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

beanielou

I get incredibly grumpy when I am over anxious. Hope you feel more like your self soon xx

Jellytotts

Peri? I never had anxiety until I hit that wonderful stage of life.

hope it passes quickly 

Cheery_Daff

Bless you all, thank you xxx

I'm alright, suspect hormones 😬 Yes @Jellytotts I am wholesale blaming time of life. Got a lot better with HRT but seems to be dipping again now, so I will check when I have my annual review, not too long. Will also be due a thyroid review at the same time - that never changes much, I had my thyroid removed altogether several years ago, but they do check levels every year.

In the meantime, yes, I'm trying to eat well, lose a bit of weight, get enough sleep, be gentle with myself... Mostly I'm pretty cheerful (hence the name!!) but sometimes it just gets on top of me. 

And you lot are an easy audience so I hope you don't mind me complaining occasionally 😊

Nowt major happening in real life, just small little things that sometimes seem trivial and sometimes loom into things that are Very Bothersome Indeed. It'll pass, I'm sure.

Bit of crochet done this evening, and I watched the Ab Fab film on eyeplayer. Not sure why, I was never a big fan, but it had some amusing moments, and made me laugh out loud at one point (Mr C, who was in the room but couldn't see the screen, asked why I was laughing, as nothing funny had happened 😂 If you've seen it, it was the bit with the really slow funicular railway 😂😂 No idea why that amused me so much but it did 😂)

An early night, I think!

Cheery_Daff

Oh, and while I'm here, remaining budgets after today: 

Food & household: £249.81/£350
Joint treats: £112.50/£200
My spends: £100.55/£150
Mr C spends: £141.70/£150 (although he's been cheating by gathering small change from jacket pockets so that'll run out at some point 👀 He's only spent it on the odd newspaper anyway though so it's not too much of a budget fiddle 😂)
Diesel & parking: £200.42/£300 - I'll need to fill the little car tomorrow though to go to my mum's (or if Mr C comes too and we go in the big one, that'll need filling anyway once he's been to his dad's!)

Right, bed.

badmemory

Do make sure they do actually check your thyroid annually.  They check mine annually too, last one in April 2023.  I check mine with my fitbit.  I have found if my resting heart rate goes down below normal then my thyroid is out.

Cheery_Daff

badmemory said:

Do make sure they do actually check your thyroid annually.  They check mine annually too, last one in April 2023.  I check mine with my fitbit.  I have found if my resting heart rate goes down below normal then my thyroid is out.

Ah yes, they got rid of the national register, didn't they? Fortunately my GP is pretty on the ball with regular testing.

KajiKita

You’re doing so well on the budgets this month 😊 Mr C chasing after jacket pocket change makes me smile. Does he / would he do surveys to top up his personal spends? 

There was national register of thyroid cases? 

KK

rtandon27

@Cheery_Daff - I just love that MrCheery has back-up spending money! 

I totted up our 'cash-in-hand' amounts yesterday - about 75 pounds each (for those rare times cards are not accepted!) - and OH was short 1.50 - when I got playfully cross about it, he dug around in assorted pockes and low and behold there was 1.50 available 🤣🤣🤣 He definately had the last laugh there!

Cheery_Daff

KajiKita said:

You’re doing so well on the budgets this month 😊 Mr C chasing after jacket pocket change makes me smile. Does he / would he do surveys to top up his personal spends? 

There was national register of thyroid cases? 

KK

Ha, no, no chance of surveys, I've tried! He's signed up to Prolific, and got all excited at the start and said he was going to earn enough to take us away for the weekend, but it lasted about a week and since then I've mentioned it several times, and always tell him how much I'm withdrawing each month, but no. 

Not sure whether it was a national register of cases as such, more a national coordination of annual requests for blood tests for people like me who've had their thyroid removed and therefore will always need annual checks. We got automatic letters, which we just took to the hospital for a blood tests, which were sent automatically to GP. A couple of years ago it was disbanded and now it's down to individual GP practices to request the annual tests, and of course some are better than others...

Mr C did come with me today, a nice day, but the car started making a funny noise 10 mins from home, somethings definitely wrong with it 😬 The other one's booked in the garage a week on Tuesday I think (just for the heater) so I'll swap it for this one and get it sorted out, and just use the cold one in the meantime 🙄

Speaking of cold, we've just got back in after a rather foggy drive and the thermostat says 12 degrees (it's in the warmest room) so the heating has gone on!

beanielou

Heating on here too.