First update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• 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!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J! - an "anonymous" sponsor sponsored me too, so that's good of them!  I'm hoping for more sponsors now that I've actually gone through with the shave - I know who the "anonymous" sponsor is now and I'm respecting their desire to remain private.  I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter and paperwork
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me! - I'll hopefully get some sponsors now that I've actually done it - I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter with my hair and paperwork
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary - none today, but there is tomorrow (Friday)
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Keep an eye on when my deliveries are due - they've all just arrived for today, so I've just got one more due on Friday and the last one due 22nd - 23rd then hopefully that's it - Friday's delivery arrived yesterday instead, so it's just the one that's due between 22nd and 23rd now
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back - the collection team will contact me in 7-10 working days to arrange a pick-up day - booked in for 25th July
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it?? - gonna try and look in the settings of my phone to see if there's something in there that I need to switch on or off
• Do morning laps
• Write to MacMillan
• Fill out MacMillan's paperwork
• Send letter on 20th July
• Transfer money to MacMillan
• Write to LPT
• Fill out LPT's paperwork
• Send letter and hair on 20th July
• Transfer money to LPT
• Keep an eye on when the last few book reviewers open for new requests
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of vegan protein shake
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room
• 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
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• As well as Caramelly chocolate on the side
• And caffeine-free Diet Coke in the fridge
• And choccie peanuts and raisins in the fridge too
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• 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 July 2025) lunch photo

Anyone wanna take a guess at what my only meal was again today?

If you guessed that it was another vegan chocolate protein shake then you'd be spot on!

Here's today's lunch photo:

Today's (17th July 2025) to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• 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!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J! - an "anonymous" sponsor sponsored me too, so that's good of them!  I'm hoping for more sponsors now that I've actually gone through with the shave - I know who the "anonymous" sponsor is now and I'm respecting their desire to remain private.  I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter and paperwork
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me! - I'll hopefully get some sponsors now that I've actually done it - I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter with my hair and paperwork
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Keep an eye on when my deliveries are due - they've all just arrived for today, so I've just got one more due on Friday and the last one due 22nd - 23rd then hopefully that's it - Friday's delivery arrived yesterday instead, so it's just the one that's due between 22nd and 23rd now
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back - the collection team will contact me in 7-10 working days to arrange a pick-up day - booked in for 25th July
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it?? - gonna try and look in the settings of my phone to see if there's something in there that I need to switch on or off
• Do morning laps
• Write to MacMillan
• Fill out MacMillan's paperwork
• Send letter on 20th July
• Transfer money to MacMillan
• Write to LPT
• Fill out LPT's paperwork
• Send letter and hair on 20th July
• Transfer money to LPT
• Keep an eye on when the last few book reviewers open for new requests
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of vegan protein shake
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room
• 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
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• As well as Caramelly chocolate on the side
• And caffeine-free Diet Coke in the fridge
• And choccie peanuts and raisins in the fridge too
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• 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

Mornin' all

I've woken up with a very bad case of hayfever this morning - I can't stop sneezing, my eyes are watering, I'm itchy and my throat is scratch and it's only 4.40am so I dread to think what I'll be like when the rest of the plants wake up!

I've taken my blood pressure (which was slightly raised), popped my morning pills and run the daily virus scan (which was still, reassuringly, clear) this morning.

Time to get today's to-do list together now methinks.

Nite nite orl

It's been a long and exhausting day today so I've popped my last two pills of the day and I'm heading on up to beddy-byes.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

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

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan - finished at 4.54am
• Do backups - started at 4.58am - finished at 6.34am
• 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!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J! - an "anonymous" sponsor sponsored me too, so that's good of them!  I'm hoping for more sponsors now that I've actually gone through with the shave - I know who the "anonymous" sponsor is now and I'm respecting their desire to remain private.  I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter and paperwork
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me! - I'll hopefully get some sponsors now that I've actually done it - I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter with my hair and paperwork
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary - none today
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Bring in deliveries
• Put deliveries away
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Keep an eye on when my deliveries are due - they've all just arrived for today, so I've just got one more due on Friday and the last one due 22nd - 23rd then hopefully that's it
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back - the collection team will contact me in 7-10 working days to arrange a pick-up day - booked in for 25th July
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it?? - gonna try and look in the settings of my phone to see if there's something in there that I need to switch on or off
• Do morning laps
• Write to MacMillan
• Fill out MacMillan's paperwork
• Send letter on 20th July
• Transfer money to MacMillan
• Write to LPT
• Fill out LPT's paperwork
• Send letter and hair on 20th July
• Transfer money to LPT
• Keep an eye on when the last few book reviewers open for new requests
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of vegan protein shake
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room
• 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
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• As well as Caramelly chocolate on the side
• And caffeine-free Diet Coke in the fridge
• And choccie peanuts and raisins in the fridge too
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• 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

