On the way back I stopped at Halfords to have my battery checked. It showed a big " need replacement " and I thought fair enough, let's change it. They advised me to buy a calcium battery as it gets discharged slower (even fitting the prompt, lol ! ) and it's better for people who like me don't use their car often or only for small journeys. So I am now the proud owner of a new battery that wasn't part of this month budget at all, by the way.
Trying to see things positively, I thought it would help me to sleep and not worry and it effectively did, so I bought peace of mind (expensive peace of mind though, lol ! ). Now I have one thing less to wake up for !
It was a beautiful day today, although with a pretty cold start and Bubbles and I had a nice walk.
There is this tree in the park that I nicknamed the Gherkin. What do you think ?
Then it was time to go to the Vet. When I put Rhea on lead, she couldn't believe her eyes how lucky she was, but when she saw we were taking the car and I could read on her face " Was too good to be true ! ". Poor thing !
The Vet thought she was much more mobile and it's true, these 10 days of staying at home or in the garden really relaxed her, so he said now we can go out on lead for a couple of days and then try off lead for short periods of time after that.
What isn't positive is her skin allergy. It doesn't heal. It looked pretty bad to me, but sometimes the Vet would say " no, it looks good ". Well today he agreed with me. He said that if Rhea would be a " normal " dog, he would give her steroids, but she is already on non-steroids for her paws and he said they both don't mix very well. So we went for some antibiotics for 10 days, wait and see.
Project 365+1 - Day 243 : Thriving
I wasn't sure about the word so I had to Google it. In the end it did mean what I thought it did.
Well there are 2 topics currently thriving in my life but none of them is really positive.
- The first one is my frustration. I was brought up with the motto " Be a good girl and everything will be good around you ". Yeah, on the paper it sounds good but there is so much to be said about it. Not that I would choose to be a bad girl, but sometimes the unfairness of situations strikes me. It hasn't anything to do with jealousy, I am not a jealous person, it more has to do with fairness.
When I see people on benefits booking a villa with swimming pool in Florida for their 3 weeks holidays abroad, and when I see my husband working like hell and we are hardly able to save some money, it does frustrates me. I don't need holidays abroad, I loved our 2 weeks at home, cuddling on the sofa, drinking wine and eating cheese whilst watching the Olympics, we had a lovely time.
The point is this money should be better used to help people who really need it.
When I look at how the world functions, I think something is very very wrong out there and especially in England. There are so many good people who do their best and work like slaves day in day out to feed their family and there are so many lazy people who are just abusing the system. But the main question is: Why does the system allows to be abused ?
I am not concentrating on my frustration as I know negative feelings inside one's self are bad, but it still comes and goes when I see or hear things.
Well I couldn't take a photo of that anyway !
- The second one is vegetation. It has been raining so much, alternating with a couple of very sunny days that nature has spread its wings above any expectation. I really didn't have any time for the garden this year and it looks like I picked the wrong year. The trees have grown so much that they are above the house now. We don't have the equipment to trim them so I am checking quotations from professionals to do it.
To finish on a positive note, I read something that made me laugh this morning.
John Wayne once said: " Life's tough . . . It's even tougher if you're stupid. "
May be I should keep a low profile on all the stuff happening to me, lol !
Take care everybody, xxx
4 comments:
Anne, you are such a good read, I wish I had time to share all my thoughts like you do.. I so agree that some people seem to do / have everything but don't have the frustrations or pressures we have, often doing a lot less work too.. we just have to be content that 'what goes around, comes around' and feel content with our efforts.. xx
Anne hope the new battery goes well for some time. I am just the same if I have a little niggle I can not get to sleep....its so frustrating because there is nothing I can do about the niggle there and then but it plays on my mind. Hope you have no niggles tonight and sleep soundly :)
Gosh Anne I have really missed my daiy dose of reading your blog! At the moment I am not going to read back as life seems to have taken off once again since we arrived home!!
Thank you for your lovely comments xx
Did laugh about your battery!Glad that is one less worry!
Hugs for Rhea, not having a good time and gosh vets bills? or do you have them insured?
I agree totally about peeps on benefits and the holidays they seem able to afford...don't get me onto that subject LOL!!
I loved your post today and the pictures! Bravo! This similarity of the tree and the skyscraper is great!
I often understand the topic only saw your post! Recognized sin is only half a sin! Smile! Have a sunny weekend!
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