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

rtandon27

Ah but cooking is the most important bit! Sets you up to get through the week fuss free!

I've managed to cook everything that needs cooking in our fridge and it's ready for the week - along with what's already cooked and in the freezer we are fed for the week - we do have two days where takeaway (or supermarket meals) will need to be had due to getting home late but the other 5 days are at home & healthy!

Cheery_Daff

rtandon27 said:

Ah but cooking is the most important bit! Sets you up to get through the week fuss free!

I've managed to cook everything that needs cooking in our fridge and it's ready for the week - along with what's already cooked and in the freezer we are fed for the week - we do have two days where takeaway (or supermarket meals) will need to be had due to getting home late but the other 5 days are at home & healthy!

Excellent work! I'm dancing a merry dance at the minute as we don't have a fridge which makes things a little more difficult!

Cheery_Daff

So, an update

FIRST THING
✅ breakfast 😂
✅ washing on
✅ meal plan
✅ get some batch cooking started 

LATE MORNING
✅ hang washing up
✅ flute practice
✅ empty compost
✅ pick up little & camping chairs etc from round the garden
✅ repot a couple of houseplants
⭐put panes back in the greenhouse

AFTER LUNCH
✅ caulk round ceiling panel
⭐ quick tidy round craft room
⭐ make craft room bed
⭐ quick tidy round bedroom
⭐ change sheets on main bed
⭐ hoover upstairs

MID AFTERNOON
⭐ end of month budgeting
⭐ sort out Spanish bank offer!
⭐ blog post
✅ ring mum to arrange a visit

LATE AFTERNOON
✅ band practice 

EVENING
✅ more food prep if needed
✅ clothes for tomorrow (working at home)

Not too bad, pleased I got some outside stuff done, and finished the ceiling panel, that's been on the list for literally months.

I'll put everything that I didn't do on the list for tomorrow evening.

Cheery_Daff

Two portions of an excellent quorn biriyani eaten,  and two added to the freezer stash 😊😊

Radiator dance with the washing, and I think it might be time to retire one of our quilt covers, as fast as I sew up a rip it tears in another place 🙄 it's done us well, it was from Wilkos originally so not expensive, we had it in the old house so it's probably over 10 years old. 

Oddly enough, we bought two around the same time, and the other one is fine, although we use it far more often in the rotation as I prefer the colour. Weird.

Anyway, it's a dark red and blue tartan design so I think I'll cut it up for present bags 😊 with a bit of green or red ribbon it'll look suitably festive 😊 

We've got 3 other sets so no immediate need for a replacement (although only one of them is brushed cotton like this one) - I'll keep my eye out in the sales.

Mrs_Money_Penny

I love brushed cotton quilts in winter. Need to keep as warm as I can x

beanielou

Brushed cotton all the way for me.A snuggle in bed.

joedenise

Brush cotton here in winter too.  Cotton is just too cold once the cold weather arrives!

beanielou

Meant to say sa I am auld I fondly remember brushed cotton as flannelette.  Remember the stripy ones 

KajiKita

Crikey Moses - if I wore brushed cotton in bed I’d turn radioactive at 4am! 😂😂 I’m still in the nude unless it gets below -5C and even then, my nightdress gets kicked off at 4am! 😉

KK

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 it's a good job we're not all in the same bed with so many different sleeping requirements! 😂😂

As long as I have my hot water bottle, I can be flexible on many other things. ALWAYS a hot water bottle, even in a heatwave 😂 Always a duvet too (never just a sheet), and often a blanket (currently two) on top - this is not a warm house, and Mr C often likes the window open). I like a brushed cotton sheet, but as long as it's mostly clean and not weirdly scratchy it's fine (Mr C used to have some shiny covers when I met him - he liked the way they looked but my feet scratched on them and I hated the damn things. Fortunately he chose me over the sheets when it came down to it!

Currently my hormonal delights haven't extended to hot flushes - I dread to think what would happen to my poor hot water bottle in that case!