THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Saipan

cornishchick wrote: »

On a serious note, my health is declining, my back is dodgy and I can't retire for 20 years, there's no why I can continue to work in care till then.. So , plans are made, I've cut my hours, stepped back from management and I've started to train as a counsellor, it will take 3 years but with luck I can then do some extra training to build on my current knowledge of learning disabilities and combine the two. , I have paid of huge chunks of the mortgage mans I'll continue to pay extra. Plan to be mortgage free in 3 ish years. Lol , worst case I could , at a pinch then live on my widows pension ... But I'll have other options...

Snap! I am doing very much the same thing, though quite a bit later in life. My current job is interesting and can be enjoyable, and I work with a great bunch of people, but it is incredibly stressful which overshadows the good stuff.

I am beginning to realise just how much the stress is affecting my health - and not just mine, much younger colleagues are being told by medics that the symptoms they are experiencing won't improve unless they reduce the stress in their lives.

So I am retraining for a role that, like yourself, I can bring existing skills to - in my case, years of working with children and young people with all sorts of difficulties.

Gaining new, marketable skills that are hopefully useful to people is, I think, one of the best types of prepping for whatever may happen in the future. And I am enjoying it hugely, always a bonus! Good luck for the rest of your course.

hunters

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Very similar life expectancy to the British.

...and there's my depressing thought for the day imo - a 1 in 4 chance of living past 90:eek:. That's rather too high odds for my liking personally - and almost an excuse to head for the junk food/give up exercising/etc just in case I'm headed towards being that 1 out of 4:(.

Yep..my jaw dropped in astonishment when someone told me once that they hoped to live to 100! Oh well - each to their own on that I guess...though that would be "nightmare scenario" to me personally.

Maybe a bit of cake in your diet would sweeten up your nature

moneyistooshorttomention

:bdaycake:

...and here's a whole cake for you.

[Deleted User]

Great ISS pass last night.

Weather permitting, I'm hoping for another good one tonight.

maryb

Argggh!

I like to have proper chicken stock in store for soups etc. I do the carcase in my pressure cooker and then I drain everything through a sieve into a bowl. The liquid is obviously hot so I do it with the bowl in the sink so it doesn't splash me. The bowl was quite full so I left it sitting in the sink until it was cool enough to lift out without the risk of scalding

You can see where this is going, can't you? DH has seen me make chicken stock many, many times. Why did he decide it was for tipping down the sink?:mad:

maryb

Just seen that there is a new thread on coping with ill health the OS way. Quite timely given some of our recent discussions. I tend to go straight to the threads I follow regularly but I like to just browse the index every now and then, there's always something interesting. What do other people do about thread overload?

thriftwizard

DH has seen me make chicken stock many, many times. Why did he decide it was for tipping down the sink?

Probably for the same reason that mine threw all my Le Parfait preserving jars into the recycling... you'll be pleased to hear he lived.

maryb

:eek::eek::eek:

I'm not sure I would have risen to such saintliness

[Deleted User]

Another bright (and fairly long) ISS pass, this evening. :cool:

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Another bright (and fairly long) ISS pass, this evening. :cool:

You can get medication for that, these days, BB. Don't be too embarrassed to go to your doctor, they're pretty unshockable types.