Simplifying Life

mary43

Son, girlfriend and baby grandson now winging their way home.............lovely to see them but now feeling ever so slightly tired.......................lol
He's such a happy chappy, sleeps all through the night no trouble, eats anything (including things he shouldn't..........lol) crawls around at great speed but very good at not touching something once being told 'no'.
Strange fascination for my empty washbasket (methinks -christmas present............????...........lol)
Son has now taken back with him his Royal Wedding scrapbook from all those years ago and a little teddy bear I'd still got from his baby days. He's also thinned out the pile of LP's OH was given the other week (relief !!)
Now its a trip to the bank to collect some money and get ready for the 'off to Liverpool' on Sunday - if we can get some petrol !

Ellidee

Mary so glad you had a good time with your son & family. Fingers crossed that you manage to get some petrol for your trip oop north.

zarazara

I love this thread

mary43

Gradually beginning to feel 'normal' (whatever that is)...........message from son to say they got home safely and grandson slept all the way.
So, took myself into town, got some cash from the bank ready for next week
popped into charity shops........got much needed tea towels (where do ours disappear to???) and a pair of curtains for our lads bedroom.........(he painted his bedroom and painted the curtains as well !!)
Quick coffee at the pub beer garden with OH and met up with some friends there and managed to get home just before it started to rain !

Don;;t know what it is, but nowadays having visitors wears me out !!!! Think I'm too used to my own company and routine and as the years press on get a bit set in my ways. (memo to self - be more flexible !!)

mary43

Feeling more relaxed now and in the process of getting ready for the 'off' tomorow.........list of 'stuff to do'.............

clean car..................done (has to be otherwise MIL makes comment!)
washing....................done (hoping rain holds off, couple of things I need)
pack........................not yet.......making mental note of what to take
wrap MIL's pressie......not yet.......OH is helping me this afternoon.....I've
done her a basket of charity shop 'finds' and need help
with the cellophane and bow !
cat food done.........need to remind neighbour to feed them !
oh and must remember to give her spare key !

Think that's it..........not much really but seems a lot when you're sitting thinking about it..........lol
Checked weather forecast .........think we'll have to pack a bit of everything from t-shirts to jumpers and mustn't forget brolly and kagool !

So........head is clearer now that last night when I was going through all the things above in my head.............why is it that the 'thinking' is always more tiring that the actual 'doing' ?

Oh well, its done now..............oh, apart from slinging a bit of nail polish on in the hope I'll camouflage my disgusting nails..........second thought.....bit of nail polish might draw attention to them ! So, maybe not.

ceridwen

Have a good one Mary.

Yet more work on my dump of a house this weekend....beginning to see daylight.

The simplifying for the day was that - whilst phoning my broadband supplier (Virgin) yet again (ie for the umpteenth time) about the latest mistake made by them (ie dont get me started on about them...you'd be here till midnight!) - I swopped from inclusive weekend and evening phonecalls to free 24/7 phonecalls. Its worth a £1 or £2 per month to know exactly to the penny what my bill will be - rather than this repeated phoning them about their latest mistake.

mary43

ceridwen - good for you, getting that sorted out. I'm with BT on a 'free calls anytime' -or whatever its called - but that doesn't include mobiles and unfortunately a lot of people I know only have mobiles so the cost still mounts up. Doesn't inclued 0845 numbers either and when I found our lad here had made some Premium Rate chat lines........well I nearly flipped ! So now I've a code I can punch in so if I'm out or once we've gone to bed only 999 can be dialled out.

Just been checking out petrol situation.........looks like there just could be another strike next week according to bbc ......only a 'could' but might affect when we come back from Liverpool. Honestly, it weren't for the fact its MIL's birthday I'd be included to put it off till all this settles down a bit. Don;t want to get there and then find we've problems getting back !
I'll see what OH says later on about it...........we were lucky to get some here this morning !

ceridwen

Well Mary...your lad on chatlines...er....<cough> expanding his "education" was he?;) :rotfl:

Re the strike by tanker drivers...I'm a pretty strong trade unionist....but I read the level of salary they are on. I wont be helping out on any picket lines over the next week or so.

I felt it was best for me to have 24/7 inclusive phonecalls myself - as I never use my landline phone for contacting mobiles and I dont ring any premium rate numbers - so there will be no extra charge to me. I just have to remind myself that my phonecalls mustnt be longer than 59 minutes to qualify. At least too this way - when I can tell my mother has phoned me early morning (as she sometimes does) I wont be thinking of the cost whilst I phone her back pronto...just in case.

mary43

Well, if he was 'expanding his education' he had a rather garbled way of telling me...............said he'd dialled a wrong number.................lol......I said 'what ? Twice ? And for that long ???'..................lol He'll not be doing that again. I'll put my code in anyway so he can't sneak down in the night (as he did on these occassions) and now he's been caught out he'll think twice before he so much as picks the phone up...........I showed him the bill "!!!:eek:
And now he's working he's offered to pay for them.............:T

Still checking out petrol situation.................been looking at local Liverpool papers which tell me nothing that isn't on the main news really. I was hoping to find out which garages in MIL's area were ok for fuel and which not so I'm no nearer. Have to see what OH says.
Now keeping one eye on the weather in the hope that washing dries and expecting ex foster lad to come up.............he said he'd water the garden for us (specially OH's ''veg in pots'') and I need to give him a key.
Can't get hold of next door neighbour either -her daughter likes to come and feed the cats if we're away and I did say we were going but she needs a reminder.
Can't start packing OH's stuff (he's useless at it) till I know what he wants to take and I bet its something that wants ironing.................lol a lot easier to stay at home.................lol

Jellicat

This thread has actually made me cry. The hugs on Youtube thing started it off.

I make no qualms about saying that I am absolutely miserable, depressed all the time, and I spend hideous amounts of time on the internet to avoid having to deal with real people. Even my true friends come and go because the only time they see me is in the bar at the weekend, because I am such a Joe Recluse when sober, and terribly consumerist. I've known that I'm not the world's most sociable person and that I have a depressive nature always, but I never stop and wonder where the depression comes from. Reading this thread I think I've found out...its partly to do with the crap I accumulate and the latest thing I can buy to make my life better. In the mean time I miss out on a lot of time spent with friends or on the hobbies I could have.

This thread has been a real eye opener, and I plan to start simplifying things as of now. Thanks to everybody posting in this thread, it has been very enlightening.