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Pumpkin spice and ghost abound, fledglings flying through the crazy

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HillsBesideTheSea · 27/09/2021 21:39

Right for this seasonal thread of the Fledgings, I invite you to pull up a comfy chair around the fire pit and pour yourself a mug of something that you fancy.

We loosely follow the flylady system and her babysteps. But we have our own spin, our own abbreviations and have been around for far longer than some of us would like to admit. If you are new to these parts welcome in, we'll get you up to speed in no time. But we have rules, yes rules!

Rule 1: No fledgling left behind.
life happens. If you fall off the thread, jump back when you are ready.

Rule 2: If you wouldn't say it to someone else, don't say it to yourself
Be kind to yourself, the world is still crazy, and life happens. Just do what you can, when you can.

Right that's the rules now for the fun part. Acronyms and autocorrects!
Amongst others (and there are others but we'll have to explain as we go along)
It's all gone a bit ponty pridd - tits up, pete tong, wrong etc etc we get to thank auto correct for this
WOW wash out Wednesday - humps days often don't go to plan and get washed out
LOL round these parts it is load of laundry

Urm... Yeah about that fire pit and comfy chair... Dibs on the big floofy one with fluffy blankies... Last one in brings the marshmallows!

Grin
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Stilllivinginazoo · 11/10/2021 06:27

red hope you managed more sleep
I'm using the deliciously Ella app to help mine.im averaging 5 hours,some odd nights 6-7 which feels wierd and strangely more tiring after so little sleep for so long.i am doing meditation twice a day too.10 minutes to start the day,and anxiety release 10 minutes in the afternoons.i definitely am getting calmer without realising it!

Anyway it's monday.ds has 9-1 in school today so I'd best get up feed the furry overlords and crack on with the day!

Strength to all with lurgy DC and those with DC that are being track and traced or whose friends are dropping like fliesBrew

HillsBesideTheSea · 11/10/2021 06:41

Good morning beautiful people.
(yeah that is way to perky for not yet 7am on a monday morning)

Linky poos...

It's house bleurgh day. - she is made you cant do it hour she says you can
Launch pad here
babysteps here

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THOSEcobwebsareDECOR · 11/10/2021 06:52

Brew morning all

THOSEcobwebsareDECOR · 11/10/2021 06:59

Catching up

scream i hate to be a party pooper but might be an idea to get cagletini tested, throwing up was first thing wrong with my positive dc and our primary are saying alot of the positive cases have started with D or V Sad

ScreamToTheSky · 11/10/2021 07:33

I did wonder those but we all had covid six weeks ago. We aren’t meant to use PCR tests again for 90 days :(

THOSEcobwebsareDECOR · 11/10/2021 07:37

Ah i see! Well i assume its unlikely then!

ScreamToTheSky · 11/10/2021 08:12

I hope so. She’s been under the weather since her flu spray on Wednesday so I’m hoping it’s that! Keeping an eye on her temperature as well. All three Caglets have been coughing a bit since isolation so nothing new there either. It’s all so confusing!

Anyway must get up. Induction at 9am! Exciting! Scary! All the feelings!

po3.1
❗️Meds and breakfast
❗️Shower and nice clothes (tempting to stay in pyjama bottoms since it’s only on Teams, but I’d best not 🤣)
❗️Discuss plan for the day - DH is off to a work event as soon as I’ve finished (going a bit late as Cagletini is home from nursery), and I’m not really sure what else we can do in the living room tonight due to clubs etc.

HillsBesideTheSea · 11/10/2021 08:14

I do not know what i did in my sleep last night but dislocated thumb and wrist on one side and shoulder on the other Confused everything has gone back now, but pain killers will be needed.

Ds is off school today again. Hopefully back tomorrow so it is heads down and in the books today. He thought he could cheat on his allergies and is paying the price with a dodgy tummy today.

Another day of all the things that has to be done. but first coffee, bath and clothes.

