Building The Burrow!

Pearla*Merle

Ooh mouche, have just seen that you came to tell me how sweet and a big HURRAH once again for getting to £40! :j

Apple muncher, the sad fact is that I've actually found some more than are even older. I may have been keeping them for sentimental reasons. :rotfl: I'm a lost cause.

Pearla*Merle

Habibiboo wrote: »

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Oh my goodness, this is like the garden plan all over again - I use a very similar stationery-based process to help keep me on the straight and narrow too, professionally and personally! Tell me, do you also happen to be a Post-It girl?

Oh Habibiboo, does the following answer your question...? :rotfl:



I used to have all sorts of different shaped Post-Its, now I think about it, I know I still have some sheep somewhere... I wonder where they've got to? :think: *readies the border collies to round them up*

Hope the re-vamp of the Life Folder is a good sign that you are feeling much better ~ horrible to be full of lurgy when it's the time of year to be positive and pro-active, and especially with this rollercoaster ride of the OH's job going on too ... do look after yourself P*M!

Well big thanks to museumworker and the migraine tips she gave me on her diary I'm now feeling like I'll be much better equipped to keep myself together henceforth. The last while has been a bit rocky but even with the downtime I've managed to do some good thinking and feel like I've made a lot of headway :j It's so exciting to have a plan of action, just having this diary has been such a tremendous help, it's made me think about things and focus in quite a different way, I didn't really expect that to happen but love that it has.

PS. I found my Original Life Folder during the big paperwork clear out, I was going to sort it out and chuck away the old papers but now I think I might keep it for posterity. :rotfl:

glitterjunkie

The life folder sounds AMAZING! I'm very jealous of your cooking and baking, sounds like you have some lovely things in the freezer I wish I could bake, I bet it's quite relaxing? X

apple_muncher

KEEP THE ORIGINAL LIFE FOLDER!! But bin the receipts! An old life folder must be so inspirational when you come back to it. Posterity will thank you. X

Pearla*Merle

glitterjunkie wrote: »

I'm very jealous of your cooking and baking, sounds like you have some lovely things in the freezer I wish I could bake, I bet it's quite relaxing? X

It's very lovely to switch off and potter about baking, you should try it glitterjunkie! It sounds impressive but it's the easiest thing in the world. Just weigh out flour, butter, sugar and eggs and then whack it in a food processor (I'm lazy these days!), pop it in the oven and you're done! That's the basics of most baking, once you get comfortable with victoria sponges/fairy cakes/basic pastry then you can start getting creative and adding in extras and suddenly the sky's the limit I definitely favour recipes that let me sling everything into one pot and don't need much else input, you can get quite far on that philosophy I've found.

apple_muncher wrote: »

KEEP THE ORIGINAL LIFE FOLDER!! But bin the receipts! An old life folder must be so inspirational when you come back to it. Posterity will thank you. X

I'll try to bin the receipts, I've only got about five left... I'll try and tackle one a month? :rotfl: The life folder was quite a thing to look through, I'd kept a reading list that year - it looks very impressive, it was all Satre this and Shakespeare that, though I wouldn't be able to recall the slightest thing about what I read if you put me to the test. :rotfl: I also had incremental savings plans (my inner MSE lightbulb was glowing even then!) and my As Per Usual grand plans to do yoga and meditate every day ("I'll wake at 5am! and read the classics! and become a contortionist! and save the whales before breakfast!")

I used to have a schedule to spend 30 mins to an hour reading a different book every day (one day would be sciencey, one would be poetry, one would be something else & so on), it was a very Back To School tactic. I'm quite tempted to reintroduce it, it was quite an interesting experiment to broaden my reading and but also meant I didn't get weighed down trying to get through these tomes as I gave myself some breathing room knowing that I would revisit them again the next week. Just developing a habit make things easier to pick up again (a lesson I need to relearn on so many fronts at the moment! I used to do 50 mins hardcore exercise every day, which is sadly lacking these days as my tightly stretched waistband can attest to ).... anyway, it might be the way to finally finish off the stacks of half read books currently in residence on my shelves.

Pearla*Merle

Haven't said much about other news from the burrow lately, have I? Nothing much to report really! :rotfl: Trundling on - have scheduled a doctor's appointment for next week as this migraine nastiness has been a bit extreme so hopefully that'll move things forward on that front. Museumworker gave me some super handy hints & tips on her diary about ways to tackle it which I'll be following up.

Yesterday the migraine ended up hanging around all day, despite me trying every trick in the book to get rid of it (coffee, paracetamol, yoga, meditation to name a few), the one silver lining is that it gave me lots of time to chill out and do some thinking (and a fair bit of research) into possible Return To Education plans... which looks like it might be a good way forward as it would give me so many options in the future. It'd be quite a change of scene though (I'd be changing what I do significantly) which is rather daunting but feels rather liberating all the same. So I managed to get quite a lot moved forwards, just not what I had initially planned. I need to look into the financial side of all this and see what's possible, and also follow up some leads and take some time to work out whether I definitely want to pursue a complete change, but all food for thought.

Did I say how lovely my marmalade tarts were? Oh my word. I'm going to polish off the rest of those spiced nuts and make more.

Mr Merle popped out to Costko today and picked us up lots of toilet rolls that were on offer, so we're well stocked for the next few months/the apocalypse. He also found some bags of reduced pasta in M&S so those are all tucked up safe in the store cupboard now.

I'm almost a quarter of the way through 1Poll again, that was fast! Must keep up this good work

Lots of Mr M's birthday presents haven't arrived yet. Hope they get here in time, I didn't realise they were coming from suppliers outside the UK (thanks Amazin) so who knows when they'll get here.

I should probably go to bed, want to get up earlyish (for me!) and watch the tennis :smileyhea

moneycurious

hope the migraines gone, send some tarts my way they sound scrummy!!! xx

Beckyy

I hope your migraines are gone soon, nasty things they are!

Habibiboo

Pearla*Merle wrote: »

Oh Habibiboo, does the following answer your question...? :rotfl:



I used to have all sorts of different shaped Post-Its, now I think about it, I know I still have some sheep somewhere... I wonder where they've got to? :think: *readies the border collies to round them up*

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Wow, P*M, I think it's official, we must be long-lost, separated at birth stationery twins ~ we have matching drawers, as it were! :rotfl: Would show you a photo of my post-it drawer too but don't have the savvy for doing that on here!

Happy, healthy weekend to you x

FamilyLife

Hope that's you on the mend now!

I'm also a stationary junkie As a teacher I get to indulge pretty heavily! There's a blog called 'I heart organising' which is amazing for pretty pictures and ideas, often involving organising binders.

FL xx