I'm off to bed for the night now... behave yourselves and stay safe and legal.
See you tomorrow morning.
Nite nite orl.
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Does anyone have...
...any very simple recipes for easy, quick, sugar-free, vegan puds that don't require much preparation and ideally no cooking.
We've got very little room in our kitchen and literally an oven, a grill, a toaster, a bread maker, a slow cooker and a kettle. We've got a sandwich toaster and air fryer, but they haven't even been taken out of their boxes yet and I wanna leave them there until I'm more confident in my cooking abilities.
We've got 3 saucepans, 2 frying pans, a hand held blender, 2 round cake tins, 2 baking sheet things and a set of scales. We've got 4kg of white rice and a bit of pasta and 4 weeks menus already planned out, but we'd both like to try something new to us soon but we're both out of ideas. The cheaper and easier the recipe is, the better.
Our minds are pretty open, we just need quick and easy recipes that sound yummy and are done and dusted within half an hour from start to finish.
I'd love to have a read of your recipes if you wanna leave them in the comments under this blog post? Please?
TIA!
Today's (31st March 2022) afternoon snack photo
After so much accidental black pepper for lunch, I decided my mouth/tastebuds needed a bit of sweet relief, so Steve got me 3 vegan chocolate cookies with his lunch and they are sooo good.
Taken my afternoon pill and...
...Steve's decided to have a Subway meal for his lunch, so has asked if I want anything for later. I'm gonna have a look but might just get cookies or something so that I can have them for a snack either this afternoon or tomorrow (or both lol)
Today's (31st March 2022) lunch photos
My hubby/carer made my lunch today - 6 fried eggs and two slices of multi-seeded brown bread. Apparently the lid fell off the pepper mid-grinding so there was waaay too much pepper on them, but that's OK 'cos he's only human!
The two photos of my lunch are really blurry today, but at that point I was so hungry I didn't care lol
Thank you for doing my lunch today Steve!
Today's (31st March 2022) breakfast photo
Just my usual tropical fruits granola and a touch too much soya milk this morning. I had to put the spoon into the bowl before I took the photo so that you could see that there really was some granola in there lol
That's two more...
...invoices paid for another year and I was amazed at how long I'd been using the products for - one was 2015 and the other was 2013!!
One less thing to worry about now for another year.
Mornin' all
I woke up almost 2 hours later than I usually do this morning, so my body obviously needed the extra time to recover from the last couple of very late nights.
I've taken my morning pills, started the virus scan and have just used the opportunity of my carer being awake to make myself my first caffeinated drink of the week, so I'll be rushing/stumbling backwards and forwards to the bathroom for the rest of the day now lol It'll wake me up more than usual, so I can be more aware of what my carer wants/needs me to do.
The virus scan has just finished and my computer is still free of nasties, thankfully.
I got some moulds delivered yesterday, so I'll be trying them out for our lunch today - it'll just be the fried eggs today, which I bet my carer will complain about but I really don't care, considering he says that he "cooks all her meals for her" but hasn't actually done more than drain water and combine pasta 'n' sauce or curry 'n' rice since before NaNo!
Woops! I was wrong! I'm sorry for my mistake. I've just checked the photos and Steve last made a meal for me on 10th February, so that's 1 month, 2 weeks and 4 days ago - I've made all the meals since then though and it's definitely not the "every meal" he claims that he makes.
Steve is supposed to be having a home visit from the district nurse either today or tomorrow, so I hope she doesn't turn up while I'm cooking or we're eating, but, knowing my luck, that's exactly what'll happen lol
Time to crack on with the news until my carer wakes up and I've drained my coffee I reckon.
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Nite nite orl
Steve's just woken up and decided to refill his pill box for the next 7 days, so I'm thinking that now would be a good time for me to head up to bed.
I've already worked 3 hours and 35 minutes overtime this week so it's gonna be another week of mucho care given and very little received I reckon. 85 hours should be pretty doable and I might even be able to approach 90 hours after last night's very late night. I've had 1 hour 27 minutes of care from my carer so far this week and I've provided 38 hours and 35 minutes of care for him, so who's the carer judging by those numbers? Answer: not me apparently.
I'm sure you're all fed up of that particular rant by now, so I'm gonna say nite nite two ewe orl and I'll see you tomorrow.
Washing up done...
...food and drink made for my carer, pills taken, support given (as opposed to received) online again and I'm just about done in for the day after such a late night of support last night (14 hours of care and I didn't get to bed until after 10pm) but I've gotta keep caring for my carer until he wakes up for long enough for me to say goodnight to him, then it all starts again tomorrow.
I've found one last bottle of orange juice in the fridge, so I've gotta remember to give that to my carer with his breakfast. We're potentially having fried eggs for lunch again tomorrow, using the egg shapey things that got delivered today, so I stand a chance of being able to eat twice tomorrow instead of the once I've eaten today. Thankfully the 3 hot chocolates have stopped my belly from rumbling and sent my calories through the roof today though.
That's the back-ups done...
...and Steve's had two lunches today as well as his breakfast, but I haven't eaten anything since I had anything since my breakfast (other than 3 very high calorie drinking chocolates) and my delivery is due any time now, so I won't be eating anything else yet again today, but Steve's eaten three times and had 3 hot drinks, so that's all that matters, right? He'll want his tea in a few hours too, so he'll have eaten four times by the time I head to bed, compared to my once, but that doesn't seem to matter to anyone, as long as Steve eats, drinks and can claim credit for doing it (I've been called a liar when I've corrected him so I've learnt to keep my mouth shut now and just let him keep on lieing to his family and medical bods and anyone else who asks/assumes).
I've got proof that he cares for me for under 2 hours a week and he's been keeping a spreadsheet that proves it too. I've also got proof that I frequently care for him for over 85 hours a week but apparently I'm lieing about that too <shrug>
Basically he's recognised and paid as my carer for caring for me for under 10% of the 35 hours he claims he does and I'm unpaid, unrecognised and called a liar for caring for him for considerably more than double the required minimum <shrug>
Pills taken now, so...
...I'm gonna go and make part 2 of Steve's lunch, then wait for the deliveries then make a start on the product test - gonna be a busy bunny this afternoon by the looks of things lol I've had to re-start the backups again 'cos they stopped at 92% and 93% so I'm hoping they'll get all the way through this time lol
Looks like...
...my breakfast was my only meal again today then 'cos Steve just wanted the bread and spread for his lunch and my legs are feeling too wobbly to stand up for long enough to make myself my soup for lunch, so today's calories are coming from the granola, soya milk and 2 drinking chocolates today which have sent my calorie count through the roof but the granola is gonna be the only solid thing in my belly and I've gotta save the bread for Steve's tea tonight and his lunch and tea tomorrow, so he'll have got through 2 loaves of bread all bar the two slices I had last week, but as long as he's fed and doesn't go hungry or thirsty then that's all that matters seemingly.
