My journey to a debt free life

Onebrokelady

Busy day today but not doing the painting  like I had planned to 😀I got up early and took B out and it was so lovely and sunny I decided to grab the chance to cut the grass on my front garden,it was very long and was looking really scruffy.
I normally keep my front garden looking nice and the grass is kept short but circumstances have meant I missed several opportunities to cut it and then the monsoon season arrived so it was too wet 🙄 I have a cordless strimmer so so I went over it with that first then the mower, it looks nice and tidy again now 😊 and the weather is forecast to be really rainy with gale force winds for the rest of the week so I got it done in time. I have time to start some decorating once I've finished my lunch so will get the filling done. I won't be able to paint today because my hands are hurting and shaking after cutting the grass, there would be paint all over the place 😀
Im working 9-5 tomorrow but I'm off on Friday so will get some painting done then,I'm hoping to see my mum on Saturday so no decorating will be done then. I've got to text her because I'm not sure if she will want to go this weekend seeng as it's the first weekend everyone can meet up inside and she did say she was worried about walking round town now because since she had her pacemaker fitted she hasn't been able to walk as far as she would have before. I did suggest that we went to the mobility  centre in town to hire a wheel chair but she didn't like that idea. I'm also going to suggest I just go up to the house instead. I taught I could take some fancy cakes with me 😊

foxgloves

Hi OBL, Is the pain in your hands due to the fibro, or do you have arthritis in your hands like me? Mine go for quite a while feeling ok, but then the cumulative effect of overdoing it kicks in & they feel stiff & sore. They are like that at the moment. I have been doing lots of gardening, as well as all the bedspread knitting & moving furniture & stuff around which means they are complaining about overuse. I also play the piano every day too, which is also quite intensive use, I suppose. I just wondered if you have it also. 
F x

Sun_Addict

Nice idea to go to your mum’s armed with cakes especially if she feels safer doing that.

Onebrokelady

foxgloves said:

Hi OBL, Is the pain in your hands due to the fibro, or do you have arthritis in your hands like me? Mine go for quite a while feeling ok, but then the cumulative effect of overdoing it kicks in & they feel stiff & sore. They are like that at the moment. I have been doing lots of gardening, as well as all the bedspread knitting & moving furniture & stuff around which means they are complaining about overuse. I also play the piano every day too, which is also quite intensive use, I suppose. I just wondered if you have it also. 
F x

So far as I know it's the Fibro. I've not been investigated recently for anything else pain wise, I did have bloods done a few weeks ago and they were all normal so no red flags. The strimmer I've got is hard for me to hold for long lengths of time, my hands are still shaking now from the vibrations, normally I keep on top of the grass so it's literally ten minutes with the mower and then five minutes doing the edges with the strimmer. Today it took ages because it had got too long for the mower. My hands and right arm do hurt quite a lot quite regularly but I just presume it's the Fibro 😊

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

Nice idea to go to your mum’s armed with cakes especially if she feels safer doing that.

My mum  wants to meet in town so we are trying it to see how it goes, I said we don't have to walk all around town we could just go for a coffee 😊

Onebrokelady

What a productive day I've had😊 Walked B twice, cut the grass, three loads of washing ( I now have an empty linen basket for five minutes ) 😀 done my bit of ironing, hoovered the house and cleaned out the 🐓🐓 cooked some tea . I didn't get any decorating done because of the garden but it's due to rain on Friday which is my next day off so I'm planning on doing some then. I've caught up with all my housework and I will have tomorrow for my hands to recover while I'm at work 
Today I bought a 99p book for my Kindle called The Vanishing Of Audrey Wilde ...I've been eying it up for ages and today it was reduced 🎉🎉🎉I've also added a book called Hyde to my wish list on Amazon,it sounds really good. Now for the weird thing,we were all talking about treading Wakenhyrst the other day so I went to see if it was on kindle unlimited and it came up that I bought this book in 2019 and on checking my kindle it is indeed on there and marked as read 🤷‍♀️I have absolutely no memory of buying and reading this book, I know my memory is bad but I'm sure I would remember reading it,when I read the blurb on the back it doesn't sound familiar at all. I'm going to have to read it again to see if it jogs my memory.
I also got hold of my mum this afternoon and she wants to meet in town so we are doing that, I think she just wants to get out of the house for a bit and have some time away from my dad. I'm going to suggest we just go for coffee if she is struggling rather than wandering round town for a couple of hours,we normally do both but I don't want her to over do it. I'm looking forward to it and Im hoping the worst of the bad weather will have passed through by then 🤞🤞 

Sunshine_girl2

Hope you get chance to do some painting tomorrow, and that your hands feel better today. 

Glad to hear you are seeing your mum for coffee and I hope cake as well. 

Your savings totals are looking good , I know you are saving for the flooring ,looks like you have plenty. 

Have a good day. 

foxgloves

I enjoyed 'Audrey Wilde', @Onebrokelady. How strange you had already bought 'Wakenhyrst' - exactly the kind of thing I would do! It is quite a compelling story bound up with ancient lore, etc, so I think you might have forgotten to read it? You'll soon find out! 
Fx

milann

I know the electronic gadgets sometimes make mistakes......we’ve had it with the tv....said we’ve watched a series but we hadn’t.....we watched it to make sure and neither of us remember it......we can’t both be wrong.
Enjoy the time with your mum. 

Happy painting....it’ll look lovely when you’ve finished.

Drawingaline

I sometimes get books from the library with no inkling that I have already read them. Normally by chapter two I am, this seems familiar.....😂