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

KajiKita

Good luck with the tiling! And all the levelling and cutting etc etc that will need too ….

KK

Cheery_Daff

Thank you! 

I have laid a single tile 😂 and successfully cut another single tile 😂 Then decided that, as Mr Cheery still has a rotten toothache, and is in bed just above where I was tiling, I should probably stop scraping and swearing and let him rest peacefully, so I've stopped. I keep hoping he'll reappear so I can get on, but actually if he's asleep I'd rather he just slept...

In the meantime, I am not having a useful time of it and yet again the day is drifting away! It keeps threatening rain, and we have had a spot or two, but on reflection I might get out and get a row scythed. 

A friend suggested I take myself off for a couple of days alone this coming week, so I've been trying to plan that. It's been almost 20 years since I did that though, I think 😱 (except an epic cycling trip to see my sister but that's definitely not on the cards this time 😂). I can't decide where to go or what to do! I've ditched the idea of camping (i don't even know where the tent is, let alone whether it's functional, and the weather is all over the place). I'm considering a room in a YHA hostel (I used to work for YHA and harbour a fondness for them) - but is a bed in a dorm what I need when I'm trying to get away and be on my own?! At least there's a kitchen so I can take food which limits the cost - everywhere is SO expensive 😱 

Anyway, I need to make a decision today and get it booked, whatever I end up doing. I've narrowed it down to two options: 

(a) YHA in small market town - they have both dorm rooms and a private room at £40 a night), options for light pottering, a local museum etc

(b) Centre for alternative technology - they have b&b rooms available (£80 a night though) but this has become a less attractive option now I've realised the centre itself isn't open! They do have an open day coming up, but no accommodation the night before it, so I'd need to stay elsewhere, which makes it more of a faff.

Will ponder. Maybe I won't go anywhere at all!

Right, if I'm going outside I'd best get on with it.

KajiKita

I went round that loop with wanting a break but everywhere being expensive and I couldn’t be hassled with the effort to do the travelling either ….
Eventually, Mr KK booked his bike trip to France and I booked a couple of days leave to go with a weekend during his trip … It’s been lovely … 😉

KK

Humdinger1

rtandon27 said:

Cheery - make it a double & celebrate the severance of that interaction!  - Hooray my dear - I TOTALLY understand where you are coming from on that one!

As to the ineptitude of last minute scheduling! - I've finally developed the habit of saying NO to those who can't plan ahead!  "Your inability to organize with respect and consideration, does not result in my need to jump hoops to accommodate your ill manners!" or something to that effect! 🤣🤣🤣

rtandon27 said:

Cheery - make it a double & celebrate the severance of that interaction!  - Hooray my dear - I TOTALLY understand where you are coming from on that one!

As to the ineptitude of last minute scheduling! - I've finally developed the habit of saying NO to those who can't plan ahead!  "Your inability to organize with respect and consideration, does not result in my need to jump hoops to accommodate your ill manners!" or something to that effect! 🤣🤣🤣

'Lack of planning on your side does not constitute an emergency on mine' .  You are quite right to refuse to reward such toxic, dysfunctional behaviour! Love Humdinger xx 

Cheery_Daff

KajiKita said:

I went round that loop with wanting a break but everywhere being expensive and I couldn’t be hassled with the effort to do the travelling either ….
Eventually, Mr KK booked his bike trip to France and I booked a couple of days leave to go with a weekend during his trip … It’s been lovely … 😉

KK

Ha, a good idea and I would love some time here on my own but it's not going to happen any time soon I don't think! 

First row of tiles is laid 😃 and relaid 🙄😂 Second row needs cutting first so I'm just fortifying myself with a bit of food. 

Poor Mr Cheery is still suffering, and reckons pain is getting worse not better, which it shouldn't be at this stage - his tooth was taken out on Thursday so he's had 3 days of antibiotics and painkillers now, it should be easing a bit, surely?? Maybe he just overdid it travelling yesterday, because he did feel a bit better yesterday morning 😕 Preparing for another potential trip to the emergency dentist tomorrow 🙄

JGB1955

I often/sometimes take myself off for a little 'down-time' and like the anonymity of Travelodges and Premier Inns... particularly their prices for a Sunday night.  Nothing better than a king sized bed with cotton sheets to stretch out on, a long walk planned for the next day... etc etc  Recently walked several (different) sections of the Thames Path, using Sunday night bargains!

Cheery_Daff

First row of tiles is now off again... I have thrown a small tantrum, and also booked my little adventure, and Mr Cheery is now back in bed while I investigate alternative tile-related arrangements. YAWN. 

If we ever move house again I'm going straight into a pristine new build!!  

Made a decision and booked my couple of days away. I dithered, but have done it now - the cheaper of the options I was looking at, and with self-catering options too. Weather is all over the place this week so I've given up trying to plan anything in relation to it, and instead am travelling to avoid Mr Cheery's peak stress period (he has some events next week that will take quite a bit of planning and stress, and Thurs/Fri/weekend are likely to be running about and shouting, so overall I think I'm best off out of the way!) 

Sometimes I can be useful to him in times of stress (I'll be sticking around tomorrow in case we need to go back to the dentist...) but at the end of the week there'll be nothing I can do except get in the way - so instead I am going away. 

I will endeavour to make it as MSE as I can, although of course I appreciate I am in a good position to be considering traipsing off on an adventure at short notice, as always... I've gone with my old friend the YHA, and I'll take breakfasts and evening meals with me, so I'm just having lunch and cake out. I've booked a couple of little activities already so I have some plans, but other than that I'll take books and notebooks and just loaf about

Nice to have a cheerful little thing to look forward to!

Today's been a washout. I've given in and hung the washing indoors, but hope to get it out on the line tomorrow, as it's the only day that looks like there isn't going to be any rain this week. 

Right, best see if I can salvage these tiles... 

Cheery_Daff

JGB1955 said:

I often/sometimes take myself off for a little 'down-time' and like the anonymity of Travelodge's and Premier Inns... particularly their prices for a Sunday night.  Nothing better than a king sized bed with cotton sheets to stretch out on, a long walk planned for the next day... etc etc  Recently walked several (different) sections of the Thames Path, using Sunday night bargains!

Ooh, I do like a Premier Inn for a work trip (although mid week they're getting a bit expensive for our approval cut off sadly!) I'll bear that in mind though if I do this again. 

On this occasion I got myself YHA membership, so I get 10% off any other stays, which might encourage me to get out and about a bit over the next year or so 😊

Cheery_Daff

Two lots of broccoli and mushroom bake done for the freezer - but then Mr Cheery got up and needed food, and that was suitably non-chewy, so he's eaten both of them. At least he's got something other than tinned soup inside him, but it's not helpful for my batch cooking mission! 😂

listoflists

Might not be the same thing as Mr Cheery but after I had one of my teeth extracted I got dry socket, which got more painful several days after the tooth was out.  The dentist packed it with something a bit clove tasting and it got better quite quickly after that. Toothache is miserable (but then I realise you know that after years of teeth woes!) Hope he soon gets sorted and you have a good mini break too