One day to our Coffee Morning

Friday 17th September 2021

No rain, no flowers.

How you feeling this morning, did you jump out of bed ready for the day ahead, or did you crawl out thinking, oh no, here we go again?   Here's a thought, we either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong - the amount of work is the same!

I've just looked at my Facebook memories and watched this wonderful video of my mom, https://www.facebook.com/595730861/videos/10153462956090862/ it could make me sad because she's no longer here or make me smile (as it has) because I was truly the luckiest kid in the world to be the last of all her children so I got more of her!  We got to go on adventures together, there was many a morning when we almost got as far as the school gates and she'd say do you want to go to work or shall we go have some fun?  Now some people would frown at this, after all education is important but I did okay, I don't feel like I missed out on anything and I have so many amazing memories because of it.  So now, I won't cry because I've lost her, I'll keep smiling because I had the best mom in the world for 51 years of my life, now that's truly blessed. 

Back to the present, a lovely day in huddles yesterday, I get to work with people I really enjoy being in the company of, I love Thursday particularly because Carol and I drive to the huddle together so we get to have a good natter and yesterday was a good natter, she's a true friend, confidant and basically my carer!  Then there's Elle who's also helping me readjust to society lol, sounds like I've been in prison doesn't it :) but seriously I love the chats we have, the little tips she gives me, because she's a different age to me, she's stopping me getting old before my time, it's like no Bev your not a hermit yet! 

I had a descent day food wise, a nice tuna mayo salad, then a beef ragu papperdelle ready meal for tea, enjoyed the last few peanuts and a glass of ginger wine.  Workout wise, I forgot to do one in the afternoon, so did this one the minute I walked in the house so I didn't have an excuse to miss it.  

Not had the best sleep, woke a few times in the night, bloody hot flushes, I've got a doctors appointment next Wednesday about the joys of menopause, let's see how that goes!  

It's housework day today - boo!  It'll only take a couple of hours thankfully and it'll burn a few calories too, I have to admit, I do enjoy having a tidy house, I also got a headstart by cleaning the cooker top yesterday and doing the washing up.  Look at me being a proper grown up!

I'm looking forward to tomorrow, please come support our coffee morning, lots of people have put a lot of effort into it.  It's not just cake, there are stalls too, plus if it's a success, we're talking about doing a Christmas fayre / coffee morning type of thing next.   

I had a bit of a fright last night when I got back from work!  Alfie ran to the back door and started barking, it was going dark by now, so I opened the door for him to run out, I always assume there's a fox out there and we have a sensor light so I'll see.  The light didn't come on though!  Then I looked to the right and noticed one of my garden chairs had gone!  This all happened in about ten seconds as you can imagine, my brain starts to go in all directions, I turned to look at the sensor light and my missing chair was there, positioned under the sensor of the garden light!  Well now I'm thinking hold on, has someone been standing on the chair tampering with the light?  I called my sister to ask if she'd been in the garden - she hadn't.  Then I remembered the window cleaner had been that afternoon, so I went to check the cameras, on my way in the house, I also thought to look at the old main off switch for the outside light and I'd turned it off which is why the outside light wasn't working - DOH!  It was also the window cleaner who'd moved the chair, panic over, no one had been in my garden lol.  It was a horrid feeling though, I won't lie. 

Okay, time to start my day, get my exercise and housework done out the way so I can get onto the good stuff!  I likes Friday's I do, actually I like every day these days, this time last year, being able to say that seemed a very, long way away.  If you're in a dark place right now, keep going, it will get better xx

Mwah, luv ya

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