NST December 2024 – the TARDIS awaits

Thrifty_Taylor

So good to hear from you @abundant1972, you have been in my thoughts. Hope your recovery continues to head in the right direction, & that you're not too tired to enjoy all the festivities.

Thank you all for your birthday wishes, I've had a super day! The Nativity went well & all the children in our class left early, so an added bonus 😀 Plus the new support person started today, & is to shadow me for the next little while.

Tonight we had steak for tea, then had a family film night. My uncle phoned too, which he's not done before (usually passes messages through my mum).

NSD#6

Grateful for the lovely words in my birthday cards, a good day at work, special family time this evening

abundant1972

Thank you everybody!!! 🤗

... and Happy Birthday Thrifty 🎈 🎂 🎁 xx

grandmanerd

Happy belated birthday thrifty-taylor. Abundant so good to hear from you and look forward to seeing you in January.
My pills arrived this morning but only one item out of six. 

   Waste Wizards are coming tomorrow between 2 pm and 4 pm. Just got to persuade DS3 to part with 'his' sofa. One side has a split in the seam more than a foot long, the cushions have black scarring (sofa is chocolate brown) and bare patches and it does take up an awful lot of room - I think I need a taller upright chair or two which would be a better use of the space. Lots to do rounding up the usual rubbish (filled and emptied my paper box twice yesterday) and anything I really want to go (I tend to hide things in corners of the yard where they are not so obvious and I won't fall over them. It's very cold so it will be done in lots of short bursts.

Grateful for waste wizards, DS3 being co-operative about getting things outside (that's why I've not mentioned the sofa yet). Simple food (I overate the day before yesterday and was uncomfortable yesterday). I can't remember the last time I overate, even when we've gone for meals, I'm the one piling up veg, avoiding chips and passing on dessert. I think it was trying to stay awake waiting for DS2 when it was past my bedtime

beanielou

Hope the waste wizards can work their magic @grandmanerd. 

apple_muncher

Belated birthday greetings ThriftyT - sounds like it was a good one! When will you have your eyes seen to?

Wotcha Abundant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for dropping by with an update. Take care and don't overdo it, now!

Today I am grateful for a warm house, for finding things for presents on v1nt3d, for sorting through piles and getting rid of so much of it (so why didn't I do that in the first place, eh?), for finishing making some bunting for my niece, for finding my DBS in the piles of paper.

apple_muncher

What about the One thousand days part of December? From today, it takes us up to Monday 6th September 2027. That seems a long time away, doesn't it? But the time will pass anyway, so have a ponder. 1000 days ago was Wednesday 16th March 2022 and life was very different for us all - so think about what you have achieved/learned/made/done since then.

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff." (Dr Who)

Think about 1000 days. Try to picture it. It’s a long time, isn’t it? Almost three years. A lot can happen in 1000 days. Why, in 1000 days, a person could accomplish any number of things. Yep. There’s almost no limit to what you can do. People can achieve incredible things in 1000 days. If you really think about it, you can reach just about any goal – or at least make a huge amount of progress toward it — in 1000 days. And yet, in the grand scheme of things, in the lifespan of the average human being, 1000 days is a blip. It’s not that long. You get comfortable, allow your existence to grow staid, and dutifully punch the clock on whatever life you’ve fallen into and those 1000 days just slip right on by. They bleed into each other.

Furthermore, 1000 days is enough time to accomplish almost anything but not so much time that your entire life is wasted if you fail. You can bounce back and learn from your mistakes. “Well, that didn’t work. What’s next?”

All those hopes, those aspirations, those late night conversations about what-could-be? They don’t morph into anything resembling tangible reality all by themselves. If you don’t actually start the process, your dreams will remain fun thought experiments that elicit brief sensations of excitement. That’s not good enough for you, nor for anyone. Luckily, you’ve got 1000 days to get going. To get somewhere.

Put a big fat X on September 6th, 2027 (or set an alarm on your phone, arrange an email alert, etc). That’s 1000 days from now. What are you going to complete by that date? What will you change, learn, become? Who will you be? Where will you be? What have you always wanted to accomplish but have yet to even begin approaching?

