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loobylou2 hope you are feeling better. I can recommend counselling, used my doctor's service a couple of times and had help early last year from local Compassion in Action group.
If everything and everyone depends on you (and it sounds like they do in your case) it is really important to take care of yourself. It isn't selfish or indulgent, IT'S NECESSARY. If you collapse then who looks after your children.
I would suggest trying to do some tidying/ de-cluttering with the children - make it into a game (have separate boxes and see who can find 3 books - all into one box/ finding all the pots and cups to wash up) but if you are really ill putting a video on and huddling on the couch (all in one place so you can keep an eye on them) with a quilt and a warm drink is fine.My mission in life is not only to survive,but to thrive and to do so with some Passion, some Compassion, some Humour and some Style.NST SEP No 1 No Debt No mortgage0 -
loobylou2 Mothernerd is right please look after yourself and try and rest if you can.
I would also recommend counselling 100% It helped me so much more than I thought possible and puts a lot of things into perspective.
I had to go private as the waiting lists though the Doctors was so long but it was worth every penny I paid.
If you can get it though your work go for it asap.The sooner you start the better.
I am thinking of you as I know if you feel like I did and by the sound of it you do.
Its not a good place to be but trust me it will get better
Mav x
Debt free and Mortgage free thank you to all for your encouragement and advice :j
Crazy Clothes challenge £300/£48 and 5 months /0 without spending :T0 -
Gosh feeling frazzled so not even thought of list till tues day! Time for a change I think.
I will have a bubble bath and an early night.
And only do minimum of everything till I recover.
Washing, quick clean, pay bills. Lots of bubble baths, paint my nails, treat my bedroom as my luxury retreat .
Good luck everyone x0 -
W/C 17th Feb
Meal plan - done
Sort out baba's clothes - started
Declutter my wardrobe, however this won't leave me much to wear...
Sit up programme (10/20 every other day)
Set up my external hard drive and move all of my photos to it
Order photos for the numerous frames I have sitting around the house.
Take clothes to charity shop - done
Tidy and organise bookshelves
Tidy Tupperware cupboard
Organise over stairs cupboard
Dust and Hoover nursery
Keep on top of kitchen - successful so far
Allocate a room per day for housework (and actually do it)
Have been a little lazy so far this week.... :-( Have ordered some photos of baba and have started moving photos around into folders on computer ready to order more.
Am going to the charity shop tomorrow but as I'll have baba with me will prob need to do a couple of trips.SPC 18 Target £200 /0 -
Dropping in to update
Have done lots of ironing (not quite all cleared yet).
Have cleaned 2 kitchen cupboards (from a previous week's list)
Have taken vitamins/drunk water/eaten reasonably properly/gone out and soaked up a bit of the weak sunshine.
Have started to clean up the bathroom
Have decluttered quite a few things
It's not as much as I wanted, but more than I felt like.
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Helloo everybody! I have not been getting it done for a few weeks now, but have just written a snag list for the house (35 items - gulp). I thought if I chose a few each week I might get somewhere with them. I have a bit of a deadline of early April for some of the jobs, as we are renting our house out for a week then, and I'd like some of the more visible snags to be dealt with! So, working Sat to Sat, this is this weeks list:
- Advertise sofa and chest (ebay, facebook)
- Clean mildewy area in lounge
- Check airbricks are not blocked - front and back
- Sort out boiler service plan and book service
- 2 more boxes from loft to sort out
- Tidy cupboard in lounge
- Tidy and file things in bureau
- Try bleach on the mildewy grouting in the bathroom
- Take shower apart and clean it
- Order and put up spice rack
- Order blackout curtains if voucher proves good value for money
- Make arrangements for gardening friend to come and stay so they can advise
- Chase up roofing quote
- re-book opticians appts for DD and I
- get to grips with energy tarrifs
- get to grips with balance transfer optimum dates
- bit of TLC - nails, hair masque, eyebrows, long soak in bath!
