...

I've prepped and cooked a roast chicken dinner from scratch, and it all went ok I never cook a roast dinner (I've done ONE since Christmas), as it just seems too stressful usually for me to do alone. But today I just took my time with it, doing it bit by bit, then plated it all up nicely ready to heat up later on. This way I had no time limit to have it dished up ready for everyone to eat together, with my partner working so late it's just ready to pop in the microwave when he's home. I feel such a sense of achievement purely for getting through making that dinner lol.

I've since done a ton of dishes and am now having a well-deserved sit down with the laptop.

Thank you to everyone in here. I may have only joined in with this a few days ago, but already I feel I'm making a little bit of progress, and knowing the support of like-minded people is in here is definitely a big help

mcculloch29

bearcub wrote: »

Was he now? Mmm, he's not exactly good-looking, but he's the most fanciable historian I've ever seen.

Neil Oliver...
I would agree, but he is sort of good looking -plus his lovely, lovely voice. Don't forget historian Dan Snow, though. I know he's younger than my daughter, but goodness, what a good looking guy.

Soworried

Morning everyone

I hope your feeling better fw x

Scarlet raven, your dinner sounds lovely. Well done

YL, I'm sure the dog will help your son. Is he up to walking the dog?

1st hour today I have tidied the shoe rack, moved cups in to the kitchen and done the recycling. It is raining again today so tasks will have to be indoor ones. To be honest I don't know if I would be up to going in the garden today anyway.

2nd hour, bed stripped and put in to the wm. Couches straightened and plumpt up.
Morning Cat x

3rd hour, I have had a shower, blow dried my hair and straightened it. Ironed an outfit plus an extra item. I'm now going to have to go in to town for shampoo as we have ran out and nobody told me I was hoping not to have to go out today.

4th hour, made lunch and went in to town.

5th hour, casserole prepared and put on low. Bedding put on the line.

6th hour, Dishes washed, worktops cleaned, hob cleaned.

7th hour, Hall, frontroom and kitchen swept.

8th hour, Bathroom bin emptyied in to either recycling or rubbish. Socks paired and put away. Bed made with bedding off the line. I made it!!!!!

Cat501

Morning messies! A grim, grey, wet day here again, although the view from the side window is looking a little brighter than out the front - oh well, it was nice to have a couple of dry days, can't complain :rotfl:

YS I agree with bearcub, of course I don't know your son, but knowing other people with depression who have animals, I'd hope that your new dog would have a positive effect - not a cure but a definite positive effect xx We don't have animals, partly because of DS's asthma, and partly because I knew I wouldn't be able to put in the work required to look after one.

Sonastin - regardless of the motivation, at least your OH is doing something!:T I'd love to get a surprise like that

ScarletRaven - wow!! What a day you had yesterday - really well done!!!:T Roast dinners are a faff aren't they? I very rarely do them because my oven is temperamental and I only have one working gas burner at the moment - and even when I do it's not a proper roast, just a Bernard Matthews thing. We do like loads of different veg and trimmings though. I'd be happy to have a roast without the meat really, if that makes sense!

I have a clean clothes pile in the kitchen, it's one of the things I look at and think I must sort/iron - then find something else more appealing to do :o I've totally mastered the "not ironing" thing - it's just the "not needing to iron" I have to work on I'd love to have somewhere where I could keep the ironing board up and ready all the time, a lot of the problem is how much of a drag getting it out is. Maybe I won't need to when I get the new washer dryer, which, incidentally, hasn't been ordered yet - I'm not sure I can move the current WM to disconnect it (which needs to be done before the delivery people will install the new one), so I've been putting it off.

mcculloch, hmmm that Dan Snow is pretty nice, I still prefer Neil though Charlie Hamilton-James the wildlife photographer is also luuuuurvely!!

Plans for today - well, I'm hoping my carpet cleaner solution will arrive today so there's a clue...:D I shall let you know if handsome parcel postie is back on duty:rotfl:On that note, I'm off to shower and do my hair just in case!:D

Hugs everyone xx

eta morning soworried!

alec_eiffel

sonastin wrote: »

and bedroom is just a scary pit of (clean) clothes which don't seem to have a home but there's time to get those sorted.

That was my biggest problem. It's the reason now my bedroom has to be the tidiest room in the house as there used to be piles of my stuff all over the pace - I'd have to move it off the bed so I could go to sleep etc. I thought it was because I had too many clothes but it was because I didn't understand how to do laundry properly. When I learned it was a process not an activity it made everything loads easier.

Shoving a load of laundry into the machine made me feel like I was doing something. But because I hadn't taken the already clean stuff off the airer and I hadn't put away the stuff that I took off the airer to make room for that all I was doing was making a mess. Then I read that laundry (like cooking) is a process - wearing, sorting, washing, drying and putting away. Talk about a lightbulb moment! So my thing now is to only wash on certain days of the week, unless there's some kind of laundry emergency and not doing more laundry until the stuff that's on the airer is dry. So as I put a load into the machine I have to put away the dry stuff. It just keeps things moving along.

ScarletRaven

Cat501 wrote: »

ScarletRaven - wow!! What a day you had yesterday - really well done!!!:T Roast dinners are a faff aren't they? I very rarely do them because my oven is temperamental and I only have one working gas burner at the moment - and even when I do it's not a proper roast, just a Bernard Matthews thing. We do like loads of different veg and trimmings though. I'd be happy to have a roast without the meat really, if that makes sense!

Thank you I completely understand, I'm a veggie anyway so my dinner is always without meat and still very enjoyable. I just did a chicken fillet in the oven for my partner so that was simple enough, it's peeling potatoes that I hate doing! lol.

Having a bit of a 'down day' today so not sure what my plans are just yet. I'm yet to even get dressed and haven't had anything to eat or drink either so those are my first plans. Hopefully I'll then get some motivation to get a few jobs done, would hate after a great couple of days to go back to square one.

Good luck to everyone else today

Cat501

lol - confession time - I buy frozen roasties....:o

I need to think of some jobs too. If I post them here I'll probably do them. I'm just struggling to find the motivation to post them knowing that I'll then need to do them. Deep breath.....:o

Soworried

Cat501 wrote: »

lol - confession time - I buy frozen roasties....:o

I need to think of some jobs too. If I post them here I'll probably do them. I'm just struggling to find the motivation to post them knowing that I'll then need to do them. Deep breath.....:o

Have you thought of any jobs yet?