My year of living dangerously

Homegrown0

Your Sunday sounds great DIA - productive, but at your own pace. I hope you enjoy it! Get some of your lovely oils on the go too

Sometimes we have expensive days and you're doing the right thing by drawing a line and moving on. No point in dwelling on it!

So excited about your grant and Scottish trip - I hope you have the best time when it comes!

redofromstart

Have a lovely pottering day, I have a chicken to cook too.

in_need_of_direction

It looks like you’re getting the right balance for you. Re work events, as a non drinker, I tended to avoid these. I then found it so odd that in my first year of self employment, I missed having a Christmas party to go to

Seasidegal58

doingitanyway wrote: »

Strangely excited about my quiet, pottering, cooking, cleaning, phone calls and ‘just being’ day.

I don't think it's strange - when you've been on the go with work and other matters I find it very refreshing to have a 'me' day at home pottering around.:)

Hope you got all your tasks done and then relaxed.

db2016

doingitanyway wrote: »

some chicken and veggies in the Dutch oven

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

klew356

I have now caught up with all whats been going on, good luck with the new venture!
As for food shopping I find simply writing a list is a good way to go, and whilst you are writing the list thinking about what you are going to create. I shop on a Sunday, for the week ahead. If I have to go to the shop and pick up some veg so be it but if I have planned it right I wont need too

HairyHandofDartmoor

Great news on the bursary and your scottish trip DIA . I love the highlands too.

Giving up the gym is a good idea if you don't really like it. I find walking and yoga or pilates cheap and enjoyable ways to keep fit.

Good luck with your last few days at work. You're bound to feel a bit nervous as freedom approaches but as Parsnip says, if not now then when?

doingitanyway

Homegrown0 wrote: »

Your Sunday sounds great DIA - productive, but at your own pace. I hope you enjoy it! Get some of your lovely oils on the go too

Sometimes we have expensive days and you're doing the right thing by drawing a line and moving on. No point in dwelling on it!

So excited about your grant and Scottish trip - I hope you have the best time when it comes!

Thanks HG. I am so excited about the Scottish trip. It couldn't have come at a better time.

klew356 wrote: »

I have now caught up with all whats been going on, good luck with the new venture!
As for food shopping I find simply writing a list is a good way to go, and whilst you are writing the list thinking about what you are going to create. I shop on a Sunday, for the week ahead. If I have to go to the shop and pick up some veg so be it but if I have planned it right I wont need too

Thanks for the good luck wishes. You sound very balanced about shopping. I am sure I over complicate it! Thanks for dropping by.:)

HairyHandofDartmoor wrote: »

Great news on the bursary and your scottish trip DIA . I love the highlands too.

Giving up the gym is a good idea if you don't really like it. I find walking and yoga or pilates cheap and enjoyable ways to keep fit.

Thanks HH. I think walking is the way forward for me as I will have more time. I'm embarrassed to say I still don't have the right footwear! Will sort this

doingitanyway

Thank you for all the positive comments

The wrong food and late nights and alcohol and work stress all caught up with me and I had a severe migraine: very nasty and I lost a day and a half, but all over now. I did what I always do after a migraine and cleared the fridge of the things I know I shouldn’t eat, like cheese. Cheese always creeps back. Cheese has legs. The upside is I always feel better after a migraine as migraine affects you for days before it hits.

I read on SH’s website a comment I agree with and often say too ‘if you do what you always do you get what you always get’ So I am always in a mess at home and try and wrestle control back by doing the usual dishes, cleaning, and reactive stuff. Well, in addition I’m going to start doing one thing differently on the mess front.

So today my ONE DIFFERENT THING will be looking for a garden box so I can get garden tools out of the house. The knock on affect will be I can then store my hoover under the stairs instead of tripping over it.

Other than my garden box search I am cutting the grass and making a coconut dal to eat with quinoa and green roasted veggies

Wishing you all a positive day.:)

in_need_of_direction

You have a plan for today and it sounds like a good one. Best of luck with it