OS Singlies - We Do It Our Way!

ellie99

freakyogre, you have some really great family and friends there, I'm sure you treasure them

You sound really positive about your move, with that attitude you'll soon be settled in and enjoying your new home.

I'm still plodding through aunts paperwork...going to her flat tomorrow for another day of cleaning and sorting...fed up with it already, and not scraped the surface yet

Horace

Thank you for your wise words Lesson Learned. Sorry to hear that your adrenal glands are playing up - hopefully you will be sorted soon, I think as you settle down and find a more even keel you will be ok. Sounds as though you have done oodles to the house too.

I did my Nordic Walking session in the park today and got home to find an email from someone saying that she didn't go this week because it was too cold and wet. It actually didn't rain on us and as we had all wrapped up warm (some of us were in the park yesterday for Tai Chi and we were perished with cold), we were rather warm by the end of it. The sessions will continue through the winter so this girl (she is younger than me) had better get used to cold and wet. We had 10 people there today and it was fab.

I have taken on some more voluntary work (it will only be one evening a month) to take minutes at a patients advisory group at my GP, I am going to be a bit sneaky too because when I know them a bit better I know they have loads of records from another surgery (the doctor retired or died) that need to be entered on the system but they cannot afford to pay anyone - I might volunteer to do it (they can only say no) and that will give me experience of adding patient notes to the system which might give me a head start when it comes to applying for doctor receptionist jobs. Sometimes there is method in my madness.

Not sure what to cook for dinner tonight - the leftovers have been eaten and I didn't get any meat out of the freezer - it might be beans on toast. I dry roasted a chicken leg yesterday - it was rather tasty.

Met up with my friend this morning and she reminded me that we need to go out for a meal (must save my pennies and see if I can get a cheap deal). This is something to look forward to.

Another friend introduced me to pinterest so I have joined it and pin things that I like. Mainly getting free ideas and instructions to make things - I will get another friend to show me how my sewing machine works and teach me to make stuff. My machine is ancient and is good when there is a power cut because it is powered by hand.

mum2one

I know were all aged 21 with various degrees of life experiences, but chatting to the gp today about winter jabs, - there is a shingles jab doing the rounds this winter, its only available to those 70 and over - just thinking that may be use for parents / relatives.... dads having his done the same time as his flu jab. xx

Horace

Freakyogre Glad the move went well with the help of your family and friends. Sounds like you are really settling in - the autumn fair sounds like it could be fun.

A tip for when you go shopping - find the whoopsie shelf in the supermarket (this will be where the food that is on date and therefore reduced will be), they may also have part of a fridge with meat in it that has been reduced. Great to buy cheaply and freeze.

Ellie take someone with you to help clear the paperwork. It must be dreadful to have it all piled high everywhere. My ex OH was a hoarder (he turned me into one - but since I have been living on my own I have whittled it all down by giving stuff to charity shops, selling or dumping it).

freakyogre

Thank you for the kind words I saw something on a website I visit yesterday which said "everything in life is temporary". I suppose that could be taken either way, but on the positive side, it helped me think 'it just wasn't meant to be'.

Horace - Pinterest is brilliant for ideas. My sister and I can spend hours on there, but we really must start making some of the things we have pinned!

The first place I head to in the supermarkets are the reduced sections! My local Tesco has at least 4 areas dotted round the store and I purposefully check them all out. I can't resist a bargain Asda seems the best for cheap bread though.

Before my ex I used to batch cook/meal plan (and do the grocery challenge on here). It all just became more difficult then for various reasons and it all stopped. I must get back in to my old ways. He'd mock me for being organised etc, but that's how I am!

I've brought the flowers I was given to work as I'm just worried about my cat getting to them. They're lilies and I know they're not good news for cats. My desk here looks very pretty now though!

Unfortunately I noticed a flyer in a window this morning for the autumn fair and it clashes with my friends visit and we'll be elsewhere, so i'll miss it. I'm sure there'll be something else, it seems to be quite a social little village.

Right, must get on. I am getting broadband fitted at home next week so will be glad to get back online properly again. It's funny how much you rely on it at times.

calicocat

Hello folks.....

I'm still around, just been too busy to concentrate on things and still tired a lot of the time....well it feels like i've been too busy to concentrate , but it may just be another wonderful menopause symptom...??

