15 minutes away from...

...having cared for my carer for 4 hours already this morning, and it's not even 10am 🕙 yet.  Based on that alone, today should be a pretty easy 10 hours and might even manage to sneak in 12 hours.

 

I worked out, while I was sat on the toilet, that...

...there are 3 bowls of granola left, so we'll both have a bowl each tomorrow then Steve'll have breakfast again on Wednesday and I'll be forced to go without again.  1 packet of granola is 4 breakfasts, so by the time we've finished this packet, I'll have had 3 bowls and Steve will had 5.

 

It's a good job I'm not having breakfast today 'cos I'm 1.2kg over the weight the nurse wants me to be, so missing a couple of breakfasts this week will hopefully put me back on target for next week.

 

I've already cared for my carer for very nearly 3 hours this morning and I think the council are seriuosly short-staffed today 'cos there was just one man doing the driving as well as collecting when there are usually three of them - one doing the blue bag, one doing food waste and the other doing the recycling box - but there was just the driver doing all three this morning so he deserves a bonus or at least a huge thank you from his boss!

 

I'm currently drinking my second glass of water this morning and there's been no news on any of the three sites I put it onto, so the morning is mine now, in preparation for bringing in the rubbish sack then the groceries this afternoon.  I hope we'll have something decent for lunch 'cos my stomach thinks my throat's been cut atm.

 

I've watered the tomatoes and I reckon two of 'em will be ready to be picked tomorrow and the huge one is starting to turn from green to orange now too, so I reckon that'll be ready before the weekend too.   Touch wood, my hayfever hasn't been too bad so far this morning.

Just had the email to say our groceries are on their way, so hold on while I have a peek at it... 

 

...OK, so 2 of the packs of 4 orange juices are out of stock so that's been replaced with two bigger ones, so I won't be having any juice this week so that Steve can have the one pack of four that's in stock, the two left over from last week and the replacements 'cos they are 1 litre bottles instead of 250ml ones.  Basically I'll be living on water until lunchtime (assuming my carer can be bothered to cook this week), one bowl of granola and 3 days worth of toast this week then, 'cos there's no way my carer will go without anything, same as always.  Steve's white chocolate milk has been replaced with chocolate milk, so he'll be having that as well as his Turkish Delights, Jaffa Cakes, carrot cake slices and crisps this week and I'll be having cream soda which I suppose I should be grateful for.

Steve's milk runs out soon, soo...

...he wanted granola instead of toast this morning, so he's got that and juice and I've just got juice until lunchtime, which is OK 'cos I need to lose 1kg to take me back to the right weight for my height.  I'll go for a wee and weigh myself considering I'm not having anything solid for breakfast so won't affect the weight of me.  I'll put it into the FitBit app then download the spreadsheet to put on my homepage.

First pills of the day taken, virus scan finished...

...watch charging up, first half a litre of water of the day almost finished, so I'm good to go for the rest of the day now.

That's the last two pills of the week, down the hatch...

...and for some bizarre reason, totally opposite to normal, I'm now more awake than I have been all day!

Do I risk starting a survey and potentially falling asleep half way through or do I just read Facebook until the side effects eventually kick in?

Given the tomatoes their final drink of the day

Just given the tomatoes their last drink of the day a couple of hours early, but I didn't want to forget and for them to die on me when we're so close to "harvesting" the first couple of them.

Considering we've had the back door open all day, as well as the living room window, I haven't suffered that badly with hayfever today, thankfully... maybe it was the rain we had yesterday that took the pollen out of the air or something?

Just done some last minute editing of the groceries

Just spotted a carrot cake on Facebook and mentioned it to Steve, so I went in to add it to the shop, at the expense of the grapes and Quorn pieces and I need another bottle of squash to take my pills with each day, so the final breakdown of tomorrow's shop now looks like this:

My stuff:  £6.34
Steve's stuff:  £23.44
Joint stuff:  £11.44

so Steve's stuff is £12 more expensive (ie more than double) than the joint stuff, yet again, and I'm having a major guilt trip about how expensive my stuff is too.  At least I've got some pop on this order for the first time this month though and haven't taken anything of mine off this time.

There won't be toilet rolls or lasagnes on the week after's shop though, so hopefully I'll be able to get the quorn pieces, fruit and pop that week instead.

That's the rubbish and food waste gone out and...

...the wild bird water was green again, so I sorted that out too.  My carer is totally zonked out and snoring his head off like a good'un, so I'm gonna go and grab another glass of water and make a start on the surveys that I've been invited to but haven't been able to do for a few days 'cos of doing the book reviews.

 

On track for hitting the 10 hours of care at 5.03pm and the 12 hours is looking pretty good to go too.  Doubt it'll be a 15 hour day after all 'cos that'd be gone 10pm tonight but my body needs an early-ish night tonight after being awake almost an hour earlier than normal this morning. 

That's my supplements bought for another year

I've just refilled my pill organiser for another week and re-ordered another year's worth of pills so that I don't forget and run out... it was about £20 cheaper than last year for some reason, so I triple-checked that I had a years supply of all four of 'em and I had, so Simply Supplements are even better value now than they were before!  It was only £55.37 for a years supply of all four of 'em but I was expecting to pay £75!

Their supplements are powerful too, 'cos I was on FA every day for 3 months while I was taking the Simply Supplement pills, then the next time I had a blood test to check my levels the FA was dropped down to three times a week then when I had my most recent prescription review a few months ago, I was told I only needed to take it twice a week!  The same with the vitamins B12 and D... since taking the Simply Supplements pills I don't have to have any more injections or pills to raise my levels of those either!  I'd love to know what my Calcium and Iron levels are like, but I'm guessing they are OK 'cos of taking those pills too!

6 hours and 10 minutes now

My carer has just made a start on our lunch and has cared for me for a grand total of 3 hours and 8 minutes for this entire week, so with cooking our lunch as well, it'll prolly be around 3½ hours, which is just over half of the hours that I've cared for him this morning alone.  My current weekly care of caring for my carer amounts to 70 hours and 18 minutes already, so 75 hours looks very likely before I head to bed tonight.  He's already admitted that he won't feel up to sorting out the rubbish and recycling after lunch, so he already knows that he'll be asleep all afternoon and evening.  Again.  So I've just sorted out the majority of it and taken it out - because my carer was struck by a surprise poo apparently.

I should be used to it by now I s'pose.