Cheery's country living adventure

themadvix

Great result on the Happy Wheel, fingers crossed the streak continues!

Cheery_Daff

Well my morning of work has being going well! I actually got into bed with the laptop - NOT something I normally do, but something out of the ordinary jolted me out of the anxious mindset I've been in all week and I've got loads written. Just draft at the minute, but it's SO much easier to edit than start from scratch with a blank page. I'm aiming to get something in every section today, and have tomorrow off completely.

Mr Cheery isn't having a good day, so we've come out for a distracting excursion. Currently in the cafe queue - odd to see a queue as we usually come mid week, mid morning, and it's so quiet at the minute. They're only doing tea and cake but the queueis out the door! Mind you, if we were allowed to stand closer together of course it would barely look like a queue so it's all relative! 

Karmacat

Sounds like a distraction was a good idea.  I can't imagine a queue!  That's distracting in itself!  Anyway, hope the cake was good  

Cheery_Daff

Well it's not been a bad weekend all told, despite having to work much of yesterday 🙄

Our cafe trip was ok - we did eventually get tasty flapjack, and ate it in the car with the rain battering on the roof - it was like being on holiday 😂 Then it eased off so we went to a couple of charity shops and had a walk round the park.

Today has been cheerful enough. Out for breakfast, and then a wander round a local market town which, on reflection, was always going to be a little too busy for comfort on a sunny Sunday... so we scarpered pretty quick. Let the chickens out for the first time since we saw the fox on Wednesday and I stayed outside with them for a couple of hours, then put them back in. Got a bit of greenhouse pottering done too, and spoke to a couple of family members. 

So nothing massive achieved, and the kitchen ceiling still isn't finished 😂 But I do feel reasonably rested and ready for what will probably be a busy and quite stressful week at work with this deadline... 😮 Not planning anything else for this week, head down, bare minimum housework etc, hope nothing drastic happens to either Mr Cheery or chickens as I don't have time to deal with it! 😮

Karmacat

My word, bare minimums and no extra jobs today sounds spot on, as you're facing a week like that.  Good luck with it all!

Cheery_Daff

Thanks 😊 I don't have deadlines like this very often, thank goodness! It's a big thing for me, this one, so worth putting things aside for 😊 At least it's a two stage thing - internal deadline Wednesday, then final one next Wednesday. Hoping to submit before the final Wednesday though as I'm at the dentist that morning! 😮 (I'll be cancelling the dentist if there's any issue with the deadline - at this stage that is far more important than my teeth!)

I do wish I'd got round to doing the banking though- never finished off at the end of April so it's probably all over the place! 😂

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums, 

Trying to reset my day and calm down a bit as I've woken up very anxious this morning and avoiding my to do list isn't helping! It's all written down, and I KNOW I'll feel better once I at least make a start.

Not helping that the Internet connection is playing up and my emails keep not sending... tried toggling to phone but it's not much better. Hoping the day will improve from here.

Might get another cup of tea and start again!

themadvix

Hope things improve Cheery! A cup of tea sounds like a good idea

Baileys_Babe

Cheery_Daff said:

Our cafe trip was ok - we did eventually get tasty flapjack, and ate it in the car with the rain battering on the roof - it was like being on holiday 😂 

That reminds me of a holiday I went on with OH had many moons ago. We were camping in the Lake District and for a few days the weather was truly horrible, we decided one morning to go to a cafe for breakfast and when we came out of the cafe the rain was so heavy it was difficult to make anything out, we made a dash for the car I unlocked it and jumped in, I then leant across to unlock OH door and it couldn't quite do it, I tried again still without success (probably due to my hands being wet from the rain), then I looked up and saw OH and I started laughing and the more I tried the more I laughed 😂 .... somehow OH forgave me.

DS saw me reading and then smiling as I recalled the incident above. On telling ds the anecdote he commented "to think, cars didn't always have central locking, how peculiar" 🤣

I hope you have managed to reset your day and are able to enjoy some time outside in the sunshine with the chickens.

Karmacat

Resetting sounds good - as do slow, calming breaths and a bit of fresh air at lunchtime.  Hope its all good.