Sorry to hear of people's problem. Mum2one and JKS you two seem to be having a time of it at the moment...!, apologies if I have missed anyone else having a bad time as must confess to skim reading the last few pages.


I am back to work, and have been doing my own head in trying to work out whether to drop a shift or not. However, sense is telling me to just carry on full time and get as much dosh in the bank as I can. My plan for now unless I feel terrible is to carry on until xmas full time and see how I feel then. The latest re: my ward closing is that we may be there for a couple of years still due to objections from SS/police etc. It's just the latest rumour.....so who knows......and we have had LOTS of bigwigs coming around seeing what's 'wrong ' with the place.....so there is a part of me that still thinks we could be gone by March.

The fence extension is eventually finished thank god, I need to level off some of the ground in that bit.....then it's sorted, and I have more room next year to grow tomatoes....or whatever.

Asbo has been having a bit of a mad time.....i have some cat mint growing now....and boy does the fresh stuff send them bonkers compared to the dried bought stuff!!......lol.


I have also been busy organising and doing my mums 80th birthday stuff......her social calendar has been better than any I know of recently...bless. She had a really good birthday as I had a surprise party for her lunch with some of her friends she spends the most time with....which she loved. Than a family meal out in the evening. Then in November i'm taking her for a few days to London as she's off to Perth this month.

I have a really busy time at the moment with several friends birthdays this month, and then LB's in Nov, so it will be good to see her again and some of the other singlies. We will have to plan whaat we would like to eat etc.

Off to work tonight...so have just been up to shove a chicken in the oven to have chicken salads for my teas.....now will lardarse in bed all day with a view to sleeping for a few hours if possible.....and hope work isn't vile....at least I shouldn't be working xmas this year.

Right, off to make tea and toast for breakie in bed.

JustKeepSwimming_2

Morning All

Hugs to those that need one (or more). I know some of you are having a truly carp time, so best wishes. It just can't carry on raining shoite, can it

Freakyogre - glad to hear all is going well with your move, & that you have the help & support you need to get most of the practicalities sorted. Your family & friends sound lovely, & you seem to be at the start of a big adventure.

LL - wise words & hope you get your adrenals sorted out (is it just me or does that sound wrong?)

Horace - good luck with all the voluntary work, you'll be busy! Your sneaky idea about entering patients' notes is a good one - you'll certainly become an expert with surgery software & that's a huge skill.

Ellie - good luck with the paperwork. Its something you just can't rush isn't it, as you don't know what you may miss. I'm not great at doing my own paperwork never mind someone elses :rotfl:

calicocat wrote: »

Hello folks.....

I'm still around, just been too busy to concentrate on things and still tired a lot of the time....well it feels like i've been too busy to concentrate , but it may just be another wonderful menopause symptom...??

Sorry to hear of people's problem. Mum2one and JKS you two seem to be having a time of it at the moment...!, apologies if I have missed anyone else having a bad time as must confess to skim reading the last few pages....

Hope you manage to sort out work to suit you - while money in the bank is always a good idea don't let it knacker you so much that you'll spend years recovering from it. Especially if you have no body else to look after you. But I think I'd do what you are doing given the uncertainty around your job, at least in the short term.

You're not wrong there CC - last night I treated myself to fish & chips after another difficult day at work (not very MSE). 10 minutes later I'm at a neighbour's house having a fish bone pulled out of my throat (neighbour is a nurse).....

All OK now, just a slightly scratchy throat but in my self pitying mood last night that just summed up how everything I seem to touch/think about goes wrong I'm trying to find a positive angle in that I should be grateful that the nurse was in & could deal with it, otherwise I'd have had at least a 5 hour round trip to A&E (which would have been really shoite :rotfl:) but TBH I'd just like to be able to do life without all of the rubbish all of the time.

I'm just exhausted with it all. Not helped by still being in pain with my back a month after that darn Pilates lesson. Osteopath is helping, but he's noticed ares in my spine that I have limited mobility in so wants to work on them to prevent further problems when I'm older. It is helping the initial pain but other bits are complaining as I've been realigned. He did warn me that this could happen & maybe I shouldn't be doing all this now when I'm at a low point - but I'm not sure I'll ever feel much better & I'll only get more creaky as I age.