I'm just grateful that the drinking chocolate is over 500 calories per mug so that I'm over budget without eating very much today.
When the delivery has turned up I'll go and make a start on the first part of the product test. This one can be made public straight away, I've just gotta remember to put it onto my Instagram account with the appropriate hash tags and link to the appropriate pages I've put it on is all.
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30th March 2022
Today's (30th March 2022) breakfast photo
Just had my breakfast... a gorgeous and healthy bowl of tropical fruits granola and soya milk.
It's instant soup for lunch so I'll hopefully remember to put up a photo of that too.
We're not having juices any more 'cos they are so high in sugar, so it's hot drinks, smoothies, milkshakes and water for me from now on. I'm not missing the orange juices as much as I thought I would, but I guess that's 'cos I didn't have them every morning like Steve did. What other juices can we have that have got very little (if any) sugar in them please?
Here's today's breakfast photo:
Mornin' all
How are you all doing this morning?
I had a very late-for-me morning this morning, but I've remembered not to open my email programmes, set the weekly scan running and taken my morning pills so far today.
Steve's considering cancelling his medical appointment yet again and he doesn't want a solid breakfast now so I'm just gonna have a milkshake and test out the product with just the mug and glass instead of caked onto the bowl cereal. Mind you, I'll only be having soup for lunch so I need the extra calories from the granola this morning, so I'm gonna go and make myself a bowl after all.
I'm expecting a delivery from Amazon today and I've gotta charge up my FitBit too, so I'd best go and get breakfast sorted while I remember.
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Just taken my pills...
...almost 2 hours later than usual, but I had a product testing package to wait for so didn't want to take my pills before it arrived and risk being too tired to answer the door to it. I've taken the first photo of it and taken my last two pills of the day now though, so I'm just waiting for the side effects to kick in so that I can head off to beddy-byes.
I'm hoping I can upload progress reports as I increase the challenge I set for it, starting tomorrow and seeing how it copes by Sunday lol
That's the...
...food on the counter documented and I've got a 4 page list of all our food (but no drinks, other than hot drink jars and boxes) and I'm hoping to keep a closer eye on it from now on. The counter is already more organised and I can see and reach all the spices now and other than the fresh lemons, I'm all sorted for the cold season with the runny honey too.
There's a barely touched tub of chocolate milkshake powder that I rediscovered too, so I'll be able to make myself some soya chocolate milkshakes now as a difference that's cheaper and more appropriate to my tastes than the one I've been getting litre cartons of up to now - especially as I'm used to the strong flavour of soya milk now!
Gonna go and do the washing up then make myself half a litre of chocolate milkshake lol
Just done...
...a tiny bit of rearranging in the kitchen.
I moved the boxes with the Chocochino pods for our Dolce Gusto machine over to where the spice rack, jars of coffee and salt were, slid the spice rack into the new space and put the coffee and salt in front of it. We're more likely to use the spices than the Dolce Gusto machine and I can now reach them and hopefully get inspired to use them more now.
Just a minor rearrangement, but it made sense to make use of the opportunity of having Steve's seat out of the way when I got the glasses out of the cupboard for us to have half a bottle of Lipton Peach ice tea each. It tastes even better out of a glass rather than the plastic bottle lol
I'm inspired to list all the things on the counter on the "available food" document now too so that it's completely accurate and I can tidy up a bit more while I'm doing it too, now that I have a bit of motivation to do it!
Wish me luck!
Today's (29th March 2022) lunch photo
Just a simple but surprisingly filling lunch today - eggs and chips with plenty of pepper on the eggs and "chip seasoning" on the chips.
We've got a small fruit bread with today's grocery delivery, so we're hopefully gonna polish off a good chunk of it for tea along with soya spread to really send my calorie count through the roof, but that's OK 'cos I was pretty significantly under the calorie budget yesterday, so if I have a couple of slices of the fruit bread and a serving of the soya spread on each slice, that'll hopefully make up for the calories I was under yesterday... mind you, Steve's medical appointment is tomorrow instead of Thursday this week, so we are pondering on having it for lunch then either instead of or as well as the soup that's on the menu for tomorrow and Thursday.
Here's today's lunch photo a couple of hours late:
Today's (29th March 2022) breakfast photo
Our groceries turned up mid second mouthful, so I've only just been able to resize the photo and put it up here for you all.
T'was just my last Graze box of "Poppy Seed & Onion Bagel" but this time it was very poppy seedish and very little bagel lol
Washing up done, brushes and...
...JanNo rewards ordered, Steve's just said that his medical appointment is tomorrow instead of Thursday, so I'm predicting he'll have to go upstairs and the lift won't work so he'll use that as an excuse not to go.
We're not having breakfast or a hot drink this morning, because of the groceries coming in about half an hour, so the eggs and chips will go down our throats at a rate of knotts again lol
My belly is rumbling though, so I'm gonna have my last Graze punnet just to keep me going.
BBIAB with the photo.
Mornin' all
How are you all doing this cold, grey morning?
I'm doing OK-ish. So far this morning I've taken my morning pills, rediscovered a months supply of 3 of them, adjusted the totals of yesterday's spreadsheet for the things I did after I'd shut down my laptop, started the virus scan and had the grocery substitution email - Steve's peppered steak slice is out of stock and has been replaced with a steak and Guiness slice again, but everything else is in stock today, so lets see what the grocery split is like, shall we?
My stuff: £7.26
Steve's stuff: £16.63
Joint stuff: £23.42
So I'm very happy with today's totals and I hope it carries on like this! We've got loads of freezer stuff this week which will be used up over the next 3 weeks so it's definitely helping to have a menu of each weeks food!
Steve's gone in to the bathroom, so I'm gonna go and do the washing up now, then make breakfast for both of us when he comes out.
The virus scan has just finished and I'm still clear of nasties, thankfully, so I can surf the net safely in the knowledge that I won't be infecting anyone or hackers having easy access to my files.
Toodle-pip for now!
Monday, 28 March 2022
Steve's tea made...
...last pills of the day taken, so just gotta do some admin on the spreadsheet then I can head to bed when the side effects kick in.
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Admin done and I'm still wide awake, so I'll publish this now before I forget again lol Managed over 11 hours of care for my carer today and he's only cared for me for half an hour while I was making our curry for lunch. The shopping is due tomorrow morning, then we'll be finishing off the eggs along with a good helping of chips and I/we need to pepper my eggs otherwise I'll get constipated again and we've got chip seasoning to find and use too. It'll be my first time adding seasonings to food that isn't already cooked, so I hope I use the right amount lol
Steve's enjoying the substituted seeded brown bread and I'd love to give it a go, but I'm predicting that I won't even get a single slice lol
OK, I'm yawning now, so I'm gonna publish this then head to bed I reckon.
Nite nite orl.
Today's (28 March 2022) lunch photo
Other than draining the water and dishing up (which I can't do with pans because of my height), I cooked the curry with Steve just sitting there giving me a bit of a confidence booster.
