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Breaking Through, Travelling On

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  • Ellidee
    Ellidee Posts: 6,216 Forumite
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    Hope you're ok KC - we miss you and worry about you.Xxx
    Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James
  • DedicatedDFW
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    Hope you're ok KC xx
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  • mizmir
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    Hey Karma - just dropping in as I have been AWOL and am now catching up with diaries. Hope you are OK - haven't seen you on FB for a while. Miss you. :)
  • Karmacat
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    :o :hello: Here I am again

    When I came on in April and implied the virus had gone … it hadn't, it was getting ready to ambush me :( I had to abandon online for a good long time, abandoned everything except sitting in front of the tv and stacking the dishwasher (thank heavens for dishwashers and supermarket deliveries).


    Still … I've been well for 7 – 8 weeks now, and started to get the garden in order, really carefully so I didn't overdo it again. Everything financial has been abandoned – absolutely nothing has been done, for existing money or getting new money into the pension pots, nothing at all. But I've been gradually tidying – the office and the kitchen, in particular, really suffered while I was ill, I couldn't find anything – so money issues were still abandoned.


    Just last night, though, I looked at the kitchen and thought, well, its not great, but at least more of its clean than not, and I can reach the stuff I want to put back on amazon when I can cope with doing it (it was hidden in piles of carp).


    So I'm back! I still need to be careful about overdoing stuff, so I need to watch it, but I've been out for a couple of days socially – on the one nice day this bank holiday, for instance, I went up to London with my sister to meet a new baby in the family, my 2nd great-nephew :) he's lurvely. And the week before that, I went to the WorldCon, the science fiction convention, also in London – both times, I was out of the house for about 8 hours during the daytime, so did nothing the next day, and didn't get ill again either, which was very encouraging.


    I'm off to have a pootle around the threads, catch up with people's news – thank you for all the dusting and cheery messages and communications that have gone on, I'm very grateful to you all, its been a real morale booster. I mean to return the favour, and play it forward too.


    xxx
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Ellidee
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    So good to 'see' you back online KC :D xxx
    Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Hi Ellidee! Good to see you too :D I like your sig - even though lurgified, I've got a great deal to be thankful for. Actually, I've let slip Greying's practice of gratitude at the end of the day, its subsided into thinking about what I've managed to do during the day ... but appreciation is a lovely way of putting it, and living it :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Knit_Witch
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    Sorry to hear you have been ill again, I hope you are well and truly on the mend now!
    Must use my stash up!
  • Karmacat
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    Thank you Knit Witch :) I really think I am this time ... heaven knows, I gave myself enough recuperation time :eek::rotfl:

    I did do one mse thing last week ... when I fell ill, I had to cancel a trip to my mum's ... I've seen her since then, for a week together with my sister, but I also wanted to make a trip to her at her house, so I managed to book a pretty good fare, and its only a fortnight away. I also used the "Advanced" button on the website, which means that instead of sending me on the tube across London, I can stay on the National Network train across London and just walk between Kings Cross and Euston, which I vastly prefer (fewer lurgies, less struggling with the case, its a win-win).

    Oh, I did another mse thing :o which took several weeks. My mobile phone provider *hates* me to be on payg, and they finally offered me a contract that was attractive enough to go for: £5.49 a month for 500 texts, 500 anywhere mobile minutes, and 100 meg of data. Except that when the contract came through, it was totally different. And my call to the helpline got cut off :( The only reason I'm with them, however, is that they have a shop within walking distance, so I hoofed it there, did my Middle Class Annoyed act :D and got them to re-instate the original deal. Then, of course, a backroom boffin didn't do what they should have done, and my number wasn't transferred to the new SIM. It has been now :D The new contract is about £6 a year more than what I used on payg, which is worth it for this number extra of minutes - I figure, if I'm going to start a side business, I might well need those minutes.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    Today is a typical sort of me-day at the moment - computer in the morning, lunch and a tidy up, out in the garden trying to bring order to the chaos, and then work later on. The computer time was all mse today :) and it could have been the rest of the day too :D but I really need to catch up with myself, it still isn't done. At the moment I'm learning how to use open source photo editing, so I can make new images for places like zazzle and cafepress.

    So more tidying, and then weeding in the garden (I've been doing the far end, and now I'm back at the beginning, the patio is overgrown at the edges) and a new bit - there's an old wooden drawer I use as a raised bed, which has also got overgrown and weedy, and I started to sort that - dismantling the weeds, brushing off the flowerpots and washing them *properly*, that sort of thing. Fewer hidey holes for the "bad" insects like slugs, and more flowerpots available for my master plan for salads to be grown indoors over winter - or even just clean, so that they can be stacked properly :)

    And in an hour or so, 90 minutes paid work! That takes me up to 7.45, and I'll stop then. Iplayer is my friend :)

    Lovely to be back here :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Glad to see you're back and on the mend.


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