Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

KajiKita

Had a chat with GP this morning about adding two further checks to my next blood test - which he has agreed to Even if they come back normal at least that will eliminate the wondering about whether those are reasons why I am so flipping tired all the time and crash in the afternoons.

I also asked if I could have a physio referral for my hip - I am in pain most days / nights with it and generally only getting 2 or 3 undisturbed nights of sleep a week (overheating and anxiety also don't help ...).
He's not averse to the possibility of physio but wants to 'have a poke at me' to see whether there would be any merit in doing some tests first and giving the physio an idea of what he thinks the issue might be. It means I won't get to be examined until W/C 22nd December (we will discuss my blood test results at the same time) but after so many years of living with this, a few more weeks won't make much difference ... 🤷‍♀️ Maybe 2026 will be the year I sleep well! (That would be very nice!!)

KK

KajiKita

Posted the card I bought and left out for the shop floor and walked round various admin teams for the lady who’s just had horrendous surgery and the prognosis is not sounding good for …

Harvested some rosemary for dinner potatoes in the almost dark. 

Bagged up some compost for my quality engineer to pot up the rooted cutting I gave him weeks ago and has been flowered for him now! 😂

KK

KajiKita

Cashed out £4.12 from a survey site last night and sent off as OP (no TT of account possible). Still struggling to get my head back into these ...

Bad night. Chloe came in early, very clingy, with a scratch on her nose (I guess territories are being adjusted still?) and then went out later and didn't come back until after we went to bed (Mr KK found her on the sofa when he was wandering around at 2am looking for painkillers - we are a right pair atm) so I was worried about her. I awoke with anxiety driven overheating and BOTH hips were hurting. I couldn't lie on my back as that made me too hot and lying on either side hurt .... Bah! Can I have permission to be a little grumpy today?

KK

Watty1

Permission granted and Ferral Kitten on her way to explain about human beds to Chloe - she needs to be reminded to snuggle humans that are suffering!

KajiKita

Watty1 said:

Permission granted and Ferral Kitten on her way to explain about human beds to Chloe - she needs to be reminded to snuggle humans that are suffering!

Awww ... 💖 Thank you to both you and Feral Kitten.
I'm not sure Chloe really appreciates how lucky she is with her Hoomans, in the way our last cat did ...

KK

beanielou

Permission granted 🤗

Brewerspride

Hope you are feeling a little less grumpy this evening and that you and Mr KK have both controlled your collective aches & pains. Also hope that Chloe's scratched nose is OK. 

KajiKita

Thanks @beanielou 😊

Brewerspride said:

Hope you are feeling a little less grumpy this evening and that you and Mr KK have both controlled your collective aches & pains. Also hope that Chloe's scratched nose is OK. 

Bizarrely, after posting the above I went in to have the best day I’ve had in a long time …
- significant step forward in a project that is dry, dull and business critical (driven from CEO level). For the first time I actually believe we might hit deadline…
- Boss’s boss was onsite today and I mentioned the above to him. “Oh” he says “sounds like you are significantly ahead of all the other sites” 👏🤩 which was great feedback to get, as all we get from the Group QSHE manager is that we’re not working hard enough and have to do more! 🙄😂
- knocked over two jobs related to first aid and booked a review meeting in January 
- booked a meeting with my boss to review our BCP in January (it’s verrrrrry thin!) and boss accepted
- got sign off on booking banksmen training and buying warehouse steps for safely accessing filters above an oven
- got boss to agree that we can look at an alternative sub-con for a long standing quality issue
- another long standing quality issue has dropped back from a 50% fall out rate to 100% pass rate as of today - 3 changes made this happen, one from me, one from my quality engineer and one from the shopfloor - love team work! 🤩❤️
- my quality engineer drafted a respectable first attempt at an NCR summary 👏😊 and absorbed all my feedback
- took a slightly hysterical call from the electrical contractor I use (he’s in that horrid limbic phase between a death and the funeral for a family member, works on a short staffed local fire service and is flat out running the electrical business where they are moving their offices atm, so is somewhat overwhelmed) and then had to act as ‘translator’ between him and the filter company that he is aiming to install the power supplies for - I have always avoided anything electrical as long as I possibly could in my life, so asking me to help with this was not a great call … 😂 but I tried to apply logic, structure the questions to get the information needed and then fed it back to the electrical contractor - by the end of this second phone call, he was coming down from the ceiling and we have a plan on how to go forward … 😊

Since coming home I have:
- brought the firewood in
- split kindling
- fed the birds
- fed the cat
- wrapped, packed and labelled my parents’ Christmas ready for posting 😊

I’m tired now, but I’m happy again 😊

KK

beanielou

Happy is good. 

Watty1

happy again is good.