Keeping up appearances.......

HappyNow

I hope the family being around has been cheering and enjoyable. Sorry if that sounded like a nag too far - it wasn't meant to be.
No, definitely not a nag too far . All nags (or 'encouragements' as they are better phrased!) are welcome and very much needed at the moment. The family being round IS cheering, but also very tiring - they're untidy and noisy and eat a lot and take up a lot of room. It's also been exciting, because Master Happy has finally brought his girlfriend home to meet us. She is lovely, and I've been cooking, cleaning, chatting and generally trying to make us look like the sort of family she would be happy to join! I haven't had any feedback yet from him so I don't know if we pulled it off . Hope so, I really like her!

Let's hope for a mild, short winter. I'm always heartened by dry spells even if they're not warm but the weather we've had recently has seemed exceptionally mild. I know it's colder Oop North, but I hope it's been at least warmer and dryer than normal. (The grass is still growing here.)
It's lovely here for mid-October. Usually we've had to rug at least the oldest horse by now, but she's still happily grazing 'au naturel' and eating far less bought food than last year. Let's hope the mild spell lasts until April!

Do you know what causes the sleeplessness? It's horrible when it keeps happening. OH keeps a lavendar sachet under his pillow now after years of broken sleep and has been known to spray a bit of lavendar oil stuff over them when he's thoroughly fed up with waking up and not being able to get back to sleep. I hope you find a solution.
I've struggled with sleep for a few years now and I wonder if it's just an age thing. There's nothing particularly worrying me (well, possibly the small matter of £41,600.....:rotfl: ) and I do seem to function reasonably well on just a few hours per night. If it becomes a real problem I suppose I could always speak to the doc, but it's more an irritation than anything.

HappyNow

Target-wise I've been left for dead by both Honey and Dolphin, but it's still better than if I hadn't been trying.

Money. Well I'm really fed up with this now and soooo ready for payday. Not that next month will be much better, but there will at least be a brief few days when I can buy guilt-free shampoo and the odd treat. ('Treat' is a euphemism for red wine I'm afraid ). Two days to go and counting.
Myfitnesspal. If nothing else, using Myfitnesspal shows me that I eat the same foods week after week, and should get a bit more adventurous. And I know the calorie content of most of them by heart!
Daily diary :o

Honey_Bear

HappyNow wrote: »

Master Happy has finally brought his girlfriend home to meet us. She is lovely, and I've been cooking, cleaning, chatting and generally trying to make us look like the sort of family she would be happy to join! I haven't had any feedback yet from him so I don't know if we pulled it off . Hope so, I really like her!

Why, Happy, it sounds as though you're practically rooting for a wedding you like her so much! Or, at the very least, being interviewed! Unususal for a mum, I have to say, most of us were never good enough for their precious babies in my experience. That may speak volumes about me that I'd rather not think about too carefully, though. It only took OH's mum 15 minutes to mention the one and only girlfriend of his that got away that she liked, apparently that was a new record even for her!

It's lovely here for mid-October. Usually we've had to rug at least the oldest horse by now, but she's still happily grazing 'au naturel' and eating far less bought food than last year. Let's hope the mild spell lasts until April!

Oooh, naked gee gees. You'll probably be done for indecently exposing them if anyone find out. Jolly good thing you're all stuck out in the wilds.

I've struggled with sleep for a few years now and I wonder if it's just an age thing. There's nothing particularly worrying me (well, possibly the small matter of £41,600.....:rotfl: ) and I do seem to function reasonably well on just a few hours per night. If it becomes a real problem I suppose I could always speak to the doc, but it's more an irritation than anything.

Calming *lavender-type peaceful sleeping vibes* for you.

Honey_Bear

HappyNow wrote: »

Target-wise I've been left for dead by both Honey and Dolphin, but it's still better than if I hadn't been trying.

Err, you haven't seen today's scores on the doors for me yet .... Move along there, nothing to see here ....

Money. Well I'm really fed up with this now and soooo ready for payday. Not that next month will be much better, but there will at least be a brief few days when I can buy guilt-free shampoo and the odd treat. ('Treat' is a euphemism for red wine I'm afraid ). Two days to go and counting.

