Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Hows the scanning going?

Lots of "new" photos scanned - all the ones from the turn of the millenium, for some reason I only scanned a sample first time round.

Sounds like life's full n at the moment but the pace suits you?

Off to take a scamp at your blog :-)

I haven't been on for a few days because I was shattered and then it was a heavy work day (but very positive work day) right afterwards. But I love the pace, yes :j

Hope you're smiling as much in life as you are on here :-) RG is away so I've better chance of catching up in my virtual lovely life :-)

X

Aw, thank you Pippi - in RL, there's a little bit more "ow, that rib ached" and maybe a tad of "ooh, that place looks lovely, I wish I could go there" - but I am *incredibly* grateful that I live the life I have, I mean it, with its opportunities, its ease, and my ability to exercise such a huge amount of choice over what I do and when I do it. I'm very aware that even in the present day, let alone in the past, I'm in a privileged minority in that respect. My new sig says it all: abundance.

My sister's a teacher, so she's been free this half term week, and wanted to do something, so Tuesday I just went up to London, and we sauntered about Greenwich, and went to the Turner exhibition there, fascinating, to see his full body of work, and see him in context with other marine painters. And I come back to my warm little house, with fresh, plentiful food; and what I have is amazing, compared to people battling a severe illness like KJ, or a dear friend of mine offline with terrible psychological issues and in danger of losing his home, or my BIL, who died 5 years ago of heart failure, or ancestors of mine I've mentioned on here: Tom, who died on the Titanic, younger than I am now, or Ellen, who died around the same time of malnutrition in the workhouse.

So although this diary is about growing what I already have (for a pension), and I don't manage to write it every day like Greying, I'm mindful of the abundance in my life, and confident that my current finances (ins and outs are dreadful!) will improve.

Hope that didn't sound like a rant but it just seems important to balance the "must do this, that, and the other"

mizmir

You are so right Karma - thank you for sharing these thoughts - I needed the reminder. Our life is also abundant. We are lucky to have a home that is warm and dry, full cupboards, the ability to work and make regular money, loved people and animals around us, and I at least have a lot of autonomy how I spend my time. Comparing to our ancestors lives is very telling. I too have the poverty stricken ones, the ones who died of TB, and even more tragically watched their children die of diseases of poverty. And there was my g-aunt who died in an asylum where she had spent 20+ years because she was epileptic In the scheme of things, having to tighten belts for a few years to get things back on track is nothing. With all the centenary stuff I keep reminding myself that 100 years ago my grandparents and great grandparents were about to endure 4 years of war - with the deprivations and horrors that involved. Life is not so bad!

Karmacat

Thanks mizmir! And thanks to Pippi for checking out what RL was like for me right now (she knows me ) ...

And definitely, yes, the Centenary thats looming - my immediate ancestors were remarkably free from the direct death toll of the War (too old, too young, too unfit, though everyone that *could* joined up) so for me personally, its represented by Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth.

gallygirl

Thanks for the reminder Karma, so many of our problems are '1st World Problems' and we all have so much to be grateful for. Hence my avatar

Karmacat

Hi Gallygirl, thanks for posting - your avatar is lovely, I've always thought so

I confess, I took a bit of a day off this afternoon going up to London unsettled me :rotfl:I had a look at what I might do to earn income on the cat website, as I've been thinking of cat collars - buy them in, bling them up, sell them on :D:D and then I found out there was a Pets Corner walking distance from me, so I went to look at their stock. It genuinely was useful :rotfl: which I didn't actually expect it to be :cool:.

Then, um, I had my tea. Because everything I do - client work, the novel, the cat website, the trading - everything is about initiative and being a self starter - well, because of that, I need some time off - and my little walk today was kind of me having some time off.

I'm just taking a few minutes here and there to do some shredding, which is about what my little brain can handle at the mo, since its also buzzing with "ow that rib hurt" as well as cat-related entrepreneurdom :beer:

Hope everyone has a good evening xxx

Ellidee

Hope your 'little walk' today is the cat -alyst for some website wizardy !

Cheery_Daff

Don't blame you for taking some time off KC, no need for the embarrassed smiley Hope today is a cheery one

Karmacat

Ellidee wrote: »

Hope your 'little walk' today is the cat -alyst for some website wizardy !

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Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Don't blame you for taking some time off KC, no need for the embarrassed smiley Hope today is a cheery one

You're right, you're right :cool: its important not to burn out. Today, the sky is blue, bright springtime blue

I made a decision this morning and phoned the doc for an appointment - I wanted to go choose tiles for my new bathroom floor, but, um, this takes precedence - I think I know what the rib pain is, and I think they only treat it initially with antacids at first, but I'm not relying on self diagnosis alone for this sort of stuff ah well, the tile shop will be there tomorrow.

In the meantime, I've got 2.5 hours of paid work today; I'll do what else I can, but I'm very limited physically by this thing, and even writing is tricky because of the nausea it causes so I'm a bit in the wars today.

mizmir

Definitely don't need to apologise for time out - especially when you are in pain! Doctor is a good plan - need to know for sure what the cause is - it sounds like it is stopping you functioning the way you want to so needs sorting.

Take things easy and let yourself recover.

Karmacat

Thanks miz - thats exactly it, its stopping me functioning - can't bend down to weed, can't breathe deeply, can't write well, can't think (its okay right now, but I'm starving, and eating will bring the nausea, so ... pah! as Cheery would say). It'll be sorted, its nothing humongous, I suspect its a hernia caused by too much coughing.

Never mind. Food's ready, sky is blue again (after a very sharp shower - and I thought there was an umbrella in the smiley list ... turns out there isn't ) so I'm awa' to me nosh. No emotional effect to this other than "ow" and being impatient to get on with things