Today's (14th February 2022) lunch photo

I made Steve's lunch today and made a few too many chips to go with his 10 sausages so I finished off his chips for my lunch.  His sausages said they took 20-25 minutes but were still the same colour after 30 so I dished up his chips and put the sausages in for an extra 20 minutes on the top shelf which eventually worked, but I seriously need to work on my timings.

It's onion rings and potato lattices for lunch tomorrow, so hopefully they will be better timed and I'll be able to dish them both up at the same time tomorrow.

Here's the photo:

2-0 to me

Just put my carer's lunch of sausages and chips in the oven and set the timer going on my phone, which means that he's had two meals so far today and I haven't had anything except 8 choccie biccies so that they didn't go off and he'll be having jam sandwiches for his tea and I'll be missing my third meal of the day.  Still at 100% of the meals made by me and 0% made by him, even though, apparently, he "makes all her meals and drinks for her" which he's already proved is total bollox.

1-0 to me already

Very nearly forgot to start the weeks food scores again!

So far this week, I've made 100% of the meals and my carer has made 0%.

I'm predicting that I'll be making my carer's lunch and possibly tea (jam sandwiches) and I won't have anything in my belly other than the half a packet of biscuits I'm currently chomping my way through.

That's the...

...recycling brought in, my carer's breakfast made, washing up done and dusted and I'm less than 90 minutes away from completing today's minimum caring hours.  The rubbish is just reversing down, so I'll go and thank them and bring the bag in for another week now.

BBS.

 

T'was the Aussie working alone again, but I did what I always try and do and that's just to say "thank you" to them - I might be the only one on their round that says it and a lot of people take them for granted because of their job, so I like to think that I maybe brighten their day slightly when I thank them!

Under an hour to go to complete my minimum now and I've asked my carer to complete his spreadsheet this week so we'll see where he puts his weekly 35 hours and if they tally up with mine.  I'm predicting that he'll conveniently forget though, just like he has for the last 6 weeks that I've been asking him to do it.  I'm also predicting that I'll be making all the meals this week despite my carer promising, yet again, that he'll do them but because I can make all of them, it'll be down to make them yet again.

I'm gonna finish off a packet of biscuits this morning, but when they've gone I really will only be eating and drinking when my carer makes it.  I'm not gonna be exercising this week, so that I can hang on to the weight that is healthy for me, but I'm predicting that I won't have any hot drinks or food this week.

Mornin' all

And so it begins.  

 

This is the week that I'll only be eating and drinking (other than water and fruit squash) if/when my carer makes it for me.  It's (sausages for my carer and) chips on the menu today and I'm making a prediction right now that it'll be me who makes it and I'll go completely calorie free for the first day this week.

I've remembered to move the electricity money over to the joint account for Steve to get credit for, just started the virus scan and I'm gonna go and weigh myself so that I can get it logged into FitBit and last week's spreadsheet up on my site.  When my carer wakes up for more than a few seconds, I'll take my morning pills and remind him to take his because apparently that's what I've got to do from now on "so that I remember to take them all.  I've only gotta take them in the morning, so if you remind me when you take yours then I'll be sorted for the day" so that's something else I've gotta take responsibility for now.

 

Nite nite orl

I've taken my last two pills of the week so I'm shutting down now.  The support that I ended up providing for my carer was 87 hours and 12 minutes, which is more than 2 full-time jobs a week but apparently I'm not the carer <shrug>

I'm heading off to beddy-byes for definite now.  See you all tomorrow morning.  Nite nite orl.

17-1 to me to finish the week off with

Just got my carer's tea for him and he's wasted a whole pack of 4 doughuts again (they were 3 days out of date) so he's taking them off Tuesday's shop and we've got more wasted food than I thought this afternoon, disappointingly... I should be use to it by now though.

Had a vegan...

...chocolate milkshake made with soya milk and I wasn't sure about the levels of powder and milk to use in my glass.  It instructed to use 2 level teaspoons in 250ml of milk, so I put two and a bit very heaped teaspoons in about 400ml of milk and I got it spot on first time!

I've consumed a huge amount of chocolate today and that, combined with re-starting my morning supplements, has made me feel really good today.  I only missed two days worth of pills but the drinking chocolates (2 of 'em), the chocolate milkshake and the bar of chocolate I had for my tea has really satisfied my sweet tooth today.

I can see me having a chocolate banana smoothie for breakfast tomorrow 'cos the bananas are starting to go spotty, so I wanna have them before they go bad, so that's breakfast tomorrow sorted.  It's chips on the menu for lunch tomorrow and I'll potentially be too stuffed to function after that lol

I've already cared for my carer for over 85 hours this week, so I'm gonna reward myself with an early night when I've taken my last two pills of the week.

The grand total of care by my carer this week has been 1 hour and 38 minutes, so only just over ⅒ of what it should be to be recognised as a carer.  I've achieved 86 hours and 15 minutes so far... I'm hoping for a nice, round 87 hours by the time I head to bed tonight which is, I think, a new record for me.

I've just started 2 new sheets in the spreadsheet document for next week so I'm all set and ready to go now.

This blog post is already waaaay too long, so I'm gonna shut up and publish this now, you'll be relieved to hear, I'm sure.

Just in case I forget to post a goodnight message, I'll say goodnight to you all now.  See you all again either within the next half an hour or so but definitely tomorrow morning.

Today's (13th February 2022) lunch photo

A late but simple and quick meal of just steak cut chips, a sprinkling of salt and 2 servings of brown sauce.

There's room in our little freezer for the rest of the big bag of chips from our lunch tomorrow.  It's a very simple menu next week after Steve's earlier admission about why he only cooks maybe once or twice a week... the menu is deliberately food that I can cook myself and just need Steve to dish up when the food is cooked, but hopefully working as a team next week instead of Steve doing all the cooking will give him a break from feeling like he has to cook every meal.

We've still got half a bag of Linda McCartney "Vegemince" to use up, but that, Steve's sausages and 2 trays of ice cubes is all that's left in there now.  Assuming I'm stable enough on my feet tomorrow lunchtime and I've got enough confidence to do it, I'll put a few sausages in the oven for Steve, as well as the chips.  He's trying to cut down on his portion sizes and the amount he eats in general so I've suggested getting smaller plates so that it *looks* like the same portion size, but it's a little bit smaller.

Here's the photo of my lunch today:

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