Saturday 6th June 2020

Mornin' all.

Gotta remember to use those curly things to break up each blog comment, yeah❓  Which colour text shall I use today❓  Green maybe❓  Like this❓  Hmmm, looks a bit dark to be recognised for green, so let's try orange instead... is this any better❓  It started off looking a bit red but it's definitely orange now, so I'm gonna stick with the orange.

I've taken my pills and checked my email, so it's time to take the puppy out for her stroll now 🐾, as long as the pesky but brave seagull has flown off... I'll go and put my head out of the door to check... BRB❗

The seagull has disappeared, thankfully, so I'm gonna take the puppy for her stroll then sort out the exercise spreadsheet (that I was having issues with last night) and put it up on my homepage.

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The puppy hasn't moved out of her basket, so I'm gonna feed her and try again in a couple of hours 'cos I think she's feeling her age (11 years old at the end of June) this morning so I'm not gonna force her.

She's sat between Steve's fee...

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...she decided that she wanted to go for her walk just then, so I took her out and we strolled while she wanted to, just in case she didn't feel up to it at the end of the sentence. 

I'm wondering if she's got arthritis or something which causes her pain so she doesn't want to move 'cos it took a good 10 or 15 minutes of persuasion and her breakfast before we eventually and very slowly got out there and it took a few very slow lengths before she felt able to walk at her normal speed and start to enjoy it then the last few lengths were the same too.  I just hope it's Westitude rather than pain that she was showing this morning❗

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She was fine with her second walk, so I'll see how she goes tomorrow before I settle on whether it's Westitude or medical.

Gotta read and review a book now... it's only a short one, so I'm hoping to be finished with reading and reviewing it by tomorrow morning.

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That's the book read, reviewed, coded and uploaded, so I've just got a photo of the puppy to put on my homepage then I'm off to bed.

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Time to hit the hay now... nite nite orl.  Sea ewe 2morro❗

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Book Review: The Big Game by Bethany James

⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

Such a weird book... the first poem lasts for 3 pages, then there are four poems with less than four lines each and now we've got a recipe!  The recipe is supposed to be making you feel romantic, yet you're expected to wait for it to set for 3 hours... the romance would have built up then died by the time you'd waited for that!  Unfortunately that's the first star gone.

And another recipe... hope this one is better than the first one!  Nope, this one is buged in the fridge for an hour before being cooked for an hour... the romance will definitely have died again while waiting for this recipe to be ready.  I'm feeling generous right now, so not knocking off another star yet, but I will be if there are any other hour-long baking sessions!

The next poem is better than the first few, but very religiously Christian which ain't for me unfortunately.  I don't deny that there are a lot of Christians are romantics, but there are oneheckuva lot more of other or no religion that might very well be turned off with Christianity shoved down their throat like this.

The next poem starts off brilliantly until it starts going on about Christianity again.  I'm liking this book less and less with each page I read unfortunately.

The next two poems are good too... the author has valliantly pulled back from the edge of me knocking off another star lol

Aww the "Surprise Me" poem is the best one so far!  WTG the author!

What started out with romance is now about fighting and breaking up with your partner... this book seems to be more about relationships between a Christian couple, rather than a collection of romance poems for everyone.  If things don't become more positive very fast then I'm knocking off a second star... sorry.

I hope the author has permission to use the Grinch character in this book, or they could be getting themselves into serious trouble!

The author is now saying to look for the thorns in a rose rather than the beauty of the petals - that's about as far from romantic as you can get!  That's the second star lost... I hope I don't have to knock off any more before the end of the book!

And now we're back to the first sparks of romance in a relationship... the second relationship in two thirds of the book - hardly what I would call romantic... if you gave this book to your partner as a romantic gesture they would prolly feel like you cared about them, then wanted to split up with them, then you saw them as a thorn and now you're looking for a new, different relationship!  Not good... not good at all.

Now the author is putting things from bloggers into the book... I hope they've got written permission from the copyright holders or the author may get into even deeper trouble!

