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

Queen_of_the_Hive

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Very impressive on Duolingo. Am relatively a newbie attempting to learn Italian! On day 44!

Cheery_Daff

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OoOoh, well done! The days rack up alarmingly quickly! 😮

Well I've been having a nice weekend, but VERY ready for some time on my own, which sadly I'm not going to get any time soon (I'm currently taking my time getting changed to do the garden...) got to friend's, had a quick lunch, met her newish fella, then we went off to visit an archaeological dig site - very cheerful, but a 1 hr 20 round trip in the car, and I'd already spent over 3 hours in the car getting up there 😬 Leisurely evening, early night, and I slept well. Boyfriend left in the morning and friend and I had a nice walk and some garden pottering, then decided to come back to my house, so that was another nearly 3 hours of driving yesterday, then a chatty dinner with Mr C.

Did manage to do yoga on my own both mornings, quick garden tour with friend then they both wanted to do charity shops, so we did that and a cafe trip, then eventually got home for lunch at 2.45. Sun has obviously gone in now we're finally ready to get in the garden.

Anyway, it's cheerful to be sociable, but both friend and Mr C talk a lot and haven't seen each other for ages and after last week I am very ready for a day on my own😬

Not today though, or tomorrow, or Wednesday 😬

Hey ho, will make the most of having company in the garden!

Cheery_Daff

Had a nice time in the garden with my friend 😊 we planted some stuff she'd dug out of her garden, and pottered about. Started a jigsaw, went for a walk, defrosted some soup.

Batteries went in the thermostat - I changed them but it's now not talking to the boiler and nothing I've tried will work 🙄 boiler itself is working, there's hot water, it just thinks the thermostat isn't requesting power 🙄 Apparently there's some kind of receiver somewhere, but where? Unless it's inside the boiler itself? I was here when they fitted the thermostat, but can I find it? No. Will have to text the plumber tomorrow.

Fortunately it's not cold, and we're out from tomorrow morning til late Wednesday evening anyway 🙄

Could do without anything else to sort out right now though. Early start tomorrow, Mr C is dropping me at work, then friend off somewhere else, then going to see his dad, then to another city to stay with a friend. I'm going to work, staying with another friend, then back to work Wed, then to new club in the evening, then Mr C will pick me up and bring me home.

Utterly desperate for a few hours of doing nothing by myself 😭 I am sociable and cheerful by nature but this last week has just been so busy. Friend has gone to bed now and Mr C is out but I'm worn out - I will try to appreciate having a shower and washing my hair as alone time 😂

Right, need to stop moaning. Very grateful for good pals and a good job 😊

KajiKita

I do sympathise. Mr KK is quite stressed and frustrated atm so is venting to me at length every evening, after a full day of people fretting at me in work (we have finally told them about the loss of the second customer). When he then turned on the rolling news to watch Keir being castigated in the commons last night, it was too much and I fled to the dining room! 😂

KK

Cheery_Daff

Oh dear! Yes other people's stress is never calming is it? 😬

I have made it to work unscathed, although there was much faffing and some grumpiness early this morning, and we got stuck in rush hour with some very cheeky drivers 🙄

Anyway, I am here, and the office is lovely and peaceful woth only one other person in 😊

rtandon27

Haha thereare tube stikes here in ths big smoke so most of our staff are at home! I take a long distance overground train and love being here with minimul people! Silence is golden and having a complete thought iis novel.

Cheery_Daff

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Ha, I am awaiting the opportunity to have a complete uninterrupted thought this week 😂

Calm (ish) day at work yesterday, then nice evening with my friends, although not really relaxing with a 5 and 10 year old in the house 😬😂 always lovely to see them all though, and I slept well and was treated to tea and a biscuit in bed this morning 🥰

Busy today, but I did manage to get SOME work done towards my big deadline 😬 absolute deadline is in a fortnight, but internal deadline is next week, and I do still need to get it to colleagues for a proper look - I did say it would be last Friday but it'll actually be tomorrow 🙈 Hopefully nowt too complicated for any of them though.

New club tonight, and we finally got home at 10.30pm. Very tired and heading to bed.

Small triumph though - I managed to fix the heating without calling the plumber 😃 Gave up on it on Monday night after changing batteries in the thermostat - I knew it just needed re-pairing with the receiver, but had no idea where the darn receiver was. Mr C apparently knew it was in the loft all along... so it's now fixed and the radiators are on. Hooray!

Cheery_Daff

Gosh, the time is just rollicking by, isn't it? Worked at home Thursday, and ended up not finishing til 9.30pm. Had to do an hour this morning, and another half hour this evening too 😬 But that's it til Monday now.

Had a nice day with my mum today. We used the 2 for 1 Gardeners World card and saved £9. Of course we then spent £26 between us on lunch, and £16 on tea and cake, and £14 on plants 🙈 so not exactly a bargain out day out, but it was a lovely garden and I wouldn't have gone otherwise.

Plants were a bargain too - I got a weigela for £1.50, mum got some flowering bush that she'd been eyeing up for £2, so their reductions were actually PROPER reductions, not what we refer to as 'co-op reductions' after I bought a chocolate bar there reduced from 39p to... 39p (and yes, that's what it said on the yellow sticker 😂)

PotPottering about in the garden now with an audio book 😊 Planted the potatoes and onions, and I'll bung the garlic in too - completely the wrong time of year but it ain't going to grow sat in a paper bag in the greenhouse so I might as well!

curlews are out and wheeling around 😊😊

beanielou

Glad you enjoyed your day.

rtandon27

39p to 39p how in the world does that even happen????? 🤣🤣🤣