The Lady Hooligan’s Page

My loan has FINALLY been approved. The documentation is at a lawyer’s in town - shall go and peruse it tomorrow morning! The subsidy wasn’t taken into account, but that can be remedied. All in all, I’ll pay less for my flat per month than I do for my Internet account.

The developer wants access to my deposit money. I have good legal advice NOT to allow it, so am stalling as much as I possibly can. At one point, though, I’ll have to make a decision, and need as many safeguards in place as I can put there! It’s a catch-22 situation: I need the place built so that I can move in! And he needs the money to build the place!

Let’s all pray that the first scheme (or phase) gets released this week, and he can continue without needing my cash!

In the meantime, I simply forward all his text messages to my lawyer (they ARE useful, sometimes!) and let the two guys sort matters out. I don’t want to become entangled.

I’ve been sanding that day bed this weekend. Not a heavy sand, although it does have some tricky spots. The previous varnish/sealer is a thin brittle coat that I could remove with my fingernails, if I really, really wanted to! I’ll apply some penetrating furniture wax this afternoon.

Woodwork is relaxing, especially sanding. Once you get into the rhythm, your mind can wander off…

But then I seriously enjoy craft work…

Let’s see what this week brings…

I suffer from severe attacks of the Munchies, especially when I’m bored, lonely, or depressed.  It’s especially severe when I’m all three at the same time, which happens more often than I would like to admit, even to myself!

So, since I’m on this mission to gain some serious slim within the next 9 months (eish, I’m planning a pregnancy!) it seems fitting that I devise some alternatives for the Munchies when I’m bored, lonely or depressed and share it with the world at large…

First, the obvious ones:

• Take a 5 minute walk to somewhere.  Time it! Only 5 minutes!  See how many steps I can fit into those 5 minutes of walking, and improve on it on a daily basis!
• Go into a meditation of some sort.  Imagine my ideal life as if it is already mine!  That’s a good way to invoke the Law of Attraction as well!
• Have a glass of water when I feel an attack coming on!
• Snack on cucumber sticks instead!

And now for the Hooligan ones!

• Put on loud music with lots of beat and start dancing!  Yes, I know it’s in the middle of a library.  Who cares, anyway?
• Be creative.  Scrap my day.  Get out some bright paint and paint something!  Draw a picture with wax crayons on a big sheet of white paper! Plan my dream home and create story boards for each room!
• Tidy something. Yes, that’s shocking! Just do it!
• Send something positive to a friend! Any friend, but never to the same friend more than once a week!  See how many friends I can cheer up!
• By the same token, subscribe to the “Pay it forward” principle. Do something really, really nice for three different people and ask them to do the same!  See where it leads to.
• Start an imaginary movement. Write a monthly newsletter to its members!  Visualize the movement becoming real and gaining momentum.
• Create a garden.  A potted one, if needs must, but a garden all the same!  Remember to weed it and water it regularly.  Grow flowers and herbs in it, and learn to use the herbs both in cooking and for medicinal purposes!
• Learn to cook proper food, with messy plates.  That way, half the satisfaction will lie in the creation of the meal, and I won’t need to munch in between meals and snacks.
• And - last but not least - inspire someone to devise their own list of cures for the Munchies!