- keep on top of ironing - 2 lots of bedding for guests to do
- exercise - gym or run x 1
- cycle to work x 3
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Good luck crazy lady, I've found I've achieved loads. Till this week..... The only thing I had on my list is paint my nails. If I failed to Achieve that, it's time to kick my !!! ! Thunderbirds are go. I'll see what I can manage by tonight0
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Well here we are again on our next week.:D
Having new windows fitted starting today which we have put off for quite a while.But now they are really bad and some are wedged shut or open and cant be shut so about time I think really.Thought they may fall out with all this wind and rain we have been having but they have held fast thank goodness
So this week my list is
1-sort at least 2 carp drawers (carried over from last week)-Failed again:(
2-defrost freezer -Done
3-Ironing-Done
4-get to gym at least 4 times-4/4
5-move sofas and hoover under them-Done
6-Clean sofas nearly done
7-sort out after windows fitted-Done
So will see how I get on with this lot
Good luck to all and I hope you have a good week
Mav x
Nearly all done just one to carry over again
Will update with my list later
Mav x
Debt free and Mortgage free thank you to all for your encouragement and advice :j
Crazy Clothes challenge £300/£48 and 5 months /0 without spending :T0 -
Hope it is ok to join - only just seen this and love the idea :P
sort out the ironing basket
post Birthday card for H - done
Do the T4 - done
bulk cook 2 freezer meals - 1 chilli made
make butternut squash soup for lunches - done
wind yarn for scarf
finish weaving the scarf on the loom
declutter 7 things
fill one bag with clothing for charity bin
shred some paper everyday 2 days done
find the bottles for bottling wine0 -
Self-care going well -will continue (did nearly 5 hours walking on Wednesday-not continuously and had lost 6lb in the last 4 weeks when I checked in with the health trainer (now 14st 1lb, Dec 2012 17st 10lb).
Bin filling going well - set a target of 150 items de-cluttered by end of month (Friday) 111 by last night (counting 1full bin bag/1 wastepaper bin of recyclables as one item) but many other things gone as well including DS1 + 2 roomfuls of stuff -still waiting for him to collect the last few boxes,may have to threaten to put them in the shed -it leaks because he stopped part way through fixing it and never went back to finish the job.
Done 1/3 of the front paving - ran out of cleaner. Only £1 so will do the rest. Much easier than re-laying the flags if I can make it look presentable.
Bought ceiling paint and done cracks in his ceiling yesterday (+ 2 of his walls with paint leftover from downstairs). Gf is staying for the weekend so can't continue until Tuesday.
Written jobs lists for bathroom and bedrooms (master list + list to be stuck up in each room. Door handle has been off the bathroom for so long I forgot to put it on (better to re-paint door first anyway). In addition to painting have anti-moulded in the bathroom,dusted the ceiling (black spots in the textured ceiling were spider's web remnants), cleaned the light shade (asked DS3 to do it ages ago as he doesn't need a ladder) cleaned all the tiles and spent ages rubbing the rusty spots on the shower rail with tin foil -then had to clean the bath as it was peppered with silver sprinkles (think I am winning, been up again to-day and caked it in astonish cleaner - just keep thinking £150 ifI have to buy a new one). Also wondered why I was dozing off every 5 mins today and then thought 5 hours up a ladder.
Nearly everything done so
Job List for Week commencing Sunday 23rd February
Continue self-care + grooming.
Paint cracks then whole of ceiling in two large bedrooms (any remains can be used in bathroom or small bedroom but the can be done with any leftover paint.
Use up downstairs paint in DS3's room. Put curtains back (1 of walls needing painting is the window wall) and put headboard together (stop him wrecking the newly painted wall)
Use blue paint for re-touching in other large bedroom. Rub down polyfilla (done today) and finish off.Hang heart shape with mirror.
Continue sanding in bathroom and make a start on the floors (sander brought back from DS2's).
Set food and travel budgets for March. Finish stock take of freezer (3 drawers filled with cooking done this week -want to use up 'odd' bits).
List paint to be bought in March (using up what we have this week -several sums of money due/expected but no idea when they will come in so am getting on with jobs using available materials).
Reach de-clutter target - focus on paperwork, re-purposing (mushroom boxes filled and set off seeds, cardboard covering veg beds to stop weed growth) and selling/donating -stop hanging on to it.My mission in life is not only to survive,but to thrive and to do so with some Passion, some Compassion, some Humour and some Style.NST SEP No 1 No Debt No mortgage0
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