Well here’s a good laugh from a geriatric malingerer. My fingers are a bit stiff these day but that’s just wrinkleeitis. So I was in this shop and got my card out of my purse to pay for me stuff. It then pinged off my other cards into another universe. I made the shop shift everything in my general vicinity to look for it. Customers joined in too. It had gone. So I paid cash loaded my 6 things in to my bag and went to the car. I cancelled the card through my phone app immediately and went home. As I was putting the stuff away at the bottom of the bag was a glowing golden bank card. It pinged into my bag the only b@&£;-d place I didn’t look. Oh how I laughed. This is all because I increased me steroids because of a PMR flare and my hypothalamus has gone off on holiday yet again. He never takes me with him? I feel so unloved by him sometimes. Year 4 now PMR should be sodding off!!! What will today bring?
Financial Incapability: Well here’s a good laugh... - PMRGCAuk
Financial Incapability
Good old cash here for me 99% of the time - but then, the one thing OH does well is dig out either cash or, increasingly his bank card! Last week I simply hardly went shopping while he was in hospital 
I think this was a good thing in a way. I would spend less using cash and think twice wether I needed what I was buying. Since PMR and giving up work when I do go out its mainly to shop? Probably due to winter. I shall look on this as a lesson in need or want when it comes to shopping.
I go food shopping - I hate even that! I would never choose to go into town just to look round the shops except when I have a very specific requirement! I will wear clothes until they are dead rather than go clothes shopping!!
This blocking of my card did seriously affect my internet shopping where I get most stuff. I shouldn’t food shop because I would buy treats but I do only go on quiet days and not in school holidays. My next door neighbour has recently retired so I have to go out to hide from him too. Sounds cruel but I never was a 11 o’clock tea time gossip putting the world to rights talking drivel type person. I like my own company but when I do need interaction it’s usually with like minded people you find on here especially those with a sense of humour.
My MIL was like that - and lived in a granny flat in our house so it was next to impossible to escape every day! Morning coffee, afternoon tea - mind death! She tended not to put the world to rights but did have 2 variations of conversation: Corrie and Emmerdale (which I have never watched in my life) and the Royals (nuff said).
You will get your reward in heaven!
One a bit sooner would be acceptable ...
I have a friend like that ,she thinks retirement is sit on couch watch TV ,meet friends ,talk about TV . text ''You will never guess what happened on Corrie . '' Do I want to ,Nope . Then you realise that's how it has always been there is just more TV to monitor now . I don't go shopping either ,Its low income and actually I don't want to ! . If I am comfortable in my clothes I have realised I really begrudge getting smartened up and going out . Oh dear is that really bad .Time to enjoy the home I never saw when working . Life brings its different phases .
Absolutely!!!!
I'm with both of you there, since PMR we even get the food delivered. There is no longer anything useful in our local town anyway.
Enjoyed your story, it's amazing how things slip through my fingers at the moment, especially those pesky little preds
Tablets!!! My floor is full of them. My hoover can’t find them either. Good job I’ve no kids or pets.
I am with you there Etellemac. People wear me out!
Here's something to make you feel better. My next door neighbour is my ex husband. No I'm not sure how that happened either - can't even blame the PMR as it hadn't arrived then. Maybe that's why it did arrive??!!
Wow that trumps my ex-miner with a short term memory. Love it. 💖
That’s interesting borednow.My hopefully ‘very soon to be ex husband ‘won’t move out of the extension and wants me to stay living next door to him.Ive waited decades for this divorce so I will have to move when it becomes two houses .I really cannot tolerate living next door to him. It will be financially difficult but I will have piece of mind in that area at least.Do you mind living next door to your ex?
Hi have sent you a private message!! Hopefully .........
Dead clothes? That’s a new one 🥂🥂
I love dead clothes. I can’t part with them no matter how old and scruffy the get. It’s like wearing a comfort blanky that babies have.
Side bar to your comment. Bitterly cold here the past few days, windchill down as far as -23 at times, and treadmills are soooo boring, so I've taken myself to the Mall for walks. I window shopped far too much and didn't accumulate nearly enough steps, but hardly bought a thing.
That's acceptable!!! Won't tell you about our weather - though it's about to go south next week I gather!
Along with ours!
Yours is supposed to arrive over here tomorrow ...
Well, we had rain this morning, but now beautiful clear blue sky, but definitely a chillier wind!
We’ve had very high winds here too, roofs blown off and towers bend in half for two days. I don’t want to leave the house! 🥺
Are you on the East Coast?
