Nite nite orl

It's been a loooong few days and I'm totally cream-crackered so I've popped my last two pills of the day and I'm heading on up to beddy-byes now.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl.

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

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Use blood pressure machine while my laptop is booting up
• 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
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Make breakfast of Weetabix 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
• back up entire hard drive - just started it off and it's due to finish at about 6pm - just gotta back up my documents tomorrow then it's all done and dusted
• Set up my email programme again? - don't need to now, thankfully
• Come up with blurb for book - Rob has offered to help me
• Make lunch of an instant Cup Soup and fruit
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room 
• Have lunch
• Log lunch into FitBit app
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do washing up
• Do afternoon laps
• Charge up FitBit again - just started this too
• Arrange for my brother to collect the heirlooms - we're narrowing it down slowly now... ideally in the first half term of 2025
• Get handwriting decoded
• Finish editing JanNo manuscript
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
• And chocolate raisins in the fridge
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread too
• There's a packet of broken biscuits too
• As well as 8 Huel bars on the side
• Keep checking Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• 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

Tomorrow I've gotta remember to...

• Back-up my documents to my new external hard drive
• Hopefully bring in my new glasses
• Pull the water heating switch in the bathroom
• Have a bath
• Relax without feeling guilty
• Wash my wools on Sunday morning

Today I'm grateful for...

I'm loving my new external hard drive and I'm grateful that I took the plunge and bought it on Wednesday (I think), that it got delivered yesterday and I started my first backups this afternoon.  I'll just need to back-up my documents tomorrow, which I'll start as soon as I've put my laptop onto the table in the morning so that they have 5-ish hours to back up the documents before my lunchtime carer gets here.

Considering that I didn't start it until after 2pm and it's now nearly 5pm, I've managed to back up the best part of 150gb in those 3 hours.

I'm feeling immensely proud of myself and grateful that I managed to buy a techie item without screwing up so far... it's just my timing that's out lol

Fourth update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Use blood pressure machine while my laptop is booting up
• 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
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Make breakfast of Weetabix 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
• back up entire hard drive - just started it off and it's due to finish at about 6pm
• Set up my email programme again? - don't need to now, thankfully
• Come up with blurb for book - Rob has offered to help me
• Make lunch of an instant Cup Soup and fruit
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room 
• Have lunch
• Log lunch into FitBit app
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do washing up
• Do afternoon laps
• Charge up FitBit again - just started this too
• Arrange for my brother to collect the heirlooms - we're narrowing it down slowly now... ideally in the first half term of 2025
• Get handwriting decoded
• Finish editing JanNo manuscript
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
• And chocolate raisins in the fridge
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread too
• There's a packet of broken biscuits too
• As well as 8 Huel bars on the side
• Keep checking Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• 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

Ooh!

I've just set the backups going on my new external hard drive and to back up 282GB of stuff (basically everything on my hard drive that I want to keep) it'll only take 3 hours!

My usual Wednesday backups take about 2.5 hours and that's just my documents and websites and is less than half what I'm backing up now, so I'm already impressed with it!

In the time it took me to go for a wee and make myself a hot drink, it had already backed up about 10gb which is going some by anyone's standards!

I realise that it'll take longer the more space I use, but it's getting top marks from me right now!

It's been going for about 10 minutes and it's backed up almost 30gb so far, so I'm wondering if my usual Wednesday backups will take under an hour 'cos they are less than 100gb a week!

Third update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Use blood pressure machine while my laptop is booting up
• 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
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Make breakfast of Weetabix 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
• back up entire hard drive
• Set up my email programme again? - don't need to now, thankfully
• Come up with blurb for book - Rob has offered to help me
• Make lunch of an instant Cup Soup and fruit
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room 
• Have lunch
• Log lunch into FitBit app
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do washing up
• Do afternoon laps
• Charge up FitBit again
• Arrange for my brother to collect the heirlooms - we're narrowing it down slowly now... ideally in the first half term of 2025
• Get handwriting decoded
• Finish editing JanNo manuscript
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
• And chocolate raisins in the fridge
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread too
• There's a packet of broken biscuits too
• As well as 8 Huel bars on the side
• Keep checking Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• 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 (17th January 2025) lunch photo

Today's lunch, when my carer gets here in an hour or so, will be a mug of instant vegetable Cup Soup and two 80g packs of apple slices again.

Here's today's lunch photo:

Second update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Use blood pressure machine while my laptop is booting up
• 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
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Make breakfast of Weetabix 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
• back up entire hard drive
• Set up my email programme again? - don't need to now, thankfully
• Come up with blurb for book - Rob has offered to help me
• Make lunch of an instant Cup Soup and fruit
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room 
• Have lunch
• Log lunch into FitBit app
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do washing up
• Do afternoon laps
• Charge up FitBit again
• Arrange for my brother to collect the heirlooms - we're narrowing it down slowly now... ideally in the first half term of 2025
• Get handwriting decoded
• Finish editing JanNo manuscript
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
• And chocolate raisins in the fridge
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread too
• There's a packet of broken biscuits too
• As well as 8 Huel bars on the side
• Keep checking Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• 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 (17th January 2025) breakfast photo

Today's breakfast was the same as it has been since Wednesday - a bowl of choccie Weetabix with plant protein soya milk and a freshly decanted 250ml bottle of apple and mango juice, finishing off the last of the carton.

Here's today's breakfast photo: