Nst november in new york

XSpender

NSDs - 3/10 spent today on a seat belt for the dog, poo bags and a dog treat and tea and cake when out with DH and DS

ORGANISE your time - Well the idea of bath bombs for my friends daughter bombed when I remembered they don't have a bath! Started on my Christmas planning lists in earnest.

Thanks for the inspiration around frogs mothernerd, I have made a new spread in my Bu-jo and have 3 on the list so far. Including writing to an old pension company and re-investing a savings bond belonging to DS. I think I need a separate 1 for the house as I have several niggly jobs that need finishing

VALUES - More pennies TT'd and put the change from my purse and a £2 coin in the savings pig

ENJOY yourself – visited my favourite place today. Beautiful with autumn colour and the sun was shining,

MAKE an inventory not started yet

BUDGETS – YNAB updated. I wish the pay at pump machines showed up quicker on my on line banking so I could balance the books!

EXERCISE - 2 hour walk, first hour steep uphill

RULES – sticking to 'em

IN case of emergency – still need screewash and a fleece in car

Stock up with generic painkillers, cold and flu meds – need some lemsip and a woolly hat for me!

NOW – not great eating today (3rd evening with no real dinner:o) I can tell I am losing weight as my clothes are looser

NO takeaways – Tea and cake out but budgeted for

EVERYONE Aiming for June 2021 (while I'm still 50) at the latest

EXTRA income – None

WINTER proof your home – Hive schedule still to be set but new pump and door sausages making a real difference to temperature. Need to rehang dining room and breakfast room curtains

YOU should cook from scratch - cheese on toast was as good as it got today

OUTSIDE – walk at a NT site, even had my tea and cake outside as we had the dog with us

REPORT – here I am!

KINDNESS - lots of chats with other dog owners today who were admiring the dogs remembrance bandana

Wanna_Bee_Free

Kindness: Large, heavy pile of books carried to CS
NSDs: No more to report - spotted a lovely gift in the charity shop for Christmas. Last week there were lots of good intentions. No point beating myself up. Onwards and upwards.
Mothernerd, thanks for Frogs and Elephants.
I think my food inventory which I still haven’t done will be today’s frog.

f0xh0les

NSD 6 in the bag (in December it will have to be ' in the sack' I feel)
Did spend on club T Shirts, but took out the cash on my last spend day and had it sitting on the mantle ready for it.

Just had a chill out day, the kids were being horrid, so I went off and had a bath for 2 hours while DH dealt with it. He made lunch (spinach fatayer) and I made supper (biryani), all store cupboard basics. So a good day for teamwork.
Reading my book and doing laundry today, and one kid has an eye test so may get a ys bargain to boot.

Cashing out survey bits and bobs at the end of the month, might treat myself to a whole new dinner service (are they still called that?) Getting close to £90 of ambient earnings already.

Tbh, I would just like stuff that vaguely matched, and I had enough of.
Then my stuff can go to someone with maybe a smaller family.
It would work wonderfully for a family of 3 or 4.

Anyway, enough rambling - my frog is to paint the hall and living room ceiling coving. It will not even take much time, but it is all overhead arm waving up a ladder. Will aim to have all painting jobs finished by 30 November.
Christmas does not smell like paint fumes!

mothernerd

Day 11


When you naturally have a healing aura, you attract a lot of damaged people and having them in your life could drain your energy to the max. A reminder that it is not your job to heal everyone that you encounter. You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.


Some People Survive
Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create.Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way and everyone is entitled to that without judgement. So the next time you look at people's lives covetously, remember....you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like an ocean on a calm sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean's boundaries are. Whilst somewher the ocean is calm, in another place, in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.
Nikita Gill


Times of isolation are important, recharge and create space to understand yourself without any outside influences.


RECOVERY
Realising that you're worth it
Experiencing true happiness
Caring about yourself
Overcoming your own demons
Validating your worth
Eating without regret
Relapse - it's going to happen, it's inevitable and that's okay
Yearning to live


Sometimes you just need to talk to a four year old and an 84 year old to understand life again
Kirsten Butler

sashanut

Hi all


Just a quickie as we leave Kilkenny for West Cork... It's been .... Interesting to say the least. Got up fine on the second day but within 15 mins had severe pain in r side which didn't ease. Woke up DH who then called reception for a doctor sadly doctor finished at 8 & no-one on call till 9, sadly it was 8.15

And that point they called an ambulance & soon 2 lovely paramedics arrived. After lots of tests they decided to take me to hospital so I was stretchered out past reception... Attached to a drip.

