New job = New focus = Still a good life

Pippilongstocking

rtandon27 wrote: »

quote thingy not working!:mad:

...you said something about pancakes & maple syrup?!?

...I'M UP! Fork & knife in hand! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

reheating the pan for you.

Busy day and a large nap in the middle of it. Just getting sorted for work, lunches and teabreaks/etc sorted.

:A

Bath and bed time.

Swiped the bathrooms
Emailed cleaning company chum uses.
Emailed work chaps about some things
Found CC vouchers to have a 'free' date with my pal
Walked mutts
Bagged up lentil soup
Sent a whole pile of mails and messages to folks to rehome some of the food mountain my friends here left.

:T

passing on the love

troglodyte

You are doing well!
The best I've done is finished some work and Freegled some spare plants from the garden - I mean there's a limit to how many of the same plant you might want (I might live to regret this when I find it's the only thing the deer don't eat).

Pippilongstocking

troglodyte wrote: »

You are doing well!
The best I've done is finished some work and Freegled some spare plants from the garden - I mean there's a limit to how many of the same plant you might want (I might live to regret this when I find it's the only thing the deer don't eat).

Isn't that the way sometimes things come and bit you in the bum.

Hopefully not I was the same with alpine strawberries, chocolate mint and feverfew.

Although aside a stray pheasant I haven't seen any deer in here.

(poet and I don't know it) :rotfl:

Meal plan for today
Porridge (free) maple syrup and nut milk :T keeping the holidays going
Soup (smoked ham hough 10p + free lentils, carrots and half a 19p neep).
Salad, reduced leaves, reduced cottage cheese, reduced *seeing a theme here :rotfl:* and carrots with one of the million packets of oatcakes as an emergency snack
Pud - greek yog hg rasps and free mango couli. of which I have 2 litres

*free* meals = thinking out of the box = ecclectic lunch


Tea will be something more traditional like left over meat in freezer and a few tatties yorkies and we'll call it a fake roast dinner.

It may be beef, ham or chicken, currently the defrostnig lump is unlabelled.

Gotta love some excitement in your life.

Taking lots of leftover food to work, topping up the snowie comfort corner with soups, oatcakes etc for the seasonals to start.

Got a bag of leftover bits for a foodie chum too who I appear to have a food swap going on with.

Working will walk mutts at work.

see what I've got on and then plan if they can just be with me all day potentially on a rota as, tbh, two of them are a handful.

Will also test waters about making a wee 'kennel/bed' in one of the work areas we don't use but we are around a lot. Don't want them getting lonely.

:A

DH lunch and snacks done, he's got a more traditonal soup/sausage roll combo going.

jobs for later - revisit that list and see if I can floodlight the log area and do soem logs. Log chopping in the dark what could possibly go wrong:eek:

Off to find me porridge.



Have a good un.

Today will be a NSD. So there I've said it.

Pippilongstocking

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Reviewing now, and thanks I think I'll need it. Jet lag means up earlier so here's hoping today I can do more than dig a few tatties up and lollop.


:T

Review list tonight and write new one.

:eek:

Have a good one. Be MSE out there and spread the love. :T

troglodyte

I did laugh at log-chopping in the dark - but please don't try that!


Catching up with a bit of work then off to drop off some Freegle items and pick up another and buy a cheap second-hand wardrobe to refurbish - thinking that we can free up a spare bedroom for some paying guests : )


Left-over odds and ends with roasted veg for tea here too.

rtandon27

Confession...
Had a very unplanned non-MSE morning...
Only way to solve a huge problem was to spend an entire months salary...
Problem may have been created because I made a little mistake trying to do something while stressed and tired...
OH quite cross and rightly so - I'll need to rejig my part of the budget to scrounge together the cash...
One step forward & three steps back it seems...
Ho Hum...
We are fed & clothed & warm...
For this I am thankful!

Cheery_Daff

Oh dear RT :eek: :eek: :eek: I shall remember your experience next time I'm stressed and tired and abandon whatever I'm doing in favour of a nap! :eek:

Pippilongstocking

Trog well done sounds very productive. Goodluck with wardrobe. And, I found a table in a local reuse shop yay. I think its 'the one'.

Cheery napping is always the way forward.

My day has been fraught but getting brain up to speed. Free wood (half a boot load) and a nice chatty lunch).

Leftover tea was ace

rtandon27 wrote: »

Confession...
Had a very unplanned non-MSE morning...
Only way to solve a huge problem was to spend an entire months salary...
Problem may have been created because I made a little mistake trying to do something while stressed and tired...
OH quite cross and rightly so - I'll need to rejig my part of the budget to scrounge together the cash...
One step forward & three steps back it seems...
Ho Hum...
We are fed & clothed & warm...
For this I am thankful!

Hugs and if you knew why my CC bill was so high because of a similar issue, due to stress, not being in control of my living space, boundaries, trying to still attempt my best, despite being utterly overwhelmed and those around me, you'd be kind with me too.

((((:A))))

We are also full bellied and warm.

Grateful indeed.

And as I am mindful (being practising when on hoildays :T)

I am borrowing the following from dear GP and you all.


Today my three grateful things are

Being missed at work, despite the onslaught of bunny head light work, I was missed and now have an incredible list (mine does not compete)which will take time but I know I can do.

Having lunch, outside, in January home made from my bag, largely homegrown or reduced and chatting comfortably with people I like but have a harder life than me but let me share theirs. And the dogs noodled about happy as larry.

Having the heart to challenge behaviour I don't agree with and am not respectful of, which despite fragility, was heard and acknowledged. Despite the difficult conversation. It allowed me to feel validated and respected, but thoughtfully.

Pippilongstocking

Gads jet lag

But on the up i guess I can be a bit more organised.



must write new list

Greying_Pilgrim

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Having the heart to challenge behaviour I don't agree with and am not respectful of, which despite fragility, was heard and acknowledged. Despite the difficult conversation. It allowed me to feel validated and respected, but thoughtfully.

We all can relate to that Pippi - and know how rarely it happens. So the fact that you were able to experience it, after standing your grown and standing up to wrongdoing/speaking/thinking is very cheering to hear, indeed. I'm grateful that you posted - it gives me hope that I'm not batting on in vain.

Greying X

PS - fabby brown-bag lunch outside in January? - kudos to the gal for understanding it's the simple things in life.... :T