NST April 2020: Fools we are not!

ditty1234

Morning folks!
Still decorating, need to get some sunshine and a run today though, before going back to the screen tomorrow (work). 
Grateful for a new day, as boys were grumpy yesterday! I spent the day decorating and didn't really tidy up in anything - result stuff everywhere!  Also time to upgrade some sprouts to bigger homes :-)

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi everyone
Feeling similar to some others on here - sameness of the days, finding it hard to be motivated or else feeling very motivated to start something (in the housework/decluttering/paperwork shredding line) then abandoning it halfway Plus endless time spent thinking about meals, preparing meals, clearing up after meals, going shopping for ingredients for meals....  i know they are all first world problems.  
Sorry - onto more positive stuff.
We've had some nice family walks and found lots of TV series to watch together.  Currently our faves are After Life series 2 and Catastrophe - only on series 1 so lots of episodes of that to enjoy. 
DD2 has paid (yay!) for temporary car insurance so she is driving us to shops so she can get in some practise having not driven for nearly a year.  Yesterday when driving to the shops, we saw a man walking a ferret on a lead - we smiled and waved at him and he waved back (the man not the ferret
I had a nice chat on the phone with my friend who is a nurse and works in a care home.  They have PPE at last so she feels a little safer and the home has been on lockdown for ages too.  
Today i am catching up on one of my PT roles; i'm going to have a veggie roast dinner and DDs can join me if they wish or suggest an alternative out of the ingredients we have in; i shall enjoy a glass of wine in the garden while the sun is shining;& i shall try not to eat a ton of chocolate.
love Deni x

Toni'sfriend

Another samey day here again but it's Sunday and I'm just doing what we would normally.

Spoke to Himself's brother this afternoon.  He works in a care home and several of his residents have died of the virus. We're very concerned for him both physically and mentally especially as his partner lives about forty miles away and they haven't been able to see one another since this all started. Must be so many people in the same position who are struggling to cope.

I have plans for tomorrow house wise. Lets hope I can find the motivation when I get up.

lcc86

Afternoon all, not much to add here. Yesterday wasn't a NSD in the end as I bought a couple of bits from my list online and also got a bottle of wine as well. Today has been a NSD though so I'm almost at my target. It is difficult when the days all blur together, and I'm not saving as much as I could despite not going out anywhere. Need to be a bit stricter with myself in May! Got a vet bill through yesterday for a trip last week so need to pay that and then they will send the claim form off to the insurance. 

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for still waking up at 7, for headspace, for sitting in the garden with a book, for drying the washing outside, for dd and dh playing badminton, for staying off my laptop again, for Blake(s?) 7 being available to watch for free, for a call from mil in Texas.

BadBookkeeper

NSD 17/15
ironing done.
smiley face picture done for the window.
wii fit done.
garden footy played.

ready for the week ahead
Homework planned
Decluttering tasks x 3 my target for this week.

f0xh0les

NSD 18 today,  we have been grounded for 40 days now.  I am starting to hallucinate.  Seeing mirages.

Stripped all the beds and laundered them, half are dry already, half are still on the line.  Remade all the beds.  Hoovered, tidied. fed people. Nothing else.  Roll on Thursday payday.  Child benefit comes in tomorrow.  All in budget, made £15 from surveys over this weekend. Sent it to my bank account.  Started a new book.

Gratitudes-  Buying 4 dresses in  c/shops in February in readiness for summer.  I am wearing them.  Candles, because they are twinkly and cheerful. Sunshine for drying all that laundry. 

greent

Today I am thankful for lovely flowers (in the garden), choc bunnies, a lazy day

mothernerd

It has been a good day for me. Now that the letter has been dealt with, my spirits are starting to rise again. I went to the shed and brought all the oldest veg inside and a few assorted bits of fruit for mum. Peeled all the large potatoes and mashed them using up the end of some cream cheese, scrapings from a tub of marg (avoiding the toast crumbs) and a bit of milk. Started a cake but have got my measurements muddled so will leave it until tomorrow and sort it out with a clear head. Extra mash made for another day and possibly potato cakes - mum keeps remembering all sorts of things that other people have fed her, but that she doesn't know how to cook herself.

