Breaking Through, Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, not heard of planefinder - wonder if it'll let me track my mother on her epic trip to Australia next week? She's never been much further than Wales so we're all very excited

Sorry about the situation with the hospice KC, hope you're ok. What a difficult time all round. Take care xx

Karmacat

I'd never done planefinder before (as you can tell ) and I'll definitely be doing it again. Especially when you can press the plane icon and see the route it's taken - this one wove back and forth across its own path while losing height for the local airport

Thanks Cheery, on the hospice thing - not heard anything since the cancellation of the visit, and in a funny way I don't want to ... but the situation will keep rolling along, to it's final conclusion, after all

Intense day today, lots of work, and my state of knackerment tells me how appropriate it is that I'm retiring - still, given my garden to look after, I'm full of the joys of spring :j

Karmacat

Morning

3 hours paid work today :eek: thankfully the last one is on the phone.

Done a Yougov survey, very badly designed for self employed people, tsk tsk, am prepping the slow cooker for several meals, and I'll try to use the rest of the day positively too.

Seems like we might be able to re-arrange the hospice visit.

rtandon27

glad for you that the hospice visit might still be going ahead!

oooo - slowcooker meals! - do tell what you've got planned!

you've reminded me that ours is still in a box!:o

(we've some flat pack shelves to put up & then boxes begone!)

Karmacat

I'm a baaaaaaaaaad person with the slow cooker, RT I just have the makings of a meal, not a meal itself - I'll cook a couple of types of beans that cook at the same rate, throw some spices and some pepper in, and use that with tatties or pasta, various frozen veg, chopped up onion or beetroot, or pesto/tomato puree/oil and chopped garlic - I assemble, I don't cook except for a very, very easy brownie recipe

Hope you can get those shelves up soon - it's so nice to finish with the boxes.

3 hours work today ... nothing else at all done, just yougov and the slow cooker ... all I want to do is make sure the house is liveable without massive tidying, by Friday, as I'm on holiday then till the day after Easter Monday :j:j:j

Karmacat

Hmm, not sure how best to use today. Paid work of 1.5 hours ... and then so many options, I'm spoilt for choice

- if the weather says "yes", do a quick chop back to the border of the property of next door's leylandii - they used to do it for me, but they don't now, they have so many grandchildren

- gathering together final bits of rubbish to be thrown out - remains of a rice cooker currently holding pebbles, carpet remnant that was being mulch, bit more shredding, nonstick wok thats gone nasty, that sort of thing.

- collect last few flower pots and clean them - they can go with *lots* of others, currently stored in the house, and instead go into a brand new plastic dustbin, thats been sitting waiting for them for about two years

- I need to do something non-physical, so that should be writing blog posts. Which I enjoy :j:j:j




ETA - been trying to do the blogging, quite distracting as I'm actually hopping about between DVDs and animal trainer websites :rotfl: such a hard life. Anyway, an extra hour's work today, and it's on the phone, so I can be comfy :j and earn money :j

Karmacat

Yikes ... none of the physical stuff done I blame the extra work that materialised I haven't even cleared the room properly, waiting for it to air a bit.

I'm not going to take on any more paid work even if it turns up, and my only booking is 1.5 hours on Friday ... I'm very nearly on holiday :j:j:j

So now that part of my big bookcase is empty, with all the KM-ing, I've put my electrical stuff out there, even if I can't throw stuff out, I certainly plan to rationalise the storage :money::p:D:beer:

greent

Am very impressed with your decluttering progress:T:)


xx

Karmacat

Thanks greent! I did quite a bit this morning :rotfl: couldn't sleep all that well, so by 7am I was up and running - all electrical stuff now tidied: 5 boxes into 2 :j:j:j quite a few duplicates thrown, like put with like, I'm testing whether an old mobile phone will hold a charge, it's good!

Struggling with my mum a bit right now, and writing that to remind me *not* to write about it. Notnotnot.

Okay. Today, no paid work so here's the plan:
- already done the electrical tidying and decluttering :j
- buy milk (for kefir)
- pay cc
- do the yougov survey that just turned up.
- webuybooks have sent a code, 10% thing, I could use that today.
- continue daydreaming about a book plot: the Celestine Prophecy adapted to present day UK - private security, cults, TA drama triangles, the whole bit - certainly takes my mind off "notnotnot"
- remember Ancestry still doing free Irish records. Check again for a birth in 1788! Dodgy, very dodgy, at that distance, but you never know.
- put in an application for sainthood for Katniss Everdeen.

That'll do :cool:

Watty1

Love the *to do* list