Feeling really good right now!

I've literally just got back from having lunch with C and H and I'm feeling really good right now because the place we went to was on a really steep from the car park into the Inn and I didn't fall over at all! 

OK so I was clinging onto C's arm for dear life and my quad cane has never been used so much since I've had it but I managed it!

I had a stuffed mushroom and I think the coleslaw had dairy in it because the first mouthful of it tasted very strongly of milk or cream, but there wasn't very much of it so I ate the lot!

My knees are killing me now though!

It's H's birthday tomorrow so I gave her two of the gifts today and the third one will be emailed to her at some point tomorrow, just in case her other gifts didn't arrive in time!

So tired!

I didn't get to sleep as early as I hoped last night and I woke up early this morning too, so my body is protesting about how little sleep I've had!  :-(

I had a shower to wake me up and wash me hair but my knees are killing me now!  :-(

Yaaay!

I've just worked out how to put the date and time on each of my blog posts and I've put a groovy background on it too - do you like it?  :-D 

I've also added a few pictures and a contact form too!

I've also written 4 less posts in 2014 than the total amount I wrote in the previous 3 years!

Memorial page for my twins

If you want a homepage but don't want to pay for it and you don't know html then take a trip over to wix.com - it's free, easy to use, no knowledge of html needed and there are loads of templates too!

I created a basic site in memory of my twins yesterday to see just how easy it was to do things without knowing html and without paying anything for it and within half an hour I'd gone from not even knowing wix existed to having a site online!

All you need is an email address and you're good to go!

Decisions, decisions

I've just spotted a different wheelchair that costs £169 more but goes 10 miles on a full charge of the battery instead of 6.  If the seat raises (I've just emailed Lloyds Pharmacy to ask) then I'll get that one, but if it doesn't, I'll get the Capricorn instead.  Sorted!

Getting nervously excited now!

I'm on about getting the wheelchair, not cooking tea!  lol

In about 6 weeks time I'll have paid for my electric wheelchair and I'll be arranging to get it delivered and installed then the only thing that I have to keep an eye on is that I don't go more than 3 miles in each direction so that I'm not stranded in the middle of nowhere!

I can count down in weeks now until I get my freedom back!

That first trip into Gloucester will be magical!  I just want to re-familiarise myself with the route and the shops that are down there now after more than a decade, then I can slowly build up the distance that I walk Mitzi and we can explore all the little side streets and stuff too!

The air will smell so good the first week of having the chair!

I can't wait!!

Quorn cottage pie and...

I'm going to do tea tonight for me and 'im.  I'm going to have Quorn cottage pie, but what goes with it?  What shall I cook for Steve?  Do I dare to do pasta bake or shall I stick to something like hamburgers and chips or wrap sausages with bacon or something like that?  I'm far from a chef but I enjoy cooking as long as I don't forget about getting the food out of the oven!  Yes, seriously!

I'll go and have a look now!  lol

OK, so we're having Quorn hot dog sausages and potato wedges for tea and I'll do it all!  Yay!

Going to give pasta bake a try next time... you watch me screw it up!  lol

Steve's doing vegetarian spag bol for us instead  :-/

What should I do?

I can afford £250 a month for the electric wheelchair but do I save up £1500 and just get the wheelchair of my dreams or do I get my freedom sooner (July) with the Capricorn chair but only go 6 miles and having to recharge the battery every day but be able to go out on my own again?

I think I said recently that I would go with the Capricorn didn't I?

Such are the joys of brain damage I suppose!  :-(

I've got to pay for a replacement prescription pre-payment certificate at the end of May which will save me £85 during 2014 but it's £104 I forgot to account for!  :-(

It means that I'll be £104 worse off than I was thinking but it's only once a year so it'll be worth it which is another reason for me to go with the Capricorn too... :-/

I've decided...

Just me again!

I'm going to not spend anything until I'm paid at the end of the month when I'll get my prescription pre-payment card and a couple of trousers and I'll still be comfortably in credit so that I'm that much closer to buying the wheelchair - just got to sort out the insurance and breakdown cover and extended warranty for it now!

I'm a greedy pig :-(

I've already had a small pot of melon chunks and 2 slices of carrot cake as well as bringing a multi-pack of chocolate in with me and it's only 10.25am!

*sigh*