Product review: FIYOTE cardigan

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

This has just arrived and I already love it... assuming it isn't destroyed in the wash and the elbows don't wear out within a couple of months, it'll be a staple of my wardrobe over the winter months!

WTG FIYOTE!!!

The virus scan takes 45 hours

The virus scan finished 2 hours ago so it takes 45 hours instead of the 30 it did a couple of weeks ago so I'll know for next week now.

Friday 5th October 2018

Happy birthday to me
Squashed tomato's for tea
There's a nutter
In the gutter
And yes it is me!

What a way to start my birthday... got a serious case of the squits!!  😕

Gonna take me supplements now and hope they go down OK again, like they did yesterday...
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The Iron disintegrated on my tongue and the Multi took two big mouthfuls of squash, so not as easy as yesterday, but it could have been a lot worse!
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Virus scan is still only at 30% after more than 24 hours.  I'm gonna give it until bedtime tomorrow then give up unless it's over 75% by then!  😔😣
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Just walked our senior little girl.  She only wanted to do 50% but I forced her into doing the full 100%.  She was reluctant to even get her harness on though today!
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Been spoilt rotten today!  Thank you for the three cards and gifts and all the birthday wishes on Facebook!  I really appreciate all of them!  The postman/woman is going to hate us tomorrow 'cos I've got 3 packages and Steve's got one, all arriving tomorrow!  😃
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Just bought a flea and tick destroyer to hopefully ease the pup's scratching until the New Year.  Poor little pup will hopefully get some relief by the end of the weekend.
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Cheesy chips and baked beans for me birthday tea and I is full to the brim now!  lol
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Just taken me prescription and I'm wiped out after todays shopathon so I'm heading to bed now... nite nite again orl!
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Thursday 4th October 2018

Just set AVG running a deep scan.  When I did it last Friday it wasn't even at 50% after 2.5 days, yet when I did it the Thursday before that it was done and dusted in 30 hours.

Dunno what that extra days difference was, but if it completes it in 30 hours again this time I'll set the scan going on a Thursday morning each week instead of a Friday 'cos I definitely want to do a weekly deep scan, but not if it takes 3 days before it reaches even half way.  Makes no difference to me which day I do it on, I just chose Friday because it's the last day of the working week is all so moving it to a Thursday is absolutely fine!
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12% done and it's only been going for 20 minutes so, in theory, it'll be another 30 hour job again 'cos this is how quick it was done two weeks ago!
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26% twenty minutes later so it's achieved almost as much in twenty minutes on a Thursday as it did in 12 hours last Friday!  Not gonna get too excited by it 'cos it got stuck at 35% for over 10 hours last week, but as long as it's over 30% by the time I head to bed tonight and 45% by the time I come down tomorrow, it's on track for finishing in 30 hours again!
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Just got back from walking the pup.  We came home after 100% today 'cos there's no way I could have safely done even 10% more.  The pup wanted to keep walking, bless her, but for safety reasons we had to retire the car for this session (or whatever the motor racing wordage is).  Last week's walkathon really took it out of me so I'm gonna have to go easy on the lengths for a while now so that my body can slowly recover.
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The pup is eating her breakfast now but this is the second day she hasn't poo'd either on her walk, during the day or overnight!  If she still hasn't poo'd by the time we come back from her walk tomorrow, I'll ask about what we should do on one of the Facebook groups to see if they can come up with any suggestions.  Her last 2 poo's were sort of squitty so maybe there just isn't any poo left inside her atm?
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Just taken me morning cocktail and they all went down amazingly easily this morning!  Even the Calcium crumbs went down with a single mouthful of squash!!

Total awesomeness and so much different to yesterday!
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Me prescription has just arrived, so I'm all set for the next 5 weeks now... yaaaay!
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Just got my first ever freebie through the post from Pampers... a single nappy, wipes and 2 coupons for money off my next purchase, which is so totally awesome!  Didn't have a clue that they were coming to me, but hopefully this is the start of a deluge and it's worth those few minutes a day applying for freebies!
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First survey of the day completed!  Only took a couple of minutes too!
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Second survey done... that one only took a couple of minutes too!
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Third survey done and dusted... all three were for the same company though so i hope I get the full, promised rewards for all three as opposed to nothing at all 'cos I followed three different links and got told all three times that I'd get the reward within 5-7 days!
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Just answered the door to Steve's tea so I'm off to bed now... nite nite orl!
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Wednesday 3rd October 2018

That's the puppy walked and fed.

She forced me to walk 150% this morning so there's 50% in the bank after 3 days and I seriously couldn't have walked any further today 'cos me legs are exhausted and me knees are painful.  I'm gonna struggle to move for the rest of the day now.  Walking the equivalent of double the distance every day last week really has taken it all out of me so the only time I'm gonna leave the sofa today is to go to the bathroom 'cos I seriously can't move any further today.
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First survey of the day done and dusted.
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Supplements taken... had to crunch up the Multi as well as the Calcium because I just couldn't swallow it for some bizarre reason today.  😞  I've got a gross taste in my mouth now too, because of the multi  😒
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Having half a packet of curry crisps to hopefully take the taste away then a couple of cheese and onion pasties each for lunch... I feel sorry for anyone I come into contact with today and tomorrow lol
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I've had to resort to opening a can of ginger beer to calm my stomach down... crunching up the multi was a seriously bad idea but my throat was closing and there was no other way that I could take it!  😟
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Did the shopping earlier and can't remember how I've spent the rest of the day so I'm gonna take me prescription and wait for the quick virus scan to finish then head to bed.
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That's me prescription taken and I'm virus free but still can't remember how I spent the afternoon other than having Burger King food for tea... everything else is completely lost to the brain damage again!
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Going to bed now... nite nite orl and sorry for such a short and boring blog post today!
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Tuesday 2nd October 2018

The puppy only wanted to do 100% again today which is cool and groovy but there's still nothing in the bank.  I think last week's walk-athon (700% extra by Sunday afternoon) took it out of both of us and we need this week to recover!
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Morning cocktail taken... all four pills behaved this morning!  Even the Calcium only took 2 mouthfuls of squash to get all the crumbs swallowed, which is awesome!
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First survey of the day completed... that's already 100% more than yesterday!  😮
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Just scanned my likkle laptop and I'm still virus and malware free, thankfully.
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Second survey finished... had to install a bit of software for the next 6 weeks for this one!
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Taken me prescription and my repeat was issued yesterday, so hopefully I'll have it in me hands at the end of the week.
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Third survey done and dusted.
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I is totally cream crackered, so I'm gonna publish this then head to bed for an early night.

Nite nite orl!
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Monday 1st October 2018

A pinch and a punch
for the first of the month!

and all that jazz
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Just taken our senior pup for her walk and we only did 100% this morning which is fine and dandy, considering there was 700% in the bank at the end of last week.  As long as she does 100% every day I'll be happy and if she wants to keep walking then that's a bonus, but I won't pressure her to walk any further if she doesn't want to, like this morning.
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That's me morning cocktail taken.  The Calcium crumbs went everywhere and it took 3 mouthfuls of squash to get 'em all down, but other than that they all went down OK this morning.
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Great customer service from some selling on Amazon... I emailed them at the end of last week and said that I still haven't had the item so they said to give it another 48 hours and if it still hasn't turned up, let them know and they'll get another one in the post!  They even replied on a Sunday afternoon/evening too and in less than an hour of me contacting them too!

They'll be getting a 5 star rating from me when the item eventually turns up... sometimes getting things from smaller businesses on Amazon's marketplace is worth more because they care about their customers than huge multi-national companies like Amazon, where everything is automated and it's often like getting blood out of a stone to get a human to reply to emails at Amazon too!!
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AVG are fantastic!!  If you are after good quality, high protection anti-virus and anti-malware protection, definitely go with AVG... in less than 15 minutes with the sales bods with their online chat thingy, they found that I had 2 different accounts which is what I was billed for and paid for last night.

Less than 15 minutes later with no pressure either way, all totally my choices, I've got rid of the single computer protection that I was billed for last night but I'm still protected for unlimited devices until January 2020 and the refund process has been started.

All sorted really quickly and easily at almost 9pm on a Monday night!

They offer a free version of the anti-virus software, but if you can afford to pay for it then it's definitely worth it many times over!

They aren't the cheapest but what you get for the few pounds extra is soooo worth it!  I can safely surf the interwebs and read my emails and download things as well as being able to upload updates to the writing software, all without worry!

As long as you can safely download one programme, get AVG downloaded and installed just to initially protect you and try out.  If you love it as much as I do, definitely pay for the full version so that you're protected from malware too then you can safely use the internet knowing that you are totally protected!

It's the first thing I do after a new computer purchase or reinstall of Windows, even before I've set my email accounts up so that I'm protected from the very start!
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Sunday 30th September 2018

Given up with the deep scan for now... it was still at 30% after 2.5 days, so I'm gonna go back to the daily scans and weekly back-ups now... not perfect, but better than waiting 3 days just to get to 50% then waiting another 3 days to do the other 50% would mean that my likkle laptop would only be turned off once a week and I don't want to risk getting the battery so hot it bursts into flames and burns the house down with us all in it.
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The pup doesn't want to go for her walk today but that's the first time this week so I'll take 100% out of the bank which takes it to 450% extra this week which ain't so bad and everyone needs a day off from exercising occasionally!

