Oh No Not Again! Right. This Time......

Nagme

NSD today, Spent half an hour at DS's school tidying up lost property - and found his missing glove Funny, most of the stuff in lost property is boys' stuff...

Then I drove a 12 mile round trip to return an Amazon parcel to a collect+ point. It was where I lived in the eighties so I drove around a few roads, it seems much smaller as an adult, and so rammed with parked cars all over the place.

I made a conscious effort to do a bit more walking today, talking the long way home from school. I need to do a good bit of brisk walking each day, starting at 20 minutes, to help my energy levels. It's too easy to feel too tired to leave the house.

This is my last pottery session at DS's school, we're painting what we've made over the last 5 sessions, which will be nice, then it's just us two for tea as DH is out with work for a leaving do, so I'll do cheesy veg and jackets (the free ones I got from work as they were too small to sell). I'll microwave them first then smother them in olive oil and salt and oven cook them for 30 minutes when we get home.

Brass monkeys outside but bright and sunny too, didn't get any snow last night in the middle here!

Nagme

DS is going to a "climbing" party on Sunday and needs joggers, hoodie and trainers. I may have an age 8 pair of joggers stashed away, but not a hoodie, and no trainers! At least I have a present sorted - a duplicate xmas present. So much for a day doing housework tomorrow, now I have to go to the shops.Bleurgh.

pelirocco

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Sisters are suspicious that aunt has got nan to change will and that if they bank their cheques it's all they will receive from nan's estate when she goes. There is talk of seeing solicitors and contesting nan's will. Rang nan, thanked her for the cheque and asked her if she was moving out of her house, she said no. Asked her if she was happy she said yes. Feel quite upset. Sisters are not bothered about the money, they just want things done fairly. Told sisters I'm not interested in any money or who gets nan's house, but I will support them if they want to have a quite meeting with a solicitor.
Sheesh, didn't see all this coming.

Why should they expect anything from the will , its terrible to squabble over a will at the best of times , but when the person isn't even dead it beggars belief

Nagme

Totally, agree, Pelirocco. My sister's take on the whole event really threw me. She never took it further as she didn't want to upset nan, but I think she felt that my aunt was helping herself. One could say that my sister felt guilty about not keeping in touch with the family/ suffers with anxiety. She's cetainly had her phases of paranoia in the past. I am glad she came to me with her thoughts, I think she has seen that it was not the right way to have reacted, and I hope that she will visit the rest of her family more now. Long story but her father died when she was 10, and our mother died when she was 18.

Nagme

Spent a further £29.10 at the chemist on Friday, this time for a 3 month prepay prescription thing. I wish they had shown me on Monday, I didn't know that it could be done on the spot. So that's £55 on prescriptions this week. I've put reminders on my phone for all the different tablets I need to take.
had DH's friends up to visit yesterday, took his wife out to a vintage fair and spent the princely sum of 20p on a wooden cotton reel , then went to Milton Keynes and spent £3.99 on carpet stain wipes in lakel@nd to try and fix our bedroom carpet where I've (repeatedly) dropped bottles of foundation. Got treated to lunch at Pret, and she gave me a belated xmas present, a little glass bottle of olive oil with truffle.
Got the in laws staying again now till Wednesday. Absolutely shattered.

in_need_of_direction

My brother in law used to do the 3 month thing. He would preorder scripts and fill them the last week of validity and would get maybe four and a half to five months out of them.

Nagme

I'm definitely going to ensure I get value for money with the prepaid prescription thing, all my drugs are in one box with the paperwork to keep an eye on it all.
Dropped DS off at party and made the mistake of popping into cl@rks shoes, spent £65 on a pair of leather boots, they were reduced from £110 and are so comfy. I have no willpower. Especially in shoe shops. Grrr at myself.

lauradora

Good evening Nagme


I have loved your DFD


You make me smile, its nice to hear a fellow depression sufferer speaking so honestly....and not to mention someone who has no will power just like me


xxxx

Nagme

Thank you Laura Dora

The more open we are about depression, the better it will be understood. I think....

I had a bit more willpower today, having bought the grand total of nothing, despite escorting the in laws around ikea, and then taking them shopping. Got treated to lunch and had a hayuuuge custard slice, with a mug of hot chocolate, ie, no coke. Need to avoid the scales for a few days.

Sold a pair of DS' boots on ebay for £25 , they'll be collected and paid for in Friday, mustn't forget.

Sigh, just remembered the cat needs more "special" (expensive) biscuits.

lauradora

Im feeling the depression today. In a very peculiar mood and can't settle. Come to bed but mind is racing.

Been thinking about a caravan myself! Have you ever had one before? I'm worried about towing and storage?:think: