I'm also proud that...

...I've managed to resist the urge to snack all morning.  That's been worse than being caffeine-free for a week, but I've managed it and don't usually snack after I've had my lunch so I think this morning has been pretty successful for me and I'm proud of myself.  I just hope that I don't seriously over-do the snacking as a reward tomorrow lol

Tomorrow (Saturday) I'm hoping...

...to have a very early bath in preparation for Evri to hopefully deliver between 8am and 8pm.  

If Evri deliver early enough then I wanna try taking my passport photo again and maybe even going for a slow, cautious, walk around my back yard.  I won't be lapping or exercising at the weekend 'cos I've pushed myself too hard, too fast and too often for the last couple of weeks.

The weekend and all of next week are gonna be recovery days so that I don't end up bedbound again, which I'm already on the verge of.

I've hopefully got kiwiberries coming in my OddBox on Sunday and lots of mince pies and a tub of chocolates coming with my groceries on Tuesday, to ring in the festive season and hopefully reach my minimum basket total easier between now and January.

I'm gonna aim to treat myself sooo gently all weekend and hopefully next week too... I need to recover instead of keep pushing myself before I screw myself up too badly.

Mornin' all

Well, I barely slept last night and kept on waking up then not being able to get back to sleep, so I'm knackered this morning.  My 'Morning Stability' score is back down to 3 again, I've popped my 12 morning pills and used my inhaler.  

I've sent the Olio-er a message just to check that they are still coming to pick up all their food today... I've got a feeling that they won't though.  I've also got a feeling that the salt will be out of stock so I won't be able to try my first ever aubergine, but I hope I'm wrong with both of those predictions.

I've got a busy morning, but I'm hoping to change the bedding and do my laps and exercises this afternoon, as long as I'm feeling human enough to.  If I change the bedding, I'll have to bring it down, wash and dry it and take it back upstairs again too.

The daily virus scan found an advanced issue so time to get today's only breakfast photo up, then today's to-do list and wait for the Olio-er to hopefully turn up.

BBIAB

Mornin' all

Well, my prediction last night kinda came true and kinda didn't... I woke up desperate for a wee and had to rush to the bathroom, that bit of the prediction was true, but my bladder allowed me to stay asleep until 5am thankfully.

My 'Morning Stability' score on my Visible was another 3 so I can finish the week off with a few laps, sit-ups, cruches and twists again.

I've taken my second blood pressure reading with my new machine and it was a lot higher than on the original machine, but still low (116 again).

I had 2 liquid breakfasts this morning - my usual glass of water to pop my morning pills with, including a 5-HTP this morning, and a bottle of Wonky Orange juice.

I've also brushed my teeth and started a new bottle of mouthwash.

The daily virus scan was reassuringly clear again, so time to crack on with my day again now I reckon - a day of getting Steve's savings onto the spreadsheet I reckon, which will break my heart all over again, but never mind.

BBS

Nite nite orl

It's been a very long, very tiring day today and I'm dead on my feet after 3 very late nights last week, so I've popped my last two pills bang on time and I'm heading on up to beddy-byes but predicting I'll be up again by 3am 'cos I've literally just finished off a creamy hot choccie which will go straight to my bladder lol

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Gooooood mornin' all!

I've woken up feeling pretty positive and it feels like I've achieved a pretty decent amount already today!

My blood pressure was even higher this morning at 115 but that's still low.  I'm gonna try and remember to ask to get my blood pressure checked when I go for the blow test to see if I've got asthma on the 17th - you watch me forget though lol

My 9 morning pills all went down fine this morning, thankfully.

I weighed myself after I'd had my breakfast and I'm slap bang in the middle of the weight range that the nurse said to aim for, so I can exercise again this week, but not today 'cos my 'Morning Stability' score was only 2 this morning.

I've moved the recipes into their appropriate folders now and I've got 2 puds and the rest were lunches from OddBox so far.  I've got more folders ready and waiting for breakfasts, teas and drinks whenever I get them, but it's another thing to cross off my to-do list this morning.

