Gotta remember to put my next grocery order in tomorrow morning and put the bags in front of the door when my carer has left after lunch... you watch me forget though lol
I've popped my last two pills of the day so I'm gonna crawl on up to beddy-byes now.
I'll see you all in the morning.
Nite nite orl.
...finally deciding what to do with the two settings on my new FitBit. It went from absolutely nothing to only vibrating when my heart rate went into the "peak" zone (whatever that is) to hopefully recording everything and vibrating when I want it to now.
I'm also grateful for already having written to the Benefits Agency back in February, so I can date and file that tomorrow.
I'm grateful that I don't need any more bread or hot choccie with tomorrow's groceries so I can try a few new things without worrying too much about wasting money if I don't like them or whatever.
I think I'll get rid of the cut-off time for breakfasts otherwise I could potentially only be living on a mug of soup a day. I wake up at 5am now so I've got an hour and a half to get my blood pressure taken, my morning pills popped and my breakfast made and eaten which is hopefully enough time... I'm grateful that I experimented today though.
I'm grateful that I've remembered to order more of my bladder pills too, so I'm hoping that they will be delivered before I run out.
My only meal today (I didn't eat before my carer arrived and it was after the self-imposed cut-off time after she left this morning) was the leftovers from yesterday which consisted of 2 servings of a vegetarian Family Roast, 2 roast potatoes cooked in vegetable oil and the last of yesterday's French beans and I'm well and truly stuffed now!
Well, I've woken up and made myself a decaff coffee to start the week off with. I'm not gonna have breakfast until after my carer has left each day and if that's after 8am then I won't have breakfast at all.
Today is payday so it's also bedding change day so it looks like today will be a grumpy day for my carer.
Gotta remember to officially weigh myself and log it into FitBit today, so that I know how many sets of laps I'm doing, if any.
Time to publish this and attempt to get my first to-do list of the week together now I reckon.
BBS (I hope)
It's been a loooong day and I'm absolutely knackered (is that considered to be a swear word?), so I'm gonna crawl on up to beddy-byes and I'll see you all in the morning.
Nite nite orl
My last photo of the week is of my relatively healthy breakfast - 2 pots of Tropical Plant Protein soya yoghurts and a 400ml mug of decaff instant coffee.
Here's the last photo of the week:
Did you all remember to change your clocks overnight? I forgot until this morning!
I've taken my last blood pressure reading of the week and it was pretty normal for me, then I popped my morning pills with my morning glass of water, refilled the squash bottle and I'm gonna leave off having breakfast until my carers have been and gone until the clocks change again. The virus scan was reassuringly still clear and there weren't any advanced issues so I haven't got a clue what it kept finding on my previous machine!
Gotta remember to refill my dosette box this afternoon otherwise I'll get stressed out when they aren't in their sections tomorrow morning!
This first blog post of the day is getting a bit long so I'm gonna shut up and get today's to-do list together before my carer gets here I reckon.
BBS
I've got very little proof, but it feels like I've achieved a decent amount of stuff today and I need to remember to set the sleep mode on my FitBit to see if that works or not and try and get a less interrupted night's sleep tonight!
I've popped my last two pills of the day and I'm gonna crawl up to bed now.
I'll see you all in the morning.
Nite nite orl.
...the relaxing, hot, lavendar-scented bubble bath first thing, being able to have a proper breakfast, sorting out my FitBit (the vibrations are, I think, because I'm in the "peak zone" heart-rate wise) and getting the F5 key sorted out this morning.
I had a wonderful carer who made my lunch, brought it in and washed up before she left today!
It was just a mug of instant Vegetable Cup Soup and I've got a decaff coffee on the go now and there are a couple of soya yoghurts in the fridge if I get hungry this afternoon.
Here's today's lunch photo:
I've sorted out the F5 key issue (I needed to press Fn + esc at the same time to "unlock" it) and the FitBit issue (it can only be linked to one phone at a time) so I've just gotta sort out the issue with my homepage not displaying the updated page that I uploaded yesterday then that's it all done and dusted!
I hope Steve's proud of me 'cos I'm certainly proud of myself!
It was just my usual cool/cold weather breakfast of 2 slices of wholemeal 'Toastie' toast with 'Buttery' spread and a 300ml bottle of Multivitamin Multifruit juice.
Here's today's breakfast photo:
Well, I've had a relaxing morning so far and I'm clean and shaved for another week now.
I've taken my blood pressure which was still low, popped my morning pills but I forgot to split one of them so my levels will be low today, had my breakfast and finished the loaf off, so it'll just be juice for breakfast tomorrow, and I've had my weekly bath.
It's also the start of the hayfever season for me, which officially kicked off yesterday but my eyes are streaming and itchy, I'm constantly sneezing and sniffing and my throat is dry and it'll be the same until September/October kinda time now.
Time to start the day with a creamy hot choccie after I've put today's to-do list together and my breakfast photo up methinks.
BBS
I'm really hoping tomorrow will be less stressful and I can enjoy a long, hot, lavendar-scented bubble bath. I've gotta uninstall then reinstall the FitBit app tomorrow to try and fix the error I've got on one of my phones and try and sort out my homepage/F5 key problem too.
For tonight though, I've popped my last two pills of the day and I'm heading off to beddy-byes now.
I'll see you all in the morning.
Nite nite orl
Take my blood pressure
Pop my morning pills
Pull the water heating switch on
Make breakfast
Eat breakfast
Do washing up
Do morning laps
Have bath
Pull water heating switch off
⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5 stars
I've been hit by the dreaded insomnia so I'm using the opportunity to catch up on my 'to be read' pile, starting with this one. I've already read the first two books in the trilogy and they were both truly incredible, so I've got high hopes for this one too.
