Simple living in the country - back to basics

LadyWithAPlan

I have been to the same fabulous hairdresser For many years and he gives me quite a decent discount so feel v lucky and glad you had a fun experience 

That tooth sounds like it needs the work asap  - I assume daily swilling with salt water and flossing where possible is happening ? You can also swill with soluble aspirin etc 

That brain doctor said that gum infections affect your brain health, functioning and positivity levels - so he is an extreme flosser 

Cheery_Daff

Not doing daily swilling - I was told it would take a long time to settle down and to just treat as normal, but given that it's now been over six months, it needs seeing to properly again 🙄

Managed to rearrange the initial consultation for Monday (rather than the end of Jan) so that's good 

Cheery_Daff

So, Mr Cheery has gone on his own, and I am ploughing through my list 

MORNING: PLOTTING AND SCHEMING

✅ try to rearrange endodontist
✅ compost out
✅ check LPG tank gauge and update online
✅ cafe breakfast
✅ meal plan
✅ check where I'm up to with Christmas presents
* text friend - she offered us dinner but has double booked and we can't do new date

AFTERNOON: BUYING AND DOING

* buy as many remaining presents as possible
✅ food shopping
* wash spare room bedding
* flylady tidy round podcast
* hang bedding up

EVENING: POTTERING AND HANGING OUT
* batch cooking for weekend
* possibly get Christmas stuff out of loft (but I might wait til Mr Cheery is here rather than just dropping it out of the loft hatch 😂)
* check banks
* write out steps for next switch (but not doing anything til it's daylight)
* flute practice

Have picked up a few presents in the shop near the cafe, and have come into town to tackle the rest of the list. Wish me luck!!

rtandon27

Wow Cheery, half your list complete! You'll need an energy drink more than luck! I'm just tired reading that list!

beanielou

Passes new iron bru energy drink for you to try! 

Cheery_Daff

Ha, thank you! 

Gosh, that was a long day 😮 Cafe breakfast, several hours traipsing round town, back to the cafe for a bit of Christmas cake 🤭 then to another town for a different festive experience 😁 Not long got home, had some food and a sit down, and now need to stir myself to at least put the food shopping away even if I don't do anything else 🙄


MORNING: PLOTTING AND SCHEMING

✅ try to rearrange endodontist
✅ compost out
✅ check LPG tank gauge and update online
✅ cafe breakfast
✅ meal plan
✅ check where I'm up to with Christmas presents
✅ text friend - she offered us dinner but has double booked and we can't do new date

AFTERNOON: BUYING AND DOING

✅ buy as many remaining presents as possible
✅ food shopping
✅ wash spare room bedding
* flylady tidy round podcast
* hang bedding up

EVENING: POTTERING AND HANGING OUT
* batch cooking for weekend
* possibly get Christmas stuff out of loft (but I might wait til Mr Cheery is here rather than just dropping it out of the loft hatch 😂)
* check banks
* write out steps for next switch (but not doing anything til it's daylight)
* flute practice

Had a VERY brief conversation with Mr Cheery earlier - he was with his dad at the walk in centre waiting for an ambulance, sounds like he's going to be taken in for a bit 🙄 Mr Cheery has left the dog with food (and the dog flap is open so he can get into the garden), and his sister will nip up in the morning, but we may need another trip over there to collect the dog over the next day or two, depending what happens. I think Mr Cheery might head back tomorrow, but I can't go til Sunday, and his sister can't have the dog, so he may have to go on his own. 

I've done as much food and present shopping as I can, including for Mr Cheery's family (which I don't usually do) so we can get things out of the way. 

Right, best stir myself before I run out of energy altogether 🙄

VintageHistorian

Sorry Mr Cheery Senior is needing to go back into hospital again. But well done on getting so much of the list ticked off.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks VH. I'll find out more once Mr Cheery is home. 

Calling it a day on the list:

MORNING: PLOTTING AND SCHEMING

✅ try to rearrange endodontist
✅ compost out
✅ check LPG tank gauge and update online
✅ cafe breakfast
✅ meal plan
✅ check where I'm up to with Christmas presents
✅ text friend - she offered us dinner but has double booked and we can't do new date

AFTERNOON: BUYING AND DOING

✅ buy as many remaining presents as possible
✅ food shopping
✅ wash spare room bedding
✅ flylady tidy round podcast
✅ hang bedding up

EVENING: POTTERING AND HANGING OUT
* batch cooking for weekend
* possibly get Christmas stuff out of loft (but I might wait til Mr Cheery is here rather than just dropping it out of the loft hatch 😂)
✅ check banks
* write out steps for next switch (but not doing anything til it's daylight)
✅ flute practice

Cheery_Daff

OK, list for tomorrow. Things with two stars HAVE to be done tomorrow!

PHASE 1 - GENTLE PREP

* workout
* get lentil stew into the hay box
* couple of things into the oven (granola and some kind of meal)
** shower and wash hair (and maybe even straighten it!! But we'll see about that)
** find everything for Christmas concert (clothes, music, water bottle etc)

PHASE 2 - RAMPING UP

** put spare bed back together
** quick tidy round spare room
** wrap presents that need posting
* write cards

PHASE 3 - OUT AND ABOUT

** post parcels (and cards if done - just a few for elderly relatives/family friends)
** head to (different!) town
* bit more Christmas shopping
** meet friend for pizza at 3.30 before concert

Will I get to the end of the Christmas shopping?? Possibly not tomorrow... 🙄😂 Doesn't help that I'm doing everything in mostly small market towns - fine for many things, but not always much variety, which is why I end up going to several 😂

Right, best go back to sleep...

joedenise

Try and get your cards written and posted as well @Cheery_Daff.  Last posting day for 2nd class in on Monday so may as well post them at the same time as your parcels.

I felt quite tired just looking at what you'd got done yesterday!  I don't know how you manage it all.