It's 3.04pm and so far today...

...I've cared for/supported Steve alone (as opposed to joint care/support) for 7 hours and 13 minutes but apparently I'm not his carer.

Back from my second Covid jab now and...

...Marie cared more for me in that half an hour that I was with her getting the jab than Steve has in the last 5 days combined.  I was with Marie for a grand total of half an hour, but Steve's care for me so far this week has only been 13 minutes of care for me alone or 1 hour 16 minutes for both of us for bagging up the groceries at the front door on Monday, cooking two meals for us both and putting the laundry on this morning with both of our clothes in it.  He's my carer and does everything for me for 10 hours every day though, apparently!

 

Just over 5.5 hours of care already today, sooo...

...time for me to go and have my Covid jab now

That's 1,998 fonts and a few bits of clipart installed this morning

Just installed all bar 2 of the fonts on the disc and got a few bits of clipart off the same disc too, so I think what I'm gonna do for the next couple of hours is to copy the clipart off the other CDs and take the boxes back upstairs and put them away so that I don't need to get stressed and keep leaning over to get the next box if I'm reacting badly to the jab and I can just open up PSP and zone out with all the pixels and PSP and stuff so that I'm not getting anxious about how ill I'm feeling.

 

BBL.

 

I'm not gonna do the news today or until I feel better, but...

...feel free to keep checking back to see how badly or otherwise I feel at the time I post.  If it's anything like the first one, I'll be feeling yucky for a few days then slowly start improving over the next week or so, so hopefully I'll be back to doing the news in a couple of weeks, but I can't guarantee it.

There will prolly be rants about just how little my carer does for me while I'm recovering but I'll tag those posts if you wanna avoid reading them and it'll be one extreme or the other with the number of posts too... either several every day or one every few days.  Either way, please stick with me, keep reading and sharing the url 'cos seeing those view numbers really supports me when I have bugger all other support.

Steve's arranged for someone to come out for a look around about central heating via a grant that the enabler thinks we're entitled to and Steve said he'll postpone it if I'm feeling grotty, but I bet he won't, just like he never does.  He said 5 days ago that he'd move my cans of ginger beer to the top shelf of the fridge and get them for me whenever I needed them, but he hasn't, so I did that myself this morning.  I very much doubt he'll get them for me when I need them either.

Other than 24 cans of ginger beer, the entire shop that's due on Monday is for Steve, which adds up to about £35 and my ginger beer comes to about £7 yet he still expects me to pay for the whole lot.

Ho hum, such is life I guess.

Onto daily things again now though.  The virus scan has finished (still no nasties, thankfully), I've taken my pills, made Steve's breakfast and buttered a couple of slices of bread for me, so we're all sorted until I go for my jab now.

I'm pondering on changing the text colour here in my blog again, whaddya all think to that idea please?  Let me know in the comments?

Only news on my navigation site today

Afternoon all.

 

After a morning full of technical problems, then having a bath 🛀 ready for tomorrow, then having my lunch 🍴 and finally getting the news sorted, I've had a pretty average day so far.

 

Not looking forward to the appointment tomorrow, but I'm gonna try having a couple of slices of bread for my breakfast and the same again a couple of hours after I get home, to see if that reduces the nausea or if I'll be living on ginger beer for a while again.

 

I've taken all my day-time pills 💊, so just got the evening one to take now, then hopefully head to bed for an early night.  Gonna go for yet another wee 🚽 (I can tell I've had caffeine today 🤣) then do my exercises, make Steve's hot drink ☕ and I'll prolly need another wee 🚽 then I can come back in here and relax.

This morning's bath 🛀 was warm after the emersion heater being on for 2 days, so I think I need to pull on the switch in the bathroom the evening before too, so that the warm water gets as far as the bathroom instead of just the kitchen 🙄🤣  I apologised to Steve for my mistake but I can pretty much guarantee that I'll forget again next time I have a bath 🛀 🙄 🤣

To give him credit...

...it's only taken 5 months and 5 days before Steve needed me to bail him out financially.  

 

Again.

Last year it was 30 days before he needed the money, so he's done considerably better already this year.

He's just paid the electricity and moved the direct debit to the 15th of each month instead of the last day of the month when all his other bills come out, so I've just gotta remember that and make sure the money is in the joint account in time, starting in June.

It means that now that he's been bailed out once this year, it'll happen throughout the rest of the year, and I'll be bailing him out again and again and again, despite him promising at the end of 2020 that it wouldn't happen.

I've offered to take off what he paid for my credit cards so that he can't bring that up again, but he's conveniently forgotten how much he paid on that too.  Why am I not surprised?

I'm gonna wipe £1,500 off what he owes me to cover it, which is a third of what the credit limit was on each of my cards and there's no way he paid a third of them all off 'cos I was struggling to meet the minimum payments and clearing them was out of the question for the entire time I held them, so the total payment of all of them didn't happen until last year when I got my PPI money back and totally cleared the balance.

 

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Just taken my last pill of the day so...

...it's time to shut down for the night, look for the vulnerability letter then get to sleep.  It's the weekly virus scan tomorrow, so need to remember not to open up either of my email programmes all day.

Gonna publish this now then head to bed.  Nite nite orl.

Book Review: The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall

Review of The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall

⭐ out of 5

 All the books that I review start off with the full 5 stars and this one is no different.

I've got the Kindle version of this book and I've only read a few pages, but I'm already confused with the dratted book... it goes straight from the copyright then literally on the next line, the story starts with no warning or even a chapter number or even a blank space... unless it improves rapidly I'm knocking the first star off unfortunately.

I'm even more confused now, 'cos there's a number 1 a page or so later, so what was the jumbled mess at the start of the book then??  According to my Kindle I'm only 1% of the way through and I've yet to find anything positive about the book, so the first star is coming off already  😞

I'm 2% in now and the text is all over the place, almost like the author has hit enter/return at the end of every line in her software as soon as she got to the end of a line instead of just letting the words flow from one line to the next naturally?  There are frequent one or two words on a line which is really starting to wind me up already, unfortunately.

The emails are all mushed up together instead of being set out as properly aligned To and From and the subject... so that's the second star gone already - I was really looking forward to reading this book, but after only 2% it's already lost two of its five stars!

I hope the author has got written permission to use all these big celebrities and brands, otherwise she could get herself into really deep, hot water.  The last couple of emails improved though, so that star is just about clinging on for dear life atm.

There's just been a phone call that was as jumbled as the emails, so that star has just lost its grip and fallen into the ether.  Oh dear... 5% of the way through the book and it's already lost 3 stars  😞  I've got 95% of the book left to read and there is only one star left to lose... it's not looking good, is it  😞

I'm in a positive mood, so the extra space within a word won't make me knock off a star at 8% and there's been 3% since the last mistake, so maybe, just maybe, I'll get beyond 10% before I knock off the final star and give up on the book??  

Chapter four was good... a couple of little bits that should have been picked up in the editing before publication, but considerably better than the first couple of chapters!

Oooh!  I'm liking chapter five... the best so far in terms of content, but there's still some little tweeks that should have been picked up during editing.

Chapter six has been good too... a few more minor mistakes, but they don't stop the flow of the story, thankfully, so I'm not taking a star off - yet.

Chapter 7 was good - the author is really in their stride now.  Can't wait to keep reading the rest of the book now.

After a really good few chapters that had rekindled my hope for a good book, the first page of chapter 11 has let me down, so I'm knocking off the final star and giving up after only 26% of the book.  Sorry.  It has potential, but there are lots of things that could and should have been picked up with the first edit, waay before it was published.