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

dawnybabes

Ooh you could have popped in for a cup of tea, I'm a couple of miles from holmfirth. It's very picture postcard round here. Continually tell my son how lucky he is to see cows and sheep every day - his cousins only see them when they make a day trip out of town.

Hope you've got the new shower under your arm :-)

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, are you that close? Tis indeed beautiful around there It would have been extremely cheerful to pop in for a cup of tea

Not got the shower just yet - but I've investigated which one to buy (didn't take long - it was the cheapest one :rotfl: ) Still £50 mind you :eek: but then the last one (which was also the cheapest) lasted nearly 8 years I think, and I reckon about 50p a month is a price I'm willing to pay for a working shower each day

Must be time for a cuppa, surely?!

Karmacat

Yes, it's time for a cuppa I've got mine with me. And I'm all for the cheapest shower, absolutely

Cheery_Daff

Time for another cuppa now! :coffee:

Well, no shower purchased yesterday, we decided to do a *little* bit more research (which, needless to say, has not been done...) But I don't want to end up with something that doesn't actually fit!

First journey to the office in 3 weeks - and there was a lineside fire so the 45 min journey took nearly 2 hours :eek: Had to go backwards at one point and bypassed Doncaster altogether - the poor people trying to get there should have had a journey of about 20 mins, but instead they had to spend 2 hours getting to York and another goodness knows how long getting back to Doncaster again :eek:

On the plus side it was nice and cosy, I had a cheery book to read, and I now get the cost of my ticket refunded :money:

What else moneywise... booked another class at the gym tomorrow (spin class this time) using my £31-for-2-months membership :money: I've done 5 classes with it now - I've just checked and they're normally £6.50 for an hour :eek: :eek: so it's already paid for itself and there's still over a month left (and I was on holiday for 2 weeks of the first month!)

Not sure I'm going to renew - I like some of the classes but I have to allow 30 mins to drive there and another 30 mins to get home because of where it is, and the university gym, while not *quite* so nice is 10 mins walk away... They usually do an offer once all the students have arrived too in October ish so I might just do that next time :j Sadly they don't have Piloxing classes but you can't have everything! :rotfl:

Off to the docs tomorrow morning - not sure how much I've said on here but I feel like I'm going completely mad and can't handle it any more I've been on edge since the trouble with the neighbours at the start of the year, and work isn't great this year, and there's various other things going on, and I did go and have my thyroid levels checked about 3 months ago just in case (they're fine).

But I've been ten times worse since I started on the pill after having my misplaced coil taken out :eek: I know it takes a bit of time to settle down, but I've taken it for nearly 8 weeks now and am still crying nearly every day, tearing my hair out at the slightest thing, biting Mr (not very) Cheery's head off... So it's going to have to go, or *something* is going to have to be done, can't deal with being a not-cheery-Cheery, it's too sad!

Anyway, tonight is Life Buttling night So that means admin, emails, things I've been putting off (currently putting off sending emails about my permaculture diploma project so that's the first task!) Shouldn't take too long then I'm going to ring a friend and have an early night :j

Cheery_Daff

Ok, so I now have a lower dose pill and details of a 'stress control evening course' - 50-100 people sat in a room to listen to a bloke lecturing about stress and the body, stress and sleep etc.

Can't say I'm over enthused but that's what I've been offered so that's what I'll do...

Karmacat

Oh Cheery! So sorry to hear things have been that bad for you The lower dose pill sounds like it might be most helpful of all ... as for the lecture, I can't think that there's anything there that you don't already know, but there *might* be - like in that terrible book I bought, there were a couple of good pages about what to put in a sleep diary hope you feel better soon.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks KC :kisses3: I'm usually pretty good at picking up useful titbits even when the overall thing isn't great (like you with your book) so fingers crossed. You just never know where help will come from if you keep eyes and ears and mind open

I'm going to give the new tablets 4 weeks and if I don't feel better I'll take a deep breath and have another coil fitted. At least then (assuming they fit it properly) I'll know it's just 'ordinary' stress and not hormones adding to the mix!

Tis just quite tedious waiting for it all to sort itself out

Anyway, off back to the chocolate factory, sorry, gym in a bit for a lunchtime cycling class so hopefully that'll perk me up - exercise is meant to help, right??

Chocforever

I hope things improve for you soon. Don't underestimate the effect of noisy neighbours, even if it is only occasional, and lack of sleep at times which are out of your control. In a similar situation, it made me ill and on-edge; I didn't realise quite how much until they moved out. For me, it wasn't just stressful when it was noisy, it is the wondering if it will be noisy/seeing lots of people coming around and knowing I wouldn't get much sleep that night.

Like you, I was planning to move house in any case. It contributed to the decision to sell up and move into rented accommodation so I could pounce on the right property when it came up.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks chocforever :kisses3: That's exactly it - it's wondering when the noise will start that's half the problem! I find myself starting to fret about it when I start heading home from anywhere and it just gets worse as I get closer

Anyway, just done a vicious spin class :eek: :rotfl: So I should be too tired to worry for the rest of the day :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Well, we had an entirely silent day from next door yesterday!! :j :j exciting times

Just been told work are reviewing their 'working at home' policy to make it more draconian (er, those weren't *exactly* the words they used... :rotfl: )

I already fall foul of it having no legitimate reason to work at home two days a week - I've done it for years because I was originally only employed 2 days a week and when they offered me more I only agreed to do it if I could work at home the other days.

But I have nothing in writing, and both previous managers have left. So I've technically been defying the rules for several years (with full knowledge of bosses of course) - but now it looks like there's going to be a crack down, and distance isn't a good enough reason for working at home...

Which leaves me in somewhat of a quandry... I already spend £200 a month travelling to work, and it's a 4 hour round trip the days I come here. I cannot and will not do that four days a week - that gives me the takehome salary of someone who earns £10,000 less than I do so it would make much more sense for me to jack it in and work in the local cafe at home...

Not going to jump into anything. Apparently it's 'imminent' (whatever that means), so I suppose I'll have to wait and see what happens... I'd decided I wasn't going to leave in the middle of my new project, but this makes coming to work such a pain in the !!!! that I might have to!

Ah well, I'll just add it to my list of things to worry about... :rotfl: