Goooood morning all!

I struggled to get to sleep again last night and, as always, was wide awake as soon as my head hit the pillow.

I've woken up this morning to interest in the Wok, plastic tubs and toffees, so that's a positive.

It's officially warm weather breakfasts now and I wish I'd put the soya milk into the fridge overnight lol  It's now opened so in the fridge now though and my belly is kinda having to learn to process it very quickly 'cos I put 20 blueberries on top of the choccie Weetabix too lol

My 10 morning pills have been popped and my Inspire is getting some urgent juice, so I'll do my last set of laps and exercises when that's back to being fully charged again.

Gotta remember to put my rubbish and recycling out tomorrow, along with the OddBox tub so that I can bring in my first fruit and veg box on Monday morning.

The daily virus scan was still clear but the tune-up programme has just popped up, so hold on while I see what that wants... OK, that's two of the three things sorted and I need to close my browsers for the other thing, so I'll do that now and I'll hopefully be back with my first warm weather breakfast photo.

BBIAB

Mornin' all

I woke up to a nasty surprise in the hall this morning... the radiator was leaking and leaving a puddle all over the hallway floor.  I tried phoning the manufacturer on their 'urgent' number, only to be told that they were closed and only open between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday!  I called another number and their AI bot thing went through a couple of questions and said that they opened at 8am so I'm gonna get on the phone to them at 8am sharp.

Also gotta take my rubbish and recycling out today too... hope I don't forget!

I've taken my blood pressure, popped my 9 morning pills, had my breakfast and run the daily virus scan so far this morning.

I knew things were going too well for me lol

Mornin' all

Well, today's the day of the annual service of my ASHP and central heating.  I've got a PM appointment so the engineer will be here any time between 12pm and 6pm so I can do my morning laps, sit-ups and crunches but potentially not my afternoon ones.  I'll be able to get washed and changed this morning too.

I've popped my 10 morning pills and the virus scan was clear, so I'm good to go for the rest of the morning now.  I'm at 3 out of 5 for my Visible reading again too.

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

BBS

Aaaaand... relax

I've had a pretty disturbed few nights of sleep for the last week 'cos of the funeral on Monday and not sleeping well since then.

I've got rid of most of the stuff that was waiting to go now though, so I've got more room in the box in the living room and no excuses any more lol

Tomorrow is Saturday and my weekly bath day so I've gotta remember to pull the switch as soon as I come downstairs tomorrow and have my breakfast after my bath so that I don't throw up from all the moving around I'll be doing clambouring in and out of the bath.

I've also got things to bring down one at a time from the top of the stairs so that I can advertise them too... it's taken 3 years 1 month and 2 days, but I can see the mattress in the spare room now lol

I wanna try and relax this weekend, then start back up with the housework and changing the bedding again on Monday.  It's been a stressful few weeks, but I need to get back into the routine again before it becomes unmanageable again.  I scrubbed the kitchen counters this evening, so that's one less thing to do, but that was it this week which isn't good.  I'm determined that Monday signals a fresh, cleaner, safer, healthier start for me now that everything is done and dusted and there's hopefully no more pain to come any time soon.

Tomorrow is a day of relaxation and reading ready for being stricter with myself for my own sake as soon as I wake up on Monday morning.

Next Thursday I will...

...hopefully have earnt a celebratory J2O.

Why?

Because my heat pump is getting it's annual service and I'm really not looking forward to it.

If I'm remembering rightly it'll only take about half an hour, but I'll be on edge the entire time they are here in case they find something seriously wrong or it bursts into flames or there's a power cut or whatever.

I know that I'm over-thinking and getting paranoid and it's all very unlikely to happen but it's just the way my mind works with things I don't understand.  It's only once a year and I'm really hoping it'll be a morning call, with any luck the first one of the day, but I'm gonna be on edge until it's over and done with for another year.

When it's done and dusted, I'll have a celebratory J2O and waaay too much chocolate all afternoon.  I'll end up regretting being so piggish with an allergen, but I don't care - I'll need the reassurance that only chocolate can provide.

It's gonna be a busy week next week 'cos of the rubbish and recycling on Monday, groceries on Tuesday, weekly virus scan and backups on Wednesday, the annual service being on my middle nephew's birthday on Thursday, then I can breath until the start of February when I start the second/third edit of my second memoire.

I'm gonna be a bag of nerves next week and in my creative space the week after!

Goooood morning all

I've woken up feeling pretty positive, remembered to pull the water heating switch in the bathroom on my third wee of the morning, taken a photo for someone on Freegle, my blood pressure was at the high end of my normal range again, my morning pills have been popped with my first glass of water of the day and I'll be having my shower at 5.05am so a pretty good morning so far!

I've got someone coming over for all the boxes at 3pm today so that'll clear up a tonne of room in the kitchen.

All my drivers have been updated and the daily virus scan was reassuringly still clear, so hopefully today will be a good day!

Mornin' all

I was awake before 2.30am this morning and had given up trying to get back to sleep by 2.45am so came downstairs, took my 14 morning pills, with my first glass of water of the day, updated my computer's drivers and ran the daily virus scan.

