Travelling On

Karmacat · 5 March 2018 at 3:06PM

Thanks beanie - its starting well, for sure. I actually posted the "hello" card, only 5 days late or so

plus I sent the requested photographs off to the writer :j Calling a halt now, for a nice long break

beanielou · 5 March 2018 at 3:07PM

I have written some notes for a commitee I am on & oooops here I am back on here :eek:

Karmacat · 5 March 2018 at 3:11PM

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: omigod, I remember when I was on the committee of the local counselling organisation, and I hated it **so** much! Best of luck, beanie, I'm sorry but you're going to need it :eek:

:kisses3:

beanielou · 5 March 2018 at 3:23PM

Karmacat wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: omigod, I remember when I was on the committee of the local counselling organisation, and I hated it **so** much! Best of luck, beanie, I'm sorry but you're going to need it :eek:

:kisses3:

Thanks:rotfl::rotfl:

themadvix · 6 March 2018 at 9:45AM

I can't say I miss my minute-writing duties from previous committee roles

KC, if it helps, my to-do list today includes 'text so-and-so' and 'email the same so-and-so' as separate items... whatever helps to get it done, I say!

Cheery_Daff · 6 March 2018 at 9:53AM

Karmacat wrote: »

Your new house sounds great - and I do love the sharpness of your delivery people round there, very impressive to be so accurate with the timing :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I would have been more impressed if they'd delivered it to our actual HOUSE rather than dropping it off at the local post office, which is two miles away :mad: There was no snow left on the road either so I can't see any reason other than they wouldn't have made their silly delivery window if they'd come all the way out to the house!

Ooh, passport sounds exciting, as does Norway! :j :j :j

Karmacat · 6 March 2018 at 10:10AM

themadvix wrote: »

KC, if it helps, my to-do list today includes 'text so-and-so' and 'email the same so-and-so' as separate items... whatever helps to get it done, I say!

Yes it does, thank you! Sometimes I get to the stage quoted by the most recent Letter Writer to Captain Awkward, "I’m now an awkwardness alien who can’t effing Person anymore". Possibly I have more of the need for perfection thing going on than I realised ...

So, the list was:
- open post.
Yes

- phone call needed to arrange routine checkup.
Yes

- second phone call needed to arrange second routine checkup.
Not yet

- blog about the cold weather and precautions.
Started

- finish sorting patchwork stash.
Not yet

- 1 card and two emails need sending,
Card sent.
No email yet.
No email yet (see what I did there )

- cut my hair
Yes :j its ragged, but I'm not going to a hairdresser till flu season ends.

Karmacat · 6 March 2018 at 10:13AM

So, to add to the to-do list:
- phone builder from last Nov/Dec to get them to replace the latch on the side gate that leads to the garden. At the moment, I'm having to store an old kitchen knife at the front of the house, because a linkage of some sort inside the latch has broken

I nearly got trapped when I used the back door to go to the front of the house ....

- lots more tidying/scanning/sorting, partly to make space for a supermarket delivery today, partly because my sister's coming round tomorrow and its a good chance to get rid of some stuff of hers that I needed to scan first

[Deleted User] · 6 March 2018 at 10:30AM

Good to see you've opened your post, KC:beer:.

I'm a major procrastinator in lots of areas of my life:o but opening my post isn't one of them:j. I can happily ignore a ringing phone or delay opening emails but just can't ignore my post. I have to open envelopes as soon as I get them each day, even though I can tell from the outside of some of the envelopes that they might contain something less than pleasant, such as bills.

I phoned my SIL yesterday and she was in the midst of going through the masses of photographs that my brother had gathered together. All our family photos from childhood days went to him and he put them on disc years ago. He sent me some discs but I'm not sure I have any equipment where I can view them nowadays. My laptop doesn't have a disc-drive:(.. I assume I can buy one to plug in.

She said she was planning to hand the actual photo stash over to me but to be honest I don't really want them:o. I'm not a photo person, I have so few that I ever took, and have no idea what I'll do with them if I get them. Probably better for me just to have a look at them and then pass them on to my brother's children and grandchildren as I have no children of my own.

Karmacat · 6 March 2018 at 11:16AM

I'm glad your SiL is keeping in touch a bit, CBC. The whole photos thing is an issue at our age, isn't it, when you don't have children. Well, lots of things, actually.

I have wanted some things, and a few photos, but I don't want lots of physical photos, I really don't - I have a tin of my own, almost a cubic foot, stashed with my own, and thats almost it. I'll keep the very old ones (a couple of dozen from 100 years ago or so, from *all* branches of the family) and put them in one of the genealogical folders I got from my mum's stash. Then the next generation can sort it out when I turn up my toes

Not opening the post ... sigh ... it started off with Tim Ferriss, The Four Hour Working Week, when he recommended just opening your post twice a week, simply for the sake of efficiency. Then when I got really ill, that slipped to once a week, especially as I realised how long infections can linger on postal material

and I've never pulled it back. But really, unless I recognise an envelope to be personal, I'll keep it to once a week, I'm content with that. Monday afternoons. Healthy walk with the council group is in the morning, do the post in the afternoon to set me up for the week. There we go

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