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

joedenise

Get those ropey bananas into the freezer @Cheery_Daff. Once frozen whizz them up for a lovely treat of banana ice cream! At least then they won't be wasted.

KajiKita

Sympathies on the being a bit wound up yesterday evening. I can relate. I think DFW explained it well on her thread - when things are going okay your 'resting state' for stress is c. 2 or 3 and when something something 'extra' happens or we start to cogitate on everything it goes up to 5 or 6. However, if we are dealing with consdtant low level stress, such as in a redundancy process as we are both facing, your 'resting state' is already at 5 or 6 and when something 'extra' comes along it bounces us straight up to an 8 or 9. Plus, running at 5 or 6 all the time is exhausting in ways we don't even realise. Hugs for it all x Hope you managed to get some half decent sleep.

Well done on the Day 1500 of Duolingo! I will always be behind you (1422 days today 😊)

KK

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, you've got an excellent long streak there too! Hope you're saying more useful phrases than me - this week I've had

' why is my hairbrush in the toilet?'

'We were afraid of the rats!'

And

'Put these pants on!' 😂😂

All good for memorising sentence construction of course 😂

Yesterday was better. In my 30 min cleaning podcast i:

• Put the Christmas tree, decorations, and a couple of other boxes in the loft
• Gave the bath a good scrub out with cream cleaner
• Hoovered living room, bathroom and landing

Then a new experience for me - took my flute to a recording studio (in someone's house) to be recorded for a new album 😱😂 don't worry, I've not suddenly turned into a pop star overnight 😂 this is one of Mr C's bands, and the band leader had decided it needed some flute playing. I do plenty of that, but not in a set up like this (headphones on, playing into a microphone, being recorded by someone in another room). All good fun but quite tiring and took the entire afternoon.

If I am catapulted to international stardom because of this (unlikely) I'll let you know 😂😂

Then we came to see some uther friends for tea and stayed overnight. All must jolly. Contemplating getting up and finding somewhere to do my morning yoga in a minute.

Noplans for today except a leisurely breakfast and possibly a visit to the chickens at the city farm 😊

Greying_Pilgrim

Ooooh, Cheery, will you get a credit on the LP cover (do they have those anymore? 🤔) as "Flautist"? Will you get a slice of the royalties - a cheque through the post every quarter…….. 😁

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

I'll get a playing credit on the sleeve, but I strongly suspect there won't be much in the way of royalties 😂

Cheery_Daff

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81957006#Comment_81957006

😂 sorry! Perhaps it was a different Dawn?

@joedenise some of the banana did get eaten, but sadly those ones are already pretty much liquid and have gone into the compost to fertilise the garden. At least that's some use!

@KajiKita you're right of course about resting on high alert 😬 I've done what I can in terms of shifting meetings etc and today I'll make sure I have food prepped for the week.

Yesterday's 30 min cleaning podcast was a gentle one. I was SO tired when we got home I had to go to bed for a nap, then Mr C ran me a bath. I did 15 mins before I got in, and another 15 pottering about before bed. So not a high octane session 😂

Mostly I sorted out pictures that have been sat in a pile, some since before we moved 😂 went on a bit of a picture frame buying mission in the charity shops yesterday so put a few in frames and started pondering where to hang them. Also unpacked clothes and washbags etc from staying with friends and decanted everything back to its proper place.

It'sdefinitely getting settled as a habit though. I almost didn't do it but that felt all kinds of wrong 😂 so gentle pottering was fine, and it's one less thing to do another day.

Cheery_Daff

Feeling more human after a decent sleep last night. The weather is all over the place today! Originally planned to put some washing out in the bright sunshine and breeze - realised on the way to the cafe that I'd not even put it in the machine, let alone pegged it out, but no matter because before long it was thunderclouds and rain.

I've stayed inside for a bit of batch cooking, and now the sun is out again - pointless mind you as until I started writing this post I hadn't remembered the washing, which is now partly in the machine (I meant to get some other clothes from elsewhere) but not actually turned on yet. Definitely airers and the radiator dance for me tonight.

Anyway, four portions of pasta bake made, and two portions of curry (well, 3, but I just ate one for lunch). I've got wraps too, so between all those things I'll be fine for dinner and tea for all four working days this week 😊

I'd forgotten about band practice today which is mildly annoying as it curtains my plans, but I do still have a couple of hours before I need to leave, and I'll be home by 7.30. Sun's out temporarily but I'm going to stick to the plan to do a bit of flute playing, and if the weather holds, I've got a couple of plants I want to plant out before I go.

Most exciting thing today - £25 cashback has landed from the house insurance in January 😊 Very pleased, have transferred to the bank. There's some other pending on there from another comparison site - I thought I'd gone through TCB for the car insurance too but possibly not - this is 3 'pending' entries, each with £0 showing as the balance, and with the same date as the one that's just paid, so it's possible I was trying them all out and didn't go with that one. Time will tell I suppose.

Right, flute playing (and washing!) before I change my mind again...

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums 😊 day one of my super busy week over and done with 😊 five meetings today, a couple of decisions behind me, one incident where I told someone something I shouldn't and then regretted it (not because it'll have consequences, because it won't, but because it absolutely wasn't mine to tell, which is unusual for me, and now I feel bad).

Anyway, a lesson to learn.

30 mins cleaning yesterday involved some random pottering and hanging some pictures which was cheerful as they've been in a pile for literally years.

Today was pottering, getting stuff ready for tomorrow, then a bit of clearing out of a stationery drawer.

GoshI'm tired now though 😬

KajiKita

Well done for surviving day 1 of Mad Week. Mr KK is having a similar one here (albeit for completely different reasons - people keep ripping up more and more bathroom floors in the 22 bed house he is supposed to get ready for new flooring by the end of this week …! 😳) so I sympathise.

Don’t worry too much about the telling the thing that wasn’t yours - it is hard to contain everything when your head is as full as yours atm. Maybe tell the person whose thing you shared and apologise?

Good luck with the rest of the week ….

KK

Greying_Pilgrim

Oh Cheery - poor you. I bet you're giving yourself a harder time about it all, than anyone else would have given you ☹️ You're still the person that normally wouldn't have spoken about this matter, so forgive this lapse. Knowing stuff - even if you've not been asked to keep 'secrets' is often more trouble than it's worth.

Greying X