It's groceries day today and a day of creamy drinking chocolates too, so that I can get some calories into me for my body to work with.

Can't remember what else is happening today, so I'll get today's to-do list together now.

TTFN

Awesome!!

I've just got back from my medical appointment and I didn't even have time to put the oaty ice cream and J2O into FitBit before the door went which completely confuzzled me.

It was the plumber!

He was in the area so he came to have a look and fixed it in less than 5 minutes!!

The plumbing in the house was fine, but there was a blockage in the outside pipe which is why the food waste disposal got rid of the water but the ordinary water from the taps and washing machine refused to drain.

If it happens again, can someone remind me to look at the pipes outside and check that there aren't any leaves or weeds or anything blocking it please?

The blood test went fine and the ice cream and J2O went down a treat, so I thanked Loki and apologised for not being a better follower and thanking Him more often... I'm really hoping that we can turn the page and start again until Friday 13th now!

It's been a good but exhasting and painful day today so I'll be glad of being able to crawl into bed tonight!

Mornin' all

Well, today's the day I'm getting jabbed so I'm gonna make sure I avoid eating and drinking too much until I've had it then reward myself with a creamy drinking chocolate as soon as I get home.

I've used the product test item, popped my morning pills, run the daily virus scan (which was still clear) and taken the first video of the day so I've just gotta download and resize the video and photo hopefully before my morning carer gets here, then I'm all sorted until she's gone when I'll take the bread out of the freezer for my breakfast.

This blog post is getting a bit long so I'm gonna publish it now and attempt to get today's to-do list together before my morning carer arrives.

BBS (I hope)

Well that was...

...a productive hour!

I heard from my electricity company that I had to provide all kinds of paperwork that I was positive I already had, so went through each of the folders that I've got paperwork from companies and medical/support stuff and I discovered that I'd sent the information to the National Grid rather than my electric company!  I figured that as I had all the folders out anyway, I'd go through them all and make sure that everything was filed in the right place.  I'm more organised now, I've just gotta go through each folder and put it in date order now, but that's not the job to start just before bedtime lol

I've also put one of the new hand towels in the bathroom and put my new candle, holder and elephant with fake plant that I bought in memory of Steve up on the shelf too, so I've had a productive couple of hours!

Have I, at long long last, found...

...the setting that turns the central heating off constantly?

It's taken 3 factory resets in under 2 hours, but I'm reeeeally hoping I've found and adjusted the setting that made the central heating come on constantly between 6am and 10pm.

I've put the heating on time controlled and set the weekly timetable thing to be on twice a day, for an hour each time, instead of it being on permanently.

I'm not gonna fiddle with any more settings now, but if it works, I'll try the same for the DHW tomorrow to try and save a few more pennies.

Scary stuff, but not as scary as spending more in 1 week than I've budgeted for in an entire month!

I'm absolutely wiped out and in a great deal of pain, so I'm not gonna move off the sofa unless I need a wee before bedtime now.

Goood morning all

I had a very late night last night 'cos of the driver updater taking the best part of 3 hours to finish, but I've woken up in a good mood this morning, just weak, tired and achey 'cos of the physio I did after lunch yesterday - I hope that's temporary until my legs get used to it otherwise I'll be more screwed than ever before!  I did way too much for the first attempt so I'm gonna be a darn-sight more sensible today and hope I don't end up on the floor again.

I've taken my morning pills with my morning glass of water and I've got a decaff mocha on the go now too.

I don't think I've screwed up anything with the driver updater and I'm hoping that it'll solve my email issues too, so that I don't have to email my hosts about it.

I've got a busy few weeks ahead of me, starting on Monday 'cos it's the blood test on Monday, the heating and ventilation and solar panels on Wednesday then on the 30th I've got my jabs and then it's NaNo.  I'm really hoping that living in the fantasy world of my main character will take my mind off any side effects from the jabs.

The virus scan has just finished and it was all clear which is reassuring and the drivers have obviously been updated 'cos that wasn't one of the things that it checked, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I did everything properly last night.

This first blog post of the day is waaay too long and I haven't even glanced at today's to-do list yet, so I'm gonna publish this post and make a start on it, hopefully before my morning carer arrives.

What a day it's been!

Within half an hour of coming downstairs, my mobile phone decided to completely screw up and no matter what I tried, nothing worked so I shelled out for a new one that's coming tomorrow.

Then I was too caught up in trying not to panic that I forgot to do my laps until lunchtime.

Literally 10 minutes before my lunchtime carer turned up, the plumber arrived and he was here for the best part of 4 hours and has only just left.  He's fixed the taps in the bath but has totally taken the sink off the wall for safety reasons and has capped the water supply so I'll have to attempt to get washed at the kitchen sink for the next little while lol

He's given me a very rough guess at the cost of a total refit of literally everything except the toilet and I like the price he gave me, so as long as my siblings-in-law are happy too, I'll be getting half a new roof next week and potentially (as long as the quote isn't totally over what the guess was that the plumber gave me) a whole new bathroom before the end of August!