The flavour was almost too hot to handle, but we both ploughed through with runny noses and my ear pipes were burning too lol
It's fried eggs and chips tomorrow, so that'll be something new for me 'cos of the hob and oven going at the same time... I've only used both at the same time once before I think so I'm gonna need a huge amount of confidence boosting tomorrow, but I wanna push myself and try new things so that's starting tomorrow. Wednesday and Thursday is just our normal instant soup day so I can do that easily on my own but that's getting off today's curry lol
I really enjoyed the cooking today and it's hopefully set us both up for cooking for the rest of the week too! I realise that it's not the most fancy cooking in the world, but I only started doing it 6 months ago and I struggled with even a plate of oven chips back then, so I've made huuuuge strides in that time.
We've got "chip seasoning" to go on tomorrows chips, so that'll be another new thing for me to do 'cos I've never used any kind seasoning in my meals so far - we've just put pepper and sauce on after it's been dished up before now, so I know egg 'n' chips is an incredibly simple meal, but I'll be doing things I've got very little to no experience of tomorrow, so please just let me deal with it as best I can? Please?
I was wrong this morning...
...and I'm sorry for my mistake. I think I said in my first blog post of this morning that the monthly virus scan would take about 6 hours to complete but it's actually finished in about 4 hours so I've got 2 extra hours to sort out my emails now.
Today's Amazon delivery should be here any time around now too, so I'll be able to decant the rice and pasta into the boxes and hopefully be able to fit them in their new, permanent home so that they are off the floor and less likely to be appealing to mice.
We've got a spaghetti holder too that I'll fill with dry spaghetti (obviously) and that will have a permanent home too then.
Since doing most of the cooking now, I've become very tidy in the kitchen and everything needs to be put away in the right place lol
News on 28th March 2022
Mornin'!
How are you all doing this cold but bright morning?
I'm doing OK, ta for asking.
So far this morning I've remembered not to open my email programmes, started the monthly virus scan, made a hot drink for me an' 'im, taken Steve's last minute rubbish and recycling outside, downloaded, coded and uploaded last weeks FitBit spreadsheet and talking of my FitBit reminded me that I needed to charge up my FitBit too.
Steve's only slept for 95 minutes so far this morning, which is weird for him 'cos he's usually asleep for the best part of 2 hours after I come downstairs.
It pays to be thankful to the rubbish and recycling bods 'cos I've just said good morning to the recycling bod and thanked him and I was the only one in the street who didn't have the recycling boxes, food caddy and paper/card bag thrown back at the house - he was a true gentleman who put everything back together and brought it to the front door for me... didn't cost me a penny and I got special treatment for my appreciation and gratitude 😊
Time to carry on charging up my FitBit, then I'll go and make breakfast when it's finished and the rubbish has been collected... if it's anything like usually happens it'll be gone in about half an hour to an hours time, by which time my FitBit should be pretty much full then I can put my laptop on the floor and go and make Steve's breakfast for him.
The monthly virus scan is currently at 27% which it's done in about an hour and a half, so I'm guessing it'll be done in about 6 hours or so today which is roughly 1.30pm when I'm hoping that we'll have last Tuesday's curry then I'll make today's lunch (tuna and mayonnaise sandwiches) for Steve's tea, so that everything is back on track with the menu again.
I've discovered a box already taking up a space on the kitchen worktop, so I'm hoping that the food boxes that are due today will be able to sit on top of that so that it's immediately obvious how much of each we've got left and might motivate us to use the food before it goes off too!
We've got a grey sugar caddy somewhere in the kitchen that I wanna use to put tomorrow's bag of sugar into so that that's out of the way and unavailble to ants too... gotta find it first though lol
Gonna publish this then take my morning pills and possibly make a start on the news while I'm waiting for the rubbish collectors.
My FitBit has finished charging up already and the virus scan is now at 30% but there's a white van parked right outside our living room window so I won't be able to see the rubbish collectors going down the road until the person walks past the window to take our rubbish, so I won't be able to thank them this week 😞
TTYAL
Sunday, 27 March 2022
Nite nite orl
Not as late as I was thinking, but I've started yawning so I'm listening to my body and shutting down for the night now, so I'll see you all in the morning.
Nite nite orl.
Just done the sums and...
...my carer is pretty much wide awake after his tea, so the final weekly caring totals of the quarter look like this:
Me caring for my carer: 90 hours 27 minutes
My carer caring for me: 0 hours 30 minutes
So I'm 2⅔ over the minimum required and my carer is 34½ hours short of the minimum yet again.
I've just just taken my pills but I'm not gonna head to bed just yet otherwise I'll be throwing up and wasting the chips and onion rings... it's gonna be another late night but that's OK 'cos I've officially clocked off for the night now.
Today's (27th March 2022) tea photos
Our plates didn't turn up in time (they are currently 1 stop away) to have curry for lunch and I've only just taken the bread out of the freezer for Steve's tuna mayonnaise sandwiches tomorrow, so we'll have the curry if the bread hasn't defrosted in time or stick to the menu...
...the plates have literally just turned up and Steve's opening it even though it's addressed to me lol It means that tomorrow lunch is now curry instead of the sandwiches/soup, so that's OK 'cos it's another thing out of the cupboard then... only 6 days late lol I'll make the tuna mayo sandwiches for Steve's tea so that I can get rid of another can out of the fridge too and he won't go hungry. We've got another 3 cans of the soup that's due on Tuesday, so assuming they are in stock there will be 4 cans which makes for easier sums (ie 2 meals instead of 1½ again) but I've got nothing to wait up for now... just gotta wait for as long as possible so that I don't feel too sick when I lay down after eating so late tonight.
Today's tea was delivered by a local Chinese take-away and I had chips and onion rings.
Here are the two photos of my tea:
It's taken all day, but...
...the news on all three sites is now online and I can finish my mug of instant lemon tea without having to concentrate on finding, reading, coding and uploading each bit. I enjoy it when I get started, it's just the getting started that's the hard bit!
Steve's taken another £50 off what he owes me today, so the total is now under £1500 which is under half of what it was last year, so I'm trying to remain hopeful that the debt'll be cleared soon.
Now that the news has been done for the day, I'm gonna quickly check Facebook, then do the washing up while I wait for my delivery from Amazon. I've got another one coming tomorrow too lol
Steve's just taken the washing up off my hands, so I've just gotta scrub the hob now. While Steve was finishing up, I added it to his sheet and totted up the daily and weekly support totals so far:
Today's caring totals:
Me caring for my carer: 10 hours 5 minutes
My carer caring for me: 0 hours 10 minutes
Weekly caring totals:
Me caring for my carer: 90 hours 24 minutes !!!
My carer caring for me: 0 hours 30 minutes
Because my delivery is coming so late, Steve's decided against cooking for either of us, so has ordered a take-away... I bet the take-away and delivery will turn up pretty much together lol I'm having chips for tea and onion rings for breakfast tomorrow (or tonight if they smell too good to resist) so it's gonna be another late night for me again, but not to worry eh Steve?
Can someone remind me to call my doctors surgery in the morning and book a really short appointment so that I can find out from a professional whether I should believe my clothes size or my eyes and if they say to believe my eyes, can you remind me to find out a safe way to lose the flab around my belly and thighs without losing weight please? I tried sit-ups and squats before and they did help to get rid of a bit of the flab, but I also lost weight, so I wanna find out a safe way for me to lose the flab without losing weight again.
I've gotta remember that it's the monthly virus scan tomorrow too, so I need to stop myself from opening my email programmes, but the back-ups won't get done until Wednesday, same as normal.
I've only missed one afternoon pill this week, and have refilled the box ready for next week, so I'm all sorted for that... gotta sort the caring spreadsheet out ready for next week before I forget too.
OK, started the second quarter's spreadsheet and brought our tea in - I was wrong about our tea and the Amazon delivery turning up at the same time though 'cos I've already taken a photo of my tea and the delivery isn't even on the map yet!
I'm gonna wait until I've finished my chips before I put the photo up and I'm predicting that the delivery will turn up in the middle of me sorting that instead lol
Gonna go and scoff my tea now. I'll BBL with the photo... TTFN!
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27th March 2022
Just had the Amazon email and...
...the plates aren't due until 4.15pm - 7.15pm so my breakfast will be my only meal today and Steve will be able to have the curry all to himself for his tea. Again.
We now have...
...the next 5 weeks' menu's sorted, printed and up in the kitchen. I bet that we won't stick to them most of the time, but at least we can't dither too much about them and I can do most of the cooking of them, it's just the draining and dishing up that I might struggle with. We are doing considerably better than we were before we started with the menu's though, and there's considerably less food waste now, which is always a good thing.
As long as we mostly stick to them, we'll only have to find £40's worth of groceries each week for things like pop and cheese and snacks and bread and stuff for breakfast.
Tuesday's order is the best part of £50 but there's a lot of freezer stuff on there in preparation for the weeks where we barely buy any groceries. We figure that if we do it like that - 3 weeks stocking the freezer then using it all up during the next 3 weeks.
I could get used to this lol
Today's (27th March 2022) breakfast photo
Just my usual tropical fruits granola again this morning but I put waaaay too much soya milk on it, but that's OK 'cos I just slurped it up after I'd finished the granola.
It's supposed to be Tuesday's curry at last today, but my carer wants to wait until the delivery has been before he supervises me making it. Amazon says it's due "before 10pm" and I try not to eat after 4pm 'cos it makes me nauseous when I go to bed, so this could, potentially, be my only meal again today.
If it *is* a late delivery and Steve decides against having any lunch, I'll try a Mango "Squishy" (mango chunks and water pulverised in my smoothie machine) 'cos I'm not sure if there is enough flavour in the mango to be noticeable above the soya milk!
That's the...
...carer fed and wild birds sorted. I'm wondering if they are using the water to wash in as well as drink from, 'cos I always overfill the bowl of water after I've cleaned it out and the water level was at least a centimetre down from where I left it last time (and every time) and it'd explain why the water turns green so quickly when it hasn't been hot or raining. Totally OK with me either way, I just wanna do my little bit to help the local wildlife is all!
Time to go and make my own breakfast now.
BBL.
Mornin' all
How 3-are you all doing on this cold, grey morning?
I completely forgot that our clocks changed to BST so while I thought that I'd had half an hour's extra sleep I'd actually had more than that. It'll mean that I get up at a more sensible time from now on though - 7.30am instead of 6.30am lol
I've already taken my morning pills and run the virus scan, which was still clear, thankfully. I'm expecting a delivery of camping plates from Amazon today, so I potentially won't have any lunch again 'cos apparently we're not gonna eat lunch until they turn up, which could be 10pm which is 6 hours too late for me to eat, so I'm potentially gonna have a mango "squishie" for lunch if it's a late delivery slot and Steve can have the entire 2 cans of veggie curry and 2 packets of boil in the bag rice to himself. Again.
I've gotta change the water in the wild birds' bowl today too, 'cos it's very green again and I don't wanna be responsible for hurting wildlife who just want a drink!
I came up with 3 menu's using the food that is on the next 3 grocery shops that I want Steve's approval of before I print them off and put them up in the kitchen.
I'm gonna go and make our breakfast now and hope that my carer is still awake when I bring it in for him.
TTFN
Saturday, 26 March 2022
Nite nite orl
Over 80 hours of care already this week, so 90 hours is pretty much guaranteed but will be more like 92 or 93 hours I reckon.
I'm off to beddy-byes now though, so I'll say nite nite two ewe orl and I'll see you bright but hopefully not too early tomorrow.
Nite nite orl.
Haven't achieved...
...a whole lot today, and certainly no exercising or even much movement, so why am I so exhaustapayted??
Gonna go and make Steve's tea in a bit, then take my pills so that I can hopefully have an early-ish night tonight.
Today's (26th March 2022) tea photo
I couldn't resist the Pure Heavenly (vegan friendly) bar of orange chocolate that was whispering in my ear lol Even my hubby who is a total meat-freak is enjoying it. It's only got 1% sugar in each 30g bar too, so that's diabetic friendly too, right?
Here's the photo:
Today's (26th March 2022) afternoon snack photo
After not having any lunch, I decided I'd best eat something else (besides my breakfast this morning) otherwise I'd end up losing weight when I really don't want or need to, so I'm having chilli rice crackers, Japanese rice crackers and seaweed coated peanuts that Steve got from Amazon yesterday - incredibly high calorie count at 723 calories, but I'd prefer that and have to do some laps next week, rather than losing weight and going hungry!
Here's the photo:
It's a good job I had a big breakfast, because...
...we're having a make-do (ie crisps for Steve and nothing for me) lunch today "because we are getting those new plates tomorrow we can Christen them with the curry!" to which I asked "what if they don't come until the evening?" so Steve replied "then we'll have it for tea <shrug>" but it'll be too late for me to eat then, so I'll be going without my fifth lunch yet Steve's eaten 3 meals every day.
Assuming the plates come in time for Steve to have his tea, but too late for me to eat, I will have had a proper lunch (soup) on Tuesday and will have had 3 proper breakfasts (assuming I eat any tomorrow of course) so in 7 days I will have eaten 5 times and Steve will have eaten 21 times in the same 7 days. I will have made all of his meals and he will have made none of mine.
Is it any wonder that I keep losing weight even though I don't want or need to? If you're trying to lose weight, come and live with Steve for a week and only barely eat 5 times in those 7 days while you make all 21 of Steve's meals for him.
I've currently cared for my carer for over 72 hours this week and he's only managed 30 minutes in the last 6 days, so there's no possible way for him to make up the missing 34 hours and 30 minutes in the next 35 hours so yet again I'm predicting that I'll have less than an hour of care from him, despite being paid to care for me for 35 hours a week. I reckon I'll have cared for him for getting on for 90 hours the week and I very much doubt he'll make an hour caring for me, which, considering he tells everyone that he "does everything for her" and that he cares for me for "well over the minimum" his own spreadsheet tells a very different story.
