Breaking Through, Travelling On

Watty1

Glad you are staying/continuing (positive thought there!)

Mrs_E_3

greent wrote: »

Another vote for you to continue posting, KC (sorry - I'm always late to these things!)


xx

err me too x

Karmacat

Thank you all :kisses3: very kind - I think I tend to forget about posting delays, and thats the very reason this has been such a big deal for me - I'm basically on about posting every so often, the same way that loads of other people do, after all!

Still, as I thought yesterday, lots of iplayer, though I had work too, and my back didn't get stuck, but I'm still walking like, I dunno, like I've just got the cast off a broken leg :eek: its a bit tricky and walking downstairs like a 4 year old, one step at a time :rotfl: Hey ho.

Got some difficult letters to write, oh how I dislike the issues I need to cover ... and thankfully, I have a meeting at 2pm with my business partner, it will be so good to see him and have a natter

Tidying! Kitchen is nearly done. Shows the dirt more but I can see a time coming when I can use the dining table for working on the cat designs :j which is what I've wanted to do for ages. Then the accounts and even Christmas will overtake me, of course

atypicalblonde

Oh KC I really hope you don't stop posting, you have a wonderful way with words and would be sorely missed. Best wishes, ATB xx


PS I hope the letter writing wasn't as tricky as you anticipated and that they are Kondo'd from you now (sorry using as OS-ism on here ) xx

Karmacat

Aww, thank you ATB! Much appreciated. The letters thing, yes, once I actually got started, it wasn't half as bad as I was thinking - which is how it always happens, doesn't it! I need to write one more little email tomorrow, kicking up a tiny little bit of a fuss, and thats it.

That's got a time limit on it because I've got a staycation next week :j:j:j

Completely crept up on me, I hadn't put things together at all I have a nice few things planned, and of course I need to just mooch about too.

Last few days, I've got to grips with fiddly jobs - all those letters and emails, some scanning and subsequent shredding , I even did a bit of weeding today, which was a relief after my back hurting so much - its astonishing how immobilised we become :eek: So, some gentle back exercises are to be added to the daily list of things to do. My business partner has an exercise he calls sha gging the carpet, which is exactly what you imagine it to be , on hands and knees, but I don't think I'm going to be doing that one, more a case of lifting and lowering the knee while standing, its all a bit fragile :rotfl::rotfl:

Iplayer is still my friend, in these circumstances :cool:

Ellidee

Sha gging the shag pile ?

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: at that back exercise KC! :eek:

Glad you're feeling a little better. I had a back spasm a few months ago you might remember - I was really shocked at how much it incapacitated me actually, even opening doors was difficult :eek: You use those muscles for pretty much everything!

You might be interested to know there's a rather sneaky black and white cat currently sat on our doorstep Not doing anything, just sat. The door has frosted glass in, so I can just see an outline. Pesky thing!

rtandon27

Happy to hear you are on the mend KC!

...btw - even your 'Wednesday was busy' posts are lovely & interesting!!!:)

Karmacat

Ellidee wrote: »

Sha gging the shag pile ?

And you took it and ran with it :j

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: at that back exercise KC! :eek:

Glad you're feeling a little better. I had a back spasm a few months ago you might remember - I was really shocked at how much it incapacitated me actually, even opening doors was difficult :eek: You use those muscles for pretty much everything!

I do, actually! Didn't you end up in a wheelchair temporarily? :eek::eek::eek: Seriously horrendous

You might be interested to know there's a rather sneaky black and white cat currently sat on our doorstep Not doing anything, just sat. The door has frosted glass in, so I can just see an outline. Pesky thing!

I love the way cats take ownership of *our* stuff The pathway at the side of my house is an alleyway for cats - they jump up to the top of the wall over to next door's wheelie bins and then to the (quiet) road in front. One has started to sit on my gateposts, which are big and flat at the top :j

rtandon27 wrote: »

Happy to hear you are on the mend KC!

...btw - even your 'Wednesday was busy' posts are lovely & interesting!!!:)

Aw, thank you RT! People are so sweet ....

I have done a yougov survey! Up to 4,700 now, its getting interesting - I wonder if they'll stop sending me surveys now I'm so close?

I've got 3 hours work this afternoon, then I'm out to play for a whole week :j and I really feel like I'm getting to grips with the things that are to hand - under the stairs is utterly horrendous, but nearly everywhere I actually *use* is starting to look like everything is accessible - a triumph, that is :beer:

Got that one little email to do, plus answer another and a nice family email too, pay some French bills, put the washing machine on again. That's do-able.

Karmacat

Lots of French apartment things happening, getting in just under the wire before my holibob: paid 3 invoices from the people who manage the place day to day - looks like they've put new ski lockers in (and they've got CCTV!!!). Blimey. Also paid my tax - and thanks to a linkie my accountant sent last year, it was as ordinary as paying UK tax, astonishing! They also give you the option of making your own pdf certificate, like here - France has really caught up with the online world in the time I've owned that apartment :j

By chance, I also had the listing for the interest rate of the mortgage for the next 3 months - its gone down by 0.05% the payment always stays the same nowadays, so I've no idea what difference it makes, and frankly my head would explode if I tried to find out. I might do it when I'm retired (I love saying that ).

Very happy with all this - plus results from all the emails I sent out over the last few days :j