I started off in such a positive mood and really wanted to award the full five stars to this book, but I'm left feeling very disappointed unfortunately.  Sorry.

That's annoying then!

Just checked to see what I said yesterday and the page breaks aren't showing up in the posts you see, so I'll have to go back to using the curly things after all, tsk.  You watch me forget tomorrow though.  😒😟

I really am going to bed now.  Nighty night night again everyone.

Friday 5th June 2020

Morning all.

Think I've worked out why my Fitbit hasn't been working for the last few days - there seems to be a worldwide Inspire issue, so it really was just bad timing that I decided to run the charge down when I did 🤣

I've taken my pills so I'm gonna take the puppy out for the first walk of the day now.  Gonna change the text colour for today to blue, first though 😉

Thursday 4th June 2020

Morning all.

Absolutely nothing has been logged in the Fitbit app or on my tracker, so I'm just gonna not log anything other than food and liquid manually today and just hope that it sorts itself out soon❗

I've taken my pills and I'm about to walk the puppy for the first time today.  BBS.

Wednesday 3rd June 2020

Mornin' again all.

The Fitbit is begging to be charged up now 'cos it's taking forever to load up the info in the app, so I'll take the puppy for her morning stroll then take my pills and set it charging.  It's done well to give me 4 days longer than normal though, so I ain't complaining at all❗

It looks a bit wet out there and it's a lot cooler than yesterday, so hopefully the puppy will find it easier to walk this morning.

Tuesday 2nd May 2020

Morning all.

I'm seriously impressed with the Fitbit's charge still lasting❗  This is day 3 extra so far and I would have charged it up at least once usually, but not this time❗  It's still recording my steps and sleep without me having to manually put it in and the app is still saying that it's half charged so I'm gonna give it until tomorrow then really will reward it with a well-deserved charging session 🤣

Gonna take my pills while the puppy is still reluctant to wake up then take her for a walk and get started with my day.

100% success

Since the lockdown started to ease I've been  more determined than ever to hit my new Monday target of 10,000 steps and I've just done it for the second week in a row!!!

I've pulled my left groin while I was doing the leg lifts and I'm wide awake now, so I'll be reading a magazine and listen to the radio until I can barely keep my eyes open, but that's OK 'cos I DID IT!!!

Gonna put the phone away now and curl up in bed with a huge grin plastered to my face now.

Night night again all!

Monday 1st June 2020

Morning all.

It's a Monday and the start of a new month, so I've gotta take the puppy for a marathon walk, sort out the FitBit spreadsheet then move the photos of the puppy dog over to her 2020 page and it's not even 8am yet❗

Review of Seagate Expansion Desktop 6 TB External Hard Drive HDD

Review of Seagate Expansion Desktop 6 TB External Hard Drive HDD

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

I'm always wary of things that say you can plug it in and use it straight out of the box... nothing to do with computers is that easy, is it?  You have to turn this on and agree to that and read all kind of stuff, right?  I'm not a new computer user and can handle the day to day use of a computer, but still have to pick the brains of my husband about things most days but I was determined to do my best to get this set up totally alone if I could, after all they made it sound really easy in the description so this would be a big test for it as far as I was concerned.

I nervously plugged the two leads into the right holes, plugged it into the plug socket next to my computer and into the USB thingy (and discovered an extra USB port and another thing that isn't a USB port but looks very much like it lol)... it whirred a bit which made me nervous in case I'd already done something wrong, but seconds later Windows Explorer popped up and there was a new drive!  This one!  I hadn't broken it after all... not yet, anyway lol

I clicked on the drive thingy in Windows Explorer and my computer instantly recognised it.  My confidence was starting to build up ever so slightly now.  Created a folder on this drive, and started off the backups.  Surely it wasn't as easy as that, was it?  I must have done something disasterously wrong like I always do with computers!  45 minutes later and all my backups (about 35GB worth at the time) had completely finished with no stress or anxiety or worry or even asking my hubby for advice or reassurance.

I've used it 3 times now and each time I've used it has been as easy and stress-free as that first time.  It really is that easy.  I'll definitely be buying it again when I next need to!