NST July 2020: The Turtles go Jousting

f0xh0les

Today I have researched and bought a washing machine - it will be delivered tomorrow. The floors have been hoovered and mopped and the w/m area tidied and cleaned in readiness. I am feeling quite calm. but £370 poorer (money from savings) it is a necessary expense so not beating myself up about it. Got a bigger one, so hopefully will spend less time doing laundry, although I might need a longer washing line, somehow, maybe.

I have little tomatolings on my plants, the peas are doing really well, lots of triffid flowers but as yet, no sign of courgettes.  Plenty of flowers (not eating flowers, just cornflowers and nigella and  pink rose campion and chrysanthemums) but my dianthus are dire.

Meals planned for tomorrow, no need to shop unless some other random piece of kitchenalia decides to go kaput on me.

So still on NSD6. 

Toni'sfriend

Well, yesterday went as planned mostly. My hair is still looking shockingly bad but not a lot a can do about that at the moment. I trimmed Himself's yesterday but don't think I'll tackle my own.

Went to the butcher for bits and bobs. First time I've worn a face mask as they are now compulsory in shops. It was uncomfortable and my glasses steamed up so I couldn't see where I was going. I think I am probably exempt because of a breathing condition but I'll wear it in shops anyway. It's probably safer.

Been up early, made soup and having coffee before we go for our (hopefully) daily walk. Yesterday's was two and a half miles (according to the thing on my phone). Planned a route for today which I think might be just a little longer. Trying to build it up gradually.

Speak to you later.

ditty1234

Afternoon 
I am grateful for beer and strawberries, beer and Hamilton, for interesting and emotionally perceptive young men in the house and for a lovely swim this morning. 
Surprisingly it was nice enough to sit and eat outside last night and I made a nice dinner out of frozen veggie brugers, pasta w pesto green beans and frozen peas by adding nice beers and a strawberry desert. I ate with my oldest and had some speculative chats about the current situation and the future. This was nice after I felt very low all day, one of my low thoughts was that soon he will leave again and probably not come back for the same amount of time again. It will be fine once he goes, but I feel there is a bit of a social dip, as a lot of my colleagues and friends are still weary of going out or socialising. So while I understand I am also a bit annoyed as there are plenty of SD options, of varying degrees. 
Anyways time to do some reading, a but if tidying up and chill in the garden.  Have a lovely sunday.

f0xh0les

Today is NSD7 and I have just had a confirmatory rummage in the fridge and freezer, and to be honest I could skip the shopping trip tomorrow night and eat from the fridge and freezer until  Thursday, so I am going to try and stick to only ys goods  on tomorrow night's shopping trip. I am over that way at ys' o'clock anyway.   Any savings from this week's food budget can go straight toward the washing   machine benevolent fund (£370), as can my £10 survey payout from p/a today (I am officially cheese neutral).

I am a bit freaked out by how tidy my house looks now.  There is only one room-of-doom.  That is my objective for the coming week.   Sort through the nonsense.  I am sure half of it needs to go to the recycling center bins anyway. 

Toni'sfriend

NSD No 7

Went for our walk. Just a teensie bit further than yesterday and it was hot even at nine o'clock this morning.

Thai chicken curry in the slow cooker for dinner when the Boy gets here.

Apart from that nothing much going on. So another early night.

lcc86

Evening all, hope everyone is enjoying the last of the weekend. Up to 9 NSDs now which I'm very happy with. Everything is coming in under budget. Came home last night from parents, did lots of walking there which was nice, but never sleep well there for some reason. 

Horse riding today, kept it quite short but it was fun. Got the slow cooker on with a quorn korma for me and then will do a chicken one for OH later. Got some Thai curry to do in there tomorrow as well.

Going to make a list of next week's jobs so that I'm ready to go.

apple_muncher

Hope the weekend of pampering was enjoyable, turtles.

I am grateful today for sunshine drying the washing, for still doing my workout despite not loving it at the start, for dh putting a kick stand thingy on dd's bike, for picking the rest of the blackcurrants, for the washing machine no longer smelling bad.

greent

NSDs over the weekend. Grateful for the 7 cygnets still being alive, the sunshine, seeing friends, seeing colleagues, an unplanned bbq, that I can bake, for selling something on flebay

mothernerd

Yesterday was weird. Was very very tired for most of the day - awake bright and early at 5.30 am but then fighting the urge to go back to sleep from 11 am until teatime. Made a dinner using the last of the Easter lamb. Did doze off for a while then wandered into the kitchen to find mum had been battling a swarm of flying ants and had sprayed worktops etc with highly toxic wasp and fly killer then attacked them with a series of wet cloths. I killed a few with a wooden spoon then retreated back into my room for a while. Went back out with the intention of dumping the food in 2 pans and one casserole dish plus a bag of cornflakes (not taking any risk of ingesting that stuff - I wouldn't even have it in the house) only to find (after extensive questioning) that mum had in fact zapped them with deadly furniture polish. That was the spray can left out on the sink. I then read out the block capital warning on the actual wasp and fly spray in an attempt to get her to understand that that stuff should never ever be used anywhere near food or food preparation areas or me.
Decided on a very simple tea which could be put together away from the war zone - after another attempt to get mum down from DEFCON 1 by explaining that they come inside when it gets too hot outside and I had opened the door to allow any survivors to depart the way they came as it was much cooler than earlier - may put actual ant powder behind the kickboards just in case.
Wrote up the notes to send with the smart card from my CPAP machine and walked to the postbox in preparation for my annual review by phone. It was amazingly simple once I'd found all the details for my mask (switched back to the old one as new one aggravated my hayfever pains) and ticked all the boxes for replacement filters etc. I am very unfit - need to set up more formalised exercises although I have been doing well with writing the alphabet in the air with my feet (suggested by one of the district nurses for mum as it is all different tiny movements). It helped ward off some of the cramps and other pains I had from doing the digging. Had a rest from digging yesterday but spent some time trying to think where I can put the stone chippings (so I can use the large planters they are currently being held in.

I am grateful for rereading one of my favourite series (RoL) now that I have most of them in paperback, for good tv series (Bodies with mum, SS GB on my own, for all the daft comedies mum watches which give me time to do my own thing. Grateful for knowing what's wrong with me. Current dip in my mental health because I am feeling 'displaced' - I left my home 4 months ago without even having time to say goodbye, expecting it to be initially for 12 weeks but aware that it could be (much) longer (only broken it to mum in stages and fortunately consultant's advice etc echoed what I had already told her.

I'm in limbo now, going home, even for a few hours would be difficult because the town centre location of my house means I'd have to run the gauntlet of 5 pubs and about a dozen takeaway places, not to mention the all summer disco fest and caterers to underage drinkers (and more) that happens on the car park (the police move them and they come back within half an hour). Add two more drinking establishments to that total - one is open more for 'events' but does a Thursday night disco catering mainly for the hen party/ newly divorced and back out on the pull brigade (that doesn't include you or me ccl - just the Jeremy Kyle wannabes that infest parts of my home town). I know in the past that DS1 has been approached by the mother of one of DS3's friends and one of the grand-daughters of mum's partner (after my brother's funeral) amongst many others.

 I haven't been home for 6 or 7 weeks, I don't know what's happening except for some evidence that DS3 is putting the bins out (he asked for technical guidance). In some ways I'm 'settled' here and then I have days where it feels more like a dream and that 'my real life' is going on somewhere else. Just need to make some adjustments, this is where I am and this is my life for 'the time being', make as many stealth preparations as possible, doing as much as I can without worrying mum - when things actually happen I can demonstrate what I've done and why I did it. Must finish now or I won't get anything at all done today (will have a shower, moisturise and put on perfume to buck me up).

Rowan9

Delurking to say I’m full of admiration for you Mothernerd.