Memorygirls - The Matrix Re-inspired

Cheery_Daff

Have you got the cash claire? In my (very long past!) experience most vets are quite accommodating to people spreading out payments if they can't afford it all in one go?

Glad it went well Crickett, sounds like it wasn't scary at all! :T Well done you :T And some interesting things to think about too x

fantasia322

I just caught up with your news Claire, am soooooo sorry about jack, but DH did the best thing he could have done for Jack, and also the hardest. He had a fantastic life with you and your family. I know exactly how you feels. Hugs xxxxxxx

clairewop

Yeah Dh had a few savings so he's using those.

crickett1234

Oh wow....! I feel.... normal today!! WOO HOO!!! Crickett has some va-va-va-voom back! I just ROCKED my first two meetings, and then did all the points arising from them in double quick time. I am currently putting a to do list together which will include all the things in my area operate like clockwork...! And I am loving my work today. I can't tell you how relieved I feel!!

I have also started a list of things which make me feel good about myself. Which is what I presume nurturing to be! At the top of the list was a decent haircut. I am currently growing my hair out, and I need to take some pretty drastic action with it because right now, it is beginning to look mulletish!! Not a good look. So I have made an appointment for this afternoon after work. I shall be going home feeling very glamourous. I am also going to Superdrug to get some pretty smellies for me too. My current set is nearly at an end anyway...!

Right... back to some more work!

Cheery_Daff

Yep Crickett, that's nurturing, well done you! :T :T :T

thriftyscotslass

Good news Crickett :T

An update from chez Thrifty. The second coat of the second half of the garden fence was done yesterday plus I planted out peas, cabbage, swede, carrots and turnips. Also....

I have seedlings from last week's plantings - lettuce is winning, beetroot and courgettes are neck-in-neck and the slow coaches are the spring onions. Come on team spring onions, you can do it :rotfl:.

We have a dilapidated monstrosity of a 70's garage at the bottom of our garden. So although it is technically not our property, I have decided to give the outside a spruce up to make it easier on the eye. So far today, I have cleared out it's guttering - well stops water pouring over the edges into our garden and got rid of all the horrible flaking paint. Next job is to go and wash all the horrible green slime off the guttering and the two windows that look out into our garden - mmnnnn, nice job. Best get on with it then.

Good vibes to all, Thriftyxxx

Kittikins

Woohoo! Well done Crickett Great to hear you're firing on all cylinders today, long may that last!

My plans to not spend any money today backfired when I NEEDED a can of diet pop, and some reduced bread rolls fell into the basket as well, so under £1 spend but grrr anyway! I've also got to pop into a supermarket to pick something up for a friend on the way home so am bound to look at the dented tin section.....

Having looked at the value on the SW website, I certainly won't be having any, but they will make DD's packed lunches for next week (I always make a week or so's worth of cheese sarnies/rolls in advance and chuck them in the freezer). Can't quite believe it's the end of term next Friday, DD certainly needs it, she's getting overtired, over-emotional and it threatens to rub off on me at times!!

My whooshiness of this morning is kind of lasting, despite the office's best efforts to grind me down, lol. I've been in touch with OH and had some silly texting so that will have to make do for the fact I'm not seeing him til tomorrow.

Hope others are feeling whooshy too and ready for action with whatever life throws at them.

robsmum_2

Crickett: That is really good news about your appointment with nutriousionist(sp?). What she said about nurturing yourself - so true, we don't do enough of it.
My Mum's palative care nurse said to me " If you don't look after you and nuture you, you won't last the course of caring for Mum" - she was spot on. I adopted the half hour a day principle of just "ME time".
Some cheap ideas:
D>I>Y - manicure, pedicure with new pretty nail polish.
Decent haircut (you are doing tonight), then a hair pampering session.
Collect evrything up and have a home Spa night.
Lesiurely stroll in early evening
Read a new book (Charity shops)
Listen to different music.
Buy yourself a bunch of flowers - always have flowers in the house.
Have a bar of chocie - forget diet and weight - It's a treat.
Write a letter to a friend (no e-mail, phone call)
Create something
Just sit and breathe deeply.
Sit in the garden at dusk and just listen.
That will do for starters, I'll let you know when I remember anymore.

MrsMoo2U

treat yourself to a really nice lunch picnic and take yourself out to a nice spot at lunchtime with a good book
dress yourself up after your hair do, put on some makeup and get hubby to take some nice pictures and start a photo diary of your progress towards your big birthday.
Wear nice underwear.
Body brush after a shower (towards the heart)
walk barefoot in the grass whilst pondering a dream
watch or read something that makes you laugh out loud
lie on the grass and stare at the sky - what shapes are in the clouds
cuddle the cats.
candlelit bath (see willow - she is the candle expert at the moment)
Will try to think of more later. Back to work

scaredy_cat

crickett, what happens in our lives as children makes us into the perosn we are today - in my case, the fact of going to 10 schools in 3 countries in 8 years has made it hard for me to form strong, deep friendships , and also it's hard to go out and meet new people. Which is why at the age of 43 i am unmarried (as i find it hard to go to places where you would normally meet men! ), only have 2 close friends who i know i can turn to, but i still have a issue of trust in leeting them into my deeper feelings, etc. i am basically socially inept in some situations!

I also find it hard to do things for myself - i think i compensated for this by comfort eating all the carp foods which has made me overweight. :eek:

It was on Buffy's blog that she mentioned a site where you list 101 things to do in 1001 days, so i have subscribed to that and so far got a list of 43 things that I want to do - like getting a indian head massage, read the top 100 books in the Times list, go to an outdoor concert.. etc.