NST Jolly Joyful July

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for finding the clothes dd wanted in the ch shops, for also finding a pair of work trousers and a work top for me, for time this afternoon to stroll and stop and sit on a quiet bench and do some thinking, for finishing knitting 3 bunches of flowers, for water.

Thrifty_Taylor

Happy anniversary @greent. NSD#1

Had a lie in this morning, think the past couple of days caught up with me. Went for a 4.8 mile walk with hubby after breakfast, then spent a couple of hours weeding in the garden. Sorted through a box in the garage, cleaned the items I can sell/donate, dumped the ones that'd been nibbled. Did some knitting after tea.

Grateful for lots of laughs on our walk, getting some paperwork filled in & ready for posting, making a start on decluttering

mothernerd

Sunday 4th July 2021

Good morning
True fact: You don't have to be super nice always. Sometimes you have to show your bad side also, so that you can sort out who can accept you even at your worst time and mood.
Have a sweet Sunday 

She was an adventurer at heart; but oh how she loved drinking this tea from this mug in this chair; oh how she loved to be home.

Happy Sunday
Sunday from the old English Sunnandag, Latin dies solis. Day of the Sun

Ways to start feeling again
*   Sit in the sun without anything to do. Feel the sun's rays hitting your skin, realise that this sunlight has travelled a very long way to reach you.
*   Walk around barefoot and try to feel as much of the ground under your feet as you can, notice every rock and blade of grass.
*   Sit quietly for a while and notice your breath as you inhale and exhale
*   Drive around aimlessly and blast some of your favourite songs. Scream/ sing along to them and feel the vibrations of your favourite lyrics as they change the air in your throat and around you, feel that the music is healing you from the inside out
*   Stay away from alcohol and drugs for a few days, try to be as aware and present as you can in every moment, stop trying to numb or dull your senses
*   Eat a few meals without any distractions, notice every bite and flavour that covers your tongue, be grateful for it all.
*   Look up at the stars and moon, realise how small we are and how immense the universe is. Realise what a miracle everything is, let your heart swell with amazement and admiration for life itself.
(urbanthropologie) 

Recharge yourself as much as you do your phone

greent

mothernerd said:

Recharge yourself as much as you do your phone

Ain't that the truth!!!

Came over all funny and generally 'bleurgh' yesterday afternoon - slowed right down and had an hour's nap on a sofa. Slept for over 8 hours last night and only woke up because youngest woke me - and I was fast asleep so very groggy for a while - unusually for me at 8am on a Sunday - I'm usually up or at the very least awake and reading in bed. Beginning to feel more 'normal' now, just wiped out. I now have an enforced week away from work and volunteering and shopping tasks due to self isolation, so this week I am going to catch up on (much needed) chores, finish a job application (priority #1 as it needs to be submitted by tomorrow midday), get some life admin tasks done (eg book opticians appointments for several of us) and read a book I would have added get some gardening sorted, but the predicted weather is not good for digging over clay soil. I do need to pick cherries and strawberries from the garden, but will enlist DS1's help as he literally has nothing to do over the Summer!!

Thankful for negative lat flow tests, cups of tea, the rain making everything in the garden look lush (and swelling the cherries . )

Kerry_Woman

NSD 2 today.
Grateful for:
Free event in park near me run by the local council.
Stayed dry for the event.
Good night sleep.
Having ingredients in to bake a cake.

DrCarrie

evening turtles. 

Had a lovely time with my darling daughter over the weekend. Been very emotional and feeling sad about lots of things, the week off allowed for space for it to come in and be felt. Seven weeks until I have another week off. Feel like I need it already though. I miss D ex-GF lots and lots and have a very stressful thing going on, and an assignment. It's A LOT, but I am not spending, as I would have, but it's so hard. very tearful all weekend. 

I am trying to make space and feel less cluttered in my mind.  

Gratitudes
- DD bought me a lovely lovely mug 
- Nearly cleared all my unread emails there was nearly 3,000
- made it back to sainsbugs on the way home form the midlands, so should have a few NSD's. 

apple_muncher

That's quite an achievement, getting rid of all those emails, DrCarrie!

Today I am grateful for doing a tough gym session, for dd cleaning the wall where dh had spilled his coffee, for homegrown rasps and strawbs, for doing some prep for tomorrow, for time to think.

mothernerd

I was awake in the middle of the night so started sorting through a bag of bits of paper and nearly half of it has gone to recycling after any useful information was transferred (mostly addresses, passwords, leftover bits of to do lists etc). A lot of the remainder just needs filing appropriately.

Went for a walk, just up onto the canal bank and as far as the support for the road bridge (there's a low wall to sit on and as it's under the bridge it stays dry. Could hear voices - 3 separate ones, thought it was from the other side of the wall but also seemed to be above me. Three teenage boys poked their heads out - they had climbed up the wall I was sitting in front of and squeezed into the gaps at the top between the steel support girders. They were polite and friendly and I listened to some rap music until I was okay to walk back.

When I got back I sat in the yard for a while with the shed and courgettes on one side of me and roses and and a set of shelves on the other. So when I've worked my way along the side fence and set up the cabbage bags and raised beds in front, I'm going to move across to the other side (outside fence) and use the old polytunnel frame with netting over it, to make some little nooks where I can sit in solitude, surrounded by plants.

It started to rain again so came inside and chopped lots of veg. I have sticks for dips. Mum didn't want a Sunday lunch so I had cauliflower cheese with pasta. Cooked extra pasta and cooked two peppers, lots of celery and carrots, a leek and two slightly sad red onions in a tomatoey sauce and layered up a couple of pasta bakes after lunch. Lots of cheese for mum, only a bit for me.

Put washing outside for mum (mattress cover is doing a good job of getting itself clean by being out in the rain), multiple trips to recycling, scraped a little more soil and then made myself chicken and broccoli in oyster sauce with some leftover rice. Enough left for another meal so okay for tomorrow (plans for a veg curry and a chilli baht carne but will see how long what I have lasts. Not managed to make the bed up properly yet but did push the mattress back into place.

Grateful for hot flannels, one of the quotes from this morning (definitely disconnected from my life/ reality - this situation has been ongoing for so long that I don't know what shape my 'real life' has) - walk is a step in the right direction, lots of wildflowers along the canal bank this morning, pleasant company and smiles and greetings in passing from other walkers and cyclists. No money spent. Counted all my pennies so I don't feel poor - £10.40 in 20p pieces.

DawnW

Still on NSD 1. Did a shop today, so well stocked up for the week hopefully!

Also did some garden tasks before it started raining.

Grateful for a good night's sleep, picking enough broad beans for a meal, and OH mostly cooking dinner 

GeorgianaCavendish

Managed two NSDs this weekend - I know its really early days but I’m finding that even thinking “I won’t buy that today because it’s a NSD” is helping to calm down my spending. 

Had a really nice weekend with a gym workout on Friday evening and longish walk yesterday (walking off some of the stiffness!); did a freezer audit and meal-planned for next week and tracked down a few bits and bobs that have been stuck in storage boxes. The pre-MSE me would have bought replacements for some of those things because fixing them or tracking down all the bits would have been too much effort. I look back and cringe at how wasteful that behaviour was! 

I’m grateful for strawberries! Huge amounts from the garden plus neighbours garden’s so having them twice a day at the moment.