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

Cheery_Daff

Just having a tea break Sadly no biscuits

* [STRIKE]get dressed [/STRIKE]
* [STRIKE]fill holes in 118 year old landing ceiling without bringing entire ceiling down on myself [/STRIKE] - YES! It's taken me ALL afternoon and a million stages but I've done it and the ceiling now looks like a normal person's ceiling! :j :j
* scrape bits of flaky paint off rest of ceiling
* [STRIKE]textured paint on bits of filler in spare room[/STRIKE]
* 1st top coat on entire stairs and landing
* coat of white in spare room
* sand down wooden cladded wall in spare room

Ok, so I've not actually crossed that many things off :rotfl: but the ceiling was SUCH a state, and it's taken SO long to chip away at the edges (without taking the whole lot down, which is really what it could do with), several coats of PVA, bodging and stuffing and plastering and madness for HOURS AND HOURS to fill two giant holes (one at least a foot and a half long :eek: ) and have also finished off the wall in the spare room too, which wasn't on the list.

Just having a cuppa, wishing I had a biscuit :rotfl: and then I'm off to get on with the painting! :j

Karmacat

Wow! I see what you mean about the work on the house! That is remarkable, especially since you also did the park run, even if it *was* with your sister. And it stresses your neck (my neck, lets get real ) to work on the ceiling (so to speak ) so thats a really good job.

And in the middle of the new work, too! Great that you've got all that time/travel money back.

Cheery_Daff

Tis indeed KC, I LOVE getting home earlier in the evening :j :j Sometimes too tired to do anything energetic when I get in, but at least I don't have to leave the house at 7am the next day!

It was more my arms that were aching with the ceiling :eek: So much up and down ladders, mixing plaster, stuffing it in - and often the easiest way of stuffing it into such an oddly shaped space, at least at first, is with your fingers - so the skin on my hands is all dry and flaky today :$ :rotfl:

Aching even more now after another personal trainer session in the gym :eek: I've never done this before - had inductions and been shown how to use the machines, but this time he did me a training plan to follow, and spent nearly an hour showing me how to do all the different exercises properly (squats, lunges, planks, bench presses and the like :eek: ) and then making me do several lots of each :eek: Including something called 'face pulling' - I told him I'd been doing that behind his back all along without a special machine :rotfl: :rotfl:

Couldn't fit him in again to show me the rest of the exercises til a week on Wednesday, but I promised I'd go at least twice on my own in the meantime :eek:

At least I've got half a chance of getting my money's worth now - I'm at £40 per visit now (paid £160, been 4 times) so it's getting better!! :rotfl:

Also sneaked out for a 2 hour lunch in the botanical gardens with a pal today :$ I'd forgotten it was quite so cheery, and quite so close to work! :j :j Might have to do that more often, and picnics in the summer :j :j

EssexHebridean

:rotfl::rotfl: Loving you bringing your average cost per visit down on the gym! Superb! And a further :rotfl: at face pulling too!

Brilliant progress on painting, plastering and park running too - it really is all coming together! :T

Cheery_Daff

Slowly, EH, very slowly....

Half thought about going to the gym to do half an hour on the spin bike today but I was SO stiff and achey that I thought better of it :eek:

Tomorrow's chocabloc with meetings etc, so it'll have to be Thursday, but I'll definitely go then! Last work meeting finishes at 5 so I'll hop straight into the gym then, promise

SO tired tonight. Fell asleep on the sofa at 6.30, thinking I'd get up at 7.30 to go to slimming world, but didn't wake up again til 8.45 :eek: Ran round to the group, but for once they'd been all efficient and turned everything off and the computer won't let you weigh in after that :rotfl: So all my cake stuffing this week has gone ignored, and I just have to try not to do the same again next week! :eek: :rotfl:

stepuptothepl8

you are doing so well on the DIY! And parkrun.. I'm registered, but am very nervous about doing my first - any words of encouragement? good luck with SW this week - I'm supposed to be doing WW.. not so good this week! :eek:

Cheery_Daff

Oooh, stepup (do you mind me calling you that??) Get yourself to the parkrun! You'll be hooked after the first time. Have you done much running before? What are you nervous about? They're GREAT, the volunteers are lovely and the marshalls will shout encouragement and show you which way to go, and everyone will wait til all the runners are back (I took 40 mins this week and someone took 57 and they all waited for him!).

Most important thing - REMEMBER YOUR BARCODE! :rotfl: And make sure you follow instructions at the end - they'll give you a little plastic tag thing as you go through the finish line - keep hold of that, stay in the order you went through the finish in, then take your plastic tag and your barcode to one of the scanner people.

That's it! Loads of people will be walking bits, there'll likely be a load of kids too (usually faster than me!) It;s all for fun, no pressure - but I do like getting the email/text message saying 'your time was xx.xx, you were 700th out of 700 runners today; :rotfl:

Does your parkrun have a facebook page? Ours does, and someone takes pictures every week and posts them up (obviously without names) - might be worth a look through so you can see what it'll look like if you're nervous.

And you can always take someone with you, even if just to cheer you on! Good luck! Come back and tell us when you've done it!

Cheery_Daff

Busy day here but got a couple of days respite now, thank goodness! Plenty to do, but nowhere to actually BE at a specific time, which makes a difference I find!

Just spent another hour in the gym, by myself this time Did 15 mins on the bike, then 20 mins or so of my weights and squats and whatnot exercises that the trainer bloke wrote down Was there with my piece of paper like a right plonker Then another 20 mins on the bike :j (not jumping up and down on the bike, of course...)

So that brings it down to, er... <finds calculator> Oohh, we're at £32 a visit now! :j :rotfl: Loving this way of working it out - I usually beat myself up cos I've not used it enough, but by doing this it's just acknowledging that I can use it as little as I like, it just means it's cost more per time :rotfl:

Tired now, and just stuffed in a pizza to undo all my hard work in the gym :rotfl: In my defence they were 2 for £3 - but that doesn't mean they contain any less fat I suppose. Wouldn't it be good if stuff that was on offer had fewer calories?! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Task for this evening is to put the attic back together! :j :j After this next cup of tea, that is. And I'm planning to be curled on the sofa with hot water bottle by 9pm so my window of opportunity is quite tight! :rotfl:

stepuptothepl8

You may call me whatever you like ! :rotfl:
Thanks so much for the words of encouragement, I'm planning to go this week now... :eek:

Hope you are curled up on the sofa as planned x

EssexHebridean

Not surprised you're going along Stepup - what a brilliantly encouraging post from Cheery! :T

Did you make your sofa/hot water bottle deadline then? Quite right to prioritise tea though - you know we're in agreement on that! :rotfl: