Second 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 daily virus scan
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Contact the council about the recycling boxes return - they've gotta be dropped off at a depot so I've asked my SIL to do it for me
• Sort out more of spare room
• Try new near glasses on
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups - 75 this week
• Do morning crunches - 35 this week
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit - today's the first day of editing! - I'm about ⅔ of the way through it so far today.  Gonna do a little bit more before my laps, then charge up my Inspire while I hopefully finish it off this afternoon, then I'll give it a read-through tomorrow before officially finishing the fourth edit - finished the edits, so just got the read-through tomorrow to finish the fourth edit in between my laps, sit-ups, cruches, meals, the Freegler collection and at least one, potentially two deliveries so it's gonna be a busy day tomorrow
• Charge up Inspire
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion
• Make lunch of sweet potato fries, frozen veggies and mayo
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• And roasted giant corn in the drawers
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put blood pressure spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

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
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Contact the council about the recycling boxes return - they've gotta be dropped off at a depot so I've asked my SIL to do it for me
• Sort out more of spare room
• Try new near glasses on
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups - 75 this week
• Do morning crunches - 35 this week
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit - today's the first day of editing! - I'm about ⅔ of the way through it so far today.  Gonna do a little bit more before my laps, then charge up my Inspire while I hopefully finish it off this afternoon, then I'll give it a read-through tomorrow before officially finishing the fourth edit.
• Charge up Inspire
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion
• Make lunch of sweet potato fries, frozen veggies and mayo
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• And roasted giant corn in the drawers
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put blood pressure spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today's (19th March 2026) lunch photo

Today's lunch was a lot less oily than Monday's, but still a little bit too much... will it be third time lucky??

Today's lunch was approximately 80g of Sweet Potato Fries, approx. 100g of frozen mixed vegetables, air fryed in approx 1ml of air frying spray and a 330ml can of a Sparkling Passion[fruit] pop which has filled me up more than I thought, considering it was just vegetables!

Here's today's lunch photo:

Today's (19th March 2026) 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
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Contact the council about the recycling boxes return - they've gotta be dropped off at a depot so I've asked my SIL to do it for me
• Sort out more of spare room
• Try new near glasses on
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups - 75 this week
• Do morning crunches - 35 this week
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit - today's the first day of editing!
• Charge up Inspire
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion
• Make lunch of sweet potato fries, frozen veggies and mayo
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• And roasted giant corn in the drawers
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put blood pressure spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today's (19th March 2026) breakfast photo

Today's breakfast was my first solid meal since Tuesday lunchtime and consisted of my usual 2 slices of wholemeal 'Toastie' toast with approx. 20g of 'Buttery' spread and a freshly decanted 250ml bottle of Tropical juice.

Here's today's breakfast photo:

Gooooood morning all!

I didn't want to get out of bed again this morning, so the 5-HTP was one of the 11 pills I popped this morning and it's already working!

My blood pressure was pretty normal for me at 104 and I've discovered that I need to put my toast in for a second toasting using the minimum setting after using the maximum setting.  I'm wearing my new glasses to write this and everything has sharp edges so it was work the extra money for this second set.

The daily virus scan was still reassuringly clear, so today's task is gonna be to start the editing of my second memoir after my best friend sent me the latest feedback last night.

I'm definitely into my hayfever season now 'cos my eyes are itchy, my nose is streaming and I can't stop coughing.

Time to get today's to-do list together, then my breakfast photo, then hopefully my OCD will be happy with me doing my first set of laps of the day.

BBIAB

Nite nite orl

I'm absolutely cream-crackered, so I've popped my last two pills of the day and I'm heading on up to bed.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Second 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
• Do weekly backups
• Look for printer drivers on HP website
• Come up with a tag line for my memoir - I've potentially come up with one at last
• Study at least one course
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Ask Alexa to play Baroque music
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed
• Make breakfast of toast and juice/water
• Take photo of breakfast
• Put photo of breakfast on here and Instagram
• Wash up
• Contact the council about the recycling boxes return - they've gotta be dropped off at a depot so I've asked my SIL to do it for me
• Sort out more of spare room
• Make honey drink
• Do morning laps
• Do morning sit-ups - 75 this week
• Do morning crunches - 35 this week
• Put cartridge into printer - didn't need to after all
• Try to print out stock take
• Contact manufacturer if it still doesn't work - gonna have a look on their site to see if I can find anything on there - found them but the printer still didn't work so I used the Amazon product support instead and Bingo!
• Forget what I've written in my second memoir - totally gone now
• Wait to get the feedback from my best friend - he's just sent it, thank you C!
• Put second memoir through its 4th edit - gonna start to tackle it tomorrow
• Send reviewers my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Keep an eye on Freegle to see if anyone wants the radiator or seat cushion
• Make lunch of sweet potato fries, frozen veggies and mayo
• Take photo of lunch
• Put photo of lunch on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do afternoon laps
• Do sit-ups in hall 
• Do crunches in hall
• Get ASHP and central heating serviced - it's been rescheduled to 10th April now
• Go through apps on my spam phone
• Make tea of soup
• Take photo of tea
• Bring tea through to the living room
• Log tea into FitBit app
• Put photo of tea on here and Instagram
• Do washing up
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• And treat-sized choccie on the side
• And loads of soft drinks
• And dried fruit and nuts in the tubs
• And roasted giant corn in the drawers
• Study my courses (starting at the bottom of the page)
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of BP photos onto my health site
• Put blood pressure spreadsheet onto health site on the last day of each month
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Thank you Green Man!

It's definitely starting to get noticably lighter earlier in the evenings now.  It's 6pm and I've only just turned the living room light on and closed the curtains, but I was doing that before 5pm last week!

The Green Man is obviously starting to wake up which is gonna gradually start doing good things to my mood!

Just in time for...

...starting to wind down for the night, I feel like I've achieved a pretty decent amount today and I'm proud of myself for finally getting my printer to work.  I'm currently rewarding myself with a creamy decaff mocha, so it really has been a liquidy day today.

According to my FitBit app, I've managed 214 active minutes today, so I'm really proud of that.

I've also got my reading/eye-strain reduction glasses through the door about 10 minutes ago, but I'm gonna leave it until tomorrow before I try them on.  I'll hopefully be able to get a decent photo of me wearing my newest glasses and the wig that I'm gonna use for the author photo in all of my children's books.  My fantastic BIL has already agreed to working his magic with the photo, so that's the next anxiety-making thing to deal with now.  I'm predicting that the wig and/or glasses don't fit now lol

For my own safety, I'm not gonna be moving far from the sofa tomorrow between exercising sessions, otherwise I'll end up on the floor, unable to get up.  A day for reading, methinks.