Gotta remember to bring my recycling box and waste food caddy back in when they've been emptied this morning.

Gotta change the bedding at lunchtime too and take the duvet off the bed entirely so that it's just the sheet and pillow for the rest of Summer now.

The virus scan was reassuringly clear, so I'm gonna do my Monday admin, get my breakfast photos up then today's to-do list together.

BBS

Nite nite orl

It's been a very long, thoroughly exhausting day today and I've given up on waiting for my OddBox to be delivered before I go to bed, so I've popped my last two pills of the day and I'm heading on up to beddy-byes now.  It's weigh-in day tomorrow, so I'll hopefully have put on enough weight to re-start my exercises, but we'll have to wait and see.  Gotta remember to get washed and changed again too.  And officially start Summer with a new sheet and no duvet for the rest of Summer - I'm predicting that it'll be chilly as soon as that happens though lol  Gotta bring my recycling box and food waste container in when they have been emptied too.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Nite nite orl

I'm just about up to the psychosis diagnosis in hopefully the last edit of my second memoir and it seems like a wise place to stop so that I don't get crushed by a psychotic episode tonight.  It feels like I've achieved a pretty decent amount today and I'm only 124 pages away from going through my memoir almost twice today and it feels like I'm on the home stretch with it now.

It's too late after waiting up for my delivery to take my evening pills, so I'm just gonna head on up to bed to see how long it takes me to fall asleep tonight.

My HLTH band is doing really well 'cos it's been around my ankle for 31 days so far and the battery is still at 44% and is still working which is awesome!  I'm gonna keep a closer eye on the battery and when/if it starts to struggle, it'll be straight on to charge up again, but a month per charge is awesome!

I'll see you all in the morning (or later tonight if my insomnia strikes again).

Nite nite orl

 

Mornin' all

Well, last night I was so anxious that I forgot to take my evening Visible reading and I also forgot to charge it up during the day so I had to take a less reliable camera reading this morning and I'm currently urgently charging up my Visible.

I've swallowed my 10 morning pills and have officially run out of my Omega's too, so that's one less pill to take every morning now.

My blood pressure was high at 113 and my groceries are due this morning, so I'm predicting that any subsitutes (and I'm also predicting that there will be several) won't be suitable for me and the driver won't know how to put them down as rejections, so I'll be paying for food and drink that I can't have as a vegetarian with a dairy allergy, so I'll have to put it all onto Olio.

I'm not hungry this morning, so not having any breakfast, just water until lunchtime, unless the me-friendly cream is in stock, in which case I'll be having creamy drinking chocolates instead.

It's two apples and two pears for my lunch today so missing breakfast isn't really a problem.

The virus scan was reassuringly clear, so time to publish this, get my only breakfast photo up and then today's to-do list.

BBS

Mornin' all

Well, today could've started better!  lol  I brought today's clothes downstairs, took my blood pressure and popped my 9 morning pills and it was good until I remembered that I hadn't taken the photo of the glass of water, for my last meal photo of the week!  Thankfully there was still a small amount of water in the glass, so I took the photo, finished the glass off and went to get washed and changed... before realising that I'd mixed the top of my jeans up and that I would be wearing the wrong one today - woops!  I went back upstairs and changed the tops around then came back downstairs.

I then went for a poo, which was a combination of diarrhoea and constipation.

Then I got washed and changed and brushed my teeth, only to discover that the batteries needed changing and the socks I'd brought down first thing (when I first came downstairs) were too long to go underneath the legs of my trousers, so up I went again to find my ankle socks.

Came downstairs for the third time in under two hours and weighed myself unofficially.  I'm now, officially, back down to where the nurse wants me to be.

My Visible gave me a 'Morning Stability' score of 3 so I'll do my various exercises this afternoon, for the last time this week.

My hayfever is aready through the roof, I'm sneezing my head off, sniffing constantly and my eyes are itching like crazy this morning, so I'm gonna feel awful all day.

The daily virus scan was still reassuringly clear though, so I can get today's breakfast photo up, then my to-do list now I reckon.

BBS

Goooood mornin' all!

