Mooloo's Joining up the dots in 2017

beanielou

All sounding good.
Happy holidays.

dktreesea

Oh wow, what brilliant news about the Tailor! If you do have any low days, maybe you could put that into a store of good memories so it can lift you up again.

armchairexpert

Mooloo, you don't know me I don't think so I just wanted to pop in and say hi, and what an interesting diary you have! I'm torn between going back and reading every year's instalment, and worry that I'll lose entire days to your story.

Anyway I also wanted to tell you that my lovely mother has had pain in her joints - especially her thumbs - for a couple of years now and went through all the blood tests etc to see if she could get it diagnosed. She eventually realised the other day that it's simply RSI. I also get painful hands/joints if I've been typing too much (I do it all day for a living sadly), but in her case it's just her thumbs, and it also stops her knitting and sewing. So I wondered, do your hands get better after a weekend, or after a holiday? It could be simple overuse.

She also gets pain in her knees, variously from tendonitis and a meniscal tear, and both times the doctors tried to tell her it was her arthritis - which she does also have, but it's not debilitating. I don't know if this is helpful at all, but just to show that it's often not one overarching diagnosis, but a bunch of different things. You're doing the job of a mother as well as being a business owner, and all in your fifties (I think? Apologies if I'm wrong!), so it wouldn't be surprising if it was simply Too Much.

Anyway, I hope your holiday is restful and helps your poor hands x

Savvy_sewing

armchairexpert wrote: »

Mooloo, you don't know me I don't think so I just wanted to pop in and say hi, and what an interesting diary you have! I'm torn between going back and reading every year's instalment, and worry that I'll lose entire days to your story.

Anyway I also wanted to tell you that my lovely mother has had pain in her joints - especially her thumbs - for a couple of years now and went through all the blood tests etc to see if she could get it diagnosed. She eventually realised the other day that it's simply RSI. I also get painful hands/joints if I've been typing too much (I do it all day for a living sadly), but in her case it's just her thumbs, and it also stops her knitting and sewing. So I wondered, do your hands get better after a weekend, or after a holiday? It could be simple overuse.

She also gets pain in her knees, variously from tendonitis and a meniscal tear, and both times the doctors tried to tell her it was her arthritis - which she does also have, but it's not debilitating. I don't know if this is helpful at all, but just to show that it's often not one overarching diagnosis, but a bunch of different things. You're doing the job of a mother as well as being a business owner, and all in your fifties (I think? Apologies if I'm wrong!), so it wouldn't be surprising if it was simply Too Much.

Anyway, I hope your holiday is restful and helps your poor hands x

Hello,
I think that you may be right about my hands, I will know more after this holiday. As I see everyday really it's hard to know if they will get better or not.
I am 55, 56 in the summer. Although I don't feel like it most of the time. Sometimes I feel a lot older. But mostly I feel less.
I am looking forward to the rest, and hopefully I will get help in the near future with the sewing.
I had the strangest dreams last night and was rather restless since 5.15 this morning drifting off and waking suddenly with mcarbe dreams! Like chopped up bodies in my suitcase! And no I haven't been watching horror films.
Trying to program my day ahead, to be a successful and smooth last day and then we are not going to Oxford today so I will have today and tomorrow to pack our things. I have hope that this year we will be seeing more of the sun then last year according to the weather app on my phone.

Savvy_sewing

My golden paste and mould has arrived today and so when I get back I will start to use it.
I am finished at work now.
I only sewed about £60 worth of work this morning but I had done most of the work yesterday. We had £149.20 worth of work paid for too. Although it will have to wait until Monday to be banked.
I even managed to alter my coat sleeves too.
Dgd was as good as gold at work with me today.
We drove home with the roof down on the car, and we had an ice lolly when we got home.
So what's planned for us? Pizza and garlic bread for tea, and maybe some wine for me later.
Time to sort out our clothes and get them ready for packing.
I may have an early Night as I am tired.
We don't go away until Monday Lunchtime so I am in no rush now.
Happy Days

Savvy_sewing

The bags are packed and ready to go.
Although knowing me I may go through them again and swap out a few things once I start weighing them. I can't find my scales so I think that they will be at work.
I fell asleep in front of the tv watching the voice and woke up at 10.45 to get to bed!
The birds woke me at 5.30 and I nodded off a bit but gave up at 7.30
Dgd has just gone down to the shop at the end of the road to get bread and ham for lunch. I am going to have a soak in the bath before I hang up all the washing. My line broke again in the winds so I will have to dry in doors!
Twin 2 asked again for another £30, last night saying that she hasn't had her benefits, so something is amiss with her as that's three weeks on the trot she's asked for money.
I managed to send it to her, but then I sent a message to them all, and told them that I don't have any money left now and that I can't help anyone anymore as it is all gone. ( well what I do have is accounted for in various pots). I have had an update on my pension plan and as I have not been paying into it for 10 years since the first grandchildren came along and my life turned upside down, it is currently predicting that I will get £164 a YEAR!!
So I have told them all that I have to sort DGDs education and my pension funds from now on!
Now all I have to do is stick to it.
And make sure that I claw back what I can from them and rebuild my stash!
I do plan to do more de cluttering when we return from holidays and I will start to do more of the challenge parts again.
Like putting my 10% away as soon as I get any income
I will get the food budget back in control and when I can walk to work etc as much as possible when the weather is improving.
I will just need gentle reminders around me to make sure that I don't procrastinate anymore and I set things in motion so as not to fail.
Starting with NO NO NO and save save save.
I wish I could have a de cluttering mind set though, instead of the horder in me left over from a life of lack.

ivyleaf

So sorry to hear about your washing line Mooloo, what a bad time for it to happen, just when you need to dry your washing quickly!

Have a lovely break

Savvy_sewing

Dgd has friends around playing, I have dug some of the garden to plant DGDs tryphid beans. In the house they were growing at about 4" a day!! Wonder how they will fair in the garden while we are away.
I have been pottering with jobs but most of the afternoon I have been looking at my business plans for the last 90 days and thinking about the next 90 days and what I want to achieve at the end of it.
My ambitious target was £9,000 for the first quarter but we only achieved £7,157.13
So I need to do better for the next quarter.
I have not decided on the next target as I still need to do the accounts up to date. I need to dig out the laptop and have a go, but I think I will wait until after the holidays to do that.
I think I should be cooking tea now.

Savvy_sewing

The bags are weighed, packed into the car, and we are ready to go. However we are now trying to fill our time as we have an hour to go before we are due to leave.
"Is it time to go yet??"

Savvy_sewing

First day with glorious weather. Both caught the sun despite factors 50 suncream. Picked up my hire car �� ended up upgrading to a lovely red Clio car with built in satnav for an extra €5 a day.
I seem to have the only red car in the car park at the moment.
Bought the food in Lidl and noticed a new Aldi opposite.
Dgd happy in the pool in her wet suit. Best £5 buy in a long time.