An in-between phase

WelshmansDaughter

I think I win in the hair washing department these days 🦅
Congrats on the planning!

lucielle

Well done on the planning. 

L

joedenise

So pleased for you on the planning permission.  Can't believe they've taken so long.  A lovely Christmas present!

PennysIntoPounds

Thanks for the further congratulations 🍻

Friday's things:

Tidy admin comping

Vinted paid me £1.50 as the delivery service lost an item I sent

Steps going to Lidl, got my free sourdough seeded loaf, found 1p on the street

Free bread delicious with free Olio cheese (cheddar, sage and apple)

Dropped off gifts to family friend, got given a bag of mushrooms

Got letter from council tax department saying as far as they know I live here, which is at least some sort of documentation!

A knife I'd bought a couple of years ago was wearing at the handle join so on the off chance I emailed the company and they sent me one out, received it today and it's lovely. Really impressive customer service so big recommendation for Taylor's Eyewitness Knives

Did a few Olio listings just in case

On hold for ages but managed to book a smear test for mid Jan and an appointment with the clinical pharmacist to get my repeat prescription on my record at this doctors'.

Hopefully they won't be s***** about it, when I needed to do this at last GP practice the pharmacist called me and was really nasty, said she'd never heard of this medication being taken for period pains (though a quick google would've given her a million reputable results), and basically accused me of being up to no good. 
I told her I was hardly standing on street corners in the dark to flog painkillers I need to menstrual-looking women passing by.  She wasn't amused.
But nor was I. She actually asked me if I'd tried paracetamol! No, never, why did it not occur to a woman in her 40s whose medical record shows she's been in agony for decades to ever try parabloodycetamol. Should have complained really but was in too much pain to do anything other than beg for the painkillers I'd LITERALLY BEEN PRESCRIBED. You can tell I'm still cross after several years can't you 😂

Entered some competitions, today I'm mostly looking forward to winning some sturdy boots and I'd also like a Roberts radio

Did some other tasks on the four days worth of to-do lists, and (admittedly by dint of rewriting things on the next few days to-do lists) have now at least caught up with the start of today 😁

Walk around the block and found a kettle a neighbour was getting rid of with 'take me' on a note so I did! It's very nice so I'll just check it all works okay then either keep it or sell it if the lack of space situation gets even more testing

Shoulder while improved is still quite sore and sapping lots of my energy so might have to stop trying to do The Things for today.
I think a sit down and a bargain beer is in order.

Have a lovely Friday evening everyone x

CRANKY40

Do you have endometriosis PIP? I was diagnosed with all sorts of interesting things by doctors just looking at me but after taking myself to A&E one night and being referrered to a gynaecologist for an exploratory op, it turned out to be endo. Then there was trying for a baby which involved fertility treatment and diagnosis of an ectopic pregnancy supposedly. Me : It's not ectopic, that side always looks like that - it's adhesions. Nurse, doctor, everyone else shaking their heads but I was right. 

Enter baby House Troll and then I went straight back on the pill ASAP until an increase in migraines aged 47 showed that the whole lot had shut down early, yay. I have no idea why some people seem to think that we would make a fuss if we didn't have to. Fingers crossed that you have a better experience this time.  

PennysIntoPounds

Thanks for the support and sharing your story @CRANKY40, alas you've started me off on another crossness now 😂 After repeatedly going to doctors for years and years and telling them 'I wake up in the night with such bad period pain I want to die- I'm not suicidal but you know when pain is at such an unbearable level just please anything to make it stop' and them consistently going 'meh, women's troubles', I finally had an operation for endometriosis in my mid 30s. They were absolutely convinced it must be.
Had the operation, they couldn't find a single trace of it. But the general anaesthetic permanently buggered my memory up so that was a lose-lose! Their attitude after that was 'well we tried our idea so bye'. Position now is that I at least have medication that takes the edge off (although with unpleasant side effects) which I only got after a random nurse mentioned this medication in a casual chat!

Mostly praying for early menopause, and I was certainly not letting that pharmacist take my medication away from me!

ladyholly

So called medical proffessionals are very good at ignoring health problem affecting women. What is even worse (if thats possible) is they also downplay conditions that affect men and women. Research has been done into this but nothing ever seems to reach doctors or they ignore it. The best doctor I ever had was an American associate doctor who was qualified but could not prescribe drugs however the gps in the practice simply signed the prescription for her.

PennysIntoPounds

Happy Christmas eve eve everyone!

Promised myself a lovely lie-in, really try to get the shoulder better and some energy back for the last pre-Christmas push for shower/shop/clean/wrap/everything else.
Obviously got woken up at 7.45am by the council truck loudly and repeatedly doing reversing beeps.
Shoulder, neck and back feel much worse than they have in days. Helpful.
But no time for negativity! Need to do the things! Sloppily and through gritted teeth! 😁

Had a small flurry of activity yesterday evening:

Wrapped mum's stocking bits

PiP have sent me a random £10. Maybe it's because I was particularly disabled this week, how did they know?! 👀😂
Have sent it to the emergency/dental pot

I was only checking the bank to see if a client had paid me for TWO jobs TWO months ago like they promised they would yesterday. They have not and are now out of office until new year. Don't mind me, not like I need to eat, especially at the most expensive time of year

But looking at my zopa I realised I still have four hundred quid that I'm sure I was going to allocate to something important... I could really do with a diary-specific search function!
Not laptop, council tax, this year's tax, vets bills, minimum LISA payment...
Winter break not happening as (fingers crossed) lots of planning permission consents getting done soon... what on earth was that money kept there for?!

Today have done admin, tidying and comping, and had some brunch with the free mushrooms

Need to do:

Lidl

Shower and hairwash

At least wipe detritus and dust from storage boxes as housing association works hopefully finished now
Would be nice to sort boxes but not priority with shoulder bad

Clean surfaces

Do hoovering

Wrap all gifts

Do as much as possible of the big receipt surveys pile

Everything else on today's list. Possibly with a very large drink.

CRANKY40

The £10 is your Christmas bonus (ha ha ha). It hasn't increased since it began in something like 1972 and if it had kept pace with inflation it would be worth about £262 today. I read that somewhere last week. 

WelshmansDaughter

I feel like that £10 is the reason for the saying better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick