Get a grip woman!

greenbee

I'm glad you had a good time. Hopefully your cousin's partner will feel better about the no-shows when she hears how much those of you who were there enjoyed it. While we're all expecting the things to be unpredictable due to +ve testing, I think the two examples you've given are just bad manners. 9 year-olds are having to get used to doing LFTs (my niece and nephew are doing them regularly), and need to understand the importance of protecting vulnerable relatives. 

Enjoy your leftovers!

themadvix

I agree with greenbee. My 4 (imminently 5) year old niece is completely used to doing tests (I think she’s had more PCRs than most adults I know!). None of us enjoy doing it but it’s just part of life at the moment.

 Glad you had a good time though!

Cheery_Daff

Glad you had a lovely time, and sorry about the people who didn't turn up. Always vexing! (Although when people do that to me I always think I'd rather they cancelled than turned up grumpy and wishing they weren't there). Obviously better to turn up in good cheer though!

Karmacat

Just another mse-er piling in to agree with your take on the whole thing.  I've just started using an LFT test - I had my first social visit in all this time when I went to see the new baby born in November.  It was an experience, but I wouldn't have dreamed of not doing it.  Or of not turning up.

debtfreeoneday

Totally agree with others. It’s not enjoyable, but it’s necessary and the right thing to do. 

Suffolk_lass

I know I am quiet but I am plotting and planning. Changing my long-established spreadsheet to separate out spend on subscriptions, stores, and to track treats and entertainment, as well as tracking grocery spending and savings transactions. We are also reviewing and considering what our priorities and spends have been, want to be and should have been.

I will be combining this with a resumption of low carb-no added sugar eating to try and shift a stone or two as my clothes feel tight and I know I have put on weight. I also have to have yet one more medical procedure under sedation in January - hopefully it is precautionary and will need no further action. 

It's not so much that we have pigged out as incorporated a range of surplus eating and drinking habits that need taking in hand and I am knackered. I actually went to bed for two hours yesterday afternoon. If that isn't a sign that my body is not functioning as it should, I don't know what is!

And we need to clear the double spare room properly as we have guests staying a few days from Friday, and others not staying, and another arriving tomorrow... and clean, tidy and set up

Fortune_Smiles

I find I need time for plans to settle in my mind before commiting to them - especially in writing... and in public 😲  Mr F and I have an idea of what we want to achieve next year but I'm still letting my mind mull it over before posting.

Fortune x

Suffolk_lass

We will talk through some of the plans this evening when we host our usual small curry night gathering with dear friends. The first arrived yesterday but our plans to eat out were thwarted by the pub kitchen being closed. So plan B - quick pint, drive to the chippy in the 2nd closest town, collect take away, home to eat it then I made cocktails (Cosmopolitans for the three of us). That cheered us all up. Dear friend 1 (DF1) said hmm, lovely, I'll have the rest of the pint... and then spent ages trying to determine how many units of alcohol it contained. It was just under 2 each as they were only 4floz glasses

I am not sure how long everyone will stay into 2022 beyond one couple not staying. So I made a big pot of chilli while DS was here yesterday, taking advantage of him to stir while I assembled it. I've just got it out of the bottom oven (warming) where it has been for 20 hours.

Poor DS came round to rant about a selfish housemate, and ended up stirring pots, choosing mugs and glasses to take home, and collected his bass strings (gift), ordered his customised (PS) controller (gift) on my CC (eek) and his Dad sorted out the light bulbs he needed for the bathroom; the old one had begun tripping the fuse, resulting in housemate taking the only room light to his room, leaving the others in darkness (hence the need to rant) - at least DS went home in a better mood and the bulb (with integrated choke) rectified the problem - just as well as our poor electrician has Covid really quite badly and has vertigo with it (eek)!

Today is a quick tidy of the residual clutter (the remaining mugs are charity shop or neighbouring village bound) and some curries to make. Having put the puy lentils in soak I need to cook them into my prawn and lentil curry and I need to retrieve the pre-prepared shin of beef curry, and butternut, chick pea and spinach pots from the freezer. I always make too much but I don't think there is enough of these.

Planning still going on in head... not much settling yet

Suffolk_lass

Before I start I'm just going to dump a few things we need to resolve:

• Loft access - 2 (one for each of the tiny cottages that were combined) above heads plus the mouse-invaded one at knee height above the kitchen - no proper access, loads of stuff just stuffed up there and none of them boarded. Only 4 foot clearance. Let's just say I don't need to insulate!
• Study - mine - needs a proper sort out and filing attack
• Study - his - also our third bedroom, needs a solution for all the beekeeping equipment in there
• Upstairs hall and second bedroom - desperately need painting and possible better lighting
• Possibly want to paint all the pine sills white to improve the light indoors
• Possibly want to paint all the doors white as they are far too dry, and they need oiling
• Pig-shed still needs to be rebuilt - it shows as a permanent structure on the deeds so we don't want it to fall down. I want it to be a barn/brick thing to store garden maintenance equipment, garden furniture, beekeeping equipment and provide me with my workshop space. We removed the old greenhouse but due to pandemic, builders and materials costs and availability, nothing has happened. It has power. The concrete base is cracked and has variously provided home to mice, bumble bees and rats
• Garden needs so much attention...
• Patio needs extending. Going to use existing slabs and surround them with block pavers we already have
• Our bedroom needs a really good clean
• The cart lodge needs a proper sort out
• We need to retrieve the stuff we have in DS's loft which includes many of my books
• Then I need to go through books (if I had a chateau library like !!!!!! and Angel's I am confident I could fill it (mostly with cookery and gardening books)

Cheery_Daff

Excellent list of things to resolve there. Sometimes that makes it feel more manageable, doesn't it? Hope you get to tick off plenty of them this coming year!