NST A May Meditation

grandmanerd

First it is an intention.
Then a  behaviour.
Then a habit.
Then a practice.
Then second nature.
Then it is simply who you are
(Brendan Bouchard)

Starlight_at_Sea

That's lovely @Grandmanerd!  You have set the bar high on this month's challenge. I have set aside lunchtime today to get June's launched sorry for tardiness to more organised turtles! 

In other news, having a lovely few days away at the Hay festival. Was joined by a friend unexpectedly for the last couple of nights, which meant we could share some costs and catch up. Now they have gone back to work and I have some time here alone, with a handful of talks booked here and there through the next few days and a workshop to try something new a bit later in the week. Am currently in hotel via hotel.com loyalty nights, but moving onto a Airbnb tomorrow. The mountains are beautiful, so much green, and such big skies. Good for the soul! As is time to sleep and to reflect, to grieve a bit (I came here with mum a few times) and to just be, without the demands of every day. 

Starlight_at_Sea

Yer tis....

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6530966/nst-june-turtle-power/p1?new=1

Chrystal

Thank you @Starlight_at_Sea for leading June, and @grandmanerd for leading May.

 I'll be first to sign up for June and will make a concerted effort to post instead of just reading! X

lcc86

Today I am a little frustrated. Work has been frustrating (not just for me), which confirms I have made the right choice to leave. Although I still have no offer letter, which is also frustrating. I keep checking my emails a little too obsessively, which I know is stupid and it annoys me that I do it but I can't help myself.

I'm also frustrated with OH. A friend (who earns loads of money) proposed a ridiculously expensive holiday (think circa £3000 per person) and OH seems to think it's doable and that we should go. I don't even think it's good value - if it was a round the world once in a lifetime trip then perhaps I'd start saving but it's not! 

Anyway, enough frustrations, onto Wednesday. 

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for cheery emails, for bargains in my local Ch shop, for easy travel up town with Pip, for DH taking us to and from the train station, for butterflies in the garden.

Thrifty_Taylor

Sorry I've been AWOL, but I've been poorly. Think it must've been a bug picked up at work, as apparently 20 pupils were off sick yesterday too! Sending hugs to all the other poorlies too. Glad you had a great time away @Toni'sfriend & that you're able to walk a but further now. Thanks for setting up June, @Starlight_at_Sea.

NSD#17
Sunday started out well, a walk with DH, a sewing job, then some gardening. Then I started feeling ill.

Monday was a PJs on the settee day.

Today I'm feeling a lot better & concentrated on building my strength back up. Did 3 online training courses for work, compared prices & took out new car insurance ready for next month, did a load of ironing - including pressing the pleats of the kilt I shortened on Sunday, which worked - phew!, did another urgent sewing job after tea. Watched nearly another whole series of Shetland & finished a book about budgeting. I will ordered it with a big river voucher, but didn't learn anything I wasn't already doing, so have listed it on eboy.

Grateful for feeling better again, getting caught up with things off my to-do list, the kilt working out after worrying the new hem wasn't going to hang correctly

Esmeralda2662

Bit of a shock to the system today as it was my 1st day back at work after 3 weeks on  sick leave. Finger is healing well but don't want to risk splitting it open again. Nice to see everyone. When I was last there the field opposite had been roughly ploughed over. Now it's got a cereal crop in it that is already about 8" high!

Went to zumba after work for the first time in a month and it was tough. I enjoyed it but could feel my head sweating into my hair! Very glamorous. Felt much better for going but fell asleep later watching sewing bee. 

Bought some gloss paint for a cupboard door and found a new paintbrush in my stash so saved a few pounds there. I didn't realise how much paint prices have gone up! So much for my thinking it would be about £8.99, ha ha! It wasn't even a big tin.

Booked tickets for me, mum and aunty to go to an afternoon tea with songs from the musicals and also for the musical show Sound of Music. It's all done by a local theatre group and they are fantastic.

My German friend texted from holiday in Austria to say that her husband was in hospital as they they thought he'd had a mini stroke. After a scan they can't see anything except a memory gap, although I would have thought this is damage from a stroke? Luckily after 2 days he's been allowed home to Germany so hopefully they can sort him out. They're due to visit us in August so we'll have to see how he is.

Grateful for my friend's husband being well enough to go home, work going well, a fun zumba class and getting some nice shows booked.  X

DawnW

Morning all

It isn't raining for a change, or not yet anyway! OH is playing golf this morning so I am intending to do some cleaning. I have a load of washing on, and have walked the dog and emptied the dishwasher and the kitchen bin so far. Just had my breakfast and now on my second cup of coffee. I will shortly go upstairs and hoover and clean the bathroom.

This afternoon I need to go to my brother's town early as there is a prescription to pick up. I bet it won't be ready - the pharmacy there is very busy and always understaffed. And the traffic is shocking in town.

Dinner at least will be easy, as I made a huge couscous salad yesterday, using up lots of garden and fridge bits, and there is enough for tonight as well. We will have tuna with it tonight I think.

Early start tomorrow, as my brother had a short notice hospital appointment come through over the weekend. I have just recently managed to book hospital transport for him due to his reduced mobility, but this was too short notice to book over the Bank holiday. Wish us luck managing him on the stairs (he lives in a first floor flat with no lift). I am sure it will be ok. OH will help.

Grateful today that it is not raining, for a pleasant dog walk, and for coffee.

grandmanerd

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