Then:
tame the kitchen
get herbs into dehydrator
rescue what hasn't frozen in the garden. Pak choi apparently does not like it to be down below 10C Sad so that is just mushy rotted stuff to be removed from the bed. In gardening you often kill things learning the hard way Hmm
write shopping list for later
email tutor
drop stuff off with friend
food shop
be very glad moved allergy tests as the dust i am disturbing is horrific and i feel like shite, but at least i can take an allergy tablet

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ScreamToTheSky · 11/10/2021 08:50

Oh no hills I hope you both feel better soon!

po3.2
❗️Finish drying hair
❗️Set up PC and quickly create zoom link for 2pm pupil
❗️Tidy desk and shelves behind me ready for meeting!

IWillWoooTheGhoulWillow · 11/10/2021 09:56

Morning all! Sorry to hear about poorly / dislocated / non-sleeping people. Zoo I might need to try that app, I am suddenly waking at 4am. Gave up.and made a cup of tea at a quarter to five, went to sleep again at about half past until I woke up with a start at a quarter to eight, totally unable to work out what day it was. Feeling very confused by the start of the week.

YesTaDa:
❤️ Stewed 6lbs of apples from the garden 🧡 2x LOL washed, dried and put away
💛 Made roast pork etc and apple crumble

Ta da:
❤️ Up, washed, dressed etc
🧡 First LOL on
💛 Took DD to her former junior school to volunteer as a classroom assistant. Today is Egyptian Day, so she has gone as an archaeologist - jeans, docs, leather jacket, Indiana Jones t-shirt, paintbrush 😂
💚 Stopped at the churchyard to tidy Dad up and tip the water out of all his pots. I now have wet socks.
💙 Bough a Belgian bun for breakfast

Ta didn't:
❌ Begin new Healthy Eating Lifestyle (see above re: bun)

To do:
🕸️ Hang out LOL 1
🍁 Get fisherprice toys off the sofa and up to the barn
🕸️ Write up kitchen calendar with plans and food for the week
🍁 Start the tortuous process of getting the medical insurance company to explain WTAF they are playing at, refusing to pay part of an invoice (but not an obvious part) because "they've covered it already"??
🕸️ Next LOL
🍁 Strip and remake our bed
🕸️ Take new car back to garage as stereo doesn't work. At all. 🤬
🍁 Pick up DD
🕸️ Cook dinner (what is it?)

First thing: make more tea.

Stilllivinginazoo · 11/10/2021 11:07

willow Belgium buns are
A)a carbohydrate
B) have dried fruit in
C) mood boosting as a delicious treat
On those grounds it is healthyGrin
Hills I have no answers how you did that,but your ninja skills during dream phase must be epic to dislocate so much!sorry about mushy plans and daft teen try eat stuff he shouldn't.hope your day gets better!
Sing urg.hope shes feeling a bit better.perhaps the not covid cold has come for cagletini?I must admit I quite enjoyed the lack of illnesses lockdowns bought...
That assume you are(for now) still upright?(passesBrew) long may this continue!

Tada
Cats fed
Wash on
Wash up
Scrub milk spilt off dining table from yesterday

ScreamToTheSky · 11/10/2021 11:33

Work induction was great. It all seems very real now! I also get a work laptop and phone (optional, but I said yes please as it would be a pain having to switch between two accounts on the PC) so I’m feeling all grown up 🤣

Am a bit tired and overwhelmed now. Happy but I guess it’s all still very new! I should be getting on with stuff. I have maths at 2 and then a chat with my line manager at 3.15 (to discuss stuff specific to my role and not

ScreamToTheSky · 11/10/2021 11:40

Oops 🤦🏻‍♀️

Anyway. Also got to figure out what else to try and get done. On Wednesday we have someone from the HA coming to inspect the floor (taking some carpet up has revealed some cracks in the concrete) so we need to prepare for that, but today is busy and tomorrow just got busier too as I have my first staff meeting :o

Cagletini is currently barrelling round the room at eleventy miles an hour and shouting so I’m thinking she’s over the worst. :o

po3.3
❗️Book dancing
❗️Write a list of what we should try and do before tomorrow afternoon, and when we could fit it in
❗️Maths with DS

ScreamToTheSky · 11/10/2021 11:41

Oh good, DH just messaged and his work thing finished early so we can hopefully get on with stuff when he gets in!