Wearing a nightdress socks ( no shoes) then spent 7.30 hours in emergency department. All lovely people but it was freezing cold in there . Lots tests determined a kidney stone... Eventually returned to hotel with no shoes etc in taxi raining this time. People arriving for a posh function were quite surprised to see such a sight although I was wrapped in DH coat but still in nightie & wet socks

Note to self make sure to have at least some clothes when taken ill..


More later folks related to the challenge. No NSDs lots of eating room service etc but needs must.

mothernerd

Well, it's not every day you get woken up by a brass band (probably silver prize) playing out side - thought I was the queen for a minute. The joys of civic Town Centre living.

f0xh0les wrote: »

NSD 6 in the bag (in December it will have to be ' in the sack' I feel)
Did spend on club T Shirts, but took out the cash on my last spend day and had it sitting on the mantle ready for it.

Just had a chill out day, the kids were being horrid, so I went off and had a bath for 2 hours while DH dealt with it. He made lunch (spinach fatayer) and I made supper (biryani), all store cupboard basics. So a good day for teamwork.
Reading my book and doing laundry today, and one kid has an eye test so may get a ys bargain to boot.

Cashing out survey bits and bobs at the end of the month, might treat myself to a whole new dinner service (are they still called that?) Getting close to £90 of ambient earnings already.

Tbh, I would just like stuff that vaguely matched, and I had enough of.
Then my stuff can go to someone with maybe a smaller family.
It would work wonderfully for a family of 3 or 4.

Anyway, enough rambling - my frog is to paint the hall and living room ceiling coving. It will not even take much time, but it is all overhead arm waving up a ladder. Will aim to have all painting jobs finished by 30 November.
Christmas does not smell like paint fumes!

Struggled with the 'in the sack' for a moment as my mind immediately went to something else.


With the plates (do you really need all the additional bits and bobs) the trick is to pick a colour scheme and stick with it - have seen 'Christmas' tables in posh magazines done in all blue and white (lots of cheap'willow pattern imitations) and deep (apocathary jars) blue glasses collected from charity shops.


When I first got my house my china came from a charity shop and was all plain pale blue. A friend came to stay with me briefly and she laughed at it - recognised it as the stuff from the cookery room at her old school (in the days when setting the table for a 'proper' dinner party was part of the exam).


I also had a beautiful wedgewood dinner service in deep chocolate brown collected over several years (mum would buy me some as Christmas and birthday presents) but the ex managed to destroy most of that - in a house full of cheap cups and jugs why would you use an irreplaceable milk jug to weight a paper lampshade whilst it was expanding to its proper shape and then head butt it (making the jug fall and smash) next time you went in the kitchen.


For a few years I stuck with plain (usually white) heavy plates - I'm happy as long as I have enough plates and bowls and other bits (cow creamer etc) can usually be obtained in white and just bought another batch when we were down to 3 or so.


After my divorce (and consequent loss of employment as we had our own business) we had the hand me down years. Mum would pass on furniture that any of her partner's offspring were chucking out (I was 50 before I went to a shop and bought 2 brand new sofas for the first time ever) frequently without consulting me.



With small boys you get lots of breakages and mum again turned up with a pile of about 20 plates from someone who changed their whole house often (the walls must get dizzy from being knocked through, doors added then taken away again) and just put the spares in their garage. Mainly oatmeal with a brown pattern, oatmeat with a brown outer edge, plain(ish) brown and brown with orange and yellow flowers. I went off brown but had to be grateful at the time.


Eventually got a job and went back to plain (usually blue or white) plates - woolworths still did them in packs of 6 plates, bowls and cups and sold extras singley, nowadays 4 settings is standard. Again the box set was usually part of my Christmas present.


One weekend DS2 was having a sleepover (just a couple of extra friends). On the Sunday I offered to do a 'full breakfast' (brunch time as they had been left to sleep) whereupon he started to phone other friends and invite them to the brunch (plus the lad from the end house came round and invited himself). I had to stop mid-cook and go to little Arseda as I didn't have enough plates.


When my brother died I treated myself to some of TG Green's 'Domino pattern, again in blue - it's spotty rather than the more well known cornishware stripes. An ecletic mix of new, old and a few antique bits (all from the bay of e). I still have quite a few plates (2 sizes) but only one bowl so am back to supplementing with plain white pasta bowls.


Beloved came with a 'fully equipped' kitchen (so we ended up with doubles of some things but she was missing some basics). I put my things away and filled the cupboards with theirs. Never decided whether their plates and bowls (from the swedish shop) are dark brown or deepest aubergine. Not keen on them - like the 70s trend for avocado coloured baths (and some other colours including dark brown) they don't always look clean after they have been washed.


