NST September - A Simple September

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Won't be a NSD today after all, was meant to be treated for lunch but that has now moved to tomorrow, so need to go out and buy some lunch! May as well utilise the spendy day, and order the rest of OH's birthday presents later should be able to make the NSD tomorrow instead now, though.

apple_muncher

mothernerd wrote: »

Think we are developing a collective turtle mind.

We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistence is futile.


Sorry, but that's what came to mind when I read the start of your post mothernerd :rotfl:.

Toni'sfriend

NSD No 8

I think my simple September must be verging on the boring for anybody reading. I just haven't been doing anything interesting but I'm quite enjoying the peace and quiet, reading and relaxing.

Ticking off jobs, eating from stores and generally trying to get organised and into a routine.

Foxholes - Think I'm going to have to take a leaf out of your book and do something productive.

[Deleted User]

I'm actually excited - I have a night at home until OH gets home late tonight, where no one needs me for anything.

We are kid-free, I've been to the gym in the past couple of days, we are on top of the washing

Jesus, peace and quiet :rotfl:

(I say that, I'll still find a million things that need doing........)

PheoniX

Think it's been a week since I've last checked in. Did some overtime shifts and have been at work nearly every day, lost track of spend days as there has been purchases involved here and there. Needed cat food, new glasses and did a little shop, all necessary but not bunched together.. So annoyed, rolled into the back of a car yesterday who slammed the brakes on at a roundabout :mad: No damage to the other car but £180 worth on mine could have been worse.

Sashanut - water damage sounds horrendous, hope your home is drying out
Mothernerd - hope your mums doing ok after her tumble
SSDD - that tape is miraculous, I managed huge running distances with a strapped Achilles without a twinge!
Dolly - boo hiss to toothache!

greent

WM repaired! :j:j:J - cost £125

Also spent at smkt today - bought entirely unnecessary but lovely hot pink flowers - now on display in kitchen in a purple glass jug Also bought 3 trays of bedding plants - have planted some up in pots and will swap over some more Summer bedding over the next week.

Found an item to start off new CS bag. Also a couple of things to try and sell on fb00k mktplace and some items to donate to school. Gave my mum a jar of chutney which I didn't like and also a rosemary plant I'd rooted from my huge old one (now gone - several small ones in pots as replacements)

Washing load no 1 on line.... :T

mothernerd

apple_muncher wrote: »

We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistence is futile.


Sorry, but that's what came to mind when I read the start of your post mothernerd :rotfl:.

Don't worry, it crossed my mind too. We kept using the BORG scale in exercise classes - measuring how much effort we were using. We had to try to keep in the middle range between 10 and 16, roughly being able to answer a question (was carry on a conversation but if i could still gasp a one word answer It counted). 17 to 20 was overdoing with 20 being needing CPR and call the ambulance.

Early on I mentioned 7 of 9 and was met with total incomprehension. Group was all women, some around my age, a couple of young mums and youngish instructors (including one male) but surely at least one of them, somewhere along the line, must have had a husband, boyfriend or son who watched Star Trek - it used to be pretty much unavoidable at one time, like Friends which seemed to live on for years being shown on one channel or another.

I've had a quiet day after a busy start. Reluctantly got up at 7.30 am to thrown myself into the morning routine (would have liked another couple of hours but didn't want to be in the cleaner's way). Packed away my breathing machine after I came out of the shower and my embroidery whilst the suncream was drying.

I put some things in the suitcase but then started to slow down. I put half the couch back together (cover removed, arm up, cushion back in position) then had to sit down before doing the other half. Went in the kitchen to check on food (what I was leaving, what I was taking home, what needed buying) and decided to make two wraps and sat and ate them slowly.

All I can think is that doing the washing yesterday (pegging out and walking up and down the yard) and a long time standing cooking and washing up have used up my available energy - I was a little bit dizzy and kept lurching sideways.

Mum was much better, having done nothing but rest since we got back from the hospital visit but was still going to have another 'do nothing' day (pleased about that). Cleaner had overslept so only arrived at 10 am.

I have left a nightie, spare t-shirt, pills for 1 day and a few oddments of toiletries in the drawer with 'my' dressing gown.

Took two books back to the library when I came home, paid a fine (60p) and brought 4 home (all paperbacks, light reading and from favourite authors - was a bit stuck on the ones I took back, will ebjoy them at another time but couldn't get into them).

I went to the chip shop for lunch (sorry, sorry, sorry) but brought up a new tub of cheese spread to have on crispbread (will top with the 5 tiny toms and one yellow pepper I had in my rucksack). Tea and maybe breakfast.

Haven't done anything more strenuous than reading all afternoon but seem to be coming round a bit now. Just been downstairs and did several rubbish trips including getting DS3 to stand on his pizza box mountain to squash them. They had cleared away most of the mess from near 'their' couch in the front room but unfortunately had only put it in small bags and dumped it in the kitchen so there were fruit flies all over them.

Have written lists of things I have left at mum's, things that need doing at mum's (subject to available energy) and things that need buying in the morning before I go back. Climbing stairs is less painful but still a big effort, going down is better except for the first step.

Today I am grateful for rest, reading and sorting the rubbish.

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for finishing work for the week, for recovering from being glutenised on Tues, for being well enough to do a workout, for working with some great people, for dd coming home tomorrow, for dry weather, for fresh rasps, for cycling on the telly.

DawnW

Evening
Just reporting in to claim another NSD, so I am now at 5/15
Helped OH sweep the chimney this morning, and spent most of the rest of the day cleaning, not just because of the chimney sweeping, just that I had the vacuum cleaner out so thought I might as well give the lounge a good clean, nasty corners, behind furniture, attacked cobwebs, scrubbed hearth etc.
All food from home as usual, managed a bit in the garden but not been able to face the ironing yet!

sashanut

Hi all:j

Checking in to report another NSD - now 5/15, not too shabby..

However, I definitely think Thursdays are a nono for me...last Thursday - flood (still drying but smelly ugh). This Thursday, well it was more of DDs problem but still...it involved 2 kittens locked in a car, her Airbnb 'lodger' being told to leave (by Airbnb), refusal to leave, DH having to go round, lodger being taken to A&E by him due to mental state & being admitted to hospital, kittens (only about 5 weeks old) taken by DDs friends to be looked after....you get the drift
Next Thursday, I'm not getting up. At all.

before all this kicked off, I did get some things done, I made blackberry jelly & the Christmas version with sloe gin which I can put in hampers, picked the last of the plums & crab apples. Helped DH to hammer on screens round big shed (half done now). Washed rugs & on line as a blowy day. Cut the front grass

Made a lasagne & sponge pudding, healthy eh - so all food from stores. Hopefully tomorrow will be a quiet day....

Checking in to say hi: Hello Turtles!!