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Pyxis

DUKE wrote: »

I've never been a hoarder but I love empty too, everything always looks tidy plus easier & so much less to clean

It's true. However, too much empty looks like the person doesn't have a life!
Like everything, I suppose it's finding the balance.

lostinrates

I like stuff that means something. Not magazine or catalogue perfect, but stuff that tells me whose place I'm in.

I'm in our kitchen right now. Its a little messy today. On the two small windows in front of me are a pair of new bottles ( each window) that fir and I like, and on one window a tankard belonging to an old relative, into which I usually slip a glass and some flowers, it has lavender in now, and will keep that for a long while I think. On the other window is a big clumsy pot made by an aunt I am not close to for my parents. Its a lovely pot though, and like the tankard, I slip a glass it it and use it for cut flowers. Again this year it will probably have dried herbs in it, maybe more lavender. There is art on the walls, but its been chosen by us and tells you some thing about our humour and tastes. One of our mutual best friends walked in rand started laughing immediately.

Our house is very personal, because its not the sort of thing one does in a month or so.....buy a room and put a look together. Bits look spartan bits look cluttered. But its important to us that our home is right for us. Not for other people.

Pyxis

lostinrates wrote: »

I like stuff that means something. Not magazine or catalogue perfect, but stuff that tells me whose place I'm in.

I'm in our kitchen right now. Its a little messy today. On the two small windows in front of me are a pair of new bottles ( each window) that fir and I like, and on one window a tankard belonging to an old relative, into which I usually slip a glass and some flowers, it has lavender in now, and will keep that for a long while I think. On the other window is a big clumsy pot made by an aunt I am not close to for my parents. Its a lovely pot though, and like the tankard, I slip a glass it it and use it for cut flowers. Again this year it will probably have dried herbs in it, maybe more lavender. There is art on the walls, but its been chosen by us and tells you some thing about our humour and tastes. One of our mutual best friends walked in rand started laughing immediately.
Our house is very personal, because its not the sort of thing one does in a month or so.....buy a room and put a look together. Bits look spartan bits look cluttered. But its important to us that our home is right for us. Not for other people.

This is so right, LIR! It's what makes your home yours, and not someone else's!

I've got loads of things I wouldn't dream of getting rid of, but there are also loads of things I do have to! It's meaningful things that should stay.

For example, in my living room I have two prints on one wall. They are modern abstracts. Not by anyone in particular. For years, they were stuck on the wall, unframed, just in mounts. (They are in frames now, though). I bought them nearly 30 years ago. They were a pound each. They have been in the same place all this time, and will stay there.
I have several other paintings, now, some are originals, by local artists, some are very nice framed prints. People might asked why I have kept these two, rather non-descript prints, whose frames probably cost a bit more than the prints did.

I will never get rid of them. They will stay where they are for the duration. The reason is this; I was very poor once, and yet I really wanted some nice pictures to put on the wall. I couldn't afford any. Then one day, I happened to be in a local gallery, and saw that, right at the back, they were having a clearance sale. Most of the prints were still too dear for me, and then I saw these two. A pound each. It was still rather a lot for me, (this was nearly 30 years ago), but I so wanted some art on my walls, I decided to get them. I couldn't afford any frames for years, though, so they were stuck up on the walls in their mounts.

They will stay there, because they ground me. Although not rich now, I am better off than I was then, and they remind me of those times when I stood for ages in the gallery, trying to work out if I could afford two £1 prints. They remind me to be grateful.

jobbingmusician

Been ill today. Totally my own fault. I am allergic to soy sauce, gravy browning and stock cubes but we don't know exactly what it is I am allergic to. I decided a BBQ chicken would be a good idea. It wasn't.

Normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

whitewing

Get well soon, JM.

WaS, are you okay today?

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Waves_and_Smiles

I have had a migraine all day. That's different. They only happen maybe 3 times a year usually at season changes when there is more atmospheric pressure luckily, but I have had suffered with them since I was 15. It has reduced itself to a bad headache now and the being sick has stopped so the worse should be over. Amusingly, my carer panicked as she has never seen me have one before and I slur my speech, become very pale, am sick a lot and my arm goes numb with almost no movement. Fortunately I could reassure her it looks a lot worse than it is whilst my head was pressed face downwards into a hot water bottle but she still called WaSp who was on his way anyway and stayed until he got here, which was very sweet as she was over time. My migraines do look awful but they are completely harmless.

Yay for cleaning, I knew where my hot water bottle was after it was rescued from the CoD so she found it easily!

Hope everyone is ok, I shall read back in a bit.

Oh, little tip for anyone who gets migraine. A specialist told me that although everyone goes for cold flannels, migraines need heat to improve. Normal headaches respond to cold. He told me to use a hot water bottle or flannel as hot as I can take it on my head and the back of my neck or failing that a hot shower pounding the back of my neck. Just in case anyone was wondering why I opted for something hot. Also constantly massaging your neck and jawline helps as everyone clenches their muscles again the pain without even knowing it which makes it worse as you then develop a tension headache on top of it, you have to try to keep those muscles loose.

lostinrates

I get migraines WaS. I get occular ones and silent ones. They are related to my neurological condition. I think it might be, but am not sure, that an almost constant 'silent' migraine is one of the causes of my fatigue. Better a silent one that the other sort, eh?

Lights and lighting are really important. Essentially I have to avoid ( for my neurological condition and this) flashing lights, not unlike some one with epilepsy) and time I. Shopping malls and under certain lighting, like supermarkets, used to seem to make them worse. Supermarkets at least don't seem so bad now for so e reason, but I never linger.

Advise I've been given is not about temperature, but other things.

jobbingmusician

I 'used' to get migraines, but MrJM was always certain that they were in fact food allergies. I'm now convinced he was right - now I've given up everything which contains MSG or used to contain MSG*, I get them much more rarely.

The only downside is that the less I eat of whatever it is, the more I react when I DO have it. Still, I used to be ill at least once a month, and it's far far rarer now.

*We know the trigger isn't actually MSG, as Parmesan cheese apparently contains this and is fine. Things like flavoured crisps used to contain MSG and don't so much any more, but I am still allergic. It's some crappy chemical which is used for flavouring things which have or used to have MSG (plus soy sauce is a definite one).

lostinrates

Hydration? Or rather salt imbalance? Hydration is very crucial to me. Two of my pills are diuretic. I drink phenomenal amounts. Days I cannot keep water intake up because going out or whatever difference is very marked.


I had to do a couple of 24 hour using collection tests this year. Apparently I am the only person at the GP who doubted the bottle would be big enough. ( how embarrassing ). It was. But the test results all commented on my output. ( I am meant to drink that much, its all been worked out)

Waves_and_Smiles

Allergies and salt is an interesting one. I am more prone to them when my Addisons Disease flares which means I am not retaining salt properly so I crave it and eat more of it in it's table form. Red wine can cause them, too so I wonder if hydration is a factor?.

I get very bad visuals, I often find it hard to see for the lights. This time was quite pretty though, imagine a silk cloth made of light rippling in front of your eyes with bright yellow lightening spikes coming off it? Unfortunately I was too busy whining to appreciate it at the time.