Dancing in the Rain

parsniphead

I think that's a good idea to plan your days to keep your free ones free. 5am starts are not pleasant, especially during the winter dark mornings but you get used to them.

I'm glad to hear your feeling a bit more relaxed.

Have a great night.

doingitanyway

parsniphead wrote: »

I think that's a good idea to plan your days to keep your free ones free. 5am starts are not pleasant, especially during the winter dark mornings but you get used to them.

Thanks Parsniphead. Hopefully by the time the dark mornings are here it will be all change and my niece will be out of hospital, then I am back to using my evenings to go to the gym

doingitanyway

Finding more time in my life

Inspired by Parsniphead’s list of repairs I thought I would take the same method and apply it to a problem of my own

Things I can do now

Stick to one supermarket no further than 5 minutes away from somewhere I have to be anyway. So MnS next to the gym (and yellow sticker all the way).

Use online to order basics that cannot be yellow stickers (once a month)

Go to the hospital only when I am in the city for work

Swim or exercise before work on days when I cannot go after

Giving up voluntary role. I have been doing it for over a decade, but perhaps it is time to let it go. I cannot do everything.

Use my lunch hour for the PO/Chemist/Health shop (stop travelling and queuing in these places on my free days).

Decluttering (fewer objects to clean and care for).

Things that will take more time to get in place

Reducing my days to 4 days a week

Find a fortnightly cleaner

Find a monthly gardener

Happy hump day as Muffintop might say

beanielou

Happy hump day indeed
If your volunteer role no longer gives you joy then it is maybe time for it to go.
I am concemplating similar after 23 years.
The longest standing volunteer with the organisation;)

doingitanyway

beanielou wrote: »

Happy hump day indeed
If your volunteer role no longer gives you joy then it is maybe time for it to go.
I am concemplating similar after 23 years.
The longest standing volunteer with the organisation;)

Wow I thought I had been volunteering with the same organisation for a long time :T
The difficult thing is it does still give me joy. I love it, but I just have to begin to let some things go and feeling a bit burned out and there are other things I'd like to do more of creatively. Choices eh?

beanielou

doingitanyway wrote: »

Wow I thought I had been volunteering with the same organisation for a long time :T
The difficult thing is it does still give me joy. I love it, but I just have to begin to let some things go and feeling a bit burned out and there are other things I'd like to do more of creatively. Choices eh?

If you are feeling a bit burned out maybe time to have a break from it & then take it from there.
Creatively sounds good :j

doingitanyway

beanielou wrote: »

If you are feeling a bit burned out maybe time to have a break from it & then take it from there.
Creatively sounds good :j

Thanks beanie. A good idea. I won't officially resign for now. I will just turn things down until the new year and see how I feel then.

beanielou

doingitanyway wrote: »

Thanks beanie. A good idea. I won't officially resign for now. I will just turn things down until the new year and see how I feel then.

Definatly the way to go:A

doingitanyway

So, a few things of note happened today:

I got home and the police had put a note through the door saying someone on my little road was burgled a few days ago. It suggested the obvious things like deadlocks, security lights etc, none of which I have. I am going to call the police to see if they can recommend someone to do this work and then I will use my savings to get these things done. Just as well I did not use this money to overpay debt

I need a new front door anyway, so I might get a quote for a new door now.

I feel a bit scared but I will use that fear to improve my security.

The other thing was someone told me she is leaving at work. That is 1 month’s notice and 2 months to recruit. That takes us into 2018, so I could request 4 days a week now. As it happens I have supervision tomorrow so I can ask…

Do you sometimes think it is scary how quickly things come back when you put them out into the universe? I still feel apprehensive but at the same time I think I need to do this. By February I will be debt free and mortgage free. I have a house to renovate but I still think I will be able to do this. I guess I just do it…

A low spend day. I ate out at lunch time, but a friend insisted on paying for my lunch. I did not waste any money on buying coffee out

I hope your day went well reader

parsniphead

Bad news about the local break in. If you have to spend money to feel safe then do so.

On a positive note you have exciting times ahead. I hope it all works out hkw you want it to.