Week 29ish/52
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ruricIt's been a while since I did one of these.
HOME: still revamping my "Do ALL The Things" list and hoping to make progress - see below.
HEALTH: finished phased return but now working 4 day weeks to 20 August to use up annual leave. Have also booked time off from 20 August to 31st August and may take 1-6 September too - again need to use annual leave (likely to be a week in London and a week in Wales).
LIFE ADMIN: caught up with some forgotten payments and a couple of parking tickets (curse ANPR). Did a credit card switcheroo before expiry of balance transfer offers so all debt is 0% and on track to be paid off. Sinking funds looking good and only major bills upcoming is cat insurance renewal. Sorting pensions on back burner until decluttering done - which should reveal where I stashed all the paperwork!
DIGITAL DECLUTTER: JFC cannot catch a break here! Phone is full - need to look at killing some apps and re ieejng whats burning through my storage space. Emails (2 main1 fan related gmails) went out of control, now a bit more back under control but still apparently subbed to too many lists. Big unsubbing exercise coming. Staying on top of transferring To Keep items from tablet to dropbox.
GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: Ive done nothing on garden or allotments since late April/early May. Committee have given me a pass on cultivation of allotment as long as I strim/weed/prep for next season which is fair. Back/front gardens plan to tidy by end of August and plant up for winter.
COOKING/EATING: I lived on takeaways the 6 weeks I was off work - no spoons for cooking/food prep. Proving a difficult habit to break but some progress being made.
READING/LISTENING: still readingepic amounts of Heated Rivalry fanfic. Barely scratching the surface and most of what I've read is sooooooo good. I've broken my own rule multiple times and am reading so many WIPs.
WATCHING: caught up on a lot of viewing when off. Up to date on summer shows. Enjoying The Vampire Lestat. Trying not to get involved with new series!
CREATING/LEARNING: have been back to crochet club for last two weeks. Getting close to finishing granny's quare bag projects (small bag and project bag). All square finished just need to join, linebags and create handles.
CATS: all good. They're both being super affectionate at the moment. Cuddles all the time.
VOLUNTEERING: missed the last committee meeting but we're in a low activity phase until September when we have end of season BBQ and start work days again.
SOCIALISING: this was a while back but Steve Carlson came over for his annual West Hampstead UK gig on 27 June so got to hang withgingerpig and do a bit of crowd and autograph management. Put in a request that he sing one of his old songs "Chloe Bowed Her Head" an all time fave of mine- which he did mid gig. Ta Steve! Stayed overnight with gingerpig in a perfectly located airbnb and had a fab post gig/full English brekkie Sunday morning before we toddled off on separate journey's home. Was supposed to be meeting Heated Rivalry pals yesterday for a reading event (Tonsil Hockey) alas I picked up a stomach bug from somewhere so stayed home.
WORK: our temp office space is hot but not unbearable, being off for 6 weeks put the wind up everyone so additional support is still happening, allotment software well on the way to being purchased and I have at least 3 people checking that I'm not working late - hold this space!
Super glad to be working a day week this coming week but it will be a busy one - combo of courses, inspections and appeals means I only have Wednesday for admin. So plan to be in the office all week. Friday will be cleaning the flat and crochet club whi h should mean time for the garden and allotment at the weekend.
HOME: still revamping my "Do ALL The Things" list and hoping to make progress - see below.
HEALTH: finished phased return but now working 4 day weeks to 20 August to use up annual leave. Have also booked time off from 20 August to 31st August and may take 1-6 September too - again need to use annual leave (likely to be a week in London and a week in Wales).
LIFE ADMIN: caught up with some forgotten payments and a couple of parking tickets (curse ANPR). Did a credit card switcheroo before expiry of balance transfer offers so all debt is 0% and on track to be paid off. Sinking funds looking good and only major bills upcoming is cat insurance renewal. Sorting pensions on back burner until decluttering done - which should reveal where I stashed all the paperwork!
DIGITAL DECLUTTER: JFC cannot catch a break here! Phone is full - need to look at killing some apps and re ieejng whats burning through my storage space. Emails (2 main1 fan related gmails) went out of control, now a bit more back under control but still apparently subbed to too many lists. Big unsubbing exercise coming. Staying on top of transferring To Keep items from tablet to dropbox.
GARDENING/ALLOTMENTING: Ive done nothing on garden or allotments since late April/early May. Committee have given me a pass on cultivation of allotment as long as I strim/weed/prep for next season which is fair. Back/front gardens plan to tidy by end of August and plant up for winter.
COOKING/EATING: I lived on takeaways the 6 weeks I was off work - no spoons for cooking/food prep. Proving a difficult habit to break but some progress being made.
READING/LISTENING: still readingepic amounts of Heated Rivalry fanfic. Barely scratching the surface and most of what I've read is sooooooo good. I've broken my own rule multiple times and am reading so many WIPs.
WATCHING: caught up on a lot of viewing when off. Up to date on summer shows. Enjoying The Vampire Lestat. Trying not to get involved with new series!
CREATING/LEARNING: have been back to crochet club for last two weeks. Getting close to finishing granny's quare bag projects (small bag and project bag). All square finished just need to join, linebags and create handles.
CATS: all good. They're both being super affectionate at the moment. Cuddles all the time.
VOLUNTEERING: missed the last committee meeting but we're in a low activity phase until September when we have end of season BBQ and start work days again.
SOCIALISING: this was a while back but Steve Carlson came over for his annual West Hampstead UK gig on 27 June so got to hang with
gingerpig and do a bit of crowd and autograph management. Put in a request that he sing one of his old songs "Chloe Bowed Her Head" an all time fave of mine- which he did mid gig. Ta Steve! Stayed overnight with gingerpig in a perfectly located airbnb and had a fab post gig/full English brekkie Sunday morning before we toddled off on separate journey's home. Was supposed to be meeting Heated Rivalry pals yesterday for a reading event (Tonsil Hockey) alas I picked up a stomach bug from somewhere so stayed home. WORK: our temp office space is hot but not unbearable, being off for 6 weeks put the wind up everyone so additional support is still happening, allotment software well on the way to being purchased and I have at least 3 people checking that I'm not working late - hold this space!
Super glad to be working a day week this coming week but it will be a busy one - combo of courses, inspections and appeals means I only have Wednesday for admin. So plan to be in the office all week. Friday will be cleaning the flat and crochet club whi h should mean time for the garden and allotment at the weekend.
