Keeping a positive attitude
I think that I’ve mentioned that I’m doing up my new, old house. Perhaps chuck in some pics in this blog after I’ve finished writing. Well that started 3 years ago and it seems never ending, in that there have been things/problems to sort and still now, I’m finding more. Towards the end of last year, I began to lose interest, I think mainly because at the back of my mind, I knew that this little place will not reward for my efforts and that if I haven’t already, I’ll spend more than it’s worth, in the buying and doing up. More costs are due to really make it how it should be, but why, when it will not financially reward. Yep…I know…quality of life 😊. House prices are also effected by the popularity of their area, so there is always a market ceiling price.
Come COVID in March 2020 and it’s now December, I’ve done very little…changed a small bedroom in to a Dressing room and did the garden, plus it’s lighting.
Re-watching an episode of the original “Escape to the Chateau”, (not DIY variant), no longer delivered a shot of adrenaline/inspiration/get up and go, do something 😂. In desperation, I even started watching, for the first time, via catch-up, Sarah Beeny’s dreary, up me own bum, let’s stretch anything and everything out longer, add irrelevant tosh, to make this in to a series, “New Life in the country” ! 😊. Nada, you know when you just can’t squeeze any more toothpaste out of the tube and even sliding it’s length, towards the lid, over the edge of the wash basin, doesn’t deliver, well, this series never contained toothpaste.
Then there’s my sleep pattern just recently. I’m lucky, I normally put my head on the pillow, maybe having started a comedy episode on iPlayer, with ‘Autoplay’, off and I’m gone. One episode can last me yonks ! 😊. I intend doing a blog about China, which needs research and in the starting, I’ve found interest by discovery and learning related stuff. Yep, I know, additional DIY distraction. Adding this to my, ‘chase it down the rabbit hole, focus’ style and I have found myself suddenly realising that it’s 2.30 or 3am in the morning, which has subsequently cocked up a few following days, before returning to normal.
I’m 68 and thinking do I need this House renovation stuff anymore, but know that as a minimum, I must do some things like rip out the dilapidated Bathroom, put in an extractor, blah, blah. Then it dawns on me, that this COVID thing has very slowly, in addition, had some effect.
I considered myself bomb proof and that it was not in my nature to be effected by such a thing …my attitude = “Flip the coin, there’s always something positive to see the other side, however small 😊”…..”then move on and get on”.
New Year, remove finger from butt ! 😊.
Keep flipping that coin ! 😊.