OS Singlies - We Do It Our Way!

Horace

Money, I have no idea where the street cleaning on the youth empowerment project comes in. The lacks motivation appears a lot in a government document directed at charities and social enterprises that offer the community work placements.

Felt like an !!! this morning - rang up the centre I went to yesterday because it appeared that the scratchy bus tickets they gave me had all been used so they asked me for the dates on them and I peered at them and read the dates - I was told that the cards are pre-scratched to save me from doing it myself or using the ticket for something else.

Slept really well last night and got up at 11.20am (it is what eye strain does) plus I felt a bit queasy last night and had to take some ibruprofen because I had stomach ache.

Don't feel like doing anything today so I won't.

mothernerd

I don't feel like doing anything either Horace. I did a load of washing up (DS3 had a friend visiting a week ago and had run out of plates and bowls so brought back the ones with Sunday dinner and apple crumble and custard which had been lurking in his room for a week and I pulled all the rubbish and re-cycling out of there and went back with the grabber stick to retrieve another 10 cans from behind the bedside cabinet) and also did two little shops and brought little rucksack full of food back (gradually increasing the weight I can carry).

Woke yesterday - nothing. My body didn't want to move and my brain couldn't motivate it. Keep repeating to myself that I have to strike a balance between continually improving an extending what I can do and resting when my body tells me to. So today I am letting my body lead. I have solved a couple of problems but have hit practical obstacles so they will have to wait a while.

I also have the heating on as I was sitting with a blanket wrapped round me for extra warmth and I could see my breath coming out in plumes.

Wantobeasaver

CRANKY40 wrote: »

I am a widow so my January thought would have been that my life is no longer the perfect life that I once thought I had but I am grateful that it is still good and I appreciate it. We were talking about optimism this morning (ds 10 and myself). I said that I am optimistic that all things will turn out well but I like to have a contingency plan in case they don't being a realist at heart :rotfl: Ds says that isn't being optimistic but I disagree as I always hope for the best.

Haven't posted on this thread before (and am not actually a singlie!!) but often read as do relate to a lot of what is talked about. Cranky-your lovely post reminded me of the Harold Wilson quote 'I'm an optimist who always takes his umbrella'

marjrie_2

I really want to join in here, I know what single is, but can someone tell me what OS singlies means please .

marjrie_2

I got it, it old style !

Winter_Phoenix

Welcome, Wantobeasaver and Marjrie. Good to have you on board!

Wi88le

I think we have the perfect day for the previously mentioned OS singlies day, because it's the day before valentines day and we can put ourselves first. Oh and it's rather appropriately Friday the 13th. Eek

LavenderBees

We can have a day any time - that's one of the positives of being a singlie :T

I'm aiming to have a whole 2 days of this weekend, dedicated only to pleasing me...fire lit, snuggle throws, chocolate (no alcohol), dvds, books, maybe a little gardening if the weather is kind enough, but then again, maybe just lazing.....the joys of dedicating chill out time to yourself should never be underestimated .

I start with a nice steak (bearnaise sauce...yum!) and chips tonight when I get home from work .....

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend. Of course, I'm expecting a good part of my weekend to be spent opening St Val's cards ....not....

LB xx

ellie99

Wi88le wrote: »

I think we have the perfect day for the previously mentioned OS singlies day, because it's the day before valentines day and we can put ourselves first. Oh and it's rather appropriately Friday the 13th. Eek

Another singlies day
Of course, we're thrifty OSers, so we should wait until Sunday when the flowers might be half price :rotfl:
Is that really sad, buying reduced valentines flowers? I quite fancy some daffodils, not looking for red roses!
(I was once bought a huge bunch of red roses for valentines...somewhat spoiled when he insisted on telling me how very expensive they had been, took him a while to get over it :rotfl:)

Friday the 13th...I've already walked under a ladder today, anything else I should try?

LavenderBees wrote: »

We can have a day any time - that's one of the positives of being a singlie :T

I'm aiming to have a whole 2 days of this weekend, dedicated only to pleasing me...fire lit, snuggle throws, chocolate (no alcohol), dvds, books, maybe a little gardening if the weather is kind enough, but then again, maybe just lazing.....the joys of dedicating chill out time to yourself should never be underestimated .

I start with a nice steak (bearnaise sauce...yum!) and chips tonight when I get home from work .....

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend. Of course, I'm expecting a good part of my weekend to be spent opening St Val's cards ....not....

LB xx

LB that sounds like a perfect weekend. i'm working tomorrow, but I'm sure I could laze on Sunday

Well if I was tired last week, I'm positively catatonic this week. My children are much too generous and shared their viruses with me, so I've got the worst cold I've had for years. I'm really annoyed at the timing (and I tried hard not to catch it, lots of hand washing, no sharing towels, I wouldn't even let them make me a cup of tea!), because my DM is having chemo, and this is just the moment when I should be there to help,and I can't go near her :mad: She catches colds really easily, and when she does she has breathing problems for months. Will phone her later to see if she needs anything.

I'm sure we'll all be busy opening all the cards tomorrow

Horace

I declare tomorrow to be a day of lounging about doing nothing. I had a panic attack today not had a full blown meltdown before either which was a bit scary. I was trying to find the place I have to go to on Monday but couldn't find it and I found myself becoming more and more anxious. Got the bus home and stayed indoors for a bit before going out in the car to the village to do a few chores there.

I managed to ring the youth empowerment place and asked for directions, they understood that they are hard to find and if I don't turn up on the dot of 9am I won't be sanctioned. I asked for more information and found that they have a group that does street cleaning but there is another group that does community gardening which would be preferable. There are also opportunities for me to do some training courses too. I quite fancy a counselling course. I feel a bit better about going there now. I have also dusted off my personal attack alarm that I was given when I worked at the Uni - it still works, so that will be coming with me on Monday because the area that I have to walk through is very grim and scary indeed.

Ellie daffs are £1 a bunch in Mr T and they last for ages too. I bought some last week and they are glorious and smell heavenly. Talking of flowers, mum gave me an amaryllis when I had lunch with her the other week and she has since kept asking if a flower bud had appeared - it hadn't and was just a mass of leaves. I decided to speak firmly to it and threatened it with the compost heap if it did not produce a flower bud - must have frightened it because a flower bud has started to appear:D

I have some catch up tv to watch so I can do that tomorrow, need to go and buy bread because I couldn't get any today, I might get some fruit too. I might even bake some cake so that I can take some with me as part of my lunch.

I have had a valentines message already from Albert the Dog - Albert is a strange little dog that lives in New York City and I follow his blog. Must admit, he is quite eloquent for a dog. I think that might be the only message I will have.