I'll try taking her out again in a few hours in case she's in pain or whatever atm, but that 300% at the start of the week might be catching up with the old girl now  😕

She's already had her breakfast so I'll take me morning cocktail and carry on with the backing up.
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That's me morning cocktail taken.  The Calcium was a little bit of a PITA but nothing too bad, thankfully!
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Steve's emailed someone about getting our back yard sorted.  They sorted Steve's family garden out in 3 or 4 hours and ours is only about 12 foot by 6 foot so hopefully it'll only take an hour to get it totally sorted!  It's only about a fiver an hour and apparently they are all mentally disabled so we'll be helping the less-able community too!

I'd like to keep our rose bush if possible but everything else can go and Mitzi will have more room to run around in and poo, while I won't get so frustrated at being caught up in plants like I do every Sunday atm!
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Just got back from walking the pup and we did 250% so put the 100% back into the bank that I took out this morning takes it back to 550% then add in the extra 150% takes us to a nice round 700% in the bank this week which ain't bad going at all!
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Apparently the yard is gonna stay like it is atm 'cos Steve's just had an email from the gardening group saying that they weren't working "for the foreseeable future" for some reason, so we've still gotta keep on top of it ourselves after all.

😔

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Taken me prescription and put in a repeat request with my GP.  Still got 2 weeks left but I prefer to be safe than sorry with my meds so that I can stop myself going too nuts lol
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Clicked through to 80-odd surveys today and not a single one went all the way through!  😞
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Right.  Gonna shut down and head to bed now I reckon 'cos I've got precisely nothing else to do for the next hour and a half!

Nite nite orl!
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Saturday 29th September 2018

22 years, 4 hours and 13 minutes ago I lost my first twin.

I will never forget him.
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Walked the pup and she did 150% today, so there's 550% in the bank after 6 days.  As always when we've done at least 100%, she decides when to come home and she only wanted to do an extra half today which was fine by me!
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22 years, 4 hours and 47 minutes now.
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Morning cocktail taken.  The Iron disintegrated on my tongue but the other 3 pills went down fine, thankfully.
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We're up to 30% with the virus scan now, so hopefully that means it's over the sticky bit and will slowly work through the other 70% today, ready for backing it all up first thing tomorrow.
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30ish survey links I've clicked on but not a single one completed yet!  Tsk!
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22 years, 7 hours and 38 minutes since I lost my first twin.
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Just finished reading a short book about ego.  It's live on Amazon and you can read the review just before this post too.

Just gotta carry on with the surveys now and try and forget about the pain that comes with today each year.
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Another 10 that I've been invited to but don't qualify for!
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45 wasted survey clicks that I didn't usually get past the first page on *sigh*  😒
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Another 5 makes 50... almost made it to 25% on the last survey though!  lol
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55 attempts so far today and still haven't completed a single survey!
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60 attempts, zero completions today.
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65 and still nothing doing.
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Virus scan is still at 30% so my likkle laptop will be running for three whole days!  That's gonna run up the electric a bit but I pay a big chunk of it so it doesn't matter and it's only once a week too!
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70 and counting...
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75 invite rejections and not a single completed survey all day!
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80 down and still nothing!
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85 and counting...
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90 invitations and not a single one finished all day.
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95 and still not a sausage finished!
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100 invitations and none fully completed today for some bizarre reason!
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It's only taken all day and 101 invitations for me to complete my first survey of the day!  Yaaay!
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105 survey invitations but I was only accepted and completed a single one throught the whole day!
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110 survey invitations throughout the day and I've only been able to complete one of them... that's less than a 1% turn around today!

I'm wiped out so gonna publish this then head to bed.

Nite nite orl!
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Book review: "Letting go of ego" by Michael Westbrook

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5

 

I was initially wary of this book... worried that it would tell me that I was too egotistical and that I need to turn my life around.

I was wrong.

I also thought that it'd shove Christianity down my throat because of literally a sentence on the first page and again in the penultimate chapter.

I was wrong again.

Thankfully the author doesn't blame his reader for their ego, he talks from personal experience and suggests you try things that he's got personal experience of.

Everyone in the world has an ego.  Everyone.  What I was confusing it with before I read this book was too much self confidence or even mis-judged self confidence.  I know now that they are close but different.

This is a very quick read... I'm talking like 3 hours max and is definitely worth those few hours.

If you're worried that your ego is too big or you've been told that your too egotistical or anything like that, you definitely need to read this book.  Even if you've never been told that in your life, buy this book and I reckon you'll get at least *something* out of it!

Read it over your lunch hour for 4 days or go to bed an hour early and read it.