Good afternoon @lucysmam and everyone! I'm late today. I had a very bad night's sleep last night so I was planning on going back to sleep after breakfast, but then Mr Dilemma made the mistake of mentioning he wanted to do something productive so I grabbed the opportunity with both hands and suggested cleaning out 'my' shed. I wonder what your DD2 did that was productive @lucysmam .
It's only 'my' shed to distinguish it from 'his' shed. 'His' shed is meant to contain his tools etc. I don't really know what it does contain, but whatever it is is in a big pile and I know there are several briefcases (I know! Don't ask me why) full of old screws, nuts, bolts, washers and other random pieces of metal. I have tried to suggest, gently (OK, maybe not so gently) that those briefcases should be got rid of as (a) he doesn't actually do any DIY any more and (b) if he DID do any DIY we could afford to buy some new screws.... but this has fallen on deaf ears. Anyhoo.... all that is merely a preamble to my informing you that since it appears to be impossible to put any more junk into HIS shed, said junk seems to have made its way into MY shed.
MY shed is meant to contain the spare fridge and freezers, and shelves on which are stored non-perishable spare stores and boxes containing things like the china sets left to me by my mum which I can't bear to get rid of and a plastic container with the spare jam jars and kilner jars I need for jam making. While doing a stock take of the freezer contents last weekend/the weekend before that I noted that MY shed appeared to have been taken over by a lot of unnecessary junk. Hence the shed clear out this morning.
Mr Dilemma was definitely less than thrilled when I let him know that shed-clearing was on the cards, but soon cheered up when he was able to show me that some of the said 'junk' was actually stuff that I had allowed to be put in the shed in the first place.
We ended up with 2 black bags full of rubbish, a large box of stuff for the charity shop (ice-cream maker anyone?), a box of items offered to our daughters and which they said they wanted, and a small box of stuff for the tip.
More importantly, I now know where the 'box-of-candles-in-case-of-emergencies' is, ditto the 'pretty-cake-stands-we-used-for-our-wedding' and the 'great-big-hurricane-lamps-I-want-to-offer-my-massage-therapist-to-use-for-her-wedding-decorations'. All in all, a very productive morning.
This was followed by a scrappy lunch of 'whatever's in the fridge that needs using up' and then a well-deserved nap, from which I have recently awoken.
I am also very VERY happy that I received some flowers from my local daughter for mother's day today. We had a couple of very rocky years at the time that I was diagnosed with breast cancer when she didn't talk to me at all, which was incredibly distressing, but we appear to be back to normal now. My daughters are absolutely the lights of my life so I am actually feeling extremely emotional at the moment.
I have a very busy month ahead with hospital appointments etc., so I'm going to have to go to a lot of them in work hours. I arrange what I can for my days off, but you can't pick and choose when it's a hospital appointment really. I have an appointment with oral surgery on Tuesday - I'm on bisphosphonates which can cause osteoporosis of the jaw and I need my two remaining baby teeth to be removed (I'm 64!) so my dentist has referred me to the hospital for that. Then I have a CT booked for Wednesday afternoon, to check for cancer recurrence. The following week I will have started some new heart medication, so I have two separate ECGs booked. Then I have a dental appointment and a GP appointment... and so it goes. I'm glad I'm retiring soon! I barely have time to work!