Time to take my lunchtime pill and make his lunch (soup) for him now. "Why can't you make one for yourself too then?" I hear you ask. I'm not stable enough on my feet to walk without leaning against walls, so need one of my hands free for that and it just wouldn't be safe enough to go back out and make one for myself too - my legs would give way underneath me and I'd end up on the floor, getting burnt by the soup in the mug and with no way or help to get up, so I'd just prefer not to risk it is all.
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26th March 2022
Today's (26th March 2022) breakfast photo
I started a new bag of granola today and this was left in the bag after decanting it into the plastic jug/carton thing. It'll definitely see me through until lunchtime (veggie curry and boil-in-the-bag rice) and we're thinking of doing it so that we can freeze half of it ready for another day now that we've got a totally empty little freezer!
Here's today's breakfast photo:
Mornin' all
How are you all doing this morning?
So far today I've set the daily virus scan going, taken my morning pills, encouraged my carer to take his morning pills (he still hasn't, 10 minutes later) and just generally supported him for almost an hour.
I've asked him if he's still keeping his spreadsheet up to date and he goes "yep, I've done 3 things this week which took half an hour" so according to his spreadsheet, he's gotta care for me for 17 hours and 15 minutes both days of the weekend which ain't gonna happen 'cos I'm not awake for that long each day! According to my spreadsheet I've already cared for him for over 66 hours this week so I've just gotta care for him for 24 hours this weekend (12 hours a day) to hit a huuuuge 90 hours of care - but apparently I'm not his carer and don't do anything for him <shrug>
We're still having the curry today so I'm not gonna have too much breakfast... talking of which, I'd better go and get my carer's breakfast for him while he's awake, so I'll TTYS.
Friday, 25 March 2022
Nite nite orl
I've done the daily admin on the spreadsheet and the side effects are kicking in now, so I'll say goodnight to you all and I'll see you again in the morning.
Taken me last pills of the day and...
...finished reading and reviewing yesterdays book, so I'm just waiting for the side effects to kick in so that I can head to bed.
Apparently we're definitely having the curry tomorrow after pushing it back every day since Tuesday - I hope we do after just having the granola for breakfast and barely a sip of OXO for lunch.
Lunch was...
...absolutely disgusting!
I've been vegetarian since I was 11 years old (so 33 years) and I've just tried my first ever vegetarian OXO as a drink.
I literally had one sip and the flavour of meat (beef??) was so strong that I almost threw up.
Looks like todays calories are gonna come from this morning's granola then 'cos I won't be able to eat anything else today because of my body rebelling at the flavour and making me feel incredibly nauseous. A very different kind of nausea to the allergen nausea, but I seriously hope I don't throw up otherwise I'll have the flavour of meat as well as spew in my mouth and I'll be even less willing to drink anything other than water then!
It's curry tomorrow (assuming I feel up to it by then of course) and Steve's got his breaded chicken fillet things on Sunday so if I'm still feeling too icky to eat tomorrow then I reckon I'll have lost rather than maintained my weight on Monday so I'll have to work even harder to gain weight next week.
That's another thing that I know I can't have now though, unfortunately.
Today's (25th March 2022) breakfast photo
I managed to finish off the tub thing of Granola this morning, so I've just got the other 2kg bags to get through now lol
Mornin' all
I hope you're all doing better than me today 'cos Steve's cancelled this afternoon's medical appointment yet again, so I've written to his GP to see if there's anything they/I can do to help Steve to cope better with how he's feeling so that he doesn't cancel any more appointments.
So far this morning, I've run the daily virus scan, taken my morning pills, made breakfast for both of us, written to Steve's GP and cared for him for almost 2 hours. I'm not gonna do the news today 'cos there's a book that I wanna finish reading and reviewing while I remember what I've already read.
Just gonna make this a relatively short blog post this morning, then put the photo of my breakfast up on here and Instagram, then start reading again.
TTYAL
Thursday, 24 March 2022
Nite nite orl
I've taken my last two pills of the day and the side effects are already kicking in, so I'm going to have a rare early night tonight I reckon.
Nite nite orl and eye'll sea ewe in the morning.
Today's (24th March 2022) lunch photos
Just had me lunch - 2 of Morrisons spinach and pine nut pasta salads 'cos they had a use-by date of yesterday. We've pretty much decided on the menu for the rest of the week too, finally. Tomorrow will stay at the veggie OXO drinks 'cos Steve's medical appointment is a couple of hours after lunch and he doesn't want to get travel sick during the short journey, so we're both sticking to the menu tomorrow, Saturday will be the curry and Sunday will be Steve's breaded chicken and mash and I'll either have another OXO drink or an instant soup. There have been a few deviations from the menu this week, but being able to replace the second OXO with the curry means that we're back on track for next week.
Here are today's 3 lunch photos:
Steve's changed his mind about...
...what he's having for lunch yet again.
I'm still having the pasta and Steve is now having cottage cheese sandwiches (made by me of course) and finishing off the pot with a spoon. That's the third time in about 4 hours that he's changed his mind and will mean that there's a day in the not-too-distant future where I really will go hungry all day soon 'cos of having the pasta today and Steve still having his chicken left.
I give up, I really do.
Today's (24th March 20220) breakfast photo
It's been a few days since I last had breakfast and after eating very little yesterday, I figured I'd have breakfast this morning... Tropical Fruit Granola and soya milk.
I've got 3 pasta salads in the fridge that ran out of date yesterday... they'll still be OK for lunch on Sunday won't they? It's just cooked pasta, spinach and pine nuts so it's not like it's milk or cheese or eggs or anything like that, right?
Updated menu for today is for Steve to have his chicken and veg and mashed potato at lunchtime and I'll scoff the pasta so that Tuesday's planned curry can be made on Sunday 'cos it'll last better than pasta that's past it's best 😌
Mornin' all
How are you all doing this morning?
Yet again I was denied an early night 'cos my carer wanted his tea first, then fell asleep before he ate it, so I didn't get to bed until after 9pm last night and put in 13 hours and 47 minutes of care so I'm on track for going over 85 hours again this week and my carer has still only put in 15 minutes of care on Tuesday. If he supervises me with the curry today then it'll take the total care by my carer to under an hour for the week and I doubt I'll hit 2 hours of care this week instead of the minimum required 35 hours.
I've just remembered that he made a bottle of squash for me so it's currently 20 minutes of care this week, with 48 possible hours to go, so he'd have to care for me for over 8½ hours every day from now until bedtime on Sunday to get anywhere near the absolute minimum required, which just ain't gonna happen.
