Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums :hello:

Managed to collect library book eventually :j and did a click and collect thing for cousin's birthday from Waitrose and picked it up on Sunday :j

Not much else to report money wise :money: Roofer came round and sounded less wide boyish than previous one so just waiting for quote (hopefully less than the £1100 quoted by previous one :eek: )

LOTS of sorting being done by Mr Cheery and house is COMPLETE tip from top to bottom - there literally is not a room you can walk across without stepping over boxes and piles :eek: Trying not to think about it else I might explode :eek:

Bit gloomy today (me, not the weather). Various things going on at work that I won't talk about here but meaning I'm spending a lot of time thinking and rethinking life and plans. Some cheerful things too today though so that's positive at least

rtandon27

Sending big hugs your way to chase away the gloom!

Cheery_Daff

Thanks RT Things got increasingly gloomy (my state of mind, that is, not actual circumstances) after I posted that and I've spent the last couple of hours in such despair and teariness that Mr Cheery has declared a state of crisis and insisted Something Must Be Done... :eek: Not entirely sure what yet but the time for decisive action may have arrived... We'll see...

(I'm sure things will look better in the morning - the problem is that they've been looking better in the morning for the last few months only to dip again throughout the day and there's only so much of that a girl can deal with!)

Sorry Don't mean to be all mysteriously doom and gloom

Might go and stick some bread on - then at least I'll have something for breakfast and things will DEFINITELY seem better in the morning :j

Cheery_Daff

Well I had some tasty bread But the gloom hadn't lifted so I did essential work til lunchtime then took the afternoon off :j :j Wandered into town and took my £2 coins to the bank, then ambled round museum, library, charity shops... :j Bought 2 new pairs of jeans and tried on about a million tops, and now sat in John Lewis having my free tea and cake :money: Making the most of it - I only got one voucher to last the whole of Feb to May :rotfl: clearly they've sussed I only really come in for the free tea!! :rotfl:

Karmacat

I'm sorry things are so tough for you, Cheery, I hope you can find a way to follow up on Mr Cheery's insistence that Something Must Be Done.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks KC, I'm working on it Trouble is, it's knocking my confidence which always makes dealing with the actual situation harder But I'm (slowly) getting on the case

Working today, then I'm off til Tuesday :j :j Working Tuesday as I have a meeting about something important with people who are hard to pin down, then I'm taking the rest of next week off need a rest! (and also need to do *something* with the house!)

Still, the sun's shining, I'm working at home so could even have lunch in the garden :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Well I didn't have lunch in the garden, but I did spend a couple of hours in a cafe with a pal, hatching a plot for future schemes :j :j So all good

And I booked myself a doctors appointment for next Wednesday Going to ask them to check my thyroid levels - not convinced that's it, but this is kind of what it felt like when I was going mad before and that was to blame then. Mind you, now I have no thyroid at all and am 100% medicated, I'm not entirely sure what would have changed! :rotfl:

Still, it'll be good to start a conversation with them

In money-related things - it seems the land registry have cashed the cheque we sent for putting me on the house deeds :j :j So it looks like I now own half of our house, without having worked for it at all :j :j

Trying to decide which half of the kitchen I want - the bit with the cooker, or the bit with the window :rotfl:

Not celebrating properly til I have a letter of confirmation in my grubby mitts mind you, we all know what these organisations can be like! :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Well we got 2 letter from land registry yesterday :rotfl: One asking Mr Cheery to return a confirmation slip thingy just as a check against fraud, and the other asking for passport or utility bill in his old name. Both easily doable so that should be the end of it! :j :j

(although again - not celebrating til we have confirmation letter...)

Closed an old Cheshire building society account I'd had as a kid yesterday - i'd miraculously found old passbook but amusingly she had to issue me a new one as it's been bought out by Nationwide and the old books don't fit in their machines :rotfl:

Got very jealous as she stamped CLOSED on every page :rotfl: I do like stamping :rotfl: Maybe I should get a new job in a bank

Anyway, had £4.49 sat in there for last 15 years so I got 52p interest :money: :rotfl: Hardly life changing but that's an extra :£5.01 for the patchwork fund :applause:

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

... Got very jealous as she stamped CLOSED on every page :rotfl: I do like stamping :rotfl: ...

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Me too - I just ordered one for a colleague as I was getting tired of writing his name out on documents that needed signature...he threw it in a drawer...I fetched it out again and now it's on my desk...drives him crazy as I save up all the paperwork and stamp it all at once!

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: glad it's not just me with the stamping :rotfl:



Nicely relaxed and also exhausted after weekend of birthdays and a trip to Bristol. Crawled into the back of the car at half 3 this morning and slept til about 10 and now completely worn out :rotfl: Had a lovely time though :j :j

Advanced loafing this evening I think, and just a bit of making sure the house is a tiny bit tidier ready for my birthday tomorrow :j :j