The bathroom is being sorted as I type...the noise is not good and the smell equally not pleasant...but its getting done. I will be so pleased to finally have a bath big enough for DD to use easily and a floor that's not cracked and dirty.
The money situation doesn't look as though its going to be as dire as I thought...it's early days yet but we may manage more of the jobs on my list than I thought. Having DD and DS1 pay for all their own takeaways and stuff from Amazon and suchlike is obviously saving me more money than I expected. I have also paid off all the debts apart from the car loan which is a massive saving every month. It would be lovely to get the kitchen redone, the units are looking very decrepit and the work top is stained and marked and that's before I start on the cooker and the state of the floor! Only time will tell how money goes but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I got a letter last week saying the Council had been mistakenly paying my fostering money since I stopped being a foster carer....I assume I will need to pay back some of it but I don't intend to prioritise paying it back so it's still a win for me. I had the money when I needed it to help pay down debt, which is basically all paid off now, and I will pay off a token amount a year. Given it's not a problem I caused and totally down to the Council for a list of errors...including not appointing DS2 an adult Social Worker which costs us money I don't see that I should worry about paying it back. If DS2 had a Social Worker they could sort out his Care Plan and sort funding it...bet when/if that ever gets sorted that he doesn't gat the money back dated. The hypocrisy of the system always annoys me.
DD is really struggling at the moment...seems to be something that gets typed into every post. She is back to sleeping and dozing pretty much all the time and when she is awake enough to want company she wants to be hugged while she does weird groping shit....her brain is fried and she struggles when she's overtired, which is now anytime she's awake. Hopefully she'll feel better, or at least not as shit, when lockdown is eased/ended and the weather picks up.
One thing I am really looking forward to when life gets back to some kind of normal is DP being out of the house!!! He has been working from home for nearly a year and is driving me insane. The only thing that makes this doable at all is that we rarely interact. He sits in the bedroom 'working' and I sort my normal stuff. In an evening he sits in his car and does his music...he can sit out there for 2-3 hours! He has had a couple of mornings recently where he has needed to actually visit clients and it's been bliss. I can not begin to describe how relaxing it is to have him out of the way for a few hours. He is plainly getting bored without his fix of, what he seriously believes is, adoration from other people and is increasingly talking at me...I have never been happier to be going deaf. (He has repeated stuff people in his office have said about him and he is delusional if he thinks they even like him never mind adore him....he is plainly the butt of many jokes).
DS1 is super busy at work which is good in that his work place is likely to survive the Recession we all expect after Covid but he is permanently exhausted and has days he's depressed because all he does is work, eat and sleep....he will feel 100% better once he can do his D&D and go to the cinema again and actually meet up with friends.
DS2 is finding this last Lockdown super hard and so I have got him a couple of Advent calendars to help him 'countdown' to the, hopeful end of Lockdown. He can then get back to work and all his activities...I will be so happy! I will occasionally get the house with just DD and I in it...I can't wait.
The only downside to the end of Lockdown is I will need to see DM and DF occasionally but I can live with that as it is never going to more than every month or so for an hour or two.