My daughter lives in Ontario and there is an abandoned house next to them (awaiting demolition by the city) which she thought might lose bits of itself during their last windstorm.
Sure am, north east, with this PMR, I just don’t want to go anywhere these days.
I get OH to take me to a garden centre, flowers and plants cheer me up (I haven’t even got a balcony now!😂😂). D hates it!
I know how you feel. I detest shopping for clothes, although it's always assumed that all women love it. I'm wearing a cardigan that I bought in an Oxfam shop about 15 years ago and a dress that's worn so thin I can only wear it round the house. For 6 years I lived in the West End off Oxford Street and hardly ever went into the local shops. I buy stuff on eBay often at very low prices, and I'm hoping to get back to dressmaking soon. I've given it up since I became ill, but I must decide what to do about the mountain of fabric that I have. As I'm going to Slimming World and I'm optimistic that I'll lose at least a couple of dress sizes, I don't know what size to make for myself. I'll probably start with bags and aprons which always make good presents. As for food, I have nearly all of it delivered, including a lovely weekly delivery of fresh organic veg. I should be bouncing with health, my diet is so healthy these days!
No - food has to be personal shopping (not least because I don't think anyone here does internet shopping/delivery) and we have become very Italian in our habits!! Almost no food waste!
My local authority (Islington) collects food waste i.e. veg peelings, tea leaves, apple cores, egg shells etc and turns it into electricity. It's astounding how much I generate and I live alone.
I manage less than 2 litres of biowaste a week on average - the block has a biobin which is emptied weekly and they make fertiliser I think.
Last sentence! Wish I could say that.😏
I love charity shop clothes. Thing is as my neighbour is a bit clingy and in me face at the moment I have to think about what I do wear. But then I thought it’s his own fault if my stretchy pants and see through T-shirt is a bit revealing. I like it and it’s comfy. I am not dressing to impress. In fact some days it’s quite late when I do dress. He is partially sighted though so that might explain the fact he doesn’t notice.
We don't have any clothing shops in our town unless you're under 40 or skinny, so I rely on catalogues.
We appear to have quite a few in my local town and quite posh too! Lol! It’s not unusual to see high end brands in the BHF !
I often still seem to buy for 4, but my children left the house 30 years ago.😏😏
My sister cooks for two and she lived alone for years?
That’s sensible though, one for now, one in the deep freeze - half the cooking.
All I have is a jammed up fridge and freezer!!!
I got invited to go shopping today. Before PMR I had a 90 percent chance that I would go out and have a good time. Chances of going today? 0 percent. My new life.
Oh yes, I know that feeling!
I recently had to go into town, hadn’t been for ages. I passed by all the bright fashionable shops that I had used to love. What upset me most was that I had absolutely no desire to even look in them never mind try things on! Maybe it’ll come back, I doubt it though. 😩
Same for me, I don't go shopping anymore for clothes or other stuff, everything by internet , even food, gifts, etc.etc....but the pleasure is different in waiting and the surprise,,,,,at least this little pleasure...my last crazy buy....20 years old phantasme...to buy a Paco Rabanne sweater black and silver.....arrived yesterday and good medicine first cloth I buy since very longtime...replaces Christmas, St Valentines and etc.....we must also spoile us maybe little bit...... little different hapiness...!
Don’t you just hate inanimate objects that hide - and then suddenly reappear once you’ve turned everything (well not everything in your case!) upside down.
Before I went into hospital for my hip operation I put my spare set of car keys “ somewhere safe” - that was 7 weeks ago - found them last week in the “odds and sods” drawer in the bedroom 🤦🏻♀️ Mind you, son had looked in drawer previously!
He will have looked like a man...
....naturally!
I can't believe you wrote that!!! It's so true! 😝
The number of times OH has told me something "isn't there" (i.e. where I have told him it is) - everything has to be in full view ... Men can't move things to look!
Maybe that’s why they don’t put things away too. In fairness he’s great at cooking and cleaning but can’t see the point of putting stuff in presses as it’ll have to come out again soon! 😁
Your keys scenario resonates with me. Just this morning I have finally “found” a library book which went awol about 6 weeks ago. I’ve had to renew it twice online to avoid the overdue fees. Sorting through a laundry basket upstairs this morning and there it was……very worrying. Why was it in there?
I’m trying acrylic painting as a different hobby whilst I’m coping with PMR and the library had a great selection of books to borrow.. At least tomorrow I can return it and maybe even borrow another. I wonder if they can be fitted with a tracker?
Linda
Perhaps it was trying to get inspiration for some fantastic new fashions you are going to bring out!