It's been a busy and expensive day today, but hopefully that'll be it for a while now.

I'm rewarding myself with a drinking choccie then I'm gonna attempt to hopefully get the printer sorted out.  I've missed my lunchtime pill and my laps and I'm not gonna risk either of them so close to bed time, I'm just gonna relaaax with my drinking chocolate for a while before I attempt to fix the printer.

I've achieved so much this week so I think I deserve a rest and the opportunity to recover before the painting of the living room gets started tomorrow.

A very delayed mornin' all because...

...my usual blogging browser seems to be having connection issues for some bizarre reason.

I took my morning pills 2 hours ago and remembered not to open up my email programs 'cos of the monthly virus scan, so I'm just waiting for my first carer of the day to arrive now.

I'm booked in to get the roof fixed starting on 8th August so I'm really hoping there won't be any rain until it's finished <gulp>

Gonna publish this then make a start on putting today's to-do list together while I'm waiting for my carer.

BBS

Mornin' all

How are you all doing this morning?

I'm doing OK, thanks for asking.

I've already taken my first 4 pills of the day and my daily virus scan found a couple of things that hackers could get hold of (or something like that) so I've resolved those and everything is fine and dandy again now.

I woke up pretty late compared to my usual 5.30am start, but then I was still wide awake at 9.30pm last night, and I'd much prefer that my body had the rest that it need rather than waking up at stupid o'clock every morning, so that's OK.

Rather than chasing up the pharmacy about my missing box of pills I'm gonna take the 5mg one every other day instead of every day and hope that I don't go too fruit-loop while I do it.  I know that I'm OK doing that for about a week but this will be for 2 months, which I've never done before so keep your fingers crossed that I don't go too loopy!

My morning carer is due any time now, so I'd best publish this and make a start on my day's to-do list, then hopefully publish it before she arrives.

Aaaand...

...relax.

The Freegler has just taken her things so that's cleared off most of the table and there's just Steve's last book and my cracked mirror to go now, but the vast majority has now been taken.

I've also managed to get my bills set up to be e-bills instead of paper bills and I've hopefully changed the date too, so I've achieved a pretty decent amount today.

Tomorrow is another clear day so I might actually be able to do some reading and reviewing tomorrow!

I've emailed the company who sorted out the emersion heater about getting the bathroom taps fixed and asked them about getting the back yard sorted too 'cos I could swear I'd seen on their site that they did gardening before I emailed them but I can't find anything about it now 😧

I'm gonna reboot now, to install the update that's been nagging me all day, then I'll take my pills and head to bed for an early night I think  😀

Mornin' all

How are you all doing this morning?

I had a few techie issues with getting my monthly virus scan to start up this morning - turns out it was a PICNIC error which is sorted out now and the monthly virus scan is plodding away like a good'un now.

I've already taken my morning pills and breakfast today is 4 biscuits and a mug of decaff coffee.  I've gotta try and remember to ask my lunchtime carer to do the soup instead of what's on the menu so that it doesn't go to waste.

I've got my groceries being delivered this morning so that'll be fun, especially if my carer doesn't turn up as early as she usually does (usually around 7.15am to 7.30am).

I forgot about this blog post and started dealing with my emails and Facebook!  Woops!

Time to publish this and sort out my day's to-do list before I forget again I reckon.

Of course it might help if...

...I attached the right pole in the right place 😏 lol

It's all together now, I just need to fill the water bottle up and hopefully that will be all that needs doing.  I need to recover from my screw up, stop shaking and get rid of the arm pain first, but then I'll hopefully be good to go.

Assuming it works, it'll be something else that I can do regularly alone and now that the bedroom is clearer I can ask my morning carer to take the vacuum upstairs before she leaves in the morning and ask my lunchtime carer to bring it back down while the oven is pre-heating.

I'm slowly building up confidence in myself and my abilities to cope alone now.  It's hard going, but I'm slowly getting there.

Mornin' all

I managed to get almost 8½ hours of sleep overnight and came downstairs to be met with my antivirus programme not letting me run the weekly scan, so I rebooted while I took my morning pills and the discovered that it's been out of date since 22nd December and now needs a reboot, so I'll do that now and hope that it actually lets me run my weekly scan when I sign back in for the third time lol

Based on it being almost 5.30am and I haven't even started the scan yet, I'll do the backups after lunch I reckon.

I've also...

...decided to do a deep clean of one room a day, starting with the bathroom 'cos it's the smallest room so it'll hopefully motivate me to tackle in here and the kitchen.  I'm not even going to attempt to deep clean upstairs until I've got into a routine down here first.

I've got a lightweight cordless vacuum cleaner arriving tomorrow so I'll spend the day putting it together and charging the batteries for the first time, then test it out in the hall on Sunday then experiment with having my bath without the emersion heater having heated the water on the Monday morning (ready for the medical appointment in the afternoon) then bringing my groceries in and getting everything ready for the washer-drier then my enabler coming over again on Tuesday and I think I'll deserve a couple of days off then lol  It's an incredibly busy four days but hopefully it'll just be a one-off and things will be more evenly spaced out after that lol