Treats are important to keep you going. 'Guilt-free shampoo' is an expression that can only be used after a Light Bulb Moment, but it does speak volumes about how far you've come, doesn't it?

Myfitnesspal. If nothing else, using Myfitnesspal shows me that I eat the same foods week after week, and should get a bit more adventurous. And I know the calorie content of most of them by heart!

Don't you get bored? I really, really need to have different tastes and textures to enjoy food on a regular basis. Our standard sort of meal plan thingy is about as flexible as we can get it so that we don't have to try to decide what we're going to eat from scratch every day but can allow for us to mix it up quite a bit. I'd go mad otherwise.
Daily diary :o

You're concentrating on the important things, like making potential new family members welcome - you can catch up when life-changing events don't need such detailed and scrupulous attention!

Honey_Bear

Dolphin1 wrote: »

Update for yesterday...

1) None eaten.
2) Light off at 10.40pm
3) Back exercises done twice.

You put us both to shame, Dolphin, you really do. Good on you. Nag nag naggity nag - although I don't think that's actually necessary you're so self-diciplined.

Honey_Bear

• No computer after 9.00pm. Tick.
• Five fruit and veg a day. Not a tick.
  
• 15 minutes flying a day, sticking to the new schedule: Monday: Dusting/dewebbing; Tuesday: Kitchen; Wednesday: Floors; Thursday: Bath/shower room; Friday: Windows/Paintwork. Err, long weekend anyone?
  
• Go flour-free. Tick.
  
• New for Suptember 2: Use the electric toothbrush at least once a day. I hate doing it, but it's so much more effective than the old fashioned one, so if I make it official I might stick to it. Not a tick.

2/5. Must do better. Must dust. Must get a**e into gear, basically. Although, we chose our bathroom cabinet yesterday after 20 years of procrastination and I made about 30 jars of marrow and ginger jam sort of stuff so the marrows didn't get chucked out because the charity can't cope with any more and even their vegetarian staff are sick of stuff marrow. So I am virtuous, after all. I'm awarding myself a :A.

Now to work out how to deal with 26 more beetroot, with the threat of another carrier bag full on Saturday.

Dolphin1

Honey_Bear wrote: »

You put us both to shame, Dolphin, you really do. Good on you. Nag nag naggity nag - although I don't think that's actually necessary you're so self-diciplined.

My halo slipped yesterday so not putting anyone to shame...

1) None eaten.
2) Light off at 11.45pm :eek:.
3) Back exercises only done once .

joeyjimbles

Well I still think you are all doing brilliantly.
All a bit odd here in sparkleville - eldest is away on a drama trip for 4 days which is fraught with opportunities to lose things, youngest is having a rough-ish week at school as they're no longer 'new' so the expectations have stepped up a bit. Still today was better than yesterday, and once PE is over tomorrow (he hates PE) it will be better again. OH has been working stupid hours and I just feel out of sorts, a bit lost really but I'll not bore you with my real or imagined midlife crisis.
On a positive note, weight is still creeping down, little piles of debt are doing similarly and I've still managed to not put the heat on yet. Little wins.

dawnybabes

Dolphin1 wrote: »

Did you manage to find a decent gluten free loaf of bread? I have been gluten free since last December and still haven't found any gluten free bread that comes anywhere near the real thing so I rarely eat bread at all now except toast very occasionally for breakfast.

I'm late to the party here, but my son is coeliac.

The best bread we have ever found is from wheat free bakery. They are on line and the bread tastes "real". I always buy a big batch and freeze it. The tiger bread is fab ! At a family BBQ this year I gave everyone the burger buns from here and no one noticed it was gf.

Dolphin1

dawnybabes wrote: »

I'm late to the party here, but my son is coeliac.

The best bread we have ever found is from wheat free bakery. They are on line and the bread tastes "real". I always buy a big batch and freeze it. The tiger bread is fab ! At a family BBQ this year I gave everyone the burger buns from here and no one noticed it was gf.

Thank you so much dawnybabes. I've had a quick look and their products looks amazing. I am placing an order today to see what some of it tastes like. Yum, tiger loaf!!!