Crazy Cat Lady Chapter 4 - The Aftermath

beanielou

I wish that I had 1/10th of your energy.
WEll done on sticking to the healthy eating.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi CCL just popping by to say big well done on all your decorating efforts   I recently painted my kitchen ceiling after living with a stained and bowed ceiling for about 3 years.  Everytime i go into the kitchen i look up at my smooth white ceiling and feel dead chuffed with myself!  
Deni x  

f0xh0les

Well done, you are doing brilliantly.  I discovered that  2litre bottles of supermarket fizzy drink for 17p  is all 1 cal or less. So when I get the urge for something sweet, I go for that and it fools my daft brain until it passes.  At 17p I can drink as much as I want. 

Please be careful of DS and the Ex-B0x.  3am is totally out of order of him.  I sometimes have to remove the Box and it comes and sleeps in my room with me or DS2 would have it on all night while he pretends he was downloading something.  I also pull the wifi phone line out of the plug in socket when I go to bed, they don't need it after 11pm or before 6am as far as I am concerned.  The kids don't like it, but hey, I don't care.  It is worth it not to have to put up with the c0med0wn tantrum after them playing for too long.  Honestly I swear the thing really is addictive to some people.  Boys in particular.   So glad I would rather throw one out the window than actually play on one.    

trix-a-belle

cheering you on on the painting CCL, I did the skirting, door and window frames in my room about this time last year & finally decided I needed to make some further progress the other week so did 1 coat on 1 or 2 walls per day & have done the awkward bit of ceiling so just 1 wall that has some bits that need filling and a really tall bit of ceiling left.

f0xh0les

Terrible weather over here. Hope yours is better.  Sending decorating motivational vibes.

crazy_cat_lady

Hello
Well I'm most disappointed to report that I didn't get up this morning having lost so much weight that nothing fit any more. I did, however, feel as though every muscle in my body has been used and wishes to do no further work. I have had another busy decorating day, but still feel not much further forward, and I'm at work tomorrow so can't finish then  
Anyway, today I have moved the big cupboard into the kitchen, moved the sofa and cleaned the walls and floor there. 2 coats of paint there - I had wanted 3 coats but dd had a phone appointment with a careers advisor this afternoon so we've only managed 2 so far. Upon speaking to my dad I also went out to buy some primer for the doors as he said the wood would just keep soaking the paint in without primer. So I did that, and got more paint pads as well while I was there. Fell in love with some new wall lights that were in the sale but they only had 1 left and I needed 2. Ah well... So did the doors with primer, did the 3rd coat in the archway and the skirting boards in there so I could start moving stuff back asap. Then did skirting boards on the first wall painted and dd did the ceiling coving on the same wall. Then painted 1 door and have since just been to tired to continue. 
So still to go - one door hopefully final coat but I'll have to see tomorrow, the rest of the skirting boards, and a final coat on the third wall. Haven't even started the fourth 'feature' wall, or the ceiling properly. Have washed both sets of curtains, and the room still looks like we've been burgled. I keep telling myself it will be worth it in the longer run. Would be confidently predicting just one more day, but I suspect at least 2 or 3 - however, if I'm just finishing up in the living room then we can get on with dd's room.
Another decent diet day. Thursday is my weigh day and I will literally scream if I haven't lost weight this week. That would not be a fair reflection of my hard work and effort.
I am being very wary of ds and his exbox f0xh0les. When he's a royal pain I take the lead that connects it to the tv. I had no idea he'd gotten up and gone back onto it - hopefully he'll go back to watching Harry Potter before bed - or even better reading a book.
Right. Once I've finished catching up on here I'm going to have a long soak in the bath, with a book, and make myself presentable for work tomorrow.

apple_muncher

Ah yes. Being fit to be seen at work. Digging around to find decent clothes! I was there on Monday!

Baileys_Babe

apple_muncher said:

Ah yes. Being fit to be seen at work. Digging around to find decent clothes! I was there on Monday!

I have a couple of sets of clothes that I keep for video meetings   

crazy_cat_lady

Hello! From work. With 3 kids. Well at least it's only a few hours today and this little group are more chatty than the last lot I had. I don't see myself on the rota again so I think this might be me done for the summer hols after today. I would normally be way more excited than this to have reached the end of a school year and survived. Instead I feel a bit deflated and sad for the kids that have left school, and for the kids that have lost half a year of school education, and for the fact that school is not like I know it to be. Anyway, I shouldn't be sad. I should be happy that all remaining school work is almost done and will be completed remotely, and I should be happy that my family are healthy and happy and I should be happy that the hols are still ahead.
DD had her careers interview yesterday and is more interested than ever in becoming a paramedic now. She's going to look for some voluntary work in the care sector once the current situation calms down a little. She's also determined that she's going to do her further learning via the vocational route rather than the academic route - good for her. I wish that option had been available to me in my day - or at least a bit more established than it was then.
I wonder if I'm sad because my body is so broken from decorating and then I'm further demotivated because the end is not in sight for us. Obviously I didn't do anything this morning before work so it's all there waiting for me when I get home later. Am trying to get dd to make a start without me. Especially as it will be late afternoon before I get home. There's a lot still to do and I wish it were over and done with.
Also feel starving. Much more starving than I do when I'm up and about and on the move decorating. Must not wreck my diet the day before I weigh. I am so tempted for bad food or takeaway though.

f0xh0les

Does DD have a friend who could come over and help (preferably one who has not left the house for 12 weeks )? 

I think a lot of this feeling bleh! right now is that normally we are so excited by end of term, we have plans, we can leave the routine behind, but this year, there is no end of term stuff, we have done all the being at home stuff already and we don't even have a date for the schools to go back yet! 

Our schools end on Friday this week, with not even a provisional date to return. Just wait and see what the email says.