I moved house

I would love to say that the house move was incredibly well organised and that everything went smoothly, alas it was not to be.

I managed to pack the majority of my belongings into good quality packing boxes, marked most the boxes clearly and even bought FRAGILE tape to let the removalists know.

I had fed eleven horses three times a day, for eight days in a row leading up to the house move and was more exhausted than I realised.

The morning of the move the removalist turned up, in a 3 tonne pantec which was not what I was led to believe was going to be used for the move.  So even though I had spoken to the owner of the business and gave him a good run down on what furniture I had, the move had to be done in two trips which ended up costing me more than was quoted.

Luckily I had an amazing friend at the other end to direct where my furniture was going to go, and also to pull the removalists up when they were less than respectful with my furniture.

It wasn't until nearly three weeks later that I was able to assess everything and see exactly what had been damaged.  Yes that's right, I ended up with a few damaged items, due to their carelessness.  One lesson I've learnt is never ever go with a removalist company that offers to reduce the price for you etc.

My items damaged included:

my refrigerator (small dent on the side)
my tallboy (nasty chip at the back)
my washing machine (horrible scratch on it, that's gone through to the base)
my antique hall table (part of one of the dividers has been damaged)
one small glass photo frame (obviously the huge fluro orange sticker saying FRAGILE didn't stop them from placing a heavy box on top of the box marked FRAGILE).

I ended up getting refunded part of the money I paid them, and I'm letting it go at that.

Getting my mojo back

Ever had those days where you just feel like you can't get motivated anymore?  Everything seems like an uphill battle?  I'm in that funk at the moment, and even though I'm managing to achieve something almost every day that makes me feel good, I still feel like I'm not firing on all four cylinders.

I do have health issues that I still need to address, and I've been slack there too.  I need follow up appointments, I need to find a new GP close to where I now live and I need to educate myself more on my health issues and how I can help myself more.

So, back to getting my mojo back.  How do I do this you ask?  Baby steps.  Over the years, I've learnt that if I try and push myself too hard, my body just goes 'oh hell no' and things backfire on me horribly.  Its taken huge shifts mentally for me to accept that I now have physical and mental limitations.  

Lists have become a huge comfort to me.  And ticking tasks off the list just makes me want to swoon lol.  Lists may not work for everyone, but they work for me.  I still need to organise keeping lists on one notepad, or I end up chasing my tail trying to find all those lists I've done.

I've also been researching ideas on methods to help with organising myself, and my life better, so things run more smoothly and I don't feel quite so overwhelmed.  Again, baby steps.