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

Cheery_Daff

It does indeed! :j :j

Yep, me too on the dentist thing. Fortunately it doesn't actually HURT now, just tender when I try to touch or eat on it. Still not right though!

Just eating last night's kedgeree for lunch

Cheery_Daff

Hmm - may have found at least a partial explanation for continued gum pain and swelling - this morning I could feel a slight pointy bit sticking out of gum :eek: so poked it a bit (of course) and it waggled more, so got in there and pulled - and removed two giant jaggedy shards of tooth!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Dentist said tooth was whole when he removed it, but occasionally bits of teeth remain and work their way to the surface, but that happened early last week with a non-jaggedy bit and I thought that was it.

No wonder it's been sore!! :eek: Have kept bits of tooth and have been showing round the office at lunchtime Bet everyone's glad I'm leaving :rotfl: :rotfl:

Ooh, I can see a rainbow out yhe window :j :j

Still going to the dentist on Thursday - might see if he can xray and make sure there's nowt else still in there!! :eek: :eek:

EssexHebridean

Ouch - not at ALL surprised it's been sore then! Fingers crossed it might now sort itself out - sounds like a bit of further investigation might well be an idea though!

Did love the entirely random

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Ooh, I can see a rainbow out the window :j :j

In the middle of that post, too! :rotfl::D Very you, that is! :T:D:p

Cheery_Daff

I'm easily distracted :rotfl: :rotfl:

Thanks for correcting my fat fingered typing too

EssexHebridean

Shhh....I wasn't going to mention that bit...! :rotfl::rotfl:

And yes - you are - it's often as simple as...."CAKE!" :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

I confess if I'm on the train (or in a rush) and typing long verbose wafflings on the phone I tend not to bother going back to correct it

Flylady day 29 :j Today (amongst many other things :rotfl: ) she says :

When was the last time you actually played?
It is time for you to do something fun for yourself! Do you
know what that is? Have you forgotten what you love to
do? Sit down right now and think about things you
enjoying doing

Ok If you insist

I wouldn't have put it on the list, but I quite enjoyed clearing out another shelf in the kitchen cupboard tonight :rotfl: Did the spices etc shelf last time we were in the kitchen zone but never got round to all the rest.

Tonight I set the timer for 15 mins and clambered onto a chair to reach the very top shelf - what I like to think of as the store cupboard :rotfl: I found:

* 1 tub caustic soda :eek:
* 2 packets citric acid (I'm fairly sure they had a specific purpose but no idea what :rotfl: Elderflower cordial maybe?!)
* 6 bags of pasta :rotfl:
* 5 opened and half used bags of flour
* 3 half used bags of soup mix
* a basket of spices - all open bags, and many of which I'd already replaced

Oh dear :rotfl:

Ah well, all wiped down now and at least I know what's up there :rotfl:

Middle shelf is an absolute wreck of rice, noodles, sugar, all manner of sticky brown stuff :eek: :rotfl: Might tackle that tomorrow

Loving this 15 minute thing Tis a very rare day that I can't put aside 15 mins to do *something* in the current zone, and it's really starting to make a difference to how the house looks and how I feel about it :j

I'm also spending five minutes a day doing a 'room rescue' in the worst room :eek: Started in the attic - and actually in just a couple of weeks it was spick and span and the tidiest it's ever been for my mum to stay last weekend :j

Moved on to the bedroom :eek: It's not the worst room - that's the workshop, but that's entirely Mr Cheery's domain so I'm leaving well alone

Spent my 5 mins in the bedroom hanging up some of the mountain of clothes that there isn't really room for in the wardrobe :eek: Most of which aren't mine... I reckon another 2 days of 5 mins and the clothes will all be hung up (until next time, of course) and I'll be able to move on to something else :j :j

Right, promised myself I'd curl up early with hot water bottle Back in York tomorrow - half a day then I'm doing some Christmas shopping in York :j :j Very jolly But I REALLY want to get into the habit of getting up more than 20 mins before I go out! :eek: :rotfl:

EssexHebridean

It really is amazing how much impact just 15 minutes can make, isn't it! I'm making good headway on training MrEH to do little things as well - he's no longer raising an eyebrow at me getting up to sort the kitchen after we've eaten, and is remembering to put dishes into the dishwasher too - my pet hate for a long while has been going into the kitchen to find them sitting on the worktop just above the dishwasher... :mad:

Citric acid - I have a feeling might be used in some form of cheese making? Mozzarella maybe? Pretty sure when we did that I cheated and just used lemon juice, but you managed to track down the actual stuff for it?

Cheery_Daff

Ah yes, maybe mozzarella! :j Although I have a feeling I used lemon for that too and this was intended for cordial but I didn't make any.

Good excuse to make some mozzarella at the weekend I say :rotfl:

More Christmas shopping done, and if one more person who lives in York says 'why are you Christmas shopping in York, it's really boring' I will forcibly drag them to Sheffield and make them do ALL their holiday shopping there :rotfl: LOVE sheffield and have done most of my own presents there, but York has a MUCH more interesting selection of independent shops!

NEARLY all done now, except a few bits for Mr Cheery :j Going to start wrapping at the weekend, see whether I've missed anything obvious but don't think so...

Pondering a new MSE diary when I finish work - think I'll abscond over the fence to the MFW section :eek: :rotfl: Love DFW but haven't been in debt for a long time now so feel a bit out of place And we're aiming to have the house on the market by April so the next few months will be all about house-related finances.

Not sure I should be starting off a MFW diary as mortgage free and THEN taking out a large mortgage - feels slightly the wrong way round... :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums :hello:

Slow to get going today But I'm here now

YNAB balanced, all good :j Receipts from Christmas shopping extravaganza yesterday all entered :j :j

Last day of Flylady babysteps for me too! Bit sad :rotfl: But SO chuffed - never got to the end before Obviously I shall carry on with my routines and doing 15 mins a day in the zone and eventually (I hope) my house will look like some kind of show home :rotfl:

(fat chance :rotfl: But it might actually be clean, tidy and decorated enough to sell come March if I carry on!) :j :j

Did the final shelf in the kitchen cupboard last night :j Don't know why it was such a jumble, hardly anything on it now! All cleaned (thank heavens for stardrops ) and I've consolidated the 5 open packets of soup and broth mix (which we haven't used for yonks :rotfl: ) into one big jar

Might have to get Mr Cheery to unpack the slow cooker as it takes forever to cook! :rotfl:

Working at home today (eventually...) Spin class at lunch time (using up that gym membership! :j ) and then dentist later - although now those bits of bone have come out, it's feeling a LOT better! :j :j

FIVE working days left

EssexHebridean

As I said in the lead-in to my current diary, I did try MFW for a while, but just couldn't handle the silently disapproving looks if I dared to spend on treats rather than setting it against overpayments! Didn't suit me at ALL! :rotfl: Far nicer, and friendlier over here IMO, and nobody's complained about me being a fraud YET, so I'm staying!

Nice work on the shopping - I think York is a lovely place so feel free to enlist my help in dragging people to Sheffield if required! (Although I don't think Sheffield is THAT bad, is it?!)