14 months to go!

honeybee1234

Morning everyone!

Another quiet day, thankfully as I am in no way properly awake despite ingesting a lovely huge cuppa not long ago!

In a bit, I'm going to A**a to pick up a couple of bits with DP, which are necessary items from my list which weren't available when I went shopping on Saturday. I'm really happy with how the menu planning and eliminating food waste is going so far, though I do need to remember to label what I'm freezing! 

When I get home, I'll be working on my to do list, which is a rolling list of things I need to get sorted. A really difficult part of my mental health is how my memory has been affected - it's one of those things that you don't really understand how it can happen until it does, and for someone who's previously got two degrees... it's really, really hard to deal with. I have to operate with constant lists and reminders on my phone so I make a point of doing puzzles and games that boost things, and I have been noticing a difference, and DP has said so too so it seems to be helping! I do love a Wordle everyday.

Gardening later if the weather holds out - the lawn needs mowing as it's like a jungle and gardening is so soothing for my brain so looking forward to it!

Have a good day everyone! 

joedenise

I've got a bit addicted to Wordle, Dordle, Quordle, Quordle Sequence, Tightrope, Duotriordle!  I spend quite a bit of time every morning doing them all - DH and I sort of compete against each other to see who can do them in the least moves!

honeybee1234

joedenise said:

I've got a bit addicted to Wordle, Dordle, Quordle, Quordle Sequence, Tightrope, Duotriordle!  I spend quite a bit of time every morning doing them all - DH and I sort of compete against each other to see who can do them in the least moves!

Haha I honestly haven't heard of the rest of those, I must investigate immediately! 😁 We like to do some of the NYT puzzles as a collaborative thing of an evening, and when we get together with family, grown ups and kids all like to compete with Wordle so it's obviously a theme with it! 

joedenise

There are more "ordles"!  There's one with 8 and one with 16 in between quordle and duotriordle.

Once you find quordle you'll find the sequence, tightrope and a couple of other ones that I don't do - I already spend far too much time of playing these games, LOL!

dawnybabes

Ooh, off to hunt the puzzles down 😁😁

honeybee1234

Ahh so we have a blip incoming... 

Yesterday, we went on a trip to Ikea. Now, Ikea restaurant is somewhere we *love* to visit, and I'd planned for us to eat there, then go for the obligatory walk round the store. Which we did (three meals for £10!) and I had a small list of things I wanted.

For reasons I don't fully understand, I splurged and put it on my credit card. A "splurge" for me is £70, comprised of things I'd had on my list for a while. I actually edited out a couple of things so would've been more, in some semblance of "sensible decisions", but as we'd gotten to the tills, and I was getting my credit card out of my purse, I was thinking, "what are you doing?!"  And I still did it 😔

So, I had the cash available for about half of what I bought, and DP is going to contribute £19 for something he wanted. But I've still put it on the card when I really shouldn't have and I'm having post-shopping guilt. I've been doing way better than I imagined I could with paying my cards down, and now I've bumped up the balance - and not even for an emergency, just because I fancied a couple of bits earlier than I'd planned to buy them. 

In other news, yesterday morning I got a text message from DWP saying:

"Your PIP review is complete. You should receive your decision letter in 2 weeks. Once you receive your letter, contact us if you have any questions. Do not call before you get the letter as we will not be able to tell you the decision. Please remember to contact us if your circumstances change."

*Obviously* I've sat trying to analyse this but I've got it very wrong before sooooooo...! I had a lengthy phone conversation with my case manager a few months ago and the hope was that because there's been no change, it could be dealt with "in house" and not need to be outsourced to the wonderful Capita. I'm thinking with this text arriving way, way sooner than expected - I was told the waiting time was 12 months in January - that hopefully, they've been able to process it themselves. I shall update when I know more. 

Have a good day everyone!