Reasons to be cheerful

Lots of reasons to be cheerful at the moment.

  • Worked out (with a little help) why the gas cylinder is leaking and how to fix it.  New part arriving tomorrow.
  • Discovered why the oil gauge in the house is flashing and showing an odd symbol.  Plumber booked to fit a new one.
  • Work to replace the leaky veranda roof starts tomorrow morning.
  • Because of the work to the veranda roof a skip arrives in the morning which means I can start clearing sheds of the rubbish which has been accumulating over several years.
  • Been out and about meeting friends I haven't seen in ages, helped celebrate a birthday and have a wedding to look forward to at the end of the month.
  • New outfit for the wedding, in a size I haven't been able to get into for nearly 40 years, is now hanging in the wardrobe.
  • The weight I've lost is staying away.
AND
  • The stats page for this blog is showing that yesterday 945 people looked at it.
If those aren't reasons to be cheerful I'm not quite sure what will do it.


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Comments

CW said…
Doesn't it feel wonderful to get things done when they need to be done, rather than having to wait on someone else to decide to take care of it? There's a lot of positive in caregiving that I didn't really see before now. One bad thing is I filled Robert's pill box last night after he went to bed. This evening, he complained that his pill box was all messed up. I went in to see what the problem was and he'd taken the evening pills as this morning's dose because he had the pill box upside down again... I apologized for not keeping better track of him... I had him take Sunday PM for tonight -- don't know what that will do to his system... I'll get him back on track tomorrow. Will have to find a way to take better control of his medication dispensing. :/
8 July 2021 at 03:30
Carol S said…
Well done Jane - so many ticks against your to do list. Guess I’m going to have to change the habit of a lifetime - putting things off til tomorrow what I could do today - perhaps dementia will finally help me where New Years resolutions never have 🤗. Life is so much easier when you just get jobs done!!
8 July 2021 at 07:04
Anonymous said…
Wow, that's amazing so many vital jobs done, I feel tired just looking at the list !!haha. Hopefully we will have some good weather next week and you can enjoy the garden and a good book
9 July 2021 at 12:33
Jane said…
CW - I think one of the real benefits of this situation is that decision making. In some ways my life is full of compromise but there are so many things now that I can decide on without need for a discussion. Right at the beginning it frightened the life out of me but now I can't even begin to imagine having a discussion on what to do about something.

Carol S - I too used to be the queen of procrastination and the sheds full of rubbish are proof of it. I'm got better though ever since I realised that the jobs don't go away they just hover at the edge of my mind and drive me crazy until I do them.

Anonymous - it was a proper list wasn't it. Good weather next week would be lovely but my hopes aren't high so I've just booked 2 tanning sessions before the bronzed look all fades away. However I have the book at my side now and am just about to start reading while Ash watches yet another quiz show.
10 July 2021 at 20:35
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