Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 6: Calmly through the day

[MissConductUS]

I've started a new one. Please join us and share the boring and mundane things happening in your world. It will be calming for all.

@Spudlet

Thank you all - I will look for that, *@Nydj*. I am a chronic contingency planner, once I have a contingency plan I’m fine. I like to plan for the worst case scenario at all times! So knowing there’s an app is a big help. There is a village volunteer group (I’m one of them) that is there to collect prescriptions and food and things, but it’s not knowing whether someone will be able to help that’s the problem for me - having a backup plan is what I need.

I can totally relate. DH says I am a pessimist but I just like to have back up plans and then I, like you, can relax. Morrisons are also still doing the boxes which are supposed to be very good value so that’s a back up for the back up plan .

@frownette
I will, when the time comes, there's a preparatory talk first, then the surgery, an overnight stay, 3 weeks or so of sick leave with physio and rest and after that WFH bc. I won't be able to get to and from work for a while.
If everything goes according to plan, that is.

That's why I will need to do the christmas baking early this year.

The carpet men finally showed up and recarpeted my daughters bedroom. It looks lovely.

I wrote a poem. Worked on my jigsaw.

Watching New Girl with the family during dinner.

I worked out how to attach cutting discs to my Dremel.

The little metal 'stick' that came with the discs has the teeniest, tiniest, slot head screw right at the top.

Couldn't see it and didn't know it was there until some guy on YouTube, with a thick Eastern European accent demonstrated how it works.

Very pleased with myself.😊

Haha, @MissConductUS, those husbands are so elusive. Where DO they go?

I had a cheese and hummus wrap. It was nice, so I had another one.

I am going for a run. I haven’t done any exercise since the gym shut and I feel....unsettled. It’s freezing and raining out and all my gym gear is aimed for indoor exercise. How unpleasant! But I will feel better afterwards!

DS is unwell.

DS is NEVER unwell. The last time he was ill was 18 months ago when he had altitude sickness on Mt Kenya (so not actually ill) Before that he can't remember.

He has decided he will go to bed after Explorers on Zoom (unheard of) He's taken 2 ibuprofen (again unheard of) I'm waiting for a verdict on what he's going to eat in order to gauge exactly how ill he might be. The fact he's not eaten yet is Not A Good Sign.

@Champagneforeveryone - What are his symptoms and how did they come on? Any fever? How old is he?

@Squirrel26 - On MN they seem to wind up under the patio somehow.

@Champagneforeveryone hope he’s ok....poor thing!

I’m back safe from running and it wasn’t too cold.

@Squirrel26

I had a fascinating dream last night that I was in Boots trying to decide what type of hair bands to buy. My psyche is sooo interesting.

Great dull dream update there. 👍😄

Considering I have a desk-based role, I clocked up 8.5k steps in work despite driving in to work and then home today. I know people clock up miles a day in some jobs (eg hospital porters) but I was surprised at how much I moved today. I’ve since been out for a walk with DH. Go me!

Todays Sodding news is that he finished my peas after dinner because I didn’t put my plate in the dishwasher quickly enough. Lovely neighbour messaged me a photo of him peering in through Shyboy’s catflap this morning. Sodding is definitely more into Shyboy than Shyboy is in to him. We think he misses feline company. Poor Shyboy’s had the gardens on this side of the street more or less to himself for the last 7 years. This can’t be easy on him.

BBC2 are showing the first series of the great pottery throwdown (from 2015). This is very exciting news for me but it’s pottery so soothing enough to mention on this threat, I hope.

Oh yesssss! We love that show.

Thank you for good wishes for DS. He has a headache and is achey and cold. I'm confident it's not Covid related at the moment, but will reassess in the morning. Given I leave for work at 6am (with any luck) that will go down like a lead balloon

He's 16 so old enough to be trusted with the state of his own health, though he's mad keen not to be isolated again.

In non plague related dullness, I have managed to finally pair my smart plug with my hub. I can now turn the fish tank light on and off by the power of witchcraft.

I love a gadget

Boooo to plague but yay to gadgetry witchcraft @Champagneforeveryone... keeping everything crossed that it’s just your run of the mill bug!

DS is at home tomorrow, apparently several members of staff have been told they have to isolate as contacts of whoever it is that has the lurgy, and as it’s a tiny village school they just don’t have enough warm bodies to staff the place. So I’ll be trying to do Reception via Zoom for a couple of weeks and hahahahaaaaaaaaa 😬 Knew I should have added an extra wine box to the Tesco order...

Good morning,
dark and dry here and I will get up now for a quiet coffee and then to work. DH wants me to finish early, as he wants to cook couscous.

@Spudlet that is rubbish! Good luck! Am
up 10 minutes early as I’m on unlocking at work today - it remains to be seen whether I actually get to work any earlier! It’s my brother’s birthday today and I have a present wrapped and card written.

I slept from 7.30pm ish to 2am ish and been up since. I missed dinner but ate lots of terrys chocolate orange segments - love the popping candy ones best.

Have got to get all forms to solicitors today and then have arranged a gas check and EPC survey for Wed on old house. Then just need electricty check and to finish clearing it and hope the other side goes through with it.

We also need to do inside of our house now. DD wants paint for her room so will buy her some.

DD just opened her door and the cat howled - cat is after attention from DD and now knows she's awake. DD went in bathroom.

Have just ordered cream teas to be delivered this weekend to three people I know are struggling and I can't get to see. Filled with a warm glow.

@TenCornMaidens That’s so lovely! What a lovely thing to do

Homeschool is going very well here. To whit:

Me: So we’re going to do special school at home for a while DS! What shall we do I wonder? Shall we do some reading?

DS: No

Me: Some writing?

DS: No

Me (possibly with slight edge of desperation): Perhaps some numbers then?

DS (vanishing out of the kitchen at speed): I’m running awaaaaaaaaaay....

Me: Excellent, we’ll count that as PE 😬

God @TenCornMaidens hope you're my friend, cream teas deliveres sounds amazing

I was sent home from work yesterday to self isolate as was identified as a close contact. Slightly dreading two weeks stuck at home with an extremely energetic toddler and DH working 12 hour shifts, and feel like I've really had enough of covid, but to combat my feelings of existential dread I'm making lovely lists of things to do. First up are bread hedgehogs and cleaning the fridge

@Spudlet I think you probably mean ‘DS was offered a wide range of activities appropriate for his stage of development. DS chose to engage in physical activity and practiced his independent learning skills by participating in a physical space separate from his education-facilitator. The education-facilitator chose to engage in a period of written reflection.’

Sounds like a good morning’s work to me.

@Squirrel26

My DD1 is at uni and works part time for a supermarket loading the vans for home deliveries. She suggested she take their driver training as regularly they are short on drivers. She has been a relief driver for a few weeks now.

To show her new status she has been given a new piece of uniform.
She proudly came home with company logo’d BEANIE HAT 😂 the finest part of our day .

@Squirrel26 you have a knack.

I am especially saintly as I can't eat anything in a cream tea. I have to enjoy them vicariously. Also feel that I am supporting all the poor little cafes.

Am making a spinach, mushroom and feta omelette, with a pinch of nutmeg. Will let you know how it turns out.