NST February Forgiveness

ditty1234

Grateful for a lovely day of mounting some prints for an exhibition, baking scones, and going on a road trip with sis to visit ds2 in uni town. Had a lovely afternoon stroll and dinner. 

Toni'sfriend

Nothing ever goes according to plan, does it? I picked up a particularly nasty tummy bug last week and passed it onto Himself. We've spent all our time since we cane back last Friday in bed reading, sleeping and drinking water. Apart from a couple of plain biscuits we've eaten nothing since dinner on Thursday night.

However, I'm out of bed now (for the time being at least), washing is on and I'm having a cup of herbal tea. Got a zillion things that need doing this week and not a lot of days to do them in. So better get on. I'll catch up with all your posts later. xxx

grandmanerd

Monday 19th February 2024

Positive things to Try This Week
Monday  Focus Self Care
Take a bath, exfoliate, do a face mask, meditate
Tuesday Focus  Clean
tackle a surface or drawer you've been putting off
Wednesday Focus  Digital Detox
Give yourself a night off from screen time
Thursday Focus Delete
Go through old emails and messages and delete
Friday Focus Donate
Donate old items you no longer use or need 
Saturday Focus health
Cook a healthy meal from scratch
Sunday Focus Energize
Take a 20 minute walk or get outside

RALPH WALDO EMERSON
To laugh often and much
To win the respect of intelligent people and the 
affection of children
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and 
endure the betrayal of false friends
To appreciate beauty, To find the best in others
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch or a redeemed social condition
To know even one life has breathed easier 
because you have lived
This is to have succeeded

DawnW

@Toni'sfriend do take it easy. Hope you and your OH are better soon x

Not much done due to yet another hospital trip today. Although the hospital isn't that far in miles, the traffic, roadworks and floods mean that it is necessary to allow 2 hours to get there. Anyway, all done, and my bro is feeling ok. I had to run to catch up with him a couple of times in fact! I took him 3 individual shepherd's pies that I made yesterday along with sides for one meal, with strict instructions to keep them in the fridge and freeze any that he doesn't eat within 2 days. He is a shocker for leaving food out for days and really doesn't need food poisoning along with chemo. At least I know that these were made in a hygienic environment, unlike his kitchen

I did manage to tidy the kitchen and clean the bath, also made shopping lists for both the garden centre and the supermarket for tomorrow.

Not a NSD due to paying for the hospital car park. I didn't buy anything else though. Brother paid for coffees, and I took a book to read to stave off boredom while I waited.

Grateful today for a mild, spring like day. The forecast for the rest of the week is awful, and we already have flooded roads, but it was nice to see the sun today

beanielou

@DawnW.  Look into whether there is a scheme for car parking for chemo patients.

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for being able to drive, for having a shower (not had one since last weds) as my foot cut has scabbed over properly , for DH doing a tip run, for a lightbulb moment on how to propagate a certain plant, for Pip applying for a job!!!

beanielou

Well done Pip 

wishus

Hope it's going well all. I chose today to try my silver cloud app they gave me at my GPs to help with feelings of anxiousness. Weird thing to say, but it's been a bit too sad and stressful to start it before now.

So, anyway, that's some self care kindness.
Also, been logging my Noom... once more with honesty.

More good things today... for the first time since before Christmas someone has come to do a quote on the work we need doing in the house. Here's hoping this one actually quotes us. Not counting chickens just yet!

Thrifty_Taylor

Sending get well wishes to you & DH @Toni'sfriend. Well done Pip, fingers 🤞
Great your second guest enjoyed his stay @Starlight_at_Sea, word will spread & you'll be inundated before long!

NSD#9
Up.early for a dental appointment, thought I was having a check up, but a new dental hygienist gave me a scale & polish, caught a lot of my gumlime in his contraption 😓 went down the road to work & went for a walk round the block with the secretary, then had a natter inside for an hour.

The scheduled power cut had started when I got home, so me & DH went a walk (2 in one day!), dropped a friend's present off for her 50th birthday tomorrow. Ate a leisurely lunch & read my book, then filed some paperwork & took lots of old statements, etc out ready for burning.

