Nite nite orl

It's been a long ole exhausting day today, but I'm going to bed with a relieved smile on my face.

I've gotta remember to pull the water heating switch in the bathroom and have a gorgeously hot, relaxing, bubble bath, without falling asleep lol

I've also gotta remember to put the blood pressure spreadsheet onto my health site that I should have done today, but completely forgot.

I wanna start to edit my second memoir tomorrow too... I only wrote it at the start of October but I've already forgotten what I've written lol

It's gonna be a day filled with sugar tomorrow 'cos I'm gonna try having hot chocolates for my snacks instead of chocolatey biscuit bars 'cos I've been under the liquid minimum today, which ain't good.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Today (1st July 2025) I'm grateful for...

...waking up without the hair dye on my posture support pillow and all down my face.  

I'm also grateful that I've discovered that I feel the heat more with shorter hair than I ever did with long hair.

I'm grateful that I've only wobbled as opposed to falling over and not being able to get back up on the two sets of laps.

I'm grateful that my lunchtime carer came before my delivery which came before my groceries and that the size of the delivery seems to be a lot more sensible and appropriate for what I need it for.  I'm also grateful that the substitutions on my groceries were sensible and that they all fitted comfortably onto the middle shelf.

I'm grateful that the scalp sun spray was in stock and that it seems to be easy enough to use.

I'm also grateful that the browser clearing ready for tomorrow's weekly virus scan was so rapid today and that I managed to get my FitBit image together and uploaded without any issues at all.

I'm having a very good day today.

Nite nite orl

It's been a loooong day full of one thing after another, so I'm gonna spend tomorrow relaxing and recovering.

It's the weekly virus scan tomorrow which I'm hoping I'll remember to set off instead of the daily one then it's backups as soon as it's finished.  I'll try and remember to charge up both of my FitBits tomorrow too.

I've popped my last two pills of the day and my eyes are already starting to close from the side effects, so I'm gonna publish this then shut down and head off to beddy-byes.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl

Well this afternoon was...

...very productive!

I've managed to secure another 4 domains now that NaNo is going the same way as JanNo and my website issue has been escalated to the support team who will hopefully get back to me to solve it tomorrow.  I haven't achieved much but it feels like the wheels are in motion now to getting things sorted.

Just gotta contact the NaNo bods about how to save everything in my account so that I don't lose it all now!

I know I've been...

...talking about my newest book that I'm gonna publish at the start of June a lot recently, but I've just set up a mailing list for it that you can join (it's free, don't worry) to be one of the first to know when it's published.

The URL to the sign-up page is http://amandageorge.me.uk/confabulation.htm and I'll be doing most of the marketing and promotions for the book through the mailing list.

The book I read and reviewed yesterday gave me sooo many ideas for things to do after it's been published, but this was one of the pre-publication suggestions, so get clicking and there might be sneak previews or snippets or other exclusives in the lead-up to it that only my mailing list subscribers will know about!

Nite nite orl

It's been a long old day today but I've limped through it and now I'm going to bed 'cos the side effects of my pills are already starting to take hold.

I've got a busy day tomorrow too 'cos I've got my new laptop being delivered and I've gotta set up a very basic page and mailing list ready for its publication day, hopefully at the start of June.

I've also gotta be ready to give my neighbours their parcel because they weren't at home when it was delivered, so I took it in for them.

Time to crawl on up to beddy-byes now.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nite nite orl.

It's gonna be...

...all go tomorrow!

As well as my normal weekly virus scan and backups, I've also got a delivery due between 9.41am and 12.41pm so I bet it'll turn up while I'm making and eating my lunch.  My prescription is also due tomorrow and I've gotta put today's and tomorrow's BP readings up on my health site too!

Yesterday started with a totally free week and now there is so much stuff crammed into two days that I won't have a chance to recover from which is gonna screw me up just in time for my second jab.  If the jab is anything like my past ones, I could still be suffering the side effects of that in 3 months time!!

Nite nite orl

I haven't got much to show for it, but I've achieved a pretty decent amount this afternoon and I can finally cross something off my to-do list that's been hanging around for a few days and move on to the next task - trying to find a way to get the spreadsheet on my health site too!  Definitely a job for tomorrow instead of tonight though.

I've popped my last two pills off the day and I'm shutting down for the night now.

I'll see you all in the morning.

Nitey nite nite orl.

Mornin' all

I've woken up feeling like I haven't slept so today is gonna have to be a sloooow day for me.

I've popped my morning pills and opened a new box of one of my prescriptions, ready for next week, as well as taking the first video of the day, so I'm good to go until my carer gets here now.

Gotta remember to look through a page on my website to try and find a photo ready for remembering my husband and puppy dog.

I'm also expecting a delivery today ready for using it with the thing I've bought it to go with.

Time to publish this and get my day's to-do list together now methinks.

BBS

Mornin' all

After a good day yesterday, my mood is through the floor this morning, I'm knackered, wobbly, confused, sore and I'm back to having cotton wool in my head again.

I've popped all my morning pills and I've got my first drinking chocolate of the day on the go - will I be able to finish it before my carer arrives??

The virus scan found an advanced issue while I was making the drink, but that's resolved now, thankfully.

Task for today is to finish going through C's site and giving him feedback on it, then go through my hospital records and try to work out what the squiggles are so that I can type them all out ready for planning my NaNo24/JanNo25 book out a bit more.

I'm gonna publish this now and get ready for my first carer of the day now.

