Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

Ha, yes, different times indeed! We're in a built up area in the city, in a space never designed for the use it now has. It never even occurred to me to drive in when I lived in the city. Obviously now things are different - and in a year or so they'll be different again as we're moving to another site which will be even worse! Might be feasible to get the train part of the way at that point though.

Anyway, found a tiny free spot and managed to get the car in it, so all good 😁 Off to see what my new office is like!

Cheery_Daff

Well, what an exciting day! New office turned out to be far more satisfactory than the old one 😁 Offices much smaller (we were in a massive open plan floor before, now an average of 4 or 5 per room). Building much older and more full of character. I think it helped that the sun was streaming in all day too 😁

So I'm all unpacked - still some drawers to sort out but they're things that weren't sorted out before anyway 😂 Much quieter in the new place, and even with all the unpacking, I actually got quite a bit of work done! 

Shame we're only staying for a year or so 🙄😂

Mr Cheery has moved my desk and the sofa bed back into the study, and shifted a load of his books off the mantlepiece bookshelf (which hasn't even been mentioned in here yet as it was nowhere near the carpet 😂). I think the books I left out, and my work ones, will now fit on there, so that's good. 

He's also turned the giant rug round to cover the bit of the room that gets most walked on - I'll have to see how that feels. Room feels very odd with the big bookcase gone and sofa against a different wall. 

But it's been a day of change and upheaval, and all my work spaces feel weird today, so I'm going to let it settle and see how it feels in a couple of days. 

I do want all my stuff out of the dining room before the weekend though!

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums 😊

First day of working in my new cosy study today! Not particularly cosy right now, as we took the doors off so I'm directly open to kitchen, offshot, back door, and all of the other less cosy areas of the house. Needs two of us to hang those again, hopefully this morning.

Most of my possessions are still in the dining room so it's feeling quite sparse in here 😂 Going to try and bring things in each time I make a cuppa etc. Want to get the final painting done today too. 

The one thing I didn't foresee - it is nigh on impossible to wheel my desk chair 😂😂 The underlay, carpet, and rug together makes such a giant princess-and-the-pea pile that it just sinks cosily into the floor 😂😂 Not that I spend much time wheeling around, but I have tried to adjust a couple of times and had a short shock 😂

Ramouth

Cheery_Daff said:

Morning chums 😊

The one thing I didn't foresee - it is nigh on impossible to wheel my desk chair 😂😂 The underlay, carpet, and rug together makes such a giant princess-and-the-pea pile that it just sinks cosily into the floor 😂😂 Not that I spend much time wheeling around, but I have tried to adjust a couple of times and had a short shock 😂

I had the same issue and found that a square of rubber flooring on top of the carpet allows me to roll again.

EssexHebridean

Oh my word - just look at what you did with that carpet - and after all your time being convinced it wasn't going to look OK as well! I hope you're suitably impressed with yourself!  LOL at the wheelie chair situation though - MrEH has a similar issue! 

Cheery_Daff

Ha, good suggestion with the wheelie chair! 

And EH, I am indeed impressed with myself 😂 Even reached the dizzy heights of 17 degrees in there today (after I'd had the heating on for an hour 😂 But I turned the heating off after an hour and it stayed comfortable enough for the whole afternoon which is a small miracle!)

Also a small miracle is a decent day on the Happy Wheel - made £62 today! This is only the third day of positive figures in October (the other two being less than £5 put together), and after September's dismal MINUS £85 I was starting to get despondent 🙄

Still not in positive figures for October even after today, but I'm only down £9 rather than the £71 I was down before tonight 😂😂

Have done the reverification process with a couple of bookies today (sending driving licence etc) so hopefully that'll reopen access to a couple of things I've not done for a while. Still well up overall, and this year, and even Still well up in the last 10 weeks so no cause for alarm!

Nowt else financial to report. We went to @ld! for a big shop this evening and stocked up a load of storecupboard tins etc too - £82 spent in total but it was all decent food, no frivolities or middle aisle random purchasing 😂 And we do now have things like chick peas, cheese, peanut butter, and coffee - all of which we'd run out of 😱

Back in the office tomorrow. Breakfast and lunch made and packed, and I will be heading for my free parking spot again. Will also be taking my hot water bottle in as they don't seem to have turned on the heating in our new building yet, and as it's a rather draughty old place, it was colder than working at home on Monday! 🥶🥶

Elisheba

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@KajiKita, talk about fate - I've just been reading your diary on here! Very inspirational and I admire your strength and perseverance. Considering starting my own thread...

Thank you! I am moving to Dumfries and Galloway, so Southern Scotland, though I'm from Glasgow originally xx

Oh, Frugalista, Thats where I will likely be moving when I finally have my deposit, and I'm from Glasgow originally as well  .  I've been in England now for almost 20 years though.

Elisheba

Ha ha, I've finally caught up with your diary after my spendy sojourn away from the boards  .
You have done amazing work laying that carpet! It looks great, and I'm really glad it seems to be keeping the office warmer. Glad your new work office seems a bit nicer as well. 
Regarding the coil, I had awful problems with the Mirena IUD a few years ago. Started get shooting abdominal pains that had me bent over double trying not to scream very soon after it was fitted. A long story short, it was decided it couldn't be the coil, so for a year I had various scans and was treated for various things, and was finally told I would just have to live with pain. I demanded they take the coil out just in case, and low and behold I was fine after that! 

Cheery_Daff

Hello Elisheba 😊 and thank you! Delighted to report that the heating had been turned on in our new offices today - in fact it was rather too warm! 😂

Sorry to hear about your coil fiasco 🙄 I had a similar experience with my fourth one (I think) - still doubled over in agony after 3 weeks, them insisting it was fine and would just settle 🙄 I'd had several before and knew it wasn't meant to feel like that, and as soon as it was removed, instant relief 🙄 Tried a couple of years without one, but given the alternatives decided I was best trying again, and since then they've been fine. Fingers crossed! 

Busy day in work today. 5.5 hours of meets, but at least they were all in a room with actual people (although some were online too). Made some progress on solving a VERY frustrating issue that has been rumbling on for MONTHS - hope to be closer to an actual resolution tomorrow 🙄 I'll spare you the details, but I suspect it relates to someone recording something inaccurately in some financial software, and then dismissing it in a later reconciliation. If only they'd been on MSE!! 

(I don't want to speak too soon - it's still possible that it relates to me writing down a number wrong... 🙄 But I'm rather hoping it's the former!!) 🙄😂😂

beanielou

Cheery~~Is it vitamin D9 or B9?
Lost my wee bit of paper. Thanks