An in-between phase

PennysIntoPounds

Cheers @beanielou, it was definitely one of those days where you think you're doing quite well considering, then dwindles into 'should've stayed in bed'. But then I'd be here moaning about upstairs clattering round every couple of hours so I suppose a change is as good as a rest, especially if the rest ain't happening 😂😭
Hope you and your gorgeous cats are having a snuggly start to January 

PurplePhoenix62

I have managed to work my way through all of your diary and like the others I love your writing style  have subscribed x 

PennysIntoPounds

Gosh, you're hardy @PurplePhoenix62 😁
Thank you for taking the time to read and comment, welcome aboard!
I hope there have been occasional bits of useful heads ups or thinkings in there amongst the complaining about bodily functions, b****ing about councils and housing associations, general stress and irrevocable griping 😂

foxgloves

Hope you are feeling a little better this afternoon, @Pip.
F x

EssexHebridean

Hello lovely PiP - I was cheerfully catching up on your diary and had all sorts of mental notes of things to comment on and then got to your Dayus Horriblis ending with the key in the lock and that made me forget everything else in a big rush of "oh Noooo!" - glad you got sorted in the end and I can totally and 100% identify with bathroom urgency in a time of the month sense - a truly horrible feeling! 

Also completely in sympathy with those who've had rotten times with medical so-called-professionals relating to being treated badly simply for being female - I think the tide is beginning to turn on that one. In my experience the worst of it is pretty much when it's a female "professional" giving you a hard time too - if it's a chap at least you can convince yourself that "well, he can't actually KNOW" even if quite frankly that's still not good enough. 

PennysIntoPounds

Thank you @foxgloves I'm feeling better in spirit if not in body- upstairs was clunking around for nearly an hour in the night, goodness knows what she was doing

Oh no @EssexHebridean well do let me know if any of it reoccurs to you! Marvellous phrase 'Dayus Horriblis' 😁 Yeah, on period and being unable to access a loo fear is truly frightful, especially when the only meds one can take for the pain play havoc with ones already unruly bowels!
Fingers crossed though I'll be represcribed it at my appointment 

PennysIntoPounds

Today's small mse bits:

Ylive survey

Opiniumiumium survey

Admin comping tidying

Spend on margarine because I seem to be incapable of using butter without wrecking the bread and it makes me too cross to put up with

Cat who eats everything ate something dodgy outside yesterday so there was some benefit in me oversleeping as it wasn't me who got up to be faced with vomit and diarrhoea to clean

This did however prompt a Big Bin Clean so I made a small contribution as well as doing a sweep and a hoover. Floor does need a good wash but one thing at a time!

Required tea and lindt chocolate from Christmas mid afternoon
(ate an apple later too though)

Diary dates all finally written in

Was going to buy a face flannel similar to the one I already have, to keep at Mr PIPs but then realised I could make do perfectly well with a microfibre cloth and the wipes and cotton wool I have here.
I want to move away from wipes and cotton wool where possible and only have reusable things but these were in supplies so may as well be used.
The microfibre cloth isn't anywhere near as good as the facial flannel I use but since we'll hopefully be living in one place soonishish, that £7 can stay in my purse for now

Won £50 on the PB so that'll go in the flat pot once it's received. Not enough to justify a take away pizza so that yearning will just have to continue

Sorted a plant that's not viable in its current form. Took cuttings and cleared the rest. Will check if compost in the pot still usable in daylight tomorrow

Feel lazy for not going for a walk but it is chucking it down and I didn't feel well enough to push myself. Will try to catch up over the next few days

Dinner is egg chip and beans but in what is sure to be a controversial twist, the egg will be in omelette form...

CRANKY40

Our cat never only pukes once (her record so far is 6). I'm never sure what I did in a past life to give us this cat to live with us. I nearly said "own this cat" but we do not own her, she just tolerates me and loves my son. She's bitten all of his friends too but they still seem to like her. 

I'm sorry that you had to wait for the bus. The HT says that waiting for buses makes his legs feel like they're on fire. Even just standing up on a full bus which most people can cope with makes him feel like he's in one of the inner circles of hell. As a 19 year old with an invisible disability he says he's not comfortable asking someones nana to stand up so that he can have the disabled seat. 

I'm sorry that your day was awful but happy that you had wine. The HT has an exam tomorrow that he doesn't feel suitably equipped to take so I'm currently thankful for gin. 

Less_Talk_and_More_Action

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LadyWithAPlan

Good to see all the action over here. Well done on the PB sin - I also won £50.

Looking like a 'grizzled Pat Butcher' is now one of my life goals - I did get an inordinate amount of leopard print stuff for Xmas.

I love cats and am missing having them but the throw up on the bed/kill laptop etc etc stuff I dont miss nor the slight allergy I have.
My sister has some rescue cats - two that love me and hate each other so they lie either side of me purring/hissing loudly all night wehn I visit  but both are liable to bite me at the slightest whim... and one dribbles... Cute when one sleeps with his face in my neck, not so cute waiting for a love bite..

@CRANKY40 Your pie with a nail file comment made me LOL. I don't mind an early bit of dry Jan given I am also feeling like a stuffed turkey after all my excess  but I do make sure I have a couple fun things booked in to look forward to so I absolutely have to drink in January. Too much sobriety and sanity makes the grey seem much grey-er - I may follow the Swedes and keep all xmas decor up to the 13th Jan.  Or maybe put the tree away and leave all the extra fairy lights on..