The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

Memory_Girl

Just to let you know - Postie has just been

I am now in proud possession of Mary MarkII - just in case.

DS1's Club Penguin Book has also arrived and has been wrapped and stashed in my bedside table for the morning. The card reads

"Happy Birthday and have lots of fun at your new school. Love. The Matrix Aunties"



Its throwing it down here too- but very humid so the door is open as I wait for AF order. Mind you I have done three loads of washing, 1 mix of Pitta bread, I pressure cooker of Chick peas for hummus and 1 litre of yoghurt is on yogging. I have also been out to do the weekly F&V shop and have repacked a parcel that needs to be returned. I have even brought my filing box downstairs to sort through and have opened an ISA to start me on my way to £125,000 challenge.

Yup!!!! You've guessed it - avoidance tactics rather than knuckle down and do the plan the Mentors need by 10pm.

Aaaaarrghhhh!!!! there that's better

MG

thriftyscotslass

Rushes in & waves to all. Just skim reading at the moment so hope I don't miss anything too important but I did pick up that there's a big do up at MG's neck-of-the-woods

Stop yappin' so much - give a girl a chance

clairewop

Good afternoon

Had a lie in this morning, came downstairs to glass all over the kitchen floor one of the cats must have knocked a glass off the kitchen worktop.

Ds2 helped my tidy through when he got up

Postman has been, lots of goodies to be sorted

SunFlower

OK, so VIP phone call over: didn't lead to a job (didn't really think it would, but still...) so now need to get job hunting properly.

Just to give you all a giggle, I've been quite a lazy SunFlower this morning and I'm still in my pyjamas. Thursday is bin collection day round here, and our recycling bin is particularly full at the minute as they have cut collectiong down from once a fortnight to once a month. I went to bed later than anticpated due to last night's shenanigans, meaning I got up later, too. Cue horror when I heard the bin lorry go by: I had to run out in my mismatched pyjamas (baby pink three-quarter length pants and a turquoise T-shirt), ill fitting coat, mummy SunFlower's old, nasty black clogs* and bad hair in the rain, halfways down the street (a busy main road) to get to them, only to find they had gone by the time I made it round the corner.

Lady Luck didn't entirely let me down, though: they had taken the regular rubbish, not the recycling, which went a mere 20 mins ago. Phew!

* I would just like to qualify that these are mummy SunFlower's 'too-old-to-be-seen-in-public-therefore-am-just-wearing-them-round-the-house-until-they-are-thrown-in-the-bin' pair, and that not all mummy SunFlower's shoes are in this state!

crickett1234

I am ridiculously excited... I have won my first ever Ebay auction!! Go me. Nothing praticularly exciting, but i am very happy with it... and got it at a totally bargainous price as well. Very happy crickett.

Which is just as well, because I feel quite sick and as if a donkey is kicking me in the stomach. Normal hormonal stuff I go through when "it" turns up after an absence of 4 or so months. Nice. NOT. Unfortunately can't go home and curl up in a ball because I have a late appointment with my counsellor. However, after that, and after I have driven home in safety... I then intend on going straight to bed!!

Positive vibes to everyone who needs them. Now.... where did I put that chocolate!!

Memory_Girl

AF order is here - and although I am "glowing" whilst stacking it away, all I can say is

ROLL ON SCOTTISH WINTER - DO YOUR WORST!!!!:T

Boys are happily munching on Pitta and hummus for lunch, so blessed peace will reign for a while.

I know, I know, Plan to be drafted this afternoon - promise:p

MG

Dee5565

Challenge 3,
As I have to rest four times a day I have decided
that when I get up that will be my declutter time.
I will collect 20 items in 10 mins.

I am reading a book at the moment called Heal your
spirit,heal yourself.
It has really made think about my life and how I
how to change my life for the better. I have always
been a YES person, feel bad saying No.But this book
has made me realise that its okay to say no, and that
it doesnt make me a bad person.

So today I rang a friend who is the same age as me
and told her that as I now have health problems. I
can no longer do her shopping when I do mine.
She abit mad at first because I have been doing it
for along time. I started doing it when so had a few
problems and it just went on since then . Even
though she is okay now it just became a habit.

Just want to thank everyone here, as I have been
reading your thread for a long time before I posted
Reading what you ladies do give me the courage today
to do it. Its only a small step but I feel alittle stronger.:)

robsmum_2

Dee: If you haven't been welcomed to our ramblings then let me be the first to say Welcome.
Very WELL DONE on your 1st NO. I used to be exactly the same. The first time I said No I found terrifying but very empowering. Stick with it - you will also find who your real friends are.

greyfox

Hi, MG (and ladies, and Mike!)

It’s bucketing down here so I’m decluttering shoes (or will be once I’ve posted this!). I seem to have acquired lots of virtually identical pairs over the years and it’s really time to bid farewell to some of them. So an afternoon of sorting the “comfortable & good condition” from the “ouch” and “favourite-but-worn-out” beckons!

Now that Mary MarkII has arrived, may I make a suggestion? Rather than putting her away “just in case” it might be worth trying a sneaky substitution before the difference becomes too obvious. (My sister had a similar experience with her eldest and rotated two identical teddies. She got away with it, but wouldn’t have done had she waited until the original was showing too many signs of love!) If Mary1 is already looking a little “love-worn”, it may be worth giving her a shampoo/bath (with DS2s help, of course!), a session with the hairdryer and a quick squirt with a perfume. Then, once DS2 is asleep, substitute Mary MarkII (also squirted with the same perfume). Fingers crossed he won't spot the difference!

Karmacat

Greyfox, thats great!

Dee, that takes real courage to do that, well done you.