I've woken up to another Visible score of 2 out of 5 again, so no laps or exercises today either.  I've taken my blood pressure which was back to being just about within my own personal reference range again, so maybe it takes a week for my body to readjust to normal?  My 10 morning pills have been popped with my first glass of water of the day and I've just made, eaten and washed up my breakfast things.

Gotta remember to crack open the eggs as well as 2 pears and 2 easy peelers for my lunch and have creamy hot choccies throughout the day as snacks... you watch me forget though lol

The virus scan was all clear, so that's reassuring and means that I can get my breakfast photos up then my to-do list.

BBIAB

I was wrong, I'm sorry

My first delivery of the day has just arrived and there's more than an hour before my grocery time slot starts, so I was wrong with my prediction of it turning up at the same time as my groceries this morning and I'm sorry for my mistake.

Mornin' all

Well, the aim of going to bed at 7pm and waking up at 5am kinda happened, except that I went to bed later because of yesterday's Olio-er and woke up at 4.44am to discover that my 'Morning Stability' reading refused to work... until I came downstairs and noticed that I'd turned my internet off last night lol  It's all working fine now though and I've got a score of 3 out of 5 again so I can do a single set of exercises today, which I'll do after I've had my lunch, which I'll have when my delivery has been (it's due between 7am and 1pm).

My blood pressure was higher than normal, but still a bit low, so I dunno what's going on there!  My hayfever is already making me cough and sneeze and my eyes are streaming and I'm sooo thirsty, so that's gonna make things even worse for me.

I'm expecting my groceries between 10am and 11am today, so I'm predicting that they will turn up at the same time as my delivery lol  I've also gotta remember to put in my next grocery order this morning too.

The daily virus scan was reassuringly clear, so that's a relief.

This first blog post of the day is getting quite long, so I'm shutting up now, getting my breakfast photos up and then today's to-do list.

BBS

Mornin' all

Well, last night's prediction was bang on 'cos my Visible band didn't give me a Morning Stability score again this morning, so I obviously need to keep the battery above 75% if I want that, which is frustrating and means charging it up literally every day.  I'm not gonna charge it up today to see if it's just a blip and it works again tomorrow, but if not then I'll see how low it goes before it stops tracking my pace points.

I've taken my blood pressure and got frustrated 'cos my phone didn't want to work, so I had to reboot and try again - it took 21 minutes to send the photos to myself after taking my blood pressure!!

My morning pills have been popped and I'm not feeling hungry, so it's just the glass of water for my breakfast this morning.

I remembered to start the weekly virus scan off, so that's a positive, and I'm gonna go and get washed and changed for the first time this week when the scan has finished and I've started off the backups.

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

BBS

Nite nite orl

It's been a long ole day again and I'm making a prediction that I really hope is wrong - my Visible is at 67% charge and my phone is at 100% so I'm predicting that I won't be able to do the 'Morning Stability' score again tomorrow morning, but I'll be able to tell if it's my Visible or my phone that needs to be above 65% charge.

Gotta remember that it's Wednesday tomorrow so it's the weekly virus scan and backups instead of the daily scan... you watch me forget though lol

I've taken my pills and I'm heading to bed.

Nite nite orl

Mornin' all

I've only just realised that I didn't give my to-do list it's final update or say goodnight to you all last night because I completely forgot!  I'm so sorry!

Today is gonna be a bad day 'cos I almost didn't make it to the bathroom in time, my Visible didn't have enough battery power, at 55%, to take my morning stability score this morning so I dunno if I can push myself or not, then my phone decided that it didn't want to zoom in so I restarted it and it wouldn't open my camera for a little while.  When my phone eventually let me access the camera, I took my blood pressure and my phone wouldn't let me attach the photos to an email so I had to restart it again.  I filled the glass with water but was so thirsty that I drank half of it before I even left the kitchen, so had to refill it after my fourth wee of the morning and I'd only been awake for half an hour at that point.  My pills got stuck in my throat and I almost threw up several times.  I went for my fifth wee of the morning and made my breakfast but I couldn't zoom in or take the photo for about 30-45 seconds, which was annoying.