Even if he makes a roast dinner and does the washing up and making 5 or 6 hot drinks for me every day will still only be a maximum of 3 hours a day and we ain't got any food in for a roast dinner, so it would be a maximum of half an hour for each meal and I don't eat in the evenings, so that's a maximum of an hour, twice a day, plus half an hour per drink (that only actually takes 6 or 7 minutes but I'm trying to increase his caring hours) so that's a total of 5½ hours a day, so he's still be 3 hours short and the reality is that he won't actually do anything for the rest of the week, except possibly one more bottle of squash and supervising me today if I'm lucky.
Dunno where that rant suddenly came from lol
He's putting his pills into his pill box now and commented "I've only done my anti-depressants and painkillers for the rest of the week and it's already wiped me out!" even though all he's done is sit in his chair and pop pills out of their packets!
Onto other things now though, I remembered to restart the backups and the daily virus scan has already finished, so time to pop my morning pills now.
While I was clearing out the spare room I found a few 90's VHS tapes that nobody wanted on Freegle so I put them on Olio instead and they've been on there for about 10 days but someone has said, overnight, they want them so I've just gotta arrange a time with her to pick them up now! Fingers crossed they will be gone by the weekend and I can sort out a bit more of the spare room then!
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OK, pills taken and the backups are past where they were yesterday, so I'm gonna wait until they've finished, put the external hard drive away, then go and make my carer's breakfast for him. I'm gonna have breakfast too, today. According to this week's menu we'll be having vegetable OXO drinks for lunch tomorrow and Saturday then on Sunday Steve's having chicken and mixed veg and I'm having nothing again, so might make myself an instant soup so that I can get at least a few calories into me.
The backups are at 96% and 98% with a couple of minutes to go, so hopefully they will be sorted soon after I've published this blog post, which is already waaay too long 😆
One of 'em has just finished and the other one has got under 3 minutes to go, so I'm gonna publish this then hopefully be able to put the external hard drive away so that I can go and make both of our breakfasts.
TTFN.
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Just taken my last pills of the day and...
...as soon as the emergency backups have finished, I'm gonna head to bed for a well-deserved early night I reckon.
I'm gonna close all my browsers now so I'll say nite nite two ewe orl now and eye'll sea ewe in the morning.
I was wrong in my last blog post too
I said that my next blog post (ie this one) would have a photo of my peanutty late lunch but forgot about the backups again! I've taken a photo of them but I can't download, resize, save and upload it until the backups have finished otherwise I'll have to restart them all over again and they wouldn't be finished before bedtime then. I'll keep taking the photos but won't be able to do anything with them just yet... sorry about that!
I was *seriously* wrong about being wrong lol
The back-ups are still chugging and whirring at 3.11pm!!
The appointment has finished now and I found it really interesting - I just hope that my feedback can help them in future. It was another confidential thing so I can't say more than that but it was really interesting and I'm glad I was picked for it!
Lunch today is a chunk of mature cheese and maybe an instant soup, if I can find my mug to make it in lol Steve's happy with just cheese and I'm not hungry any more (even though all I've eaten so far today is that chunk of cheese) but I really should eat *something* so that I don't get ill again... maybe I should have the soup after all? Apparently we're definitely having yesterday's curry tomorrow which is already making me drool lol I'm pondering on making myself a bowl of granola instead of the soup and cheese, but I dunno yet... what do you think I should do please?
I've also been approved to read and review a book on Net Galley, so I'll download it and start reading and reviewing it as soon as my backups have finished... it'll keep me out of trouble for a while at least and I hope I can award it more than a single star when I review it lol
Changed my mind about lunch again - a serving of dry roasted peanuts will hopefully see me through to bedtime, but if not, my Graze box came today too, so I can chomp my way through that as well! Photo of the peanuts will hopefully be my next blog post lol
Only got 2 hours left, to hit my daily 10 hours of care for my carer and he has yet to put in 1 second of care today and the weekly total is still only 15 minutes from him helping to put the groceries away yesterday instead of the 10-15 hours it should be by now!
BBS
I was wrong about being wrong lol
The backups are still in the same place and I've gotta get ready for the appointment now so my newest prediction is that they'll finally finish just as the appointment is finishing up lol
I was wrong, I'm sorry
I thought my back-ups would be over and done with by now, but they are still at 90% so maybe the last 10% is particularly big or summat? There is still 90 minutes to go before the appointment time so I'm not too worried... knowing my luck it'll finish just as the appointment is getting going lol
No surveys either, 'cos...
...they all wanted to know my postcode in the first question, which just ain't gonna happen, so there are no surveys either so far today... dunno what I'm gonna do with myself now! lol
No news again today, so...
...I didn't need to worry about causing issues with the backups and it means that I can do surveys until they've finished and I need to log in to this appointment.
The backups are already at over 90% so there's a potential for them to finish hopefully within the next hour or so which would give me plenty of time to lig about online before the appointment.
Today is gonna be a good day for me I reckon.
Weekly virus scan...
...finished and 4 potential viruses found in OneDrive, so it has automatically quarantined them for me and I've already started the backups, so they've got 4 hours to run in before I need to ideally open my email programme. No great shakes if it's still going then though, 'cos I can use the online version of the necessary programme instead of the installed one on my machine which is a relief. I've already plugged my headphones in, I seem to need to do a quick tech check of my webcam and microphone before I use it, which is fair enough, I just need to be there a little bit before to check that it's all systems go is all.
I won't be saving any documents or opening any programmes before the backups have finished, so there potentially won't be any news today, depending on how long it takes the backups to finish off.
I've already guzzled my way through 1.5 litres of Diet Coke™ this morning and my throat is still parched, which Steve reckons is to do with the sweeteners in it instead of the caffeine, but that's OK 'cos it's not often I guzzle big brands like Coca-Cola™ and I've already got a 2 litre bottle of Morrisons own brand pop that I'm seriously loving the taste of... dare I say that I love it more than Cherryade and Dr Pepper™?
I'm gonna fill up my glass with the pop and make a start on the news and hope that I don't mess things up too badly if I finish the news ready for uploading before the backups have finished. Fingers crossed 🤞 it just uses what I've already copied this morning, rather than what I'm saving after the backups have started. I won't be saving the document until I'm ready to upload, just in case though!
As predicted, I finished off Steve's breakfast for him... he only left one slice and ate three though so he's well into the red with his calories already 'cos the spread I used is very nearly 700 calories each serving and he had 3 servings so that's already 2100 calories, plus the 3 slices of bread (at 95 calories each slice) takes his calorie count up to almost 2400 calories, and that's without the bottle of orange juice too! Let's use the calories from the orange juice to account for the slight rounding up that I've already done, so 2400 calories before 9am and he's still got instant soup to have for his lunch and his tea to have too! No wonder he's obese after eating so many calories and literally only leaving his chair to use the bathroom and occasionally supervise me cooking!
I need another wee myself now, so I'm gonna publish this then make a start on the news.
TTYAS.
Mornin' all
How are you all doing this cool morning? My FitBit app says that I slept for 9 hours and 1 minute overnight and that I was restless twice for 4 minutes which isn't as good as yesterday (nothing can improve on that lol) but a vast improvement on my usual restlessness!