Each of my recent book reviews have started off in the same way, with me saying that each book I read and review starts off with the full surgery-load of 5 stars. I'm always hopeful that each book will still have each star stuck firmly in place when I close the back cover, but I'm not shy about removing stars if I feel it necessary and I always give my reasons for each removal within the review.
Let's get the book opened shall we?
The introduction and first chapter really woke me up... it sounds like this will be the last book and it's been good so far.
The second chapter was good too... I'm not going to comment on every chapter or this review could go on forever, but this book is already up there with the best of 'em in my opinion!
Oh dear, there have been a few trademarks mentioned so the first star is coming off in chapter 3 :-(
Up to chapter 6 now and at 2.02am (not a typo, I really do mean it's the early hours of the morning) my throat feels like a desert in the heat of Summer so I'm gonna go and get myself a glass of water before I read another few chapters.
Up to chapter 12 now and the previous chapter has left me wondering what Dr Sparrow found... no spoilers, don't worry.
Chapter 17 is potentially the final chapter in the book and I've got no idea where the day has disappeared to!
What an end to a great book... a definite must-read to pass a sleepless night and day!
Today's lunch was the last sachet of instant Minestrone Cup Soup made entirely by me again today.
Here's today's breakfast photo:
I missed yesterday's two meal photos 'cos I spent the entire day setting up my new computer, but it's all sorted out now so the photos can re-start, beginning with today's breakfast photo of 2 slices of wholemeal 'Toastie' toast and 'Buttery' spread with a 300ml bottle of multivitamin multifruit juice.
Here's today's breakfast photo:
I've been awake since 8pm last night after sleeping for 46 minutes and I think I've done well with what I've achieved in those 8¾ hours. It started off with just surfing and catching up on everything I missed on Wednesday and yesterday, but I'm now officially half way through my next book so I'm hoping to finish reading and reviewing it before I head to bed tonight... it'll be the first test of my backups and if I've put the pages in the right places last night.
I popped my morning pills a smidgen before 4am after taking my blood pressure - it was interesting to see that it was only 3 points higher than normal, even after pretty much no sleep and being awake for 8 hours.
The monthly scan finished in about an hour, from start to finish and it found an advanced issue which is now resolved, so I'm gonna take my empty plate and bottle through to the kitchen, do the washing up, hopefully put my breakfast photo up then read another chapter of the book before my carer arrives.
I'll BBS
...I'll be crawling through tomorrow on 1 hour of sleep then.
I woke up frantically clutching the duvet thinking that a pet gerbil had escaped its cage and gone in search of adventure under the duvet cover which caused me to wake up rapidly and I won't be able to get back to sleep again in time to wake up at 4am, so I'm gonna be using my new laptop until 6pm tomorrow now.
I'll have to cope with the insomnia kicking in again too, which I'm really not looking forward to.
It's been a loooong day today, but I've managed to get everything moved over and ready for a fresh start tomorrow, so I'm feeling immensely proud of myself and I'm going to bed feeling like I've achieved a lot today.
Not gonna update the to-do list again so soon after putting it up, so I'll just spout my usual nightly sign off and say that I'll be back again tomorrow with photo's and to-do lists and stuff.
I'll see you all in the morning.
Nite nite orl
It's taken 11 hours (including stops for breakfast and lunch and the two sets of laps) but I've got my new laptop all sorted now, so I think I deserve a very hot, very creamy, drinking chocolate as a reward.
I've cleared the browser caches ready for tomorrow's monthly virus scan, but if the weekly scan is anything to go by, it'll be done and dusted in under an hour!
It was reassuring that the only thing I hadn't backed up was my favourite font, but that only took a few minutes to re-pay for, download and install, so that was good.
I'm gonna put up a to-do list ready for tomorrow after I've made my reward and brought it in, but I'm feeling soooooo proud of myself right now!
This will be my last meal photo for a while because I'm gonna try and get everything moved over to my new laptop tomorrow. I'll still be eating and drinking, there just won't be any photos.
My last photographed meal is of today's very early morning breakfast at 4.16am and it was a 300ml bottle of Multivitamin Multifruit juice.
Here's the last photo until tomorrow at the very earliest:
I woke up before 4am this morning, thinking it was after 5am so I hurriedly put on my glasses, brushed my hair and came downstairs in a flap to hurriedly take my blood pressure. It was only when I turned my phone on to take the photo that I was doing everything early instead of late lol
My blood pressure was my normal reading, my pills went down well this morning and breakfast was a bottle of fruit juice. I've started off the weekly virus scan so I'm all ready for the day now, starting with a drinking choccie to warm me up, then I'll do what I should have done yesterday and sort out my blood pressure photos and put them up on my health site.
Time to publish this and stick the kettle on methinks.
BBS
I was truly spoiled with my lunch today because my carer made it all, from start to finish, brought it in for me, wrote her notes while I was drinking it then washed up before finishing her notes and leaving.
Here's today's lunch photo:
...relax.
My groceries came an hour and 16 minutes early so I've put it all away and taken my lunchtime pill so that's it for the day now.
Gonna try and get into my email programme so that I can resize the photo and post about my lunch, but I'm not expecting anyone else to come to the door now, so I can pig out on chocolate to try and get my calories back into the green or ideally red because yesterday I didn't eat enough calories so the graph was blue.
Gotta remember that it's the weekly virus scan tomorrow
If I go quiet after I've posted about my breakfast tomorrow, then please don't worry, I'll be fine, but I'm meeting up with my best friend in the afternoon and I'm hoping to make the most of the backups being on an external hard drive so that I don't have to get stressed out when my internet connection dies on me again. I'm hoping it'll be done and dusted by lunchtime on Thursday, but I can't guarantee it.