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

KajiKita

I’m glad the work stress is easing 😊
Hope you slept well! 

KK

rtandon27

So pleased to hear work situation has calmed down and that your boss is so supportive!

themadvix

Another one pleased that your week has improved and boss is taking your lead about it.

Hope final preparations for holiday go smoothly and you're soon off on your adventure!

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all xx I'm hoping we can get to the end of the project with a minimum of interaction, very little one-to-one contact, if any, and my sanity intact. And then we will never speak again! 😂 Very dramatic - but I am grateful that in this case I can choose whether to work with this person in the future, and I will always choose not to! 

Anyway... Preparations continue. I have printed all relevant information - ferry bookings, hotel, cottage, travel insurance, breakdown. Found passports and GHIC cards. Checked car insurance - we are covered with existing policy. 

Also renewed library books, and took boots back to the menders as both heels had completely come loose after 3 weeks 🙄

Now I'm finishing off some work, which I hoped wouldn't take all day but which is clearly going to as I'm mixing it with other things, and Mr Cheery is on the case with washing and packing and leaving the house tidy. 

Very much looking forward to a week off! 

Cheery_Daff

Oh, and I actually came in to say we had the email about getting £100 from Nationwide, which is great 😊 We have a joint account with them so just the one payment, but it all counts nicely! 😊

joedenise

@Cheery_Daff - if you've got a joint account you'll get £100 each.  DH had his email yesterday and I got mine this morning.

Cheery_Daff

joedenise said:

@Cheery_Daff - if you've got a joint account you'll get £100 each.  DH had his email yesterday and I got mine this morning.

Ooh, I didn't realise, thank you! That's super cheerful 😊

Cheery_Daff

Right, I am FINALLY DONE 😃😃😃 It's been a long and tedious day, and I will definitely be taking it back at some point since it's officially my non working day. 

Quick cuppa I think, and then on to packing, and then drinking 😂😂 No time schedule tomorrow - we are heading over to see friends in Wales first, they're doing a car boot til 2 so ideally we'd like to get there early enough for a mooch about, but if we don't, we can just go straight to their house. 😊😊😊

Cheery_Daff

And now I THINK we are packed! Well, packed enough for tonight, anyway 😂 We're not even away for a full week 🙄😂 I'm at the stage of tiredness/endless packing where I'm starting to think 'shall I take my flute? A set of weights? The entire under sink cupboard??' So I think it's probably best of we stop and resume with a clear head tomorrow 😂

Have at least renewed library books, paid the car tax, and found Mr Cheery's bank card for the account that doesn't charge fees abroad.

As long as everything we've packed makes it into the car, I think we should be OK 😂

KajiKita

I recognise that packing pattern, very well! 😉😂
Hope you slept well and the car’s suspension can take the weight 😉
Have an absolutely wonderful time 😊🤩

KK