I ended up caring for my carer for 12 hours and 10 minutes before I went to bed last night, so after only two days the weekly total is already 25 hours and 30 minutes, which my OCD likes 'cos there aren't any bitty numbers on the end and it ends in a 5 and a 0 which are acceptable and certainly better than the other numbers lol.
I've remembered not to open my emails this morning 'cos of the virus scan (which is already at 41%) and I'm pondering on starting the back-ups when it's finished after all - wanna see if I can get to the email I need to online and if it opens up the programme or something on a webpage when I click on it first though. I'm hoping it'll be a webpage thing 'cos then it won't affect the back-ups. I know that I can't open my email programmes or save anything while it's underway otherwise it gets screwed up and I get ratty with it, but I've never tried using this programme while the backups are underway before, so we shall soon see!
I've popped my morning pills and suggested that Steve uses his pill box for his pills too, instead of just keeping them in a bag and not remembering if he's taken which pill already or not... it's what it's there for after all!
Steve's just woken up and said that he wants 4 slices of toast for his breakfast 'cos we're just having an instant soup each for lunch and I'm predicting that he won't even finish three of 'em so I won't make myself any breakfast in case I need to finish off his toast for him. My calorie count will definitely be through the roof today if I do 'cos each serving of the spread is 530 calories, so two slices of bread and spread is instantly my entire days calories lol
I've already guzzled my way through the best part of a litre of Diet Coke and I'm thirstier than when I started drinking lol
BBL.
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Nite nite orl
I've done the sums on the spreadsheet (24 hours and 20 minutes so far this week) so I'm shutting down for the night now.
Nite nite orl.
Dosed up for...
...the final time today and I'm gonna have an early night I reckon.
I'll be back tomorrow morning, but I need to remember not to open my email programmes or start the backups until tomorrow's confidential thing that I'm taking part in has finished. It's potentially a late night tomorrow, considering this thing isn't due to finish until about 3pm and the backups take a good 3-4 hours too, so I'm assuming it'll be a late night for me, but that's OK as long as it doesn't happen too often, which it hasn't so far.
Today's (22nd March 2022) tea photos
After such an awesome lunch, Steve decided that we'd have a take-away for tea. I was intending to just eat the garlic mushrooms and garlic mayonnaise for tea tonight 'cos I find that cold mushroom are absolutely gross the next day.
I dug into the mozzarella sticks with burger sauce next and really was determined to stop there, but the onion rings with burger relish looked all sad and lonely on their own, so they went into my mouth too lol
I want to put on a touch of weight this week, so hopefully today's tea will have helped that along slightly ;-)
Here are the last three photos of the day:
Today's (22nd March 2022) lunch photo
I know that you may not understand why I'm so proud of cooking a can of soup (2 is the actual number of cans I cooked) but I not only cooked it but I cautiously managed to slop it into the two bowls too! I've never felt able to do that before (although apparently I did it with Steve's chicken curry the other day too) and it's boosted my confidence that I'll be able to do it again too!
It was Heinz plant protein chickpea soup and it was gorgeous! Very very thick with huge chunks of vegetables in it and could have done with a heavily spreaded chunk of crusty bread to go with it - definitely a comfort food or something to have when you just can't be bothered to cook a proper meal and it had a kick of spice to it too, so maybe not wise to have after a heavy night at the pub but it'll be a regular thing on our grocery orders from now on!
My prediction was...
...spot on this morning. Steve doesn't want curry after all, so I'm gonna be making a pan of soup for him instead and going hungry again myself.
Delivery has...
...arrived and there's plenty of space for me to use them with my mug, so I can start having drinks without burning my fingers now!
Just taken...
...my lunchtime pill and my delivery is 8 stops away, so we'll hopefully be able to have lunch at a reasonable-ish kinda time today. If I have anything to eat, I will, of course, take a photo of it for you all to put up here on my blog and on my Instagram page/profile thing.
That's the...
...groceries been and gone, we can't fit any more into the fridge and I'm just waiting for my Amazon delivery to turn up with my spoons that are hopefully a better size for stirring my 500ml mug lol The delivery is due between now and 2pm so we'll be having a late lunch today and I've got 3 ready-made pasta salads to keep me going on Sunday, when Steve has his chicken and mashed potato.
We'll be pretty much at the bottom of our big freezer if we can stick to our menu this week, so we can put in a bulk shop at Iceland to refill it 'cos Iceland do more frozen stuff in better sizes than Morrisons 'cos they concentrate mostly on frozen stuff whereas Morrisons do a bit of everything.
The menu's are definitely helping, now that I'm doing the cooking and it helps to know what we've got available too. It annoys Steve that I update the list of available food every time we eat, but it's better that than overstocking the big freezer, fridge and cupboard with food that we forget about and then it goes out of date before we use it.
I've got enough milk now to make a pretty big dent in the granola this week and I'll be able to have a smoothie too when I've taken the mango chunks out of the freezer.
We're definitely eating a lot better than we did at the start of the year and we're using what we're buying too, thankfully, instead of buying it with good intentions then not doing anything with it in reality and relying on take-aways 5 days a week.
I'm enjoying doing the cooking - it's just the spitting fat from the garlic mushrooms and dishing up anything that isn't solely in the oven (I can do chips and onion rings and things like that, but I can't mix and dish up pasta and sauce for example).
We've got vegan spaghetti bolognaise on the 8th to finish up the bag of vegemince and we've got egg and chips at the start of next week so that we can finish off the eggs... there's a lot of liquid starting tomorrow though 'cos of the instant soups and OXO drinks lol
Steve's still up for doing the curry after my delivery has arrived, I just hope he can maintain that motivation for the next couple of hours is all. I'm all up for doing the actual cooking again, it really is just the dishing up that I don't feel physically able to do yet 'cos of my height and lack of strength - it wasn't so long ago that I couldn't do any of it though, so I've just gotta take things slowly, carefully and safely is all.
It'll be time for my lunchtime pill soon and I'm predicting that my delivery will turn up as soon as I've popped the pill into my mouth and taken a gulp of my squash lol
Steve's just sent me...
...the caring spreadsheet for the last 3 weeks and he's calculated that he's cared for me for 170 minutes (ie under 3 hours) in 3 weeks. He's supposed to care for me for a minimum of 35 hours a week instead of a year, so he's already proved, by his own spreadsheets, that he does pretty much bugger all to deserve the title of and payment for being my carer.
I've already cared for him, yesterday alone, more than quadruple in one day than he's done in 3 weeks... apparently "I do everything for her" though <shrug>
Mornin' all
In the 1 hour and 7 minutes that I've been downstairs, I've cared for my carer for 1 hour and 2 minutes so far.