Sorry to vent (again :rotfl:)

Hey LB & Byatt :wave:

ellie99

JustKeepSwimming wrote: »

Ellie - good luck with the paperwork. Its something you just can't rush isn't it, as you don't know what you may miss. I'm not great at doing my own paperwork never mind someone elses :rotfl:



- last night I treated myself to fish & chips after another difficult day at work (not very MSE). 10 minutes later I'm at a neighbour's house having a fish bone pulled out of my throat (neighbour is a nurse).....

I wouldn't mind so much trying to do someone else's paperwork if they'd done it first...seriously, it's 20 years of stuff just crammed into plastic bags all mixed up! Makes me committed to leaving my own in perfect order for my family.

That fish bone sounds painful :eek: thank goodness you live next door to a nurse, that's very useful, especially with the run of luck you've been having lately...any other useful neighbours?

Meant to give you an update re missing cat...he's back home
As suspected, he'd wandered off, but he went further than we looked. Was discovered when the people who were feeding him took him to the vet, and vet told them he was chipped and who he belonged to. So he was handed back, and now DS2 is staying home as much as he can (still has to go to work of course) so the cat has company and settles in again. He was due to go on a weekends holiday but has cancelled so he can stay with the cat

I'm making a birthday celebration meal for the family tonight, but instead of having it at my house I've to carry all the food over to DSs house so the cat won't be lonely :rotfl:

Horace

Hi gang

Glad the wandering cat has returned home. I know about paperwork, when the group treasurer handed over the accounts (I was expecting them all to be a binder or in a book), he handed over various tatty carrier bags (the bags must have been about 20 years' old as they were from shops that haven't existed for many a long time) - we had to try and make sense of the mess including lots of sarcastic notes and workings out (even the workings out didn't make sense).

Had to attend the work programme today so I decided to be difficult, I hadn't taken my computer specs with me because I had said that I wanted to do paper versions of the tests. I was given the tests on white paper so asked for them on yellow paper which caused much frustration on their part because they copied them onto pink paper without asking because they didn't want to break open a new pack of yellow paper, they had to do them on yellow. I have glaucoma and yellow paper makes everything clearer, I then had to do a listening test and the lad from the Learn Direct office sat there and used the mouse to click the different tracks for me. I have to do these tests in case over the past 6 months I have lost the ability to understand English.

In other news our Friends group has been given £150 as a thank you and we have been invited to a posh do to meet the Lord Mayor next month (as chairman of the group, I get the invitation and I go to represent the group).

Was due to go shopping today but didn't - will go tomorrow and dive into Farmfoods as they have some offers on.

mum2one

Horace - Your a girl (or lady) after my own heart, its unbelievable anything to save a penny or two. I had it once when I had to attend court - was the 1st hearing about DD, the best thing was my ex didnt even turn up, it was schedulded in the crown court (why there we still dont know esp as it was listed or family court), the court was on the 5th floor...... there was no lift.

I ended up having to go up the stairs on my bum, as I couldn't manage 5 flights, - made worse as there was no ladies on the 5th floor, but on the 4th, got there checked in, found the excuse of the toilets, got down there, - bless his heart my solicitor refused me to be in the court area due to health and safety....... after that all the hearings where at the new purpose built courts....

A good day here, I managed to get 6 christmas cakes baked, (various sizes), so there ready for Xmas gifts, just our batch to do, based on 2day I did 4 size cakes, so know that I will have enough to do a big cake for her bday next yr.

A bit of a development, had a call from the school, (the teacher I put the complaint in about), shes very concerned that everything is ok, is there any support they can give DD, theyve arranged (subject to me saying yes - a big yes), a day at an outdoor outwood bounds centre for DD to attend, (for pupils who need emotional support/need confidence etc), and would I like to meet her, the cso, and the head, - where they will address the safety concerns i have for DD, and implement any support and safety network,

All this has suddendly come together as I contacted the head regarding some issues and concerns as among other points DD is not allowed her photo taken for website etc due to her father, incase he traces her via the school, and when she did a school trip she had some upset and was threatened with detention as she refused to be in a group photo........ the pastoral support hadn't communicated this with the teacher.

So pround of myself popped into Boots earlier and the OOTW was a Jules bag and toiettry set, was £45 now £22, of course the 1st thing I did was walk in, pick the offer up, - then when I got to the other end of the store, my brain was do you really want, do you really need this bag... NO..... I put it back on the shelf. I got what i planned to get 3 presents, - my budget was £20 and I spent £20. Finally my brain is getting into gear xx