Crazy Cat Lady Chapter 3 - A New Beginning

Honeysucklelou2

Hope the first day of term is a good one.

nmlc

Evening everyone

CCL - have just been catching up with your news. As soon as I read about you hearing a loud bang and then discovering the drill bit in your tyre I'm thinking they may be related as a previous poster has also said. We had a sharp piece of flint pierce one of our car tyres a few years back and the tyre exploded and it was a real loud bang - so your's could have been similar. It's possible that someone used a battery operated drill to get the drill bit into the tyre then disconnected the drill bit from the main part of the drill. At least your car has the tyre pressue warning light so you didn't drive to far. I'd make a note in your diary so at least you have a log on what happened and when should you need it at a later date.

Keep safe and well x

nmlc x

f0xh0les

I only mentioned it as I had some idiot putting screws under one of my back wheels while it was on my drive, when I lived in Dodgytown. Only realised after about the 3rd time in a year that it was deliberate, and then when I thought to look, found them every few weeks. Not nec. stalker related, but the kind of daft thing kids do. Course your drill bit may have just been driven over. Total coincidence.



Got locked out of my account for 36 hrs! said it had banned my IP address - we don't have a domain name, so we don't have a fixed IP address, so just had to ride it out until the IP address changed to something else.



Good luck with your first day back.

SpekySquarehead

CCL - You do sound super productive. Maybe it's the new year, or perhaps that you're the head turtle for the NSD challenge, or coincidental. Either way, good on you.

The tyre sounds like a pain the bum and I hope it's not quite as bad as you fear. Good luck at the docs too.

crazy_cat_lady

Hello :wave: :coffee:
Well here I am, having survived a very busy first day back On the plus side, it has flown over and I can't believe it's almost 7pm already.
I slept ok last night, but not great - woke up lots. Thankfully I used my headspace app which is quite good at settling me down. Woke up naturally a couple of minutes before the alarm. I made the time to make myself some breakfast and a coffee, as well as feeding cats, changing litter trays and folding washing.
Went in earlier than usual to do some printing to find all the IT systems down when I got into work :mad: No INSET day for me, straight back into a full teaching day. It was good to see everyone again and catch up with people but I was so busy. Thankfully the day passed mostly without incident and I made sure I left pretty early to get the car tyre looked at. Good job as well as it had a bit of a bulge on the side wall, which stepdad warned me might happen. As suspected, it did need replacing, but that's something I just need to suck up - plus it only cost me £67 rather than the £87 I was quoted online. Done in about 15 minutes and peace of mind for me...
Got home to find that ds had made me a cup of tea for getting home to :happylove
However, the &$%*ing carpet was filthy again and needing hoovered again. I do not know what happens during the day in our house but I seem to be hoovering it at least once a day at the moment. Was home long enough to check that the kids had done their housework jobs before heading back out to the docs. Just a medication review - we've decided to keep going with the anxiety meds until the divorce and ex's behaviour is sorted, which I think is wise. And the appointments were running on time as well so I was straight in and straight out.:cheesy:
Really pleased I didn't succumb to takeaway but actually had planned something for dinner, so apart from the new tyre it's been a nsd. The healthy eating is back on track (gained 5lbs over Christmas that I need to lose again pretty quickly) and I'm well over my 10000 steps as well for the first time in a little while. So all in all it's been a pretty good first day back - although I suspect I'll still be asleep before 10pm as I'm shattered.
Speky - the productivity is partly due to being #1 Turtle this month, but mainly due to having had a bit of time off work actually. Once I'm less busy and exhausted with work, I get stuff done elsewhere - however, having that frog list has been a godsend.

foxgloves

Wow, CCL, what a productive day. You sound so positive, so go you! I'm back on my healthy eating plan today too, but unlike you, I haven't felt brave enough for the scales yet!
F x

crazy_cat_lady

foxgloves wrote: »

Wow, CCL, what a productive day. You sound so positive, so go you! I'm back on my healthy eating plan today too, but unlike you, I haven't felt brave enough for the scales yet!
F x

Thank you foxgloves - I feel really positive at the moment. Need to make the most of it while I am up
I have a little question for you. My fruity gin went down a treat over Christmas so I'm planning to make more - but I can't remember how much sugar per litre of gin. Could you remind me please?

crazy_cat_lady

Busy, busy, busy! I can't believe it's only Day 2 back at work, and I'm just stopping after 13 hours of all sorts of stuff. I seem to have days where I don't stop at all or I just don't start at all. :rotfl: I'll give you a brief run down of events.
DS, as usual, had left sorting his school bag out until last thing last night, when he informed me that he had lost 1(???) of his plimsolls. I spent almost an hour looking about the house for it but couldn't find it, and a last look this morning showed up nothing at all. So we had to leave a little early to go to school via Mr A and replace the plimsolls. Only £3 but wrecked my nsd before I'd even got to work.
Got into work, hit the ground running and non stop teaching until lunchtime. Followed by a meeting with my head of department then an hour of catching up on admin tasks before assembly. Checked my phone at the end of the day to find a few missed calls from dd, so I called her back. She was a bit upset - had heard shouting outside the house so went to investigate and discovered that our next door neighbour (very elderly) had fallen in his garden and was shouting for help. She went to him and couldn't help him up, so was going to phone an ambulance but he asked her to go into the house and wake his wife (also very elderly). So dd did that, and while his wife started ringing family members, dd took a blanket out and sat in the garden with him for about 40 mins until help arrived (in the form of their kids and grandchildren). She was quite shaken up by the whole thing - I told her that I was incredibly proud of her. She's only 14 and I'm amazed at how mature she was and how much common sense she showed. So I left work as soon as I could (knowing that I would have to work later) to get home and give her a cuddle and a bit of reassurance that she is absolutely my hero. The neighbour's son came round this evening and brought her a box of her favourite chocolates to say thanks for all her help. Such a proud mam!
Obviously the hoovering needed doing (again), cat trays needed clearing (again) and there was a sink full of dishes (again). I did that while I heated up leftovers for me and did pizza for the kids. Did my little PAD to the savings pot, opened the post (nothing exciting) and went in the shower. Then did another 2 and a bit hours of school and exam work and booked an online grocery delivery from Mr S (supposed to save time and stop me overspending but I'm not sure) so I am a bit tired now. I already feel as though I'm not getting all the little things done that I need to do, my lists are massive. Hopefully tomorrow will bring a bit of respite - 2 of my frogs are school related so I need to aim to tackle those.]Wish me luck for a good night's sleep!

apple_muncher

Well done to dd!! Both your kids are lovely ccl - well done you for raising them to be lovely human beings.

beanielou

Well done to your DD.
Awesome.