Friday, 21 March 2025

Nite nite orl

It's been a long, highly anxious day today but I can finally breathe until tomorrow morning now when I've gotta remember to pull the switch in the bathroom before having my breakfast, then put my jumper into the woolies basket, have my bath, wash my woolies then go head-to-head with today's delivery and hope it's all done and dusted before lunchtime.


I've popped my last two pills of the day so I'm heading on up to beddy-byes now.


I'll see you at some point tomorrow.


Nite nite orl


Third and final update to today's to-do list

  • Take morning pills
  • Run daily virus scan
  • Use blood pressure machine
  • Put details onto spreadsheet
  • Put BP machine away
  • Listen to podcasts
  • Listen to playlists
  • Turn on air purifier
  • Read and review a book
  • Get sponsorship for MacMillan - my postie said that he was going to sponsor me even though he barely knows me!!
  • Get sponsorship for LPT
  • Keep checking FB about languages
  • Check forum for birthdays
  • Announce birthdays if necessary
  • Get washed and dressed with my carer
  • Post about how much carer helped me
  • Make breakfast of toast and juice
  • Take photo of my breakfast
  • Have breakfast
  • Do washing up
  • Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
  • Log breakfast into FitBit app
  • Do morning laps
  • Set up mailing list and website for my book
  • Post URL on here and Facebook
  • Give neighbour their parcel
  • Charge up FitBit
  • Charge up phone
  • Bring in first delivery
  • Put first delivery away
  • Bring in second delivery
  • Put second delivery away
  • Send blurb/synopsis/both to Rob when he gets back
  • Make lunch of instant soup
  • Take photo of lunch
  • Bring lunch through to the living room 
  • Have lunch
  • Log lunch into FitBit app
  • Post about how much carer helped me
  • Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
  • Take lunchtime pill
  • Do washing up 
  • Do afternoon laps
  • Arrange for my brother to collect the heirlooms - we're narrowing it down slowly now... ideally in the first half term of 2025 - I've just emailed him to ask again - he's just replied and we're aiming for Easter instead now
  • Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
  • There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
  • As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
  • And chocolate raisins in the fridge
  • There's crisps in the drawers too
  • If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread too - 3 slices left in the freezer now
  • Study my courses
  • Post about something I'm grateful for today
  • Download, resize and save BP machine photos
  • Put 6 days' worth of photos on my health site
  • Take evening pills
  • Go to bed

Today (21st March 2025) I'm grateful for...

...both deliveries coming at a decent time.


Tomorrow is bath day, so I'm gonna use the time between getting out of the bath and my lunchtime carer arriving to attempt to get my new laptop set up and updated, then I'll attempt to slowly move everything across after lunch.  Tomorrow is gonna be a on-off-on-off and back on again day so don't worry if it takes me a while to reply to emails and messages and stuff... I'll be fine, just attempting to tackle new technology totally alone for the first time in my life (I'm not counting my last new laptop because that was new everything except the emails, but this time I've gotta move everything across totally alone).


I reckon I'm gonna treat myself to an early night tonight - I think I deserve it!


Tomorrow morning I've gotta remember to...

  1. Pull the water heating switch as soon as I've taken my blood pressure
  2. Take my morning pills
  3. Have my breakfast
  4. Put the last jumper into the wools basket
  5. Have a bath and shave
  6. Pull the water heating switch off
  7. Put my wools on to wash
  8. Put a hoodie on if I get cold
  9. Relax until lunchtime

