Travelling On

Karmacat

Hello earthie yep, the slow and sensible approach to recovery is needs must, I'm afraid - I didn't feel overtired at all on the day that tipped me over into the fatigue, so if I actually *tried* to work hard, I'd shoot myself in the foot.  Badly.  

I had quite a large lunch, so my afternoon walk was a bit short 🤣 however, I saw three cats 😺😺😺 🐾

I think I'm going to give myself a weekend day today  

Alchemilla

Has the puss cat gone, KC? 

Karmacat

Hello Al, yes, he went back about 5 weeks ago now 😺🐾 he's very lovely, isn't he!  

Alchemilla

He's lovely. Will cat sitting be a thing in your future? 

Karmacat

Not outside the family, I'm afraid - I can't trust that I'll be well, basically, the oddest things can tip me over the edge into the chronic fatigue.  And that's without pandemicky issues ...

I've been doing a little bit of craft work/DIY work on a window over the weekend, really enjoyed it, its a complete non-essential but that's probably why its so nice   Plus I worked on a bit of the garden I very rarely get to: a leftover bucket full of rainwater, as well as an untouched bag of store-bought compost, as well as a black binbag of my own leaf compost being the proof of that 🙄🙄🙄  Basic weeding, which included a couple of brambles 🙄 put all the compost down along with sawdust from the neighbour, and weighted-down cardboard over the lot of it - one day, there will be healthy kale plants there 🌈

Today - a walk in the sun, for sure, and I hope that tonight I can see the Northern Lights, I'd no idea they were in the south of England last night, grrr!  I'm also going to do a couple of finance admin jobs:

- log on to my French tax account and confirm that its a commercial lease I hold - accountant has given me the instructions, I just need to follow them to the letter.

- download a few statements - my cc that paid for sofa has gone out of my account, I just need to check all's well there.

- check my other ISAs aren't maturing any time soon, I desperately need to make sure they go onto the best possible rate.

- read the meters.

- clean the windows where I keep plants upstairs, and ready the pluglets for planting.  This *has* to be done in February!

- send off an early-March birthday card, so I can use a 2nd class stamp.

- my new sheet has arrived at the collection point, I have a week to collect it.  Today might be the day, I'll see, it might be better to be done tomorrow.  It has to be after 3pm.

themadvix

Thanks for the tip about the aurora - it looks promising for tonight again, so I've set a reminder for 9pm. I hadn't heard they were expected to put in an appearance last night either.

Karmacat

themadvix said:

Thanks for the tip about the aurora - it looks promising for tonight again, so I've set a reminder for 9pm. I hadn't heard they were expected to put in an appearance last night either.

I'm really hoping to see them!  I'll be hunting out some live streaming to see if they're on before I go out in the cold though, I was very chilled even this afternoon.  
**still hoping**

Karmacat

Karmacat said:

- a walk in the sun, for sure
Yep!

- hope that tonight I can see the Northern Lights, I'd no idea they were in the south of England last night, grrr!  

- log on to my French tax account and confirm that its a commercial lease I hold - accountant has given me the instructions, I just need to follow them to the letter.
Yep!  But useless, I think I've been winging it all these years - I've managed without an account, and it's come back to bite me.  I'm emailing the accounts person for help and instructions 😮

- download a few statements - my cc that paid for sofa has gone out of my account, I just need to check all's well there.
Yep!

- check my other ISAs aren't maturing any time soon, I desperately need to make sure they go onto the best possible rate.
Yep!  In fact, transferred a small one out of Newcastle BldgSoc to another where I already have some money, pleased with that.  Its gone from 1.7% to 4%.

- read the meters.
Yep!  Over 13 days I spent £24.02 on electricity (£1.84 a day) and £51.91 on gas (£3.99 a day): total elec and gas spend is £5.83 a day.  Having my niece's cat with me cost me more than £2 a day in extra heating, because I kept the door open so he could go upstairs when he wanted 🤣 and even with that extra expenditure I was freezing!

- clean the windows where I keep plants upstairs, and ready the pluglets for planting.  This *has* to be done in February!
Ah, not yet.

- send off an early-March birthday card, so I can use a 2nd class stamp.
Yep!

- my new sheet has arrived at the collection point, I have a week to collect it.  Today might be the day, I'll see, it might be better to be done tomorrow.  It has to be after 3pm.

Not bad, actually.  So this evening I'll:
- check out some live streams of the Aurora to see if I can bear to get togged up for the cold.
- set out the pluglets and growing medium.

Oh, and I won 50p on the baby Happy Wheel.  Next time I win something, I'll bring out some more money - £15.  I must check the profit, its really pretty good.

themadvix

I keep meaning to have a look back at my baby HW earnings too (the temptation to abbreviation to BHW was strong but it might be taking it too far into weird forum jargon! 🤣) and see what they’ve added up to over a year. Do you do BettyFred? That’s my favourite currently - good for the ‘big’ wins.

Karmacat

themadvix said:

I keep meaning to have a look back at my baby HW earnings too (the temptation to abbreviation to BHW was strong but it might be taking it too far into weird forum jargon! 🤣) and see what they’ve added up to over a year.
I started calling it "baby" to distinguish from what Cheery does, I thought they deserved different names 🤣 but yes, as an abbreviation, it might be one step too far 🤣

Do you do BettyFred? That’s my favourite currently - good for the ‘big’ wins.

I don't!  But I think I'll start.  I kept on not doing them because I was going to do the Happy Wheel stuff the way Cheery does it, and the concensus was that doing the freebies like this locked you out of good stuff.  But I don't think I'm going that route now - there's only so many hours in the day, and so much concentration: with what concentration I've got, I'd rather hone my driving skills, and do my writing - whether that's my genealogy biographies or my end-of-the-world novel 😁  If the grown-up Happy Wheel is needed, I'll swap over.