NST June 2025: balance

Thrifty_Taylor

Sending hugs KK, it would've been a heart breaking funeral to attend.

A couple more NSDs managed here.
Been a busy bee, painted the first coat on the newly pressure washed fence, 2 coat zips replaced, & this morning I moved a Belfast sink full of soil & supposedly, mint. Hoping the mint will grow better with more sun shining on it.
Met a few friends at different times for a walk or a catch up.
Heard today that my son's body can be brought up from Aberdeen, so have spoken with the funeral.director to arrange collection & to make an appointment to start funeral plans.

Grateful for my son bring able to come home, a colleague dropping a home made gingerbread off, lots done in the garden, the support of my friends & colleagues.

Yesterday my head teacher came over for a walk, & gave me a card from all the staff & a collection they'd gathered for us. A large amount which will help towards funeral costs/us going to Aberdeen to lay flowers. Overwhelmed by their generosity ❤️

beanielou

That’s great @Thrifty_Taylor. Xx

KajiKita

Thanks @Thrifty_Taylor, I appreciate it x

So glad-sad that you will get to bring your son home.  That was a lovely action on the part of the school / your head-teacher and I am glad that the collection was substantial. You forget how unexpected funeral costs can have such an impact as they are never cheap!

KK 

KajiKita

I am quietly poddling on here. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, we keep eating quite late atm so I am not getting my stretching sessions in so my sore hip woke me early this morning ... I WILL be stretching tonight - I hereby make a promise to myself ...  

I have 2 library books on the go atm - the one upstairs is a soppy, romantic, will they, won't they, the book downstairs is somewhat sinister who-dunnit. I read the slightly scary one with the cat on my lap and then unwind for sleep with the soppy one! 

KK

DawnW

((Hugs)) @Thrifty_Taylor

NSD #4 for me today

I am feeling very tired today. Happens sometimes due to a health condition. Hopefully I will be back on form tomorrow. I have done a few useful things:

Dog walk

Home grown strawberries with breakfast 

Stripped the bed and washed the linen. It dried outside on the line    OH helped me remake the bed with fresh linen.

Repotted a couple of houseplants

Watered everything that needed it in the garden. Just the pots (I have lots of pots) and veggie seedlings, but it took ages. I will need to feed the pots tomorrow after work.

Dinner was easy as I made a shepherds pie base a couple of days ago. Just had to boil potatoes for mash and cook some veg on the side.

Looking forward to an early night, as it is a work day tomorrow.

Thrifty_Taylor

Hope you managed your stretches KK, & that you feel less tired tomorrow @DawnW.

Up at 6.30 to wake DS3 up for work. Didn't exercise today. My forearms are still really sore from moving the heavy sink yesterday.

Met up with a lovely teacher friend from school. Some tears she'd, then we walked a circular route, starting & ending at the beach. There were light showers, but we sat in a picnic bench & are cake 😋 By the time I dropped her home, we'd been chatting & ranting about work for 4.5 hours! 🤣

Dropped finished sewing off, & collected the death certificate. Quite hard to read the exact place where DS1 died. Haven't heard anything today about releasing his possessions. Maybe hear something tomorrow. Paid mum a visit, then collected DS3 from work. Nipped into L1DL for a couple if things, thankfully the app worked today, so I got a free cake & free big box of strawberries 😊

Had a 10 mins nap after tea, took things off the airer & put the towels off the line on it, then started a new gonk.

Grateful for everyone's support (including all of you), laughing with my teacher friend, being able to nod off very quickly & deeply

Rowan9

Thinking of you @Thrifty_Taylor
Grateful for the chance to work from home this morning, for windows open and birdsong, for the magnificent trees. 

Shrewbie

KajiKita said:

@Shrewbie, please share your plan for dealing with boar. We have them here as well and it puts me off walking in the woods on my own …

Sorry, I just saw this!!! well I was thinking about buying some sort of bear spray?! for use only if I was really up sh*t creek. Supposing first I could try to climb something or failing that dodge them from side to side (like a matador - because, like bulls, they can only charge in straight lines apparently)  hopefully it would not get to that stage... ha ha ha

grandmanerd

I was awake at 4 am, started writing lists of things to do, going off things I could see and breaking the elephant jobs into small segments. 5 large boxes have moved from the front room to the kitchen, about half the contents have been put away. Some of the boxes were too heavy so I made another 3 trips with a half sized box containing the items I'd had to take out of the boxes.

Grateful for getting things done, baked potatoes, fitting lots into each drawer.

dizzyblnd

Sneaking back in…

I don’t know where the last 2 weeks have gone. I feel like I’ve blinked and now suddenly it’s the 12th. I have been racking up the nsds though. Didn’t spend 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th, 11th or today, so at a respectable 8 nsds now. Been treating myself to a homemade egg salad bagel every day. It’s been delicious. Probably going to need to spend tomorrow but I’ll see if I can hang it out until Saturday. 

Enjoyed the sunny weather today. It always makes me smile. Grateful for a Roald Dahl book that I’m reading with youngest. Haven’t read it in ages and it’s nice to be reading it again. Need to plan for more balance in my life. The last two weeks have not felt balanced at all. Work has been stressful and some days I have felt like my blood pressure would be high ha ha. I can’t see how to balance work/ life without stress. Any tips? It’s not like work is optional for most and home life jobs just keep piling up.