NST December: Festive Fun

dolly84

lcc86 - well done on the Masters.


XSpender - great news about the job.


Today will be a busy day, I need to make a fruit cake, some mini quiches to use up the rest of a pack of filo pastry, walk the dog, wash the floors, call at the GP's surgery with some forms, vote, laundry and lots of other very boring things.

f0xh0les

Congratulations on the masters lcc!
Voted this morning, did the shopping, made the fridge tidy and ordered, volunteering this afternoon at the foodbank.

Two kids trying it on this morning - I'm sooo ill, oooh! chocolate coins - nom nom nom. yeah right!

No afterschool clubs tonight - the teachers are winding down, understandably.

Dh is out until god knows when tonight. Works drinks, works meal, the student politics society have taken over a pub all night to watch the election results come in. I expect dh will end up in there. I will be home alone (kids in bed) on the sofa - so I think I might buy myself a bottle of something nice and a packet of crisps (classy bird) as I watch the madness unfold.

Please vote if you are able.

Might bake something nice too. Oooh the possibilities are endless......

mothernerd

Siebrie wrote: »

Dear Mothernerd,


I know you are a carer for your mother, but please take care of yourself and say 'no' occassionally. You are very tired already (the bugs may be a way of your body to tell you to slow down), was there really a need to get those neighbours' cards out in between the rain? It's still a couple of weeks before christmas, there was no need to deliver them exactly yesterday. Your mother may be pushing you, as it gives her ease of mind, but as far as I read it, it does you harm. Do take care of yourself!

Thanks Siebrie I didn't take the neighbours cards, I stopped at the door (only looked throught he kitchen window once and could see the stair rods of rain highlighted by the flood lights from the rugby field). I have put my foot down and said no to planting lavender (with magic lavender plants as mum is now thinking of me the way my children did - I want silver shelves, mum will work out how to do silver shelves, in the days before all these special effects paints were available).


I am trying very hard to strike a balance between looking after mum and protecting my own health. I had already said on Monday that I would only be doing lightweight stuff for the rest of the week.


It's just an accumulation of things - shifting furniture, big shop last Friday, getting bogged down by the drains (almost literally), trying to keep track of the lists of minor jobs before they get to be a problem and just knowing I'm not 100% and minor things like wondering where my clothes are.



I'm weary. It occurred to me yesterday that weary was the perfect word for how I feel atm. I spent yesterday trying to convince myself to be a happy panda because pandas shouldn't be sad. It did help to see the awe and wonder on the faces of two small children

when they saw me in my panda hat (I gave them a little wave). The paws on the end of the scarf helped too.


I also vented to the receptionist (I think it's the pharmacy thats doing things wrong - the items that didn't come on time last month had been ordered and the prescription had been sent through to them. They had had it for a week but when I phoned 'they thought' mum could wait for a further week before they delivered it). I said I wanted to lie down and cry, sleep for 3 days and then wake up to find the forest animals had been to clean the whole house.


Today I am grateful for my warm bed (I have washed and found some leggings and a dress), for panda hats, for small children still believing (and elderly folk coming up to say congratulate me on my panda hat), for things to look forward to and for HOPE.

Karmacat

Mothernerd, loving the pandas but I really don't know how you keep going, I'm not surprised you're weary. I'm in recovery from chronic fatigue, and I did some stuff on Tuesday that I really enjoyed, but has completely exhausted me. Do take care xx

crazy_cat_lady

Mothernerd - I hope you're feeling a bit better. Please try and look after yourself. I have learned the hard way that if you're not feeling great then you need to rest. I spent over 2 hours waiting at urgent care the other night (lying on the floor crying because there were no seats) with out of control cystitis which turned out to be a kidney infection. I haven't been able to do anything since then other than sleep. The antibiotics make me feel sick, the pain makes me feel sick and I definitely can't do anything much. I made it to the doctors yesterday morning, followed by a whole day of sleep and feeling too hot/too cold. Today I've been to the docs for blood tests then popped in to vote on my way home and that has been followed by a 2 hour nap. So I'm being forced to rest now - no matter how much I hate it.

Calling14

Well today my 15 yr old car, I have had from birth went for its MOT and it failed.



Good news, 2 rear tyres and a track rod end so nothing major. I couldn't bear to be parted with it now.


Spendy day for me with MOT and extras.


Got a day off tomorrow to use my holidays up so the weekend starts today for me. On the downside, pain in my upper back and down my arm - must have trapped a nerve somehow. Taken pain killers no joy, hot wheat neck thing when I get home,




lcc86 - Congratulations on your masters

XSpender. Congratulations on getting the job.



Such good news before Xmas all round.



Grateful for
Nearly hometime
Car nothing major to pass MOT

dolly84

ccl - kidney infections are not fun, hope the meds kick in soon.

apple_muncher

Lcc - well done on your masters:T:T:T


Today I am grateful for the pupils really getting in to the swing of voting, for an early finish at work, for not getting too soaked, for voting myself, for buses, for libraries, for WSM and for 85% choc.

mothernerd

Congratulations Icc and XSpender.


I was still in bed at lunchtime (think it was the hunger that got me up). Went to vote, bought a couple of sandwiches on the way back + milk for mum. DS3 and Beloved were out before me, voted then bought cake - including a pack of chocolate eclairs for me (not diet friendly but I'm not complaining).


Had breakfast and then went to get cash for mum (failed yesterday and earlier today). I'm not a huge fan of conspiracy theories but sometimes reality is even more strange and when the woman in front of me in the queue said that machine wasn't working I started to worry. Luckily the machines inside the building society were working.


Continued on to mum's pharmacist and made enquiries about the prescription the doctor would have sent through. Asked when it might be delivered or if I might take it with me. Girl went to inquire - they had not sent the pills because they were out of stock and had to order some (why could they not put a note to that effect in the delivery package). I could either collect them after 2pm tomorrow or they would deliver on Monday - so I'm going back tomorrow.


Went round the corner (there's a bench just inside the market). My taxi firm apologised but they had nothing for over an hour. Couldn't get through to the second so walked through the market and shopping centre and across the bus station. Collapsed on a bench. A man asked if I wanted the 'Morries' bus and he said he would tell me when it was coming.


Very short wait but then 2 street lengths to walk when I got off. Cardigan on one of mum's radiators, jumper on another, then t-shirt as that also had wet patches. Mum's nail girl came and I sat on the bed reading in my spare nightie and with the dressing gown over me. Nearly fell asleep.


Mum had had a phone call to say the mattress would be delivered between 3pm and 8pm so sat down to watch tv and made a start on putting the table together. It looks fairly simple except there are no marks to show where to put things so I was trying to determine the centre having unpacked it and put the top on it's back on top of the tv unit.


Mattress arrived so I signed for it and asked the man to take it round the corner whilst I opened the patio doors. The blurb had said he couldn't bring it inside but the doors were right next to the bed it's going on. One of the grand-daughters arrived at the same time (her DD2 was driving her up the wall so she escaped) so she helped me unpack and put the mattress and topper on the bed. Cleaner will make it up with sheets tomorrow.


Mum cadged me a lift home so brought the walker, rounded up all the spare planters, shoved my dry clothes in my bag and picked up the cards to be weighed.


Today I am grateful for the NHS, radiators and chocolate. Will take all your advice and sit quietly on the bed rather than rushing around like a mad thing because they are out.

f0xh0les

apple, my kids got up late so could not come to vote before school, but I did it on the way home. They were upset I had not waited until after school so they could escort me. They cannot wait to be able to have a say.

Wonder what the turnout will be?