It looks like my carer will be the only one eating again today unless I get the washing up done before then 'cos we've only got one plate left between the two of us and the curry needs two plates for two people, so we'll have to use half the rice and half the sauce so that my carer can have his lunch and I go hungry yet again - as long as he's neither hungry or thirsty then that's all that matters, right? I've already made him a hot chocolate this morning and I'm left with a glass of water again.
I'll go and get myself a bottle of pop when I've got the grocery email with the substitutions information on it so that I know if I've got any this week. It's only a couple of calories per glass, so I hope they are in stock 'cos that will be my only calories on the days that my carer decides he's not hungry after he's had his breakfast.
I've take my morning pills and I'm considering a couple of squirts of the B12 to see me through the day, but I haven't decided for sure yet.
My carer has just finished his breakfast, so I'd better go and do the washing up so that everything can drip-dry in time for lunch. I'm predicting now, at 7.34am, that my carer will come up with an excuse not to make it again so it'll either be down to me or we'll both go hungry which my carer won't like at all.
Monday, 21 March 2022
About to head to bed, but first...
I'm gonna do today's caring totals:
Me caring for my carer: 12 hours 50 minutes
My carer caring for me: 0 hours 0 minutes
Lets also do the final grocery totals while I've got a blog post open:
My stuff: £10.57
Steve's stuff: £20.50
Joint stuff: £15.73
I like those totals so just for a change I ain't gonna be whining about the spread of how the money is spread out this week!
I'm also not making my carer his tea, so I can safely shut down now, without having to make food for him before I head to bed tonight.
I'm off to beddy-byes now.
Nite nite orl.
It's a good job I didn't make anything hot after all, 'cos...
...my legs gave way under me while I was bringing my carer's lunch in from the kitchen.
The conversation when he saw me crawling along the floor went like this:
Steve: "What you doing down there?!"
Me: "My legs gave way underneath me"
S: "Why didn't you shout?"
M: "Because you're usually asleep"
S: "Fair comment <chuckle>"
Means I won't be able to make myself a soup or hot choccy this afternoon though, in case I end up on the floor again, so my entire calorie count for the day will be under 500 calories and my carer's count is already getting on for 2,000 thanks to the spread I used on his toast this morning (530 calories per slice), 4 slices of bread (about 100 each slice) and the crisps and biscuits he had when he didn't think I was watching are a few hundred more, minimum.
Apparently I don't make any of his meals or drinks and don't do anything to support him though 😞
And yet again...
I'm making my carer's lunch at the expense of my own.
I was gonna make myself an instant zoop for lunch so that I could get at least a few calories into me and I stupidly offered to make one for my carer at the same time.
He literally turned his nose up at that and said "I'll have a couple of lemon curd sandwiches with no spread, ta"
So that's me not eating lunch either, so today's calories, for me at least, will come from 2 litres of pop that's only got literally 10 calories in it, per 500ml glassful.
Not happy about that, but there's nothing I can do about it now that my carer has decided that his needs come before my own. Again.
That's me...
...dosed up until tonight now and I'll hopefully have a hot choccy or even instant soup for a late lunch, assuming I can safely make it without my legs giving way underneath me again. I'll wait and see if my carer wants a hot drink at the same time otherwise I can guarantee that he'll want one within minutes of me coming back in here with mine and lay the guilt trip on thick and fast if I refuse for safety reasons.
It's official...
...I won't be eating anything solid this week 'cos I've just found some breaded chicken steaks that he'll be having with frozen vegetables tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday are instant soup, Friday and Saturday is OXO drinks and Steve's having "low sugar fruit" on Sunday.
I'm putting the brocolli, cauliflower, sprouts and roast potatoes on Olio so that they don't get wasted, but it's gonna be an incredibly low calorie week for me so I'll have to have bread and vegan butter for a couple of meals so that I don't lose any more weight.
Looks like...
...I'm not having any lunch today either 'cos my carer's just said "those two slices of toast have really filled me up today, so can we knock the vegetables back to another day - I'm totally stuffed!" so today is gonna be yet another day of no food 'cos my carer is full and I haven't had anything to eat at all.
Again.
I'm predicting right now, at 9.38am on Monday 21st March 2022, that we won't be having tomorrow's stew either. It'll be instant soups on Wednesday and Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be the OXO drinks and he'll come up with yet another fucking excuse not to make the vegan roast on on Sunday. He'll make sure that he has breakfast and tea made by me every day though, but I'll go for another week without anything solid in my belly.
I've...
...made my carers breakfast, weighed myself (put on 500g again, so that's OK by me), downloaded the spreadsheet (so I've just gotta code and upload it now) and made a mug of decaff coffee for both of us. I can't have any breakfast this morning 'cos it just wouldn't be safe after making my carer's toast instead of cereal, so I'll just have to hope that I can motivate my carer to make lunch for us otherwise I'll lose weight instead of putting it on, which I really don't wanna do.
It's supposed to be home-made vegetable soup today, so I hope my carer knows where he's put the hand-held blender otherwise he'll refuse to eat it and expect me to make him a different meal again. I've just asked him and he says he knows where it is, so we shall see at lunchtime.
Mornin' all
My body was right at its limit by the time I headed to bed last night 'cos I was asleep for 9 hours and 48 minutes, awake once and only restless 3 times!! I'm feeling a lot more human this morning and I've taken my morning pills already. My carer is (temporarily) awake for a change so I'm gonna go and make his breakfast for him then weigh myself, put it into FitBit, download last weeks spreadsheet and put it up on my site.
Gonna set my virus scan running while I do that though... you watch me forget to do one of the things on my to-do list this morning lol
BBL.
Sunday, 20 March 2022
Just done the washing up and...
...the admin on the spreadsheet, which shows that I've cared for my carer for well over 86 hours this week and my carer has cared for me for 35 minutes which is a tenth of the minimum required to be called and paid for being a carer.
Time for me to head to bed while my carer is actually awake... not as early as I was hoping, but better than most nights!
Nite nite orl.
Taken my evening pills...
...made my carer's tea and I'm giving my FitBit a touch of juice so that it'll record my sleep tonight. When that's done, I'll go and do the washing up, do the sums on the caring spreadsheet and hopefully have an early night for a change.
I decided against the B12 boost in the end, hoping to get an early night tonight instead, rather than it kicking in and keeping me awake until the early hours and only having 3 or 4 hours sleep to function on tomorrow.
My FitBit is just over 80% now, so I'll put it back around my ankle and go and do the washing up, ready for tomorrow's breakfast. I finished the Wheat Biscuits this morning, so I've just got 2½kg of Granola to get through now lol
Do I or don't I?
I'm absolutely wiped out and I dunno why, so I'm pondering on a couple of squirts of the B12 spray, but I don't wanna be too awake to sleep tonight either!
What do you think I should do please? Spray or no spray?
Today's (20th March 2022) lunch photo
Just had my lunch of breaded garlic mushrooms and vegan grated cheese... the cheese didn't melt at all unfortunately, but apparently that's normal with vegan cheese??
Totally stuffed and burpy now that I've had two meals today lol
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20th March 2022
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