BBIAB

Goood morning all

I've woken up in a nervous yet positive mood today so I'm hoping today will be a good day.  The daily virus scan was still clear, so that's good news too.

I'm not gonna eat or drink anything other than the water/squash it takes to wash my pills down with.  I've already had my glass of water, so that's it until 1pm now, when I'll take my lunchtime pill and that'll be it until the bathroom is finished.

I've also weighed myself, logged the weight into FitBit, downloaded, coded and uploaded the spreadsheet to my homepage so that's out of the way for today.  I've put on 150g since Saturday so that's a relief.

Gotta remember to put in my next grocery order this morning too... hope I don't forget!

My morning carer could turn up at any time now, so I'm gonna publish this then hopefully put today's to-do list up before she arrives... will she want a drink this morning or not I wonder?

TTFN

I'm in tears...

...of pride and relief.

I've somehow managed to fix my website problem without causing the internet to come crashing down around my ears.

I think that calls for a J2O Mocktail in celebration!

!!!

The weekly virus scan found 8 malware files on my machine today which were mostly in the recycle bin, so I'm emptying that now and there's 316GB of files in there!!

The bin is being completely emptied so hopefully it'll be clean next week.

The backups are underway and I've potentially screwed up the entire internet by messing with some things I haven't got the first clue about, but I'm hoping I've done it right and I'll be able to use my navigation site again tomorrow.

Mornin' mornin'

How's things in your part of the world this morning?

I'm doing OK... woke up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep so gave up at 4am and came downstairs.

I've got a decaff coffee on the go and I've already had my glass of water and morning pills.

Gotta try and remember to find someone to take Steve's place as my technical guru in the new year.  They've gotta be fluent in HTML, javascript, databases, PHP, VB and C# at the bare minimum but knowing how to explain things in Word or Excel or Windows and if they can explain what I need to look for when buying a new laptop then that's an added bonus.

I posted to Facebook last night, asking for me-friendly recipes that my carers can make in the 10 minutes that I have with them, so hopefully I'll be able to add a few things to my grocery order now that I've taken the stamps off.

My daily virus scan was reassuringly totally clear, so that's a positive way to start the day.

Got a looong time before my morning carer turns up and I've gotta remember to weigh myself, log my weight into FitBit, download the spreadsheet then code and upload it to my homepage before I go for my jabs this morning.  I've also gotta remember to pick up a yellow card before I leave the pharmacy so that I can report the side effects this time.  Gotta bring the rubbish and recycling containers in too, as well as ask Marie to lift down the bowl for me.  I'm seriously hoping that I won't need it, but I prefer to be safe than sorry.

This blog post is waaaay too long, so I'm gonna publish it then put my day's to-do list together while I wait for my carer.  Might even stick my nose back into the book if there's time after I've done that.

TTFN

My homepage is gonna...

...be offline "for a little while" - I'm fine and it *will* be back online, but I'm moving it from the decommissioned hosting that wouldn't let me send or receive emails onto the new one and my hosts sorted it just before lunch, so if you suddenly can't get to it, that's why is all.

Aaaand... relax

The website stuff is, officially, sorted out now and I've got a tiny clue what I'm doing now lol

My hosts were brilliant... they sorted out the problem within minutes and it's fixed now - that'll teach me to fiddle with things I don't understand lol

Tasks for this afternoon are doing half my laps and sorting out the appropriate links and moving things around and stuff.  I *think* I know what I'm doing now, but I'm not counting my chickens until it finally goes live, hopefully without a hitch now.

I've worked out...

...why I was having problems yesterday and it was a PICNIC error as opposed to a DNS problem but I'm waaay out of my depth now so I've emailed the appropriate team and I'm keeping everything crossed that they can fix the error without any problems.

I've gotta re-setup my email accounts and FTP logins but hopefully that's easy enough to do when I've got the issue sorted out for me.  It's been a few years since I last had to do it, but I'm slightly more confident with that than the stuff I'm having problems with.  

I'm potentially...

...well and truly fucking up my homepage 'cos I've just invested in something that'll let me host all my sites together but it's the first time I've ever done anything like this so if my homepage totally disappears, that's why!

Mornin' all

How are you all doing this morning?

Me?  I'm so cold this morning that I've already put the heater on lol  I've turned it off at 80p but it's going on as soon as my carer has been, I've had my breakfast and done my laps lol

I've taken my morning pills with great difficulty - it took 750ml to get them all down instead of my usual 250ml so I'm now feeling very sick and bloated.

The daily virus scan was still clear, so that's reassuring.

Task for today is to re-edit the webpage I put up yesterday 'cos I'm gonna re-take one of the courses and I've found the ones that I couldn't find when I originally looked.  As long as my belly behaves, today is definitely a studying day.

Time to put up my to-do list before my carer arrives methinks.

Mornin' all

How are you all doing this morning?

I'm doing OK, thanks for asking.  My hayfever is already through the roof, but never mind.  I've popped my morning pills and run the daily virus scan so that's a couple of things off today's to-do list already.

I've gotta remember to weigh myself, log my weight into FitBit then download, code and upload the spreadsheet for last week as well as bringing in the rubbish sack when it's been emptied.  I've also gotta remember to ask Marie how I know that the battery is fully charged... it says in the information that the first charge should be for 16 hours but that's a looong time for something that already had a decent amount of charge in it when it came out of the box!

My morning carer could turn up at any time now, so I'm gonna publish this blog post then make a start on putting my day's to-do list together.

BFN