Adulting - after the storm

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Very best wishes on your journey x

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A mixed day, but positively inspired by MSE chums in various ways.

SOA still to come, spent most of the day walking instead . 22,427 steps taken Took off by myself with a broad destination in mind, and half a desire to see the sea. Nearly gave up thrice before I left the street : rain showers came in, lure of the house and weariness due to the disturbed nights sleep. But persevered and feel so very very much better for it. Not used to going out like that by myself. Rain hit just as I got to a favorite but rarely visited pub, about 90 minutes walk from home. Appearing like a drowned rat prompted quite a few people to speak to me. Discovered it can actually be quite nice to be by yourself in those kind of settings, and almost more able to engage than when you go as a part of a pair.
Chose wisely from the menu, not the cheapest item (which was soup, but a flavour that my fridge is full of!) but not far off. Enjoyed the walk back, despite the rain and a few creaks from my joints that just weren't used to this activity.
Relieved by a call from the bank, to say they had identified a potentially fraudulent use of my card to book hotel rooms in the states. Yep, not my purchases. Card cancelled, but money safe. Well done fraud protection algorithms:T. Also feeling like I did ok as the grown up in the house by noticing (when do I ever notice anything?) that my car tyres looked a smidge low, topping them up at the garage on my way out to get DD, and doing oil and screenwash at the same time (from stores in the shed). I'll be grateful for that next week!!
Easy evening with DD - HM veggie chilli, rice. I delighted in using up scrapings of avocado and went stingy on cheese & sour cream on mine, in a nod to eating healthily. I love SC but only ever use it for chilli, so we eat a lot of chilli over a fortnight or so when I have some in, and I really push the 'keep open for' date on it (without adverse effects so far). Entered a couple of competitions online. Someones got to win!

Ready for bed now! Night night turtles and MSErs

greent

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Hi Greent, it was your comments in DFW that drew me over here Thanks for the welcome. Pensions are one of the many things I feel I need to grow up about! I read about KonMarie on another thread (I think I saw your name there too) during my stormy night - it was the first I'd heard of it. Its very timely to discover as part of our building work will involve boxing up most of our stuff from 4 main rooms. I'm going to look into it a bit more, but instinctively like the idea of subjects rather than areas. We have books everywhere in this house.

Yep - you'll see my name on the MK thread too :D I found it at a 'right' time for me, too - I'd just started a few weeks before instinctively sorting my things in a very similar way, just not as organised.
Seems like a great time to give it a go (and trust me, you may think that knicker folding can't be as great as people say - but it really is!!:p I took about 6 months to fold them (refusing to do it before, although they'd all been sorted into joyful ones) - and love how they are now they're folded into neat little 'packets' and filed in rows

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A mixed day, but positively inspired by MSE chums in various ways.

SOA still to come, spent most of the day walking instead . 22,427 steps taken Took off by myself with a broad destination in mind, and half a desire to see the sea. Nearly gave up thrice before I left the street : rain showers came in, lure of the house and weariness due to the disturbed nights sleep. But persevered and feel so very very much better for it. Not used to going out like that by myself. Rain hit just as I got to a favorite but rarely visited pub, about 90 minutes walk from home. Appearing like a drowned rat prompted quite a few people to speak to me. Discovered it can actually be quite nice to be by yourself in those kind of settings, and almost more able to engage than when you go as a part of a pair.
Chose wisely from the menu, not the cheapest item (which was soup, but a flavour that my fridge is full of!) but not far off. Enjoyed the walk back, despite the rain and a few creaks from my joints that just weren't used to this activity.
Relieved by a call from the bank, to say they had identified a potentially fraudulent use of my card to book hotel rooms in the states. Yep, not my purchases. Card cancelled, but money safe. Well done fraud protection algorithms:T. Also feeling like I did ok as the grown up in the house by noticing (when do I ever notice anything?) that my car tyres looked a smidge low, topping them up at the garage on my way out to get DD, and doing oil and screenwash at the same time (from stores in the shed). I'll be grateful for that next week!!
Easy evening with DD - HM veggie chilli, rice. I delighted in using up scrapings of avocado and went stingy on cheese & sour cream on mine, in a nod to eating healthily. I love SC but only ever use it for chilli, so we eat a lot of chilli over a fortnight or so when I have some in, and I really push the 'keep open for' date on it (without adverse effects so far). Entered a couple of competitions online. Someones got to win!

Ready for bed now! Night night turtles and MSErs

Fab number of steps I'm terrible at weekends and school hols - I've only managed about 6.8K today:o



And well done for noticing your tyres. I have to confess that I won't fill mine up - I send OH to do it if they need doing in between services. I've tried before and it freaked me out too much - I'm too much of a wuss! :D


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