MOOLOO'S Muddling on into 2013

tessie_bear

hi mooloo...im in awe of you...your family are so lucky to have you...i hope u are ok on what must be a pants day for you...oh the weather is said to be bad tomorrow in our neck of the woods (im near stratford) so take care when walking
take care i think u sound fab tessa

heartbreak_star

Hi Mooloo!

Just started reading your story - you are so strong!

Could I have a link to your blog please? I'm interested in the Kindle cover as my current cheapy one is falling to bits.

HBS x

Savvy_sewing

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Hi Mooloo!

Just started reading your story - you are so strong!

Could I have a link to your blog please? I'm interested in the Kindle cover as my current cheapy one is falling to bits.

HBS x

Hi, not sure where you have started the read on the threads. Its a long old story!.
If you click on the Mooloo name on the top of the posts, there is a drop down menu, and you can see Mooloo's home page. This is the link to my blog. I dont write it as much as I do here, or the sewing room, although I am told that I have to step it up if I want to be an on line crafter!.

If you have any preferences for colours and things for a cover, then send me a PM and I will see if I can help you.
Or google some images of kindle covers and copy a picture and I will see what your after, (you should be able to send a link to a picture I think).

Yesterday was not my best day. Obviously. It didnt help that I wasnt feeling too well. I did have some help during the morning and had my bathroom blissed. I managed to have a rest in the afternoon, as I am not feeling up to things.
I did manage to go to babysit for DGD2. Although I was pleased that Biggest of Mooloo was home earlier then expected as it was snowing. Luckily the roads are all clear to my door as the road I live on is a bus route so its cleared/gritted.
I walked DGD to school the different way this morning which was a little easier under foot but I wouldnt have gone without my stick thats for sure.
I came back and started the search again for the power pack to the lamp and after 45 minutes of rooting through the boxes etc under my bed I was about to give up when I remembered that there was a bag that used to be in the sewing room, at the end of the bed/by the wardrobe and sure enough. There it was!. Yipee apart from the fact that it will save me money, it means that the lamp is now on charge and I will be able to get my sessions infront of my Golite. Yeah. I am going to be looking forward to that.:T
While I was hunting around I came across the very first Diary/notes/household book that I started to write in 1992. When my epic writing of note books started. I am not sure where all the books are, they will be in every nook and cranny around. But its a start to find this one and too see if there is any material in it that will help me to write that so called book I keep thinking about writing.
Alas the first 30 years of my life are not recorded. Well not by me anyway. I will have to see if I can talk to my parents and get some of the old memories back to the forefront of things. But not today.
I am shattered.

Savvy_sewing

Well As i had to collect DGD early on Friday,that was the last time that I went outside. The school text last night to say that its not opening today. Biggest of MOOLOO brought DGD2 over last night and I have her until about 6,30pm as the other granny had to cancel as her Dad died. He was living out his last days at home in her house so not a suitable place to leave the baby.
I have the sledge if we need to go out as prams don.t work in the snow.
I am still struggling with SAD but am trying to use the lamp.
The food is Ok but starting to run out of some things.
Time to get breakfast.

Savvy_sewing

I am trying to sit under/beside my lamp for 30 minutes each day, to get my self feeling better. I have only ventured as far as the end of the garden gate today, while I cleared the path of all the ice and snow. Easier said then done. But I managed it. Although it did mean that I had to go and have a lie down this afternoon as I was worn out.
I finished knitting the scarf for the set I was making. I need to put the pictures up though.
I also have battled with my sewing machine, and finally sorted out why it wasnt sewing. (Well one of them), the thread I opened today was rotten, so must have been hanging around too long. Then the eye of the needle was so sharpe that it was cutting the thread. So with new thread, and needle, I managed to finish off two shopping totes that were started last year.
DGD has come home from school unwell. Molly's daughter had taken her and collected her for me. She went across to the chemist and got me some Calpol for her. So we have given her a dose, and she is wrapped up on the sofa. She doesnt want her dinner, and so I am going to just give her some fruit and then she can go to bed.
Looks like another few days before I will be venturing out.
I just hope that my Tesco delivery will come today, and not be too delayed.
I managed to rest for about 2 hours this afternoon, but I am still tired and feel quite jaded. It would be easy to go back to bed, but I know from years of experience that I will be up half the night if I do do that.
My Homemade magazine has arrived in the post. So been having a look at that for some inspiration. Alas most of the time its about Papers, card making and such, which is not really what I do, so I now have loads of pretty papers that come free with my magazines. I shall have to think of something to do with them though, as I hate waste.

Errata

the thread I opened today was rotten, so must have been hanging around too long.

How bizarre. I'm still using Sylko threads I inerited which were probably purchased around 1920!

Savvy_sewing

It's the first time I have ever seen such weak thread and I had only taken the wrapper off it today. Managed to get photos on my blog at last. Not brilliant photos but better then nothing.
Shopping delivery has arrived so I can lock the door and get an early night now. Doubt there will be school run in the morning. DGd fell asleep on the sofa before I could get her up to bed. As she usually bounces off the walls all day a sure sign she is unwell.