A customer came round to be pinned into some jeans, which I did once she'd left - knew it'd be a quick job & can then get them out the way! - then another customer dropped her sofa cushion covers off.

My brother phoned after tea, a customer came round for his sewing, then brough part of it back as I'd missed a bit. Hand stitched that & arranged to drop it off tomorrow, when I'm in town for training. Sorted out a frog & measured up for zips to buy tomorrow.

Grateful for snapping out of the feeling overwhelmed/sad/anxious funk, more decluttering done, getting organised with the frog.

Sat with my jigsaw for 45 mins, going through all the pieces one at a time to find the next one that fits.Alk the background if 1000 piece puzzle is white, decided life's too short & packed it away in its box. Can now pass it on to someone else & start one of the pretty, colourful ones I got for sproutmas!!

grandmanerd

I have been busy for the past couple of days. Not sure what I've done, it was mostly plodding, whisking washing in and out and washing up. My crisis last week was that my brother was taken into hospital with pneumonia and I really thought it was the end (but didn't dare say it as I would have felt that I'd wished it on him). My niece only told me after he'd been in for 5 days (she hadn't  got the messages I'd left on Thursday) and by the time I'd told my sons and various cousins, he'd come out again. A cocktail of drips -oxygen, antibiotics and something else pulled him through. 

So another round of phone calls to get everyone up to date. One cousin phoned me to check on him and by the time we finished talking it was too late to call the last cousin (phone calls after midnight are never good news).  My brother's cancer treatment had to be postponed but he should have resumed it now. I had a long chat with the final cousin who messaged me the next day. Told her about grandma's house and she's told me to pay people to do most of it - it'll take me forever otherwise and I'll probably make myself ill in the process.

My niece thought everything should be put on hold until my brother recovers and her bf may possibly be able to help  clear the back yard once her house is on the market. that would be another 3 week delay, 3 more missed bin days (more if he were only to start work then) and the bills for utilities will be coming out of my account meanwhile (I will reclaim them from the estate but keeping the accounts is yet more work). My cousin thinks they're expecting an awful lot of me (as usual) and I should do it the way I want to. Whatever is to happen, the house needs clearing, the yard needs clearing and all the rubbish needs to go out, not be trapped in the house. none of it is smelly but the bags are taking up a lot of space. Sorry I'm ranting a bit now.

So yesterday I took 3 bags of soft toys, a bedspread and some children's curtains to the cs (all from grandma's house) and a box of plates, bowls and mugs (all oddments from my house). On Sunday DS3 emptied the large tub under the sink and then I told him to take off the u bend. He did but couldn't  get it back on (it's a cobbled together job, the whole thing needs replacing - as Mr Builder told us last time). I also enlisted his help putting all my good pots away in the furthest cupboard (nearest to under the stairs) and I'm going to start packing theirs as they are washed (will leave them one bowl each to use). I can stack their stuff in the space the records were in.

I've decided it's foolish to bring more things into this house for processing to add to the chaos, so next time I go to grandma's house I will  see if the WM there is working and process stuff there. there's still the proper airer hanging from the ceiling so I can dry it there too. I've identified several things that can go from my house to make more space and I will be grilling them on what they can get rid of now. i think all the shilly-shallying (from DS3 and my brother/ niece)  has made me cross (DS1 noticed back in September) and it's finally started to turn into energy. I did 6 hours downstairs on Sunday - a lot of it was spent resting on the couch but I did a good clean up outside (gardener has forgotten to get back to me again) and I'm feeling much more capable. I still get tired and have to drag myself back upstairs but little by little I'm getting there.

On Sunday i took a sip of the decaff drink and it tasted horrible. I don't actually like it but it's more or less my only option other than tap water and my consumption has been rising. i have been trying to cut back but there - done, stopped completely and no desire to restart. Just the poor food choices to conquer now.

Grateful for my bed, my little house, battered and messy but still mine and getting some offers of help.