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

rtandon27

Cheery - I love your over-ambitious lists! Just means the standards you set for yourself ensure that you still get more done in half a day than most get done in am entire day!

FreetodoasIlike

Your list sounds exhausting and you have obviously more stamina and get up and go than me - but then again I’m a bit of a procrastinator (well, a bit lazy really!)

Cheery_Daff

rtandon27 said:

Cheery - I love your over-ambitious lists! Just means the standards you set for yourself ensure that you still get more done in half a day than most get done in am entire day!

Ha, I have my moments (but I did also sit around and read my library book for quite a bit of today...). Sometimes quite a few of the things on my list are 5 minute jobs (in some cases they've been sitting round for weeks...)

FreetodoasIlike said:

Your list sounds exhausting and you have obviously more stamina and get up and go than me - but then again I’m a bit of a procrastinator (well, a bit lazy really!)

I've had a lot more stamina and get up & go since I went on HRT and started making more of an effort to eat properly and exercise 😂 Now I find it really noticeable when I've not been doing that and have considerably less energy..

Back in a min with an updated list

Cheery_Daff

8.30-9.30 PREPARING
✅ morning pages on the swing 😊
✅ workout
✅ breakfast
✅ dressed 😂

9.30-12.30 GARDEN
✅ patio
✅ strim grass
✅ plant potatoes a friend gave us

12.30-1.30 FOOD
✅ lunch
* get yesterday's soup in freezer
* batch cook something else (in haybox?)

1.30-2 FLUTE
✅ practice the stuff I still can't do 😂

2-3.30 ADMIN & COMPUTER
✅ bank switching admin 
* upload photos from phone
* find out some info for my sister
* maybe a blog post

3.30-7.30 OUT
✅ band practice

7.30-8.30 PREP
✅ tea
✅ tidy round a bit, especially study (working at home tomorrow)
* get whatever I batch cooked in the freezer
✅ clothes for tomorrow

EVE
* IPL second half of legs 
✅ talk to Mr Cheery at some point 😂

OK, that'll do. I didn't do any extra cooking, but there's enough soup left for tomorrow's lunch. Didnt get round to the IPL machine - a job for tomorrow evening, along with some investigations for my sister. Blog post and photos can wait.

Not bad though! Patio is looking good, I've started blocking round the edges too to stop it from shifting and to make it look a little more finished.



You can see the pile of tiles I've got left in the bottom right of the picture - they were already here when we moved in, so I'm just using up what's there and not buying any more (I have bought a couple of bags of sand and gravel though). I've only got enough for a few more rows sideways and a couple forwards, but the space itself is triangular so it should be enough to sit with the table and a couple of chairs 😊

KajiKita

That looks lovely ☺️ 
Well done 👏

KK

VintageHistorian

That patio looks very nice, and how very bargainous to just be using the tiles that were already there!

Cheery_Daff

Thank you, and yes, we are fortunate to have them lying around! I was sick of looking at them in a pile outside the kitchen window, and sitting on a friend's sunny sheltered patio made me want one too, and here we are!

beanielou

Well done.  I am in awe.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Beanie x 

Hmm, I suspect I may be coming down with a cold 🙄 Had the makings of a sore throat when i came home last night, but there's no mistaking it now 🙄 Working at home today (and I can tomorrow too if necessary) so I'll dose myself up and take it easy. 

Some financial things I could do with doing today: 

* transfer some dosh back out of Mr C's switching account (doing this in stages but nearly there now)
* retrieve £7 refund/bonus/whatever from our last hotel stay
* pay car tax

Ooh, and I had £18 cashback appear yesterday from the house insurance so that's nice! 

Very close to OnePoll payout too, I think I need about £1.60 so will aim for that this week..

Fortune_Smiles

Love your sunny corner Cheery - the perfect place to sit and plot 🙂

Fortune x