That business idea you’ve mulled over for months now, the one that gives you the butterflies every time you allow yourself the luxury of imagining it? For that brief moment, your brain is convinced you’re actually living it. You’ve tricked yourself into treating the fantasy as reality. Then it comes crashing down. Felt good, right? Get on it. You’ve got a 1000 days.

So you’re 150 pounds overweight, nothing fits, you can’t handle the mirror, and a single flight of stairs is a conditioning workout. It’s hard, but get over it. Start today. People have been there. People have made it out in less than 1000 days. Be another.

You hate your job, or maybe you just know you’d be happier doing something else. Only problem is you need a specific type of training to shift careers. Maybe it’s a class. Maybe it’s a 2-year degree. Maybe it’s an apprenticeship or a certification. Maybe it’s simply a matter of buying a few books, perusing a few websites, and really buckling down to teach yourself. The point is that you know what needs doing, so use these 1000 days to do it.

That fitness goal. You know, that one that always seemed possible (because so many others can do it) but complex and difficult enough that you never got around to seriously trying, let alone mastering it. Is it a handstand push up? A twice bodyweight squat? Hiking the Appalachian trail?

That home gym you saw on Pinterest last year, the one you shared on your Facebook wall? Remember how you half-heartedly filled a shopping cart on a DIY website with materials to actually build it, then did nothing? Perhaps it’s time to resurrect that “plan” and make it a real plan.

Forget the “ten year plan,” or the “five year plan.” Downsize those puppies down to 1000 days. (Or, if you’re really driven, you can listen to PayPal founder Peter Thiel and condense them down to six months.)

Lots of goals will be more open-ended or less rigorously defined. “Be happier.” Or “live life.” That’s fine. You can still work toward an amorphous goal like “be happier” by doing things that make you happy.

It could be all or none of those things. We all have something, though. Shake yourself from reverie and seize the (1000) day(s). It’s plenty of time but only if you use it.

Betharooni

apple_muncher said:

What about the One thousand days part of December? From today, it takes us up to Monday 6th September 2027. That seems a long time away, doesn't it? But the time will pass anyway, so have a ponder. 1000 days ago was Wednesday 16th March 2022 and life was very different for us all - so think about what you have achieved/learned/made/done since then.

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff." (Dr Who)

Think about 1000 days. Try to picture it. It’s a long time, isn’t it? Almost three years. A lot can happen in 1000 days. Why, in 1000 days, a person could accomplish any number of things. Yep. There’s almost no limit to what you can do. People can achieve incredible things in 1000 days. If you really think about it, you can reach just about any goal – or at least make a huge amount of progress toward it — in 1000 days. And yet, in the grand scheme of things, in the lifespan of the average human being, 1000 days is a blip. It’s not that long. You get comfortable, allow your existence to grow staid, and dutifully punch the clock on whatever life you’ve fallen into and those 1000 days just slip right on by. They bleed into each other.

Furthermore, 1000 days is enough time to accomplish almost anything but not so much time that your entire life is wasted if you fail. You can bounce back and learn from your mistakes. “Well, that didn’t work. What’s next?”

All those hopes, those aspirations, those late night conversations about what-could-be? They don’t morph into anything resembling tangible reality all by themselves. If you don’t actually start the process, your dreams will remain fun thought experiments that elicit brief sensations of excitement. That’s not good enough for you, nor for anyone. Luckily, you’ve got 1000 days to get going. To get somewhere.

Put a big fat X on September 6th, 2027 (or set an alarm on your phone, arrange an email alert, etc). That’s 1000 days from now. What are you going to complete by that date? What will you change, learn, become? Who will you be? Where will you be? What have you always wanted to accomplish but have yet to even begin approaching?

That business idea you’ve mulled over for months now, the one that gives you the butterflies every time you allow yourself the luxury of imagining it? For that brief moment, your brain is convinced you’re actually living it. You’ve tricked yourself into treating the fantasy as reality. Then it comes crashing down. Felt good, right? Get on it. You’ve got a 1000 days.

So you’re 150 pounds overweight, nothing fits, you can’t handle the mirror, and a single flight of stairs is a conditioning workout. It’s hard, but get over it. Start today. People have been there. People have made it out in less than 1000 days. Be another.

