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

EssexHebridean

I like UFYH for cleaning inspo - I always think of it as kind of like Flylady's swearier younger sister! It's more of a website than anything else, although there is an app I think...might be podcasts too, I've never looked! 

Cheery_Daff

Will investigate, thanks @EssexHebridean 😊

Well, a weird old day today. Spent the day clearing out my office. I've only been in that particular office for 2 years, but this is a move from the whole site, and, as discussed, to hot desking, so everything has to come home. 

I ditched a LOT of stuff, but the car is still (not helped by the blithering boot not opening!) Arranged to take a pile of stationery to my local school later this week, and I'm going to sit and scan all my books to see what the book selling apps will take, see if it's worth it or whether I'll just drop everything at the charity shop. 

And yes, some stuff will end up on the loft. 

More work news today - found out someone else is leaving. This will likely mean quite a big change for me for various reasons, and it feels like a very uncertain time. Hey ho, nothing to be done but carrying on (with a job alert still on, of course...). Sigh. So much feels uncertain right now. 

Hey ho. Had tea with a friend, and have had a good long session of flute playing and now it's time for bed 😊

beanielou

Sorry things are so uncertain. It’s horrid. 

rtandon27

Sending supportive vibes on the job front hunny!

KajiKita

I’m not sure if the job alert(s) you have are in the same websites as I would use, but one really powerful piece of advice I got when actively job searching was to ‘update’ my CV on the library every week - it could literally just be the wording of the title of my CV (I flitted back and forth between the months on my CV title) as that brings you back up to the top of the searches for recruiters. I appreciate that you are probably doing it the other way round (looking for jobs to apply for rather than trying to be visible for recruiters) but if you really start actively looking it might be a tactic worth adding to your arsenal. 

Sounds like unsettling times at home and at work atm - sending hugs x

KK

Elisheba

Sending huge hugs for the unsettling times 🤗🤗🤗🤗. Just focus on the things you do have control right now, and take it a day at a time 🤗.

EssexHebridean

Another vote for focusing on the things you can control - for everything else, remember "this too will pass". Oh, and deep breaths and virtual hugs. ((((((have another one)))))) 

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all xxx you're all very kind. Feels a bit silly to be so fretty and I am as always grateful that I have a job, but not feeling great today, I confess. 

Still, I've made myself a cuppa, and I'm going to put some washing on and reset my day 😊 stop trying to do what I've been trying to do all day, and do something else instead  for a small sense of achievement 😊 

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums! 

I did indeed manage to reset my day and eventually got some work done (and some washing, and some food shopping) so all good 😊

Busy weekend! Friend is staying tonight, we're doing a race tomorrow, then I'm staying with her and we're doing another race on Sunday 😬 Mr C is going to see a friend a couple of hours away on Sunday night, staying over, then has a gig himself on Monday night (somewhere else) and is staying over there so I have options to join him for any or all of those things, but all I might be capable of is having a bath and going to bed 😂

In the meantime, a list for today! 

* empty car of stuff from the office
* take stationery to local school
* find running kit including rucksack and water pouch things
* adjust straps on sports bra
* tidy up!
* sort food and snacks for events (not even thought about this yet!) - might need to make some flapjack or something

Would also like to mow the grass but that might have to wait for Monday.

Need to leave at 3.30 to collect friend so not too much time to dawdle (although I can do some of those things once she's here - want to sort running kit first though in case I need to replace anything!)

I suppose getting out of bed would help...

themadvix

Have a cheery time with your friend Cheery - I hope it's not as hot with you as it's forecast to be here with all that running.