Travelling On

Karmacat

themadvix said:

Sorry to hear about your family(?) genealogy group member.
He was a cousin of my mum's, I only met him once, but he was a really good genealogy researcher and very generous in sharing his research.  He had a few very serious illnesses, so he'd reached a good age.

I like the Autotrader competition, but I've fallen off the list - must find the comp and enter, thanks for the reminder. 
I thought someone might benefit from the mention, good that it's you!

Glad you are managing the walk - I thought after your gardening exercise yesterday you were being brave going out for a walk too, so it's great that you've managed it with no ill effects!

What it says to me is that walking is very easy compared to the bending down version of gardening!  Lopping things off while standing up straight was easy too, but pulling even thinly-rooted annual weeds out was awful.  I'm glad I took the risk of the walk  

Ramouth said:

Great to see you recovering ok and sensibly taking things slowly.  I gave up caffeine this week and am feeling dreadful (almost migraine level headaches and crushing fatigue) so am trying to emulate your ways of doing things a little bit at a time.  Maybe I need a master list like yours to keep track - are you finding it helpful?

Thanks Ramouth!  Sympathies with the caffeine - I do have normal tea, but I just have one strong cup of instant coffee.  Occasionally two     A little bit at a time is really the only way I can do anything at the moment - but my master list, absolutely, I love it.  It means that there's *always* something I can do that takes me forward, and helps me overall.  It's on my phone, and I don't delete jobs so it also shows me what I've accomplished  

Baileys_Babe

I enter the Auto trader EV competition each month, I also send a link to my family. Our eldest is now old enough to enter so I have been telling them to try winning their first car.

I am impressed @Karmacat at your motivation to keep making progress. As a fellow long term fatigue sufferer with added Covid recovery on top, I know how hard it can be and how it can be to do anything.

My brain fog has improved greatly in the last few weeks, but returns quickly when I'm tired.

Karmacat

Baileys_Babe said:

I enter the Auto trader EV competition each month, I also send a link to my family. Our eldest is now old enough to enter so I have been telling them to try winning their first car.
What a good idea!  I must do that, I admit I never thought of it.

I am impressed @Karmacat at your motivation to keep making progress. As a fellow long term fatigue sufferer with added Covid recovery on top, I know how hard it can be and how it can be to do anything.
Aww, thank you.  I do get horribly discouraged, but I won't write about it like that on here, there's no point, this is the place that pulls me *out* of that despair.  

My brain fog has improved greatly in the last few weeks, but returns quickly when I'm tired.

I know that feeling, for sure.  Just today, on the U3A zoom group, the other remaining member online was trying to help me sort my laptop settings so I could take part, and he was being really kind about it, but it was like a ton weight on me, I had to go, and pushing like that, even pushing in support of me, leaves me exhausted and depressed.  This is why the cats I see around here, and the fox adolescents in my garden, are so important 😺🦊🦊 the foxes were playfighting today, it was wonderful to see.

Mind you, its also wonderful to see a 9 month old baby using the stopper of a hip flask as a teething aid 😁 which was on my whatsapp feed today   I take whatever positives I can get.

Karmacat

Just looking back at the Frugal/ Sensible/ Soaring September plans I made, and the only finance thing I want to do right at this minute is shifting the cash isas to a better rate.  Since this is the day of Martin's email, that could be good.  Got to get a shift on.

Otherwise, its small jobs in the house - sinks that haven't been cleaned, a full laundry basket.  Plus for the curtain reinforcements: - measure and prepare the curtain heading for the blinds, repair the plaster in the middle of the width so I can drill into it properly, hand sew the first seam for the lining.  Lot of jobs.

Plus quite a few emails, and I'd really like to phone my brother.  I need to get my finger out

Karmacat

Oh for heaven's sake!  Wrong time of day to contact bro, he's running errands for his daughter in law, and I applied for the best-isa-for-me in Martin's list, with the Leeds, and they won't open an account because they can't currently confirm my identity.  What?  Really, life is too short!

themadvix

So frustrating when you can’t get the things you want to get done done!

As a random aside, have recently discovered how good citric acid is for cleaning- cuts through soap scum and destroys limescale too, so much better than other eco friendly options for cleaning. And quick too! Just thought I’d mention it as it’s quite MSE - I think you can buy it in Wilko. 

Karmacat

Thanks for that!  I think I might order online from Wilko.  Just spent the last half hour trying to buy basics from Boots online - re registered advantage card, hunted through masks, cough sweets, cheap body lotion, weird levels of address it wants, and it won't actually let me pay.  Yet more frustration - the "card" option just won't activate.

Chat line won't help.

Customer service number is engaged.

Yep, the country's falling apart.

Karmacat

Their customer care line answered after about 15 minutes, and they managed to take my order over the phone and phoned me back on a secure number so I could input the secure details safely (v impressive!)  Had an email to say things are moving.  A **big** palaver, they've had an update that's been causing problems.  Story of our lives here on mse!

themadvix

Glad you got through… what a palaver though.

Link about citric acid here: https://www.thegreenishmama.co.uk/citric-acid-to-clean-your-home/. I had bought it as has heard it was good for limescaly toilets, which it is! But having read this article (and tried it in the basin), I think it’s going to be my new best friend for cleaning (which is not high up in my rankings of friends!!).

Karmacat

Madvix, thank you!  I haven't made nearly enough alterations in the way I clean things, this is so good to have as a reference.

I hopped out for a walk, a bit further again today, though I'm walking quite slowly and it needs to be faster.  I'm quite wary of that, though, that's the bit that's exhausting.  

I'll sit and recover for a bit, then experiment with Asda Rewards, and do the first set of the thermal blind sewing.


ETA - Asda Rewards experiment took forever - only 2 extra items ordered, as 99% is about branded goods.  Not worth doing on a regular basis, it took me almost an hour.  You have to try these things to know