Moving on

ladybird1106

Sounds like you’ve had a lovely time with family.
love 🐞

Cherryfudge

Sleep schedule has officially fallen to pieces: I think that's been building for a couple of months after unprecedentedly behaving itself over the summer. Part of that could be the unusual amount of time I spent out of doors in the summer: natural daylight helps regulate sleep. Other than that, I know I stay awake if there are things looming that I don't want to do or that will take significant deviation from the norm, and from September onwards we've had a few things which, however enjoyable in themselves, have been in one or both of these categories. The result has been a slide into being up till stupid o'clock. Last night I slept an hour or so in the evening and woke up about 11 when DH came to bed. I was then up till 3 and awake till half past. I woke again when DH went to work but dozed off till half past 10. I now feel refreshed but hope not to repeat the pattern.

Of course, this means I haven't done much with the morning though I made myself a version of Watty1's soup with curry spices, adding more carrots and broccoli to use them up. This has lead to some fridge tidying.

The plan for this week
Today 10th - work
11th Tuesday - DH's day off. Child care. Evening - course.
12th Wednesday - afternoon church training refresher, evening lifegroup
13th Thursday - work. DH's day off.
14th Friday - work
15th Saturday ?
16th Sunday ?

Cherryfudge

Some useful bits and pieces have been started. One drawer of the freezer was emptied and cleaned and everything hurled back in, and I started a financial sort out going back years. It won't be a quick thing to do but I want to reassess my position. For this I needed a file of old bank statements and it was where I thought it probably was, but to get to it I had to sort out various books and folders and put them in their proper places. Hence a feeling of increased order, though little progress on the original project.

I even got to work on time: the first of the days of going in while it's dark. If I've worked it out rightly, there are 90 days - about a quarter of the year - of this and after that it will be well on the way to spring and longer evenings.

It was raining so DH picked me up form work (only 2.5 hours today) and we went home via the supermarket, though dinner was salmon from the freezer. We decided to try to eat from the freezer this week. I had a coupon for free veg from Lidl which I've used, but I've also finished up/composted some old veg.

This evening I'm in a tizzy as I'm supposed to have a life statement for the course tomorrow and am entirely failing to find one. I've had an issue with it since it was first mentioned, at which point it seemed very limiting and prescriptive. Now it feels triggering as some of the things that matter to me have lost the focus they used to have when I worked in a sector where I provided care for people. I don't think 'Nowadays I just bumble along' counts as a life statement, so I'm considering emailing the course tutor to tell him I can go to the session but haven't anything to offer. I've signed up for the church's version of the course I did on Saturday, as I want to hear what my team is being taught! I don't doubt its veracity but I want to be able to refer to it if needed.

Expenditure:
Housekeeping £13.44