Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

Cheery_Daff

About 23 degrees tomorrow, and about 26 on Sunday. Plenty hot enough, even though I'll be walking most of it!

Cheery_Daff

Afternoon long-neglected MSE chums

Goodness knows where the last week has gone. The races were cheerful! I walked rather than ran - lots of others walked on the Saturday, and I was overtaken by pretty much everyone on the Sunday It was VERY warm and we drank a LOT of water. Just under 26 miles in total, and no blisters or injuries!

Some vaguely MSE things

* Little car went to the garage for a funny noise - suspected it had thrown a spring, but no, it was part of the handbrake attachment rattling round the wheel drum All fixed now for £70, including sorting the l ock on the boot (which had locked itself shut - quite a problem when it's a 3 door car )

* strimmer is broken, but I nipped into a power tool shop this morning and they think they'll be able to fix it easily, with around £20 for a replacement part. Beats spending £200 on a replacement strimmer! Will try to get Mr C to take it one weekday next week, or I'll take it next Friday. 

I'm not actually sure there is anything else financial to report! Worked at home a couple of days, had a day in town but no parking because the car was at the garage  

Need a bit of a plan for the weekend though. 

Today
* Paint landing (we've decided to put up book shelves rather than balancing everything precariously, but having moved all the books, the walls, painted the year we moved in, are rather shabby and in need of a new coat). Should be able to get 2 coats done today 
* Start putting fence up! Might even get the whole thing done - will depend how easy it is to bang in the fence post spikes. 
* Flute practice - the tricky bits are getting there, but do still need some more work... 
* Make laundry soap

Saturday
* Parkrun? 
* Finish fence if not done already
* Garden pottering - lots of weeding to do
* Flute practice
* Quick whizz round the whole house
* Blog post

Sunday
* Local event?
* More garden pottering
* Band practice

Next week I'm at a work event all week, so lunch is at least provided, and there's free parking. Does mean driving into the city every day, but Mr C will likely come too on a couple of those.

Right. Off to drink this cuppa in the garden, and get my head back in the game

Cheery_Daff

Gosh, I am always so oberambitious, no wonder I am perpetually disappointed in myself 🙄😂😂

Got ONE coat on the landing, it's a small space, but there are lots of different walls (in and around windows and doors, and over the stairs) and it's a bit of a nuisance.

Mr C removed most of the old wire fence but the rest still needs doing - definitely won't be getting the fence up today but  should be able to remove that fence, scythe the rest of the long grass round there, and shift all the fence panels.

Once the paint is dry Mr Ccl can get on with the shelves, although that might be a job through the week while I'm at work, we'll see. 

Today then

⭐ paint landing
⭐ Quick tidy round whole house
⭐ Check banks/YNAB
⭐ Bit of weeding
⭐ move fence panels
⭐ Laundry liquid

That'll do I think. Going to attempt to NOT go out for breakfast... Let's see how that goes...

KajiKita

Do you have food in the house that you could have for breakfast instead of going out to eat …?

KK

Cheery_Daff

KajiKita said:

Do you have food in the house that you could have for breakfast instead of going out to eat …?

KK

Oh yes, of course! We've just got into a dreadful cafe habit... 😬

Not today though!

rtandon27

@Cheery_Daff - rather than think of it as a dreadful habit, perhaps reframing it as a breakfast 'date' with your husband and budgeting for it will replace feelings of 'guilt' with feelings of anticipation. Eating at home has it's uses, keeps the budget in check and the pounds away from the hips, but the joy of going out together far outweighs these!

OH & I used to do date night once a week  when we both worked, but this has morphed into car picnics once or twice a month when my train is dreadfully late.  Makes an otherwise spendy and stressy situation have a positive spin and gives us time to talk away from tv/radio/devices.

Cheery_Daff

Thank you @rtandon27 You'reright of course, and actually we do have a Treats Budget for exactly this purpose 😁 Cafe trips are a bit of sanity for us, especially Mr C, and so we won't be stopping any time soon. 

Sometimes though if we go out, we can be out til lunchtime or later, and then we end up not getting stuff done here. And sometimes we do get into a habit of going out every weekend morning, which is a bit much.

So I don't really think it's a dreadfulhabit although I do feel slightly bad in MSE terms 🙈 But it's budgeted for and we're not in debt except the mortgage so... 

Anyway, we did indeed manage to avoid going out today 😁 I had a nice breakfast on the swing in the garden, and have almost finished painting...

Cheery_Daff

Right, I have painted the landing and done some errands, but nothing else useful. Mr C is out, so I will have a plan! 

5-5.45 FOOD
* make and eat tea
* get soup in the slow cooker

5.30-6.30 HOUSE
* tidy kitchen
* dining room table
* clothes out of bathroom
* clear desk in study
* hoover downstairs

6.30-7 OUTSIDE
* compost out
* water greenhouse
* bit of weeding
* maybe move fence panels round the back of the house so I get my view from the swing back

7-9 MUSIC
* practice, practice, practice! 

9-9.30 ADMIN
* banks/YNAB
* blog post
* bit of shredding/filing

9.30-bed ME
* bath
* paint nails
* crochet

Wildly overambitious? Probably, yes 😬 But we'll never know until we try! 😂 Will report back...

Cheery_Daff

OK, I'm calling it 😂😂

5-5.45 FOOD
✅ make and eat tea
✅ get soup in the slow cooker

5.30-6.30 HOUSE
✅ tidy kitchen
✅ dining room table
✅ clothes out of bathroom
✅ clear desk in study
✅ hoover downstairs

6.30-7 OUTSIDE
✅ compost out
✅ water greenhouse
✅ bit of weeding
* maybe move fence panels round the back of the house so I get my view from the swing back

7-9 MUSIC
✅ practice, practice, practice! 

9-9.30 ADMIN
* banks/YNAB
* blog post
* bit of shredding/filing

9.30-bed ME
* bath
* paint nails
* crochet

Ended up about an hour behind myself and didn't start flute practice til 8, but only just finished (3 hours 😬) so I think just a bit of light crochet with a small drink before nodding off...

Will try to get up and get the other stuff done in the morning. Booked into a little local running event at lunchtime, then the village fair, and then band practice, and then collapse in a heap probably 😂

rtandon27

Well done Cheery - sleep tight!