Travelling On

elantan

Have you ever watched The expanse ? 

Karmacat

I haven't, El, though looking at the description of it, it looks really good, and there's a few cast members I recognise.  If a show isn't on freeview channels, though, its very likely I haven't seen it.  The exceptions are the first several seasons of The Walking Dead, the whole of Game of Thrones, and Outlander.  I made special efforts to watch those (including binge watching while catsitting in nephew's flat 😁).  The Expanse looks like its on Amazon?  I need to watch The Last Of Us before anything else though  

Karmacat

Right, proper MFW stuff has been done this weekend and today!  

- tiny stuff first, a YG survey that gave 25 points for 2 minutes.

- I keep getting spam emails about paypal, generic, so I didn't care.  But I got a much more closely targetted one last week, didn't like it.  I haven't used paypal in years, so I logged on, and I saw it had my up to date credit card details.  I'm not a fan of just leaving them in an unused account, and I couldn't delete them, so I closed the whole thing, I've had the confirmatory emails and everything.  I may regret it, but I don't think so, other methods of payment are easier these days.

- I have a £15k cash ISA maturing on the 24th, and I've been lazy about seeing to renewals in the past.  Happy to report I've just done it, renewed with the same company after checking the rate they're offering for a 2 year fix on Martin's savings page.  Mine actually beats his top rec by 0.01% 🤣🤣🤣 which is a good job, because until now that money's been "earning" 0.61% p.a. 🙄

I'm generally feeling better, but have still postponed the walk I was supposed to take today.  The physical stuff to do today is get the tree prunings, the ones that tipped me over the edge into the fatigue, into the green bin, which is being collected tomorrow.  There's also a family email to send, and a few short videos of beloved Great Niece, the Tiny Human, to adore.  She's learned to kick a ball 🌞⚽

SuperSecretSquirrel

Well done on closing the account and locking in a good isa rate. It always feels great getting these financial admin jobs done!

Karmacat

Thanks Squirrel!  I haven't been too hot on turning over my ISAs, as I say, but I was determined to do better.  I wondered if I might get stick on here for closing my paypal account, but it really was redundant.  I downloaded the history as a pdf, and that's that, job jobbed.  

Today, not too much, because the tree prunings disposal was more intense than I thought (blimey, I cut down a *lot*!) but a chat to neighbour, dealing with family sickness (again ) and making the house toasty so I can have a shower and wash my hair.  

I've also tried to put the cover on the sofa, and I might as well be howling at the moon 🤣 when my sister's well, we'll try to do it.  I might try to put the covers on the loose cushions in the meantime.

Karmacat

Sleepless night last night: I ended up stripping the flannelette sheet from the bed, it was like lying on sandpaper, its got worse and worse.  So I've just bought a deep fitted, 400 thread count double sheet.  To be collected from Sunday onwards: luckily, I'd already washed my alternate sheet, which I'd only just taken off the bed, so I'll wash this new one and put it on some time next week.  My skin has been scratchy all day from the aftereffects of this awful sheet!  

Otherwise, I've tried to get going again - took a short walk, a *very* short walk, I'll do another one tomorrow.  I'll be early to bed tonight though, ridiculously tired after my sandpaper-y experience 🥱

themadvix

Ugh, that sounds horrible Karma! I hope you sleep better tonight.

Suffolk_lass

themadvix said:

Ugh, that sounds horrible Karma! I hope you sleep better tonight.

me too. Itchiness in bed is awful

Karmacat

Thanks madvix - yep, I slept much better, if not particularly long  

I'm feeling quite sober here, though, watching the news of the anniversary, including the service going on in Kyiv right now.  Nothing I can do except donate, and *when* its over, stand ready to spend loads of tourism cash when they want tourists back.

Today ... another window covering, I think, my bathroom door is a little bit overlooked, and some security film on a window might be quite nice 😁 **definitely** going to get my slow cooker on, even just lentils and onions and frozen spinach, I haven't used it for ages.  Defrosting some rhubarb, before the new crop comes in 😂

earthgirl2

Sorry to hear the cuttings wiped you out, but you have a very sensible approach to recovering that I can definitely learn from! Hope you feel much better soon x