Had to defrost meat so mum had two large oranges for lunch and I cooked some part baked rolls and had them with marg (got jam out but the spread I'd put on my plate did the three rolls so saving the jam for another day. Our main meal was okay but I have done better. Cauli tasted okay but looked a bit sad and I think the cabbage would have been better hidden in a stew. Still it's more bits used up. Spare cauli will go with some frozen broccoli and last of the mushrooms, some of the easter pasta (little bunnies and eggs) and cheese sauce. It's been on the menu for several days but then mum decides she will have two more oranges or soup or cheese and crackers and I don't want too many cooked things in the fridge to be used up. Got a little wheel of spicy cheese out of the freezer to defrost and will grate it for the cheese sauce - it's very strong so should only need a bit.

We had visitor's at lunch time so have got rid of a large bag of stuff that has been hanging around for at least a week.

I put the visitors chair out and then looked round to see what I could put out for her little boy to use and came up with the little step stool - the bottom step is dented in the middle, so I am planning to use it as a 'display stand' for a number of mum's decorative garden pots and had already put it outside.

I put water in one of my 2l bottles and put the toy story beaker and a large empty yoghurt carton out for the visitor's to use, a few ginger biscuits and a few crackers in little plastic bags (washed and turned inside out for re-using) put them on the stool with the bottle holding the end of the bags so they didn't blow away. Then opened the top window and pulled the blinds across when they arrived so we could hear and see each other. The yoghurt pot came in handy as they had brought the daft dog (Bedlington) with them so she gave the dog some water in it (and then the little boy threw some water over the dog). Dog had been rolling in a dead frog. They then used the yoghurt pot to pull up all the weeds in the front garden - so many they filled the yoghurt pot. Little boy was so enchanted with his 'picnic' that he wanted to take the rest of the water home with them, so I said he could.

About 7 pm I set off for home with the SM trolley. Opened the front door and grabbed the bag of garden bags (have been sending instructions to DS3 about what things need to come here and he's been told to put them as near the front door as possible so I can get them (I only actually put one foot inside the house and I'd put my plastic gloves on before I put my key in the lock) or DS2 if his friend is driving him and they can put a few things in the car. Locked up again and went round to the back. None of the garden stuff ever gets touched by anyone but me so I loaded a bin (acquired a few when we went over to wheelie bins as people kept abandoning them - highly recommended for growing trees in), filled it with 'lumps' of compost (roughly large 14"-16" plant pot size). Tied the bag of bags onto one of the handles, so it hung down the side of the trolley, put an old mopping bucket planted with chives at the front end of the trolley and added the old washing up bowl (pea growing). Added a couple of potato growing bags and three bags for life that have been used for carrying plants and are only fit to be used as grow bags now, filled a very large bag for life with empty 2l bottles and tied that onto the front of the trolley. Then brought the whole lot back here including getting over the very steep road bridge over the canal.

Very tired but so worth it. Put the milk bottles out, locked up, watched the last 15 minutes of Call the midwife and had a shower. I may not be able to move tomorrow (if I can sit in a chair I can cut up more bottles for the strawberry bottle bank).

Today I am grateful for getting over the bridge, for having enough food even if my presentation was below par, for hot water and showers (so good for getting all the kinks out of my spine and easing my aching shouders and neck), having clean hair and having so many things to grow veg in.

abundant1972

Good Morning!

I'm back on the naught step for my absenteesim! Struggling to settle into any kind of routine right now... Work is all over the place, and that routine has gone up the spout and has been quite stressful. I am slo leaving this job and starting a new one in 2 weeks which is more change and uncertainty. It is something I have put out for though and will be a positive step once things settle back to normal. So my wage will be changing (although a better job, fewer hours so an income drop) which means I will need to re-jig my budget... All very do-able but very unsettling. I am trying to stay in the present and not slip into full on panic mode haha!. 

Today I am grateful for:

1) My old life that I am leaving behind and the new one that is waiting for me
2) Extra time with my Mum and Dad whilst they are still around
3) YouTube blogs 

Today = NSD ??? Totally lost track - but am in budget and paid today!!! 

Have a good one folks!!