Stilllivinginazoo · 11/10/2021 12:00

sing yay for better DC(I think?🤣) And inductions going well,and the cleaning helper/cavalry coming home early enough to be useful!

Got screws,and couple cleaning bits.now to enter girls room of doom.from previous experience I am donning rubber and preparing some disinfect before entering(liquid vegetables in snack bags,sticky patches of unknown origin etc)

HillsBesideTheSea · 11/10/2021 12:09

Zoo i want those ninja skills in the day time...

I got side tracked.
so deep in the middle of some studies
but have had bath and nearly have clothes. Blush
have also walked around the house muttering about those fuckers. Interestingly enough today i had company. Certain individuals have been causing problems and have decided we are the problem not them Hmm

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ScreamToTheSky · 11/10/2021 12:43

Eek. Just had a phone call from the HA, and they’re coming tomorrow afternoon instead of Wednesday. Which is great but means we have to get even more done today! So:

po3.3
❗️Make new plan with DH. Sadly this may well include needing to buy some cheap stacking boxes for temporary storage.
❗️Tutoring admin and prep for today’s lesson
❗️Move a few big things out of the living room

Stilllivinginazoo · 11/10/2021 12:48

We all need ninja skills in the day I think hills
I also have those that think the problems are anyone but them.i never asked for such tests of patience,but here we are...

Talking testing my patience I ventured tentatively into room of doom and began clearing a path on dd2 side.so far so good 99%missed laundry basket,odd bit fell out box under bed that houses deodorants,shower gels etc,stray bit school stuff hastily grabbed this morning and discarded by bag it lives in.nice and easy..huge pile on lil zoo side and lo and behold I start moving things to discover BRAND NEW duvet has dirty marks on despite being placed in a bag til she has showeredand as I moved that there is a selection of nappy bags with used sanitary stuff in all over her stuff/floor.she has a bin under her bed,and if she forgot/didn't want ask where it was there's still no excuse why didn't retrieve a carrier bag to put them in
I rinsed gloves with zo flora and left them on her chest drawers...she can pick those up and help sort her stuff as it will all need disinfecting now.my intention had been to try and find homes for her things and look at if it's possible to make enough space /storage to even out their shared space(or else I will gave to give up my room) but I'm not sorting that level of us mess outSad

Stilllivinginazoo · 11/10/2021 12:51

Bypassed to bathroom and there's cotton pads in the sink AGAIN(3rd day in a row where she's taken of mascara with miscellular water in the mirror) warnings yesterday about it.so bathrooms not getting cleaned either til she's retrieved soggy bits from the sink and happens again mascara,pads and water will be taken for a couple of days

YupIFreakilyHave · 11/10/2021 15:03

I've spent the day watching crap telly and trying to doze as I am off work due to feeling unwell. Aching all over, dizzy, headache and feeling sick. My hot water is keep me company. I'm hoping to be back at tomorrow.

scream yay at induction and helpers and healthy cagletini

zoo sounds grim

hills 🥷

HillsBesideTheSea · 11/10/2021 15:15

yup those are all the symptoms ds' school sent home as for requiring a PCR test, and then stay home ten days.
Hope you feel better soon!

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YupIFreakilyHave · 11/10/2021 15:30

Oh dear. That's not good. I've had Covid-19 earlier in the year and I'm double vaxxed - are there any cases of getting Covid-19 for the second time when double vaxxed? I don't really keep up with the latest info.

HillsBesideTheSea · 11/10/2021 16:03

Unfortunately yes, you can still get it, it is just it should be less severe

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THOSEcobwebsareDECOR · 11/10/2021 16:17

yup i would do an LFT

HillsBesideTheSea · 11/10/2021 16:20

Advice from school is PCR as lateral flow likely to give false negative with those symptoms. Has the advice changed?

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