Travelling On

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I fully understand the 'staring at things helplessly' situation, KC.  I suspect that feeling resonates with many at the moment!
 I'm finding that this open-ended lockdown situation is playing havoc with any routine I know I should have.  I'm tending to see it as stretching months into the future and consequently there's no rush to do anything as there's 'always tomorrow'.  Not good.  I'm a procrastinator at the best of times and now I have no real deadlines to keep me geed up my life is drifting by in a haze of doing nothing much at all. It was relaxing for a while but the novelty has worn off now. Must get a grip!

rtandon27

Oh KC - I'm so there with you on the staring at things - I've given up long-term planning for the moment and only plan for tomorrow (each evening before I go to bed).

Today was better than most, I managed to read, put in a load of laundry, clean the kitchen and put in a banana bread loaf before logging in to work!  However exercise today went out the window in order to spend that hour reading!

Work-wise I'm slowly catching up on the mundane that went out the window over the past month while we were all settling in to the 'new normal'.  Have a ton of invoices to prep for payment & meeting notes to review and action & I can't even remember what the meeting was about, some of the notes are soooooo cryptic!

Karmacat

Awwww!  I'm so glad I wrote it, then, because it was odd to feel myself doing it, but I really recognised it.  Sorry you guys are going through it too, but glad we're together.   I think thats why I set up the "four days" thing, to stop the staring.

Today hasn't been too bad: a good 45 minutes in the garden, a lot of brambles bit the dust (new roots, so not bad).  Cleared some of the last encrusted soil from the previous owner's bbq area - nearly ready!  Big long phone chat with my sister.  I've done the wm, and set up the dw: one of the roasting tins has been cleaned for the dw, but thats all.  No meter reading yet, but I can do taht first thing tomorrow, still not bad, and of course it doesn't take long.

Oh, I found another Sainsbo collect slot!  Even earlier, 7-8am, not a problem.  Checking at 6.30am or so, which is when I wake up, seems to work

Off around the boards now

ETA - I've also checked out Curry's for new laptops, of the brand I want.  Got five to look at, all with free next day delivery - I *have* to get another one set up, this thing is driving me crazy the way it switches itself off constantly.

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Well done on nabbing a Sainsbo's slot.  I sometimes see them when I log on but our nearest store is about 20 miles away so I opt for a  home delivery instead (if I can ever get one).  I tend to check at all sorts of weird hours just in case and when I refreshed the page on Sunday a solitary delivery slot  for early tomorrow morning miraculously appeared.  Couldn't believe my luck, it's normally a 3 week wait for the soonest one.  It's a 'green' delivery slot and I'm assuming they found they had extra capacity on the van for tomorrow morning .   Being very rural I expect they want to make it worth their while to drive all this way.  I've also done an online order for a Morrisons delivery for Saturday evening which I booked 3 weeks ago.  I prefer Sains and depending on  what  they actually bring me I'll either amend the Morrisons order or cancel it altogether.  It will still leave someone else enough time to book that slot.

rtandon27

Hooray for getting a click & collect slot KC!  I'm amazed that you seem to get a slot every week!

Sainsbug's delivery slots are so hard to come by these days! (like hen's teeth - lol) I've been able to get a random slot, every couple of weeks but only by checking haphazardly throughout the day when I need a break from actual work - lol.

So frustrating to have to go from a once weekly smallish shop to large bi-weekly shop in which I find myself buying an extra this or that 'just in case' I can't get a slot for a few weeks away!  It makes me despair that having been a regular delivery customer for 5 years that the current business model tells us to 'go whistle' if we can't find a slot!  (Thanks for that little vent...)

(OK enough moaning and on to the things to be thankful for...)
The drivers who come with our orders are our regulars & absolutely wonderful.  After reading the self-isolation instructions, they call on the phone to let us know they have arrived and willl be unpacking, they then leave all our groceries on the front path & wave to us through the windows to let us know when they are unpacked and on their way!  Really lovely gents & we are so thankful for them!  

Suffolk_lass

I bought a chromebook in January as a replacement for my windows 7 device. Good things are anything online but I don't like the lack of traditional software I used to use - so have converted much of that to Mac supported things. I would not get a chromebook if it was my one and only

teapot2

Another one here who stares at things or into space feeling quite overwhelmed at times though it comes and goes.  I had a list for y'day but didn't get through most of it  .  Hope you can choose the lappie you want, I got mine recently from JL, very pleased with it and am really glad I moved on from Windows 7.  Hoorah for the C&C slot glad you were able to get that.

Karmacat

Hello lovely people!  Yep, even with all our First World advantages, this is a bit hard sometimes, isn't it.

Delichon, wow, a delivery slot!  Every time I log on to the app (which I downloaded for teh first time a few weeks ago) it tells me I'm not eligible for a home delivery, and then doesn't give me the option to try to book one - Sainsbo is the only supermarket within walking distance where I can order a click and collect, so thats why I use them, though I lurve their pesto, and their non bio basic laundry liquid is good too, no perfume.  Don't feel bad about using the Morrie's slot as well - this thing is going to go on a long time, peaks and troughs like that will work themselves out.

RT its only my second click and collect slot, I promise    I was really surprised when I saw it - it had been there earlier in the week, and I decided not to go for it, then disappeared, then came back, at which point I went for it - the peaks and troughs thing is in operation right there!   

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass said:

I bought a chromebook in January as a replacement for my windows 7 device. Good things are anything online but I don't like the lack of traditional software I used to use - so have converted much of that to Mac supported things. I would not get a chromebook if it was my one and only

teapot2 said:

Another one here who stares at things or into space feeling quite overwhelmed at times though it comes and goes.  I had a list for y'day but didn't get through most of it  .  Hope you can choose the lappie you want, I got mine recently from JL, very pleased with it and am really glad I moved on from Windows 7.  Hoorah for the C&C slot glad you were able to get that.

I checked out chromebooks when I went to visit my ex-colleague - they sound great at first, but I don't want cloud-only storage, it doesn't suit me.  SL, its great that you've adjusted it to the way you want to do things!  I'm going with Lenovo laptops, Windows 10, I think 8GB RAM, and minimum 512GB storage - now its just faffing with the details between the models.  Teapot, I love JL dearly, but its the walking-to-the-shops thing again - I have a Curry's I can walk to, whereas JL is either two trains to a small one, or my lovely one at Oxford Circus. 

Karmacat

*Huge* sense of accomplishment today - though I've not done anything from the tentative list I made a few days ago.  What I *have* done, is put the hot water on at 9.30 this morning which is extremely rare when I'm not planning a shower,  and cleaned almost everything in the kitchen at waist height - the surfaces, the chopping boards sitting waiting for me, the old bottle of Stardrops somebody recommended as being useful in "extreme" hygiene situations (!), the little frying pan, the big roasting tin, the sink and draining board.  Plus hoovered the living room and the stairs.

Still haven't mopped the vinyl or the ceramic tiles (and there's a lot - its everywhere except the stairs) and there's one place that I still class as "shameful" but it now looks 100% more like a normal home.  I'm really, really pleased.  The only other thing I need to do today is get all the rubbish in the bin for tomorrow, including the vac cleaner contents and the dried weeds sitting on the grass outside.  I'm going to do nothing else to safeguard against the chronic !!!!!! that interrupts me oh so inconveniently.  I may celebrate by actually having a shower