Second update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan - finished at 4.54am
• Do backups - started at 4.58am - finished at 6.34am
• 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!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J! - an "anonymous" sponsor sponsored me too, so that's good of them!  I'm hoping for more sponsors now that I've actually gone through with the shave - I know who the "anonymous" sponsor is now and I'm respecting their desire to remain private.  I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter and paperwork
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me! - I'll hopefully get some sponsors now that I've actually done it - I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter with my hair and paperwork
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary - none today
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Bring in deliveries
• Put deliveries away
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Keep an eye on when my deliveries are due - they've all just arrived for today, so I've just got one more due on Friday and the last one due 22nd - 23rd then hopefully that's it
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back - the collection team will contact me in 7-10 working days to arrange a pick-up day - booked in for 25th July
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it?? - gonna try and look in the settings of my phone to see if there's something in there that I need to switch on or off
• Do morning laps
• Write to MacMillan
• Fill out MacMillan's paperwork
• Send letter on 20th July
• Transfer money to MacMillan
• Write to LPT
• Fill out LPT's paperwork
• Send letter and hair on 20th July
• Transfer money to LPT
• Keep an eye on when the last few book reviewers open for new requests
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of vegan protein shake
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room
• 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
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• As well as Caramelly chocolate on the side
• And caffeine-free Diet Coke in the fridge
• And choccie peanuts and raisins in the fridge too
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• 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 (16th July 2025) lunch photo

For my only meal today (other than 2 litres of water throughout the morning to quell my hunger) I had a 400ml container of vegan chocolate protein shake again.

Here's today's lunch photo:

First update to today's to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan - finished at 4.54am
• Do backups - started at 4.58am - finished at 6.34am
• 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!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J! - an "anonymous" sponsor sponsored me too, so that's good of them!  I'm hoping for more sponsors now that I've actually gone through with the shave - I know who the "anonymous" sponsor is now and I'm respecting their desire to remain private.  I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter and paperwork
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me! - I'll hopefully get some sponsors now that I've actually done it - I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter with my hair and paperwork
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary - none today
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Bring in deliveries
• Put deliveries away
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Keep an eye on when my deliveries are due
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back - the collection team will contact me in 7-10 working days to arrange a pick-up day - booked in for 25th July
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it?? - gonna try and look in the settings of my phone to see if there's something in there that I need to switch on or off
• Do morning laps
• Write to MacMillan
• Fill out MacMillan's paperwork
• Send letter on 20th July
• Transfer money to MacMillan
• Write to LPT
• Fill out LPT's paperwork
• Send letter and hair on 20th July
• Transfer money to LPT
• Keep an eye on when the last few book reviewers open for new requests
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of vegan protein shake
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room
• 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
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• As well as Caramelly chocolate on the side
• And caffeine-free Diet Coke in the fridge
• And choccie peanuts and raisins in the fridge too
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• 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 (16th July 2025) to-do list

• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run weekly virus scan - finished at 4.54am
• Do backups - started at 4.58am
• 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!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J! - an "anonymous" sponsor sponsored me too, so that's good of them!  I'm hoping for more sponsors now that I've actually gone through with the shave - I know who the "anonymous" sponsor is now and I'm respecting their desire to remain private.  I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter and paperwork
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me! - I'll hopefully get some sponsors now that I've actually done it - I'm gonna give it until 16th July then transfer the money across to them and send the letter with my hair and paperwork
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Bring in deliveries
• Put deliveries away
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Keep an eye on when my deliveries are due
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back - the collection team will contact me in 7-10 working days to arrange a pick-up day - booked in for 25th July
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it?? - gonna try and look in the settings of my phone to see if there's something in there that I need to switch on or off
• Do morning laps
• Write to MacMillan
• Fill out MacMillan's paperwork
• Send letter on 20th July
• Transfer money to MacMillan
• Write to LPT
• Fill out LPT's paperwork
• Send letter and hair on 20th July
• Transfer money to LPT
• Keep an eye on when the last few book reviewers open for new requests
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of vegan protein shake
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room
• 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
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• As well as Caramelly chocolate on the side
• And caffeine-free Diet Coke in the fridge
• And choccie peanuts and raisins in the fridge too
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• 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