NST Sweet May 2023 - Pick 'N' Mix Challenge

beanielou

@Toni'sfriend.
You must have got a fright.
Not surprised everything came to the surface.
Take care  xx

Thrifty_Taylor

Glad you've had a better day @grandmanerd. Hope your back is improving @beanielou. Keeping everything crossed for your medical stuff this week @f0xh0les. Hope you have a better night @Toni'sfriend, give Mr Toni a turtle hug from us all.

NSD today, but need to check the number, maybe 10?!
Did yoga first thing. Had a good day at work, some wall display stuff & a visit to a secondary school. Was shattered when I got home, so had a nap fir an hour. Had a late tea, my cousin phoned to say he's getting a pioneering stem cell treatment soon, his T cells are being sent to Rotterdam to be reprogrammed, before being put back into his body.
Hand stitched some holes in a jumper for a customer, then did more hooking of my rug. Tired again now!

Grateful that I started the day eating healthily, it all went downhill after tea! Chat with my cousin, blue skies, DS's GF having a better day

Starlight_at_Sea

Evening all! Thats a great description, liquid stress leaving the body. I hope you get some sleep tonight @Toni'sfriend. 

Two finance frogs munched today - the next stage of the current account switch process confirmed, and cracked my way into the higher rate saver from YBS that I opened under similar circs. Will use this to hopefully hold the last amount required for the flat solicitors costs etc prior to the move, and then for rebuilding an emergency fund once purchase goes through (I am expecting that to be slow progress, but intend to begin asap). £550 transferred today, and will put all rent/additional earnings to this pot too. I'm glad in some ways that the conveyancing is dragging on a bit - May was too soon to have the funds in place, mid to late June is much more doable. 

No work frogs tackled today, but I did walk back into a pond full of tadpoles, so I will have some interesting days ahead trying to prevent those from growing legs... Mixed metaphors there but I think you know what I mean. 

Made it to the gym, but forgot my trainers 🙁 did the class in socks, was not easy, comfortable or that conducive to pushing myself but I did it, moved my body into weird shapes (as one poster on her put it!) and did more than if I had stayed home 😇Am counting that as a win! 

Today was a NSD. Forgot my wallet when I went to the gym, so couldn't do petrol fill up afterwards. Never mind, I got to give a gym buddy a lift home instead, so someone benefited! 

Shrewbie

Morning turtles,

hope you and your OH are feeling better @Toni'sfriend good luck with the medical stuff @f0xh0les

Yesterday was not an NSD. Bf and I had leftover takeaway pizza for brekkie (naughty) and then walked to San Isidro park where they have a fair and various celebrations. Liked seeing all the people dressed up…  dogs with carnations in their fur made me laugh… almost bought food but stopped ourselves as it was expensive. Sat on the grass for a bit then made our way home. Made a huge greek salad and then rocky road for bf’s birthday then vegged on the sofa for the rest of the evening. 

Grateful for good food and good company, for a little lie in this morning, for coffee. 

Toni'sfriend

Oh F0xh0les - "Think of it as liquid stress leaving your body." That is just the best thing that anyone has said in all of this. I'm going to pass that one on. I bet my Breast Care Nurse will appreciate that one. Thanks.

So, today has been good if not terribly productive but I am doing what I can,

So

• NSD no 9 (I think. Lost count a little bit)
• Finished all the washing which is nearly dry now
• Made a spicy chorizo soup for dinner tomorrow (we were supposed to be meeting a friend after my appointment but that's just been cancelled)
• Spicy tempura prawns for lunch (treat from Himself)
• Liles looking absolutely gorgeous (yellow this time. Three big vases)
• About to start next book (Slow Horses series by Mick Heron, if anyone is interested. A spy stories of sorts but full of really funny characters.)
• Feeling much calmer thanks to the liquid stress

Himself is fine but really needs to get things looked into. I know he's scared that it might .be something he doesn't want to face but if you don't know it can't be fixed. Don't I know about that! I shall nag gently.

Thanks for all the support. You are lovely. And welcome KajiKita. Nice to meet you. xxxx

apple_muncher

Thrifty_Taylor said:

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Hand stitched some holes in a jumper for a customer,

This made me giggle, imagining you making holes in a jumper!

ldee2111

Staying on NSD 6 after buying some top up shop items.

I impressed myself with getting a washing on and hung out before leaving the house this morning. 

Worked in the office today and didn’t have to take my own lunch thanks to a free afternoon tea with sandwiches, sausage rolls and cakes put on by employer as part of Mental Health Awareness Week activities. 

I also came away from the office with a load of boxes of nappy bags. The office manager ordered them during covid to dispose of used masks and other things. Anyway the bottom line (no pun intended) was she wanted rid of them. I took them for MIL who’s involved in a wee community shop that gives free stuff to locals. 

Also posted a V!ntd parcel that sold last night for £1. 

Grateful today for getting the train to and from work with OH, for a delicious afternoon tea for lunch, for getting freebies for MIL’s community shop, and for a relaxing evening watching The Full Monty with OH (such a good film). 

Thrifty_Taylor

apple_muncher said:

Thrifty_Taylor said:

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Hand stitched some holes in a jumper for a customer,

This made me giggle, imagining you making holes in a jumper!

Who, moi?! I don't do things like that lol 😜😂 
What with you all imagining me pinning a woman into a dress too, folk will think I have a voodoo doll!! 🤣😂🤣

I love The Full Monty too, haven't seen it in years! It was at the cinemas the year before I got married. Me & mum had gone to Aberdeen to buy material for my bridesmaid dresses & saw it was on. We sat on the front row (had just been to Arg0s, so one of us had a huge suitcase, the other a flatpack telephone table), mum said it's be the closest I'd get to having a stripper for my hen night (she was wrong!! 😜). Great memories!

Staying on NSD#10
Did yoga before breakfast. Had a good day at work, the teacher complimented me on how well I'd calmed a situation down.

Physio after work, he couldn't find anything but said my work/life balance wasn't as it should be, & I was probably stressed too. He emailed me some exercises to try.

Read my book, lying on the settee. Went for a walk after tea, a quick seeing job, a quick bath, now have to be chauffeur. DS1 has had s horrible shift at work, so said he'd tell me about it once I've collected him from dropping his car to the garage.

Grateful for me time, going for a walk, a good suggestion from the head teacher

ldee2111

Love your Full Monty memory @Thrifty_Taylor ❤️🤣

f0xh0les

Holes, memory bears, and voodoo - what a talented turtle you are