RustyRaven

Organising win for the day: the box my fit watch came in is the perfect fit to go in my bathroom organiser and tidy up my unruly packets of dental floss picks.

I've tidied up the bathroom cabinet a bit, and a section of the pantry that was a chaotic mix of vitamin pills, pet supplies and a few random things that were far better off elsewhere.

I'm continuing to work on the area of the study that became a dumping ground for all the miscellaneous stuff I wasn't sure where to put when I moved. The plan is to clear out all the excess clutter and tidy everything up and create space for the new fitness stuff.

And it would only take a couple of googly eyes on the bag to turn it into a pet.

I don't think Mr Woof would go well in an appartment, but in a house he's great - he self-evacuates to the back yard every time there is a noise he doesn't like. Which includes smoke alarms, blenders, crockery clinking... He evacuates multiple times a day when I'm home!

Miss Meow would be a problem if she gets scared and goes into hide mode. She's black and can melt into shadows, there is a good chance I wouldn't be able to find her in an emergency.

My new fitness watch ~~is arriving today~~ arrived as I was writing this message, so I'll be able to start actually tracking my steps. My initial goal for steps should be quite achievable: wear the watch for a week and figure out what I'm actually doing now.

Some weights are expected to arrive today or tomorrow, most likely they will arrive tomorrow with a whole bunch of stuff that will be piled up at my door for me to struggle to move inside after getting home late from Melbourne. Any time you only have one day you're not home that's when the parcels are most likely to be delivered!

As well as the treadmill I'm also waiting on some new scales, as mine died last week after I finally got around to putting new batteries in. It managed one last weight measure, then got stuck trying to connect to wifi and passed away peacefully overnight. Plus some little miscellaneous things like a little whiteboard to write down my plans and some new shoes.

I almost lost track of time & missed getting to the pet store. Fortunately they don't close until 6 so I was able to get Miss Meow's prescription food. Ouch that's expensive. It doesn't help that they didn't have the smallest bags, so I've got enough to keep Missy fed for a couple of months. I just hope it helps.

The new cutlery has arrived. It is impressively shiny, but extracting the 'display' set from the front of the box was quite a challenge, I had to use pliers to untwist the wires. Every single piece was also in an individual plastic bag which was a bit of a nuisance.

The old cutlery is in a bag ready to go to work, we are always short on cutlery there.

That means you get a nice new (and clean!) one. This is a good thing! Depending on the council you might even be able to just log it as missing online.

I'm at the vet with Miss Meow as she has been vomiting. We got to start with a fun game of hide and seek in the garden. Fortunately I managed to avoid claw marks. She is not impressed with the whole process.

Edit: There was a goat in the waiting room!

Miss Meow has had a blood test done and been prescribed some anti-allergenic food. Now I just need to wait and see for a bit more. Hopefully we get this sorted sooner rather than later - she seems quite fine other than the vomiting, but I'm a bit over getting out of bed and stepping in a pike of cat puke.

Half a grapefruit and a cup of black coffee, please.

Morning harvest

The herbs needed a bit of a trim so I've picked some to dry.

This sounds a lot like me. Hopefully in the future I'll have some success of my own to share too. I've always struggled with weight, but the peri-menopause hormal changes have really heaped on extra struggle in the last few years which has been a bit discouraging.

Thanks for sharing your story, it does help 🙂

I've ordered a cheap Samsung one that will track steps for me. I've used the trackers in the past and found the way they are programmed to give rewards and things doesn't really work well for me, so I'm just going to use the data for my own system. Part of my neurodivergence is that most reward/punishment type systems really don't work for me, which is unfortunate as thats what most systems and programs work on!