When I put mine away, I said that that way, when they got their own home (ie when I build them a hobbit hole in the back yard or get a glorified garden shed and move out myself) and took their things, I could get mine out and it would be like having new again. Due to usage patterns - they use them but don't clean them - mine have crept into service again along with things like utensils (she tried to throw away one of my wooden spoons, not realising the deep yellow patina came from years of being used to make curry).


Could definitely do without all the glasses they keep buying (they might not be able to find them because I put them away in cupboards). Spent months getting rid of all the ones DS2 left, paring down to a couple of pint barrels for DS3 to drink cordial from and 5 recycled emerald green wine glasses mum brought me back from a holiday supplemented (were 6 originally) by 3 more from a cs.


Will stop boring you all now. As some of you know, when I'm feeling good, you get massive epics detailing the minutiae of my life, when I'm going down (or crashing) I go quiet (I don't like to bore people).


Shoulder is really painful today (as expected). Had baked potatoes n the early hours and poured the last half inch of some really nasty stuff onto the oven floor and moved a few things onto shelves. Going to rest a while longer but want to finish the oven (cleaner says don't use outside but I've had wonderful results from laying the oven shelves and any baking trays made from suitable materials on binbags, spraying and leaving them to work) and do the fridge (another frog - it had a beetroot accident) and do what else I can with gentle pottering - clear a bit, clean a bit.


Want to rearrange shelves, especially the long one in the kitchen (more long ones under the stairs - I cannibalised DS1's old Japanese bed, netted me some nearly 8' lengths). The one in the kitchen is in a tempory position (held at one end by the under stairs shelves and at the other by a tiny step stool). It should really be (roughly one storage jar width) under the kitchen cabinets with a rail suspended beneath (part rail in place but hanging from cabinets) to hold pans utensils, spice racks etc.

chocolatelover93

Hello everyone!

Forgot to say yesterday thank you all for the birthday wishes I had a lovely day

So on to today, woke up and could barely more pain in my back is getting worse. I can't take any tablets other than paracetmol which I don't think work anyway! I've been taking codine since Thur and had a withdraw head ache yesterday so not taking any more today. I was told by the pharmacist (when I asked for strongest pain meds haha) that I shouldn't be taking Ibuprofen because with the antidepressants I am on it could cause internal bleeding! So I have no idea what to do now, haven't got the money for any more heat packs so will just be my microwavable one and a hot bath when I get home I think!!

NSD - 3/15 will be 3 today as left my purse at home and finish work at 4 so no chance I can pop anywhere to buy anything. Plus I'm skint so I can't anyway haha.

ORGANISE - Going to get a bit of housework done after work before my son gets dropped off by his dad.

VALUES - Not spending anything today!

ENJOY - Will enjoy lots of cuddles with my son when he gets home, will probably be bath, iggle piggle, cuddles and bed

MAKE AN INVENTORY - Had bacon sarnie this morning for breakfast, salad for lunch and left over casserole for dinner but I have no potatoes to have with it so may have to have rice haha that'll go? lol

BUDGETS - No spending

EXERCISE - None

RULES - I'm getting there.

ICE - All done

NOW - So I have some choccie in from my birthday still so I have been scoffing that but meals have been better. I have my first week weigh at SW Tuesday so dreading that a bit.

NO - None today.

DEBT FREE -

WINTER PROOF -

COOK FROM SCRATCH - All from stores and from scratch

OUTSIDE - None today

REPORT - Hello

KINDNESS - Cuddles with my son when he gets home and may let him have a little bit of choccie as a treat

C xx

apple_muncher

Ouch sashanut - hope things improve soon!

Mothernerd - I always enjoy reading your posts, especially the ones with the minutiae in. Please don't stop posting them - you are not boring! Pleased to hear that you were woken by a quality brass band. All the church bells were rung across the country at 12.30 today so at least you were awake for that.

chocolatelover - do you know what is causing the back pain? Hope a hot bath helps (so long as you can get out of it again!)

f0xh0les - how did you manage a bath for 2 hours? Were you a wrinkly prune afterwards?

chocolatelover93

Applemuncher

Yeah, it's a whiplash injury from a couple of months ago, it comes and goes but I thinking picking my son up the other day has triggered it again. I've been getting headaches too, I may go to the doctors tomorrow.
Cxx

dolly84

sashanut - get well soon, and same to any other poorly people.


Was going to go cycling this morning but it was raining heavily so I did some cooking instead. Helped DD make a batch of blueberry muffins for lunchboxes, made DH a tuna and onion quiche to take for his lunches for two days and put a sausage casserole in the slow cooker.


Tea today is chickpea curry, brown rice and hm flatbreads.


Have walked the dog, taken two mattresses to the tip (feel bad about this but they have been with us a long time) and visited mum. Haven't done any real exercise but did a long run yesterday.