Savvy_sewing

DGD's temperature, cough and cold has meant that I kept her at home today. For someone who is usually bouncing off of the walls all day, she is fast asleep on the sofa. Calpol to the rescue.
We have had more snow this afternoon. So I am relieved that we didnt actually go anywhere.
We are nice and warm and toastie, and I will worry about the fuel bills at another time. I have been lucky enough to get a cold weather payments from my ESA. I dont remember having one of those before. But it was just as well, as I had to pay some money towards my ASDA credit card.
I know, I couldnt clear it last month, not this month. I have paid more than the minimums though. But hope that I will be able to pay more off of it soon.
IF I get anything extra in, then it will go towards that.
Both my cards have been put away.
I have moved my savings to the main account so that I dont go into overdraft as I think my Free overdraft is now finished as I have been with Santander for a year today now.
Seeing the things about changing banks etc I am mindful of the various options, but not sure that I can be bothered to try and change again yet. I will think about all the pro's and cons. I did get cashback last year when I did the changing. So we will see.
I havent had to pay any fees to them, and I have had cashback on my bank card and my spending. Which I would not have had if I had stayed with the co-op.
I have been trying to use my Slice cutting machine to cut out fabric, as its supposed to do, but after only one letter the rest getting screwed up, I have given up. It also wastes so much fabric as you have to use the whole of the base of the machine for each letter. I think I will go back to drawing templates and cutting out free hand. Maybe with a scalpel, I will have to see. But for today I give up.
I have spent some time this morning blog hopping as well.
Time flies by when I am doing that. Sewing blogs, just seem to abound on the internet.
I want to sew later when DGD is in bed, but we will see. I often get too tired by the time I have the time to do things. IF you get what I mean.
On the rest of the front, Its very quiet becuase of the snow.
I have continued to use my light. I think its is slowly beginning to show a difference. But only a slight one, I feel I need a lot more time with it before things are back to an even keel. Then I must remember to keep it up so that I dont slip backwards again.

Savvy_sewing

I have been thinking about the way forward with trying to write down, sort out, the kind of things that would be interesting and right for writing that book we keep banging on about. I just noticed that the 2009 thread that I wrote, there were some 415,000 viewings! That was definitely a massive year for viewing then. Maybe I need to start re reading that one and getting my self sorted out from there. As it must have been the most interesting part of my life. Things have definitely calmed down, and therefore less interesting for people to follow. Which actually is thank goodness as I am tired of the fights that I have had over the years.
I am still procrastinating over life, and worry that since the pressure has been lifted on my fighting for things, that I have relaxed so much more that I am not "doing" like I used to.
Today I have actually got a numb rear, from sitting in the armchair all day. I am no longer even comfortable sitting here. Dispite I have still been on the computer a lot today, doing some research for sewing as well as with trying to up my Portuguese and a few other things that I have pottered with. However I do not feel as if I am getting anywhere with anything these days.
Tomorrow is another day where DGD is going to be at home. She is still so poorly bless her. So we will not be venturing far again.
I will probably have to bring the sewing machine downstairs if she is on the Sofa, and see if I can do a bit more sewing.

Savvy_sewing

DGD still unwell. Sniffing and coughing. Her eyes are all puffed up, so the head cold, or Flu has taken quiet a grip on her. She is lying on the sofa watching the TV, and she has not been running around at all. She is not eating much either. She only had a youghurt for her tea last night. Doesnt want breakfast this morning.
I will get her another youghurt soon and see if she will eat that.
I have to go to the post office to post a parcel back to Amazon, and my divorce papers need to be returned so the absolute can be sorted out. Along with some sewing books that Rufusdog is going to borrow so that she can make herself a wedding outfit.
I have been asked to help one of Biggest of Mooloo's friends sort out her Wedding dress. Apparantly she needs it to be lengthened with some lace as she is rather tall. I shall go and see her next week, when I hope DGD is better and back to school.
I have declined looking after DGD2 today. I feel rather guilty, as I hate saying No, but its really just too much to look after the pair of them, especially when they are both unwell. Biggest was invited to her new BF's works do, in Nottingham. So it would have meant having DGD2 from mid afternoon today, to about the same tomorrow. I dont think I can cope with them while I am suffereing so much with the depression. Its too much of an effort.
I am using the SAD lamp but its taking its time to get a hold of me, for the positive side of things.
I am juggling my money around. Moved £200 from the Co-op into the Santander bank accounts, and put some of it into the savings pot. I am well behind in my savings target, and I will need to put around £50 a week away if I want to hit my targets.
So unless I get my act together and do some Ebay, Folksy and Etsy sales then I am not going to make it.
Why am I stuck in the rut of depressions grips and the "its too much effort" to do things mode?
I could do with a huge boost of energy right now.!