Second update to today's to-do list

  • Take morning pills
  • Run daily virus scan
  • Use blood pressure machine
  • Put details onto spreadsheet
  • Put BP machine away
  • Listen to podcasts
  • Listen to playlists
  • Turn on air purifier
  • Read and review a book
  • Get sponsorship for MacMillan - my postie said that he was going to sponsor me even though he barely knows me!!
  • Get sponsorship for LPT
  • Keep checking FB about languages
  • Check forum for birthdays
  • Announce birthdays if necessary
  • Get washed and dressed with my carer
  • Post about how much carer helped me
  • Make breakfast of toast and juice
  • Take photo of my breakfast
  • Have breakfast
  • Do washing up
  • Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
  • Log breakfast into FitBit app
  • Do morning laps
  • Set up mailing list and website for my book
  • Post URL on here and Facebook
  • Give neighbour their parcel
  • Charge up FitBit
  • Charge up phone
  • Bring in first delivery
  • Put first delivery away
  • Bring in second delivery
  • Put second delivery away
  • Send blurb/synopsis/both to Rob when he gets back
  • Make lunch of instant soup
  • Take photo of lunch
  • Bring lunch through to the living room 
  • Have lunch
  • Log lunch into FitBit app
  • Post about how much carer helped me
  • Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
  • Take lunchtime pill
  • Do washing up 
  • Do afternoon laps
  • Arrange for my brother to collect the heirlooms - we're narrowing it down slowly now... ideally in the first half term of 2025 - I've just emailed him to ask again - he's just replied and we're aiming for Easter instead now
  • Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
  • There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
  • As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
  • And chocolate raisins in the fridge
  • There's crisps in the drawers too
  • If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread too - 3 slices left in the freezer now
  • Study my courses
  • Post about something I'm grateful for today
  • Download, resize and save BP machine photos
  • Put 6 days' worth of photos on my health site
  • Take evening pills
  • Go to bed

Today's (21st March 2025) lunch photo

Today's lunch was a mug of instant vegetable Cup Soup which warmed me up nicely but hasn't filled me up at all so I've made myself a me-friendly creamy drinking chocolate too.


Here's today's lunch photo:


First update to today's to-do list

  • Take morning pills
  • Run daily virus scan
  • Use blood pressure machine
  • Put details onto spreadsheet
  • Put BP machine away
  • Listen to podcasts
  • Listen to playlists
  • Turn on air purifier
  • Read and review a book
  • Get sponsorship for MacMillan - my postie said that he was going to sponsor me even though he barely knows me!!
  • Get sponsorship for LPT
  • Keep checking FB about languages
  • Check forum for birthdays
  • Announce birthdays if necessary
  • Get washed and dressed with my carer
  • Post about how much carer helped me
  • Make breakfast of toast and juice
  • Take photo of my breakfast
  • Have breakfast
  • Do washing up
  • Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
  • Log breakfast into FitBit app
  • Do morning laps
  • Set up mailing list and website for my book
  • Post URL on here and Facebook
  • Give neighbour their parcel
  • Charge up FitBit
  • Charge up phone
  • Bring in first delivery
  • Put first delivery away
  • Bring in second delivery
  • Put second delivery away
  • Send blurb/synopsis/both to Rob when he gets back
  • Make lunch of instant soup
  • Take photo of lunch
  • Bring lunch through to the living room 
  • Have lunch
  • Log lunch into FitBit app
  • Post about how much carer helped me
  • Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
  • Take lunchtime pill
  • Do washing up 
  • Do afternoon laps
  • Arrange for my brother to collect the heirlooms - we're narrowing it down slowly now... ideally in the first half term of 2025 - I've just emailed him to ask again - he's just replied and we're aiming for Easter instead now
  • Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
  • There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
  • As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
  • And chocolate raisins in the fridge
  • There's crisps in the drawers too
  • If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread too - 3 slices left in the freezer now
  • Study my courses
  • Post about something I'm grateful for today
  • Download, resize and save BP machine photos
  • Put 6 days' worth of photos on my health site
  • Take evening pills
  • Go to bed

I know I've been...

...talking about my newest book that I'm gonna publish at the start of June a lot recently, but I've just set up a mailing list for it that you can join (it's free, don't worry) to be one of the first to know when it's published.


The URL to the sign-up page is http://amandageorge.me.uk/confabulation.htm and I'll be doing most of the marketing and promotions for the book through the mailing list.


The book I read and reviewed yesterday gave me sooo many ideas for things to do after it's been published, but this was one of the pre-publication suggestions, so get clicking and there might be sneak previews or snippets or other exclusives in the lead-up to it that only my mailing list subscribers will know about!


Today's (21st March 2025) breakfast photo

I last had a solid breakfast last Saturday (so a week tomorrow) and it's really filled me up to have a solid meal for the first time this week!  It means that I won't be picking at bars of chocolate today, which can only be a good thing.


Here's today's breakfast photo:


!!!

My electricity smart meter has just come on and I gave it the first glance of the day and it's below £1 for the first time since the end of last year!!