I've managed to log on to my computer and start my Visible charging up and the daily virus scan was clear, so I'm just gonna take it very gently today.

Gotta remember to take my recycling outside and refill my dosette box this afternoon, then put the OddBox container outside at about 5pm then wait to see if my delivery turns up again today or if I'll have to wait until tomorrow.

This first blog post of the day is waaay too long already so I'm gonna shut up now and get my breakfast photo up, then my to-do list.

BBIAB

Gooooood morning all!

I've woken up in a fantastic mood, so yesterday morning's new 5-HTP gummy has obviously kicked in!  My 'Morning Stability' score on Visible is only 1 out of 5 though, so no laps or exercises today.  

My memory is already playing tricks on me 'cos I was all ready to pour the soya milk onto my Weetabix when Gaia reminded me that I hadn't taken my morning pills yet and she's just reminded me again that I hadn't taken my 'Triple Omegas' yet either - thank you Gaia!  I'm obviously gonna be having a bad memory as well as low energy and high fatigue day today.

The daily virus scan has just finished and was reassuringly clear, so that's a positive.

Gotta remember to ask Alexa how Americans produce 'rhetorical' 'cos it's been bugging me since I went to bed yesterday lol

I tried the first bottle of the Flawsome apple juice with my breakfast this morning and I was dreading it being too sweet or too sour but I was wrong and it was gooooood!

I'm predicting that today will be heavily creamy drinking choccie-based to try and comfort my body into giving me a better Visible score tomorrow morning.  I'm also predicting that I won't get much reading done today either, but I hope I'm wrong about that.

This first blog post of the day is getting a bit long, so I'm gonna shut up and get today's breakfast photo sorted and up, then get my updated to-do list together.

BBS

Mornin' all

Well, last night's storm was short and sharp and had finished by the time I took my pills lol

So far this morning, I've taken my Visible reading which gave me a score of 4 this morning, took my blood pressure which was low even for me, been for 4 wee's, popped my first 9 pills of the week, had my breakfast and weighed myself (I've put on a kilo in the last week), then booted up the laptop and ran the virus scan which was still clear.

I'm in too much pain to change the bedding again today and my weight means doing 2 sets of laps and exercises a day as long as my Visible reading is OK each morning.

This first blog post of the day is getting a bit long so I'm gonna get today's breakfast photo up, then my to-do list and see how I feel after that, but maybe an early start on my laps and exercises or should I wait until I've brought the recycling in?

BBS

Nite nite orl

I've gotta remember to bag and box up my rubbish and recycling tomorrow and I've also gotta refill my dosette box after lunch too, as well as potentially doing my laps and exercises and of course getting washed and changed in the morning and putting up next week's menu and putting the OddBox container outside after lunch too, so lots of things to remember and I bet I'll forget something 🙄

Considering I've had my bath and done my laps and exercises today, I'm still just about under my Pace Points budget and it's still working so far, so that's a big relief.

I've taken my last two pills of the day and the side effects are rapidly kicking in, so I'm heading on up to beddy-byes now.

See you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Goooood mornin' all!

I was tossing and turning for hours last night before I eventually got to sleep, but I've woken up in a decent mood this morning, taken my blood pressure (which was at the high end of my own personal range), popped my 10 morning pills with my first breakfast (a glass of water) then got washed and changed.  My toothbrush died on me this morning so I'm gonna have to get another new one after only 3 years.  I've already put my next grocery order in, so that's another thing I can cross off today's list of things to do.

The daily virus scan was reassuringly clear and I put the bags in front of the door for my groceries delivery today, before I went to bed last night.

My Visible gave me a morning stability score of 3 so I'm gonna do my exercises this morning.  I've just checked the tracking for my Visible and it's due between 11am and 3pm so I'm predicting it'll turn up either as I'm packing away my groceries or while the plumber is here lol

This first blog post of the day is already getting a bit long, so I'm gonna publish it, get the photos of my two breakfasts resized and put up on here and Instagram then get my to-do list together.

BBS