You hate your job, or maybe you just know you’d be happier doing something else. Only problem is you need a specific type of training to shift careers. Maybe it’s a class. Maybe it’s a 2-year degree. Maybe it’s an apprenticeship or a certification. Maybe it’s simply a matter of buying a few books, perusing a few websites, and really buckling down to teach yourself. The point is that you know what needs doing, so use these 1000 days to do it.

That fitness goal. You know, that one that always seemed possible (because so many others can do it) but complex and difficult enough that you never got around to seriously trying, let alone mastering it. Is it a handstand push up? A twice bodyweight squat? Hiking the Appalachian trail?

That home gym you saw on Pinterest last year, the one you shared on your Facebook wall? Remember how you half-heartedly filled a shopping cart on a DIY website with materials to actually build it, then did nothing? Perhaps it’s time to resurrect that “plan” and make it a real plan.

Forget the “ten year plan,” or the “five year plan.” Downsize those puppies down to 1000 days. (Or, if you’re really driven, you can listen to PayPal founder Peter Thiel and condense them down to six months.)

Lots of goals will be more open-ended or less rigorously defined. “Be happier.” Or “live life.” That’s fine. You can still work toward an amorphous goal like “be happier” by doing things that make you happy.

It could be all or none of those things. We all have something, though. Shake yourself from reverie and seize the (1000) day(s). It’s plenty of time but only if you use it.

I love this @ap@apple_muncher!!

For my 1000 days, (a) I want to get down to my goal weight. I attend SW so hopefully I’ll get to it well before then, but that will be one of my goals. (b) I have been playing around with a savings snowball calculator and, if I follow it I will have saved about £28K, including saving for some holidays, fully funding my emergency fund, paying for some repairs to my car and a hefty mortgage overpayment. So following that calculator is the second thing I want to do in the 1000 days.

B x

ldee2111

Happy birthday @Thrifty_Taylor. Nice to see your name appear @abundant1972 - keep well and see you in January! 

Good evening, turtles! I forgot to check in yesterday to log my second no-spend day. Today marks NSD3. Work was hectic as I had a lot to catch up on after being away last week and feeling unwell yesterday. Feeling grateful today for OH making dinner, for Mum’s lunchtime visit, Mum bringing me a biscuit (cause I’ve none), and managing to tick a few things off my to-do list at work.

1000 days @apple_muncher! I have so much on my list! New roof and rough casting, building of a garden room, getting a dog! The savings for these start the day after the mortgage is paid off! Feels like eating an elephant just now. 

DawnW

Evening all

Still NSD #6 for me, as it was grocery shopping day today. Thankfully my fave supermarkets, L*dl and Wa*trose.aren't assaulting our ears with ghastly canned Christmas music. I popped into Sains* yesterday and it drove me mad. I got out asap and felt sorry for the poor staff who couldn't escape. Do people really like it?? Or am I an old misery - surely it can't be only me who dislikes it   

Stripped off the bed and washed the linen. I pegged it outside in the wind for a while but unfortunately it didn't dry much as it was damp as well as windy. Now safely inside, and on the airer

After lunch we turned a pack of mince into a shepherds pie base and a big chilli, both with lots of added veg. I will freeze some once it is properly cold, but it will mean easy dinners for Thursday and Friday when I will be working. At just after 3.30 I remembered I hadn't picked up the dog's flea meds from the vet's, so wrapped up warm and walked along there to get it. I don't get much exercise at this time of the year, apart from work days, so it was good to get some extra steps in.

Finished off some tomato soup for lunch, and the remains of a casserole for dinner. I made both at the weekend, so it was good to get them used up and out of the fridge.

Hope all goes well with the Waste Wizards @grandmanerd

Grateful today for getting some stuff done and a reasonable £1.50 box from L*dl.

dizzyblnd

NSD#5 today. December is a funny month isn’t it. Things seem to crop up, yesterday I had hairdressers so that’s ticked off before Christmas. I’m making the most of little wins today, got a parking spot right outside little ones club today which meant no cold, dark, rainy walk to the club and back for us. Dinner made by 6pm, which is another little win. 

Grateful for little wins today.