NST December A - Z

f0xh0les

mothernerd said:

Thank you all. I keep thinking I should feel guilty or ashamed and I really don't. It's just another intolerable situation that I've been coping with for too long.

You have been surviving, a cleaner will let you start thriving - the clue is in your own signature mothernerd.  Listen to yourself and get out of your own way  - Meant with love.    You have made your decision, there is no guilt or shame.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

mothernerd - ^^ what f0xh0les said 

I've actually had a NSD, first one this month!!  Logged onto day job at 8am and worked till 4.30 with a short break for lunch.  Then started on PT jobs.  Managed to fit in a couple of surveys too.  Also wrapped 2 presents!  Have taken delivery of one parcel out of 4 on order.  Did half my exercise class on Fb.  Walked to the letterbox to post my first 2 sprouts day cards, decided to walk round the block but half way round it started an icy rain shower blowing in my face Going for a bath now to unfreeze my legs.  

Gratitudes - hot baths and hot water bottles; nice text chat with friend; tackling a frog and phoning boss about PT job #2, he was helpful and supportive

Love Deni x

ditty1234

Hmm a very spendy day here and partly to no use. I bought a used exercise bike, old but looked all fine, now it turns out the cover for the computer/controller is missing and the d batteries I was told to get does not fit. I cant imagine any size batteries fitting in the space and hard to guell without the cover. I am basically fuming. The bike was £30 and the batteries were £10! Silly me to not check, I had some d batteries at home already ! That I have never used! 
I also had to get a drill bit, a very short screw driver that is still too long I have to get a sidewards ratchet (i'm sure it has a better name), a weird screw driver bit for the key safe so lots of bits, but I now have everything lined up and I can start drilling for key safe tomorrow morning and book alarm people to come out with the last bits of kit for ds1.
I feel I am letting all of this stuff take way too long, but it is hard, I have to do the mum bits and the dad bits for ds1. The listening and the drilling! (I'm not really thinking about gender here - just the fact that I am only one person, working full time and I could do with some more people. 
But seriously - how do I get the exercise bike working, I can't control the resistance without the computer. Very annoying. What a waste of Money. And time as might now have to take to skip.
Grateful for - well relaxing and having a naughty mid week brew on couch with the dog snoring away alongside. 
EDIT:
Grateful for the idea that the batteries I might need for the exercise bike are c batteries! I will give it another go :-)

Thrifty_Taylor

Totally agree with @foxholes.
Glad the leak is going to be sorted out too, the water board should take some responsibility!
I could hear water dripping last night, thought it was coming off the letterbox flap, but hubby pointed out it was coming through the ceiling!! The wind & rain were pelting the front of the house last night, so need to investigate further.
Slept really well last night, so felt refreshed this morning. Work went ok until the last half an hour,thankfully a teacher came to help me. Had a meeting afterwards, so was able to discuss things with other members of staff.
After tea my brother phoned, then we put up the sprout day tree, I washed the dishes & painted my nails, ready for my birthday tomorrow ☺️
Grateful for the tree lights twinkling, nice nails, phone chat with my brother

mothernerd

Happy Birthday thrifty

mothernerd

Hopefully will post later. Wrote a long-ish post (not an epic) on People who work at Christmas volunteers and got an error message when i tried to post it (7 times).
Finished with a message from the CBT course leaders which I will pass on to you
Do something nice for yourself today. be kind to yourself all week

f0xh0les

mothernerd said

Do something nice for yourself today. be kind to yourself all week

I am greedy, so I am going to do both.

Put the tree up yesterday, could not make myself put lights on it - odd huh?

Just swallowed a frog via email.  Volunteering today.  Only six and a half school days left to go for the rest of the whole year!

Happy Thursday Turtles!!

ditty1234

mothernerd said:

Hopefully will post later. Wrote a long-ish post (not an epic) on People who work at Christmas volunteers and got an error message when i tried to post it (7 times).
Finished with a message from the CBT course leaders which I will pass on to you
Do something nice for yourself today. be kind to yourself all week

I might gift myself another post diy pint tonight. Or a run! I am trying to switch back to healthy rewards, but this week and next is the last weeks I have the house to myself for a while - so am literally going through all of my bad habits to get it out of the way before I start sharing again. And actually the fun ends on Tuesday when I go and get ds2 it will be 4 hour round trip in an evening, it better not snow. 
But I shall be kind to myself and others all week. 

Calling14

Thanks for all your kind remarks re my water leak stress, which gone on since May your the best.

Mothernerd enjoy having house cleaned you deserve much more than that.

Happy Birthday Thrifty hope today is fab and you sort out the rain issue. Hopefully it's nothing too serious.

Ditty hope you get bike sorted. Just thinking I had to buy C batteries for my outside fairy lights quite chunky ones.

Well not a lot to report but mega busy in work so went for a walk and decided my homemade soup I would keep for tomorrow and treated my self to a Christmas, turkey, stuffing and cranberry bap which came with roast pots, pigs in blankets and gravy. I kept half the roll for lunch tomorrow naughty but such a nice treat. Refuse to take the naughty step as it was so scrummy.

Not got any xmas pressies or wrote any cards yet. Will try and get outside lights up tonight as the weather is dry so far.

Grateful for

Friend dropping off spare xmas decs for gd to have a little tree in her bedroom.

Scrummest lunch ever

Getting through mountain of work today.

Esmeralda2662

Sorry i've been AWOL. I've not been well and didn't have the energy to post for a few days. Feeling better now so all good.

Sorry to hear about your dripping problem, @Thrifty_Taylor. We recently had the same problem and it turned out it was birds pulling moss off the roof and it filling the gutters. When we had the storm it overflowed and came in through the lintel above the living room window. That in itself is another story/problem! Anyway, got the gutter cleaned out and hopefully solved it for now.

Helped mum put up the Christmas tree last night. It's one of those with many branches that slot together. We got it off FB marketplace last year and luckily the chap had lettered all the matching parts so it only took an hour. Looks quite realistic.

Been out to local Christmas market with OH and had lovely Greek souvlaki as a treat. Got stamps for Christmas cards and chocolate coins for a stocking filler.

Wrapped and posted present to my friend in Germany. £15.25! Nearly cheaper to fly there! Hope it arrives safely as it contains 2 Cornishware cups and saucers for her collection.

Hope to get covid booster done tomorrow or Saturday. Not keen on needles but got to be done.

No NSD days yet.

Gratitudes: Tree is up, I'm feeling better, nice visit and lunch at market.