Lois_E begins a long MFW journey

Lois_E

All seems to have gone well. Whether indoors or outdoors, I've hardly seen DS and the extra boy at all all afternoon. Must feed them soon, though.

Need to go through the fridge and throw out most of the stuff. Somebody put some ketchup in there yesterday where it didn't really fit, so the door didn't shut properly. We went out for the day and came home to find the fridge folornly bleeping to say its door was wide open.

Pearla*Merle

I feel your pain, Lois. We've had to do twice in the past year, argh

Lois_E

Well I chucked all the meat and the yoghurt etc, and the milk had been on its last legs anyway so that obviously went. There were things I could keep, though. The ketchup and mayonnaise etc didn't seem to have suffered much, and the cheese and butter and so on were OK as well. There was also a cucumber that was fine, and an avocado likewise.

It was a good thing to have had to do. I found some stuff in there that should have been cleared out a long time ago. :o:o

Lois_E

What's happened to the spring? It's grey and damp here, with howling noises from the wind. Makes me feel I want to stay indoors wrapped up warm and not do anything much. Please come back, Sunshine!

Alchemilla

Cold here too. Well comparatively.

Habibiboo

Lois_E wrote: »

What's happened to the spring? It's grey and damp here, with howling noises from the wind. Makes me feel I want to stay indoors wrapped up warm and not do anything much. Please come back, Sunshine!

:wave:

I think you should make "not do anything much" a list item Lois!

Intermittent here, some sunshine but I'm quite glad the heating just came on.

Well done with all the decluttering, especially the desk and work area, makes all the difference!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Lois_E

I thought I might tell you guys the weirdest dream I had the other night. I don't usually remember my dreams at all, but this one is still crystal clear.

To start with, I was going to move into my new flat. I had to go up in a lift through a very long lift shaft with doors only at the very bottom and very top. When I got out at the top, I found myself in a pharmacy shop. I had to go round behind the till and down three steps where there was another lift that took me down a single storey to the flat. Then I realised that in fact only the bedroom was down on that level, and the rest of the apartment was on the same level as the pharmacy, surrounded by it and separated from it by walls that were only 4 ft high, so that all the customers could hear the argument that I was beginning to have with the other occupant of the apartment. At this point I started to think that it wasn't a very nice place to live, and told somebody that this wasn't my forever home. Then I realised there were other things wrong with the set-up: I had been forced to change my identity and live as a man, and marry a Vietnamese woman called Jie, who was the other person in the apartment. At this point I remembered that I had already bought my forever home in England. I also decided that I didn't have to put up with the other stuff, and told Jie that since I hadn't consented to the sex change or the marriage, we ought to be able to get it annulled, to which she agreed. I was just trying to work out how to go about getting the annulment when I woke up.

I kid you not, I didn't make any of that up. That is exactly how my dream unfolded. Does it say any worrying things about my psyche????

giblet1979

That sounds really interesting

I guess it sounds to me like it has parallels with your money saving journey (the till, the 'pharmacy', being a different person from how you would want to be or expect yourself to be, living out your difficulties under observation (forum?) and moving away from that towards your forever home as you are taking charge and becoming debt free).

Alternatively, I could just be obsessed with money saving at present and seeing it everywhere

midnight_child

Hey Lois,
Been catching up on your diary.

In regards to recent dream...... May I suggest laying off the absinthe.

Alchemilla

Or late night cheese?