There's room for a new designer on the block!
I think my art is probably what you’d call abstract. 😏
But it is relaxing and takes my mind off chronic ilness for a couple of hours, so all good. I think the family might be receiving abstract birthday cards this year which should save me a few pounds. Birthday cards have become so expensive.
I like geometric shapes and colours. So bright and lively. Lifts the spirits.
Card making is a new hobby for me! Makes my friends laugh as I am so not into crafts etc . Must be the Pred! A good friend said I even sound quite knowledgeable 😂
It is relaxing though and quietens the monkey mind! I even found myself browsing in a local art shop checking out stencils!
I have considered making cards but wondered where I would store all the trimmings needed to decorate them. Another lovely hobby that would help some of us with PMR/GCA enjoy our time and feel a sense of achievement. Well done Cyclegirl54.
I keep all the bits’an bobs in a large gift bag so I know where everything is!
Good for you! I’m a pastelist. I lost my mojo for painting when first diagnosed. Getting it back slowly but love getting totally absorbed in the process.
I seem to have lost my mojo for many creative things like sewing, baking and painting, but noticing my interest returning lately, so perhaps that’s a marker of progress as much as blood markers……
I agree that feeling of being totally absorbed is magical. Enjoy your pastels.
That did make me laugh! It's typical isn't it - as soon as you cancel a card it turns up.
Honestly it’s like “Gaslight” the movie sometimes. You sound like you are getting your lovely mojo back. I do hope so! X
I am so much better now 15mg this week then a structured return to a maintainable dose slowly. In fact I felt good enough to go to Morrisons buy a cup of tea and people watch for an hour. My neighbour can get me here. I did have to bring me own tea bags and sneakily fill up my tea pot though. There is a screamy kid who might need some gaffer tape if I stay any longer. And me phones dying. Ho hum of home to slip stealthily through the back door undectected. Plays havoc on my non bendy bits.
You sound like my kind of friend, just sit companionably in silence, then go home. 🙂
Difficult to find somewhere quiet these days...DIL says noise helps with the vibe!....I don`t want a vibe!!…….
I so understand! I have found my purse in the fridge? I think there are gremlins running around my home hiding things from me! Like my brain, I haven't been able to locate it anywhere! Oh well, smile!!! It's going to be a PMR kind of day.
Did you check the laundry basket? Under Linda’s book?
Your brain and my hippothalmoose have run away on holiday together. Parker did have to get my kindle out of the fridge last week. I went in for milk and came back without it I imagine??
I love it! Now I don't feel so bad. 😊
Hippocampus??? Not Moose?
In my twenties I walked past a house where a lady should have been putting out the milk bottles ( yes they were glass then!) she left a teapot there instead, I wonder if she was on pred??......
Small birds used to takes the cream off the milk maybe the teapot was for a Robin to nest in next to his favourite milk bar?
Lovely idea!...👍
Happy to see that Parker is still being helpful and you sound as if you are feeling better. 😊
Yep just a blip much better now. Parker is behaving too. He slipped back in to grumpy old troll minder quite easily. Though he still has to call me M’Lady. 😂
Well I have to say I could picture the scene and I don’t want to sound rude but I am glad it’s not just me who has these carry on moments😂
Hahaha
Dear Estellemac
Laughing at our selves is a good medicine , I am sure most of us could write a good comedy sketch on some of out antics , providing the grey matter cooperated .
I was at a check out in a small shop, when I opened my purse to pay a couple of small coins dropped on the floor, No way could I pick them up and was hoping no one else saw them.... there was an old couple waiting behind me both 90 odd .. they saw them fall and pointed them out , in my best French I tried to say I had a back problem …( easy option ) Next minute he is on hands and knees picking up all of 1and 1/2 pence then could not get up him self what a malarkey .
Flare ups
I am just 4 months from being diagnosed so still have lots to learn, how ever I have realised that the slightest upset,, even niggle is enough to cause a flare up .
One thing that seems to be helping me is to keep an inner peace ( is the only way I can describe it)
I listen to music on YouTube and leave it playing through my PC.. it is helping me
here is a link if any one wants to try it youtube.com/watch?v=GzdxqHi...
There is quite a selection , if you find it irritating, try another, regardless of what its for if you like it listen to it. some also have video's to go with them which I also find very soothing.
Its no substitute for a nice holiday but every little helps
take care
xx
But you can go to that special place in your head for free and not worry about pain for a while. Thanks for the link it’s good to share.
I have also tried the sleep ones , they an also help a bit xx
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