Mornin' all

How are you all doing this morning?

I put in a 13 hour day yesterday so I only need to care for my carer for 11 hours today to hit the magic 85 hour week.  My carer has cared for me for 1 hour and 7 minutes this week, so there's no way in this world that he'll be able to cram over 33 hours of care into the 18 hours that are left in today.  Apparently he "does everything for her" though <shrug>

I've taken my morning pills and cared for my carer for 53 minutes so far this morning.  When he wakes up, I'll go and make his breakfast for him then take his bowl through to the kitchen and keep caring for him until lunchtime.  I'll be able to have breakfast this morning 'cos I deliberately saved the cookies from yesterday's tea to have for my breakfast, so I'll have a few calories inside me today if Steve decides not to cook our lunch yet again.  The scores on the doors for meal making are 16-1 to me and 1 take-away so we won't be having our Caffe Nero treat today.  I've eaten 4 times so far this week though, so that's pretty good going.

 

The virus scan is pootling along nicely and hopefully it'll be clear again when it finishes.

I'm getting worried about a new friend (TLU) 'cos I haven't heard from him for a while and don't wanna pester him - he's been an absolutely fantastic friend to me and I wanna be there for him whenever he needs me too.  If you're reading this, TLU, I hope you're OK and I'm here for you whenever you need a friend!

 

There isn't enough rubbish or recycling to take out today to make it worthwhile, so we're gonna give the men and woman who does it each week one less thing to have to do tomorrow... means that I won't be able to schmooze with them tomorrow though, which will be soo weird!

Best go and make Steve his first drink of the day now!

BBL

Nite nite orl

I'm gradually closing all my programs down and shutting down now, then I'm off to bed after putting in a 12 hour day today.

Nite nite orl.

Pills popped...

...carer cared for, for over 11 hours and might just about scrape through 12 hours tonight.  My delivery didn't get here after all and could take an extra 1-2 working days to get here and I'm still glad that the hash browns didn't turn up after all.

I've been trying to get things finally sorted out for JanNo and I've gotta remember to save it to my OneDrive rather than my hard drive again so that I can keep writing and saving while the backups are underway on the Wednesday, just like I did with NaNo... having techy issues with trying to get the document to open now though!

 

We're not gonna put any rubbish or recycling out tomorrow 'cos there is just such a small amount this week that it'd be pointless, so it'll be a week without schmoozing on Monday, which is no bad thing considering how much we've sometimes produced!

I've also now only gotta find a fiver before I can get all of the next set of books that I want to buy, but that can wait for a while I reckon.  Now that I know my delivery is unlikely to be here tomorrow and there's no schmoozing to do, I can spend a while finishing that off, ready for weighing, buying the postage and organising the collection of the 3 gifts in time for Yule.

I think/hope I've got the JanNo document issue sorted out now... just gotta remember where it is in 3 weeks' time lol

Today's (3rd December 2022) tea photo

Because Steve was fed up of ham and cheese and mustard/pickle sandwiches for his tea, he decided that we'd have a take-away for tea instead.  I had a large crinkle potato wedges with 2 garlic aoli dips and was supposed to have 9 hash browns and another garlic aoli too, but they didn't arrive so they must've been out of stock or something.  In a way, I'm glad that they didn't turn up 'cos I'm nicely full now and the hash browns might've made me bloated or nauseous when I went to bed so maybe it was a blessing in disguise?

I've got 2 vegan chocolate cookies for my breakfast tomorrow and I'm trying to remain cautiously hopeful that we'll have the vegetarian spaghetti bolognaise for lunch tomorrow so that we can get rid of the rest of the bag of vegetarian mince out of the freezer and use up what's left in the spaghetti container too.

Got bits of potato stuck in my teeth now lol

Here's today's tea photo:

Today's (3rd December 2022) lunch photo

We had an absolutely gorgeous vegetarian chicken balti curry for lunch today and I absolutely devoured it after not eating since Thursday morning lol

Steve wants to indulge in a take-away for tea "'cos I'm a bit fed up of ham sandwiches now" so as long as he orders it soon enough, I'll be having tea tonight too and a couple of vegan double chocolate cookies ready for my breakfast tomorrow, which'll hopefully take my calorie counting graph on my FitBit into the green instead of blue for the first time this week.

Here's today's lunch photo:

Today's lunch comparison photo

I've just had a gorgeous meal for the third time this week and it tasted sooo good... we're a touch out of practise with the spiciness of Balti curries though 'cos the last couple have been Korma's made with coconut milk, so to go from that to Balti was more than either of us expected lol

Here's the comparison photo - whose is which one?

 

I'm having...

...lunch today!!!

I've just got everything ready while Steve's pooing 💩 and WE'RE HAVING CURRY TODAY!!!  It's the first meal Steve's cooked for a week and I can't wait!!!

 

Mornin' all

How are you doing this morning?

My new toothbrush is due for delivery today.  I'm kinda 90% sure that it's the same as my previous one, in which case I can just pop in the batteries, slide on the brush and away I go.

I've gotta remember to wrap and address the two Yule gifts that I'm sending through the post, so that I can get them there in time.  Just gotta tape up the gift boxes, wrap them up in brown paper, address them, buy the postage and bring them down ready for hopefully giving to the postie.

Just gotta put in 12½ hour days today and tomorrow to hit the magic 85 hours, but as long as I hit 70 hours it's double the minimum and I'll be happy with that.

I've already taken my morning pills and checked up on my Christmas repeat prescription request at my doc surgery and it's already been sent to the pharmacy, so I'm hoping it'll be delivered early next week now, which is plenty of time and I'll be all set until the end of February then.

My mobile has got 38% of its juice left and my FitBit was desperate to be charged when I woke up this morning, so I plugged my FitBit in as soon as I booted up my computer and when that's finished charging up, I'll put my phone on to charge too.

I've been fighting with my NaNo dashboard for the last half an hour so that I can get my winners certificate but it's not playing ball again so I've put a message about it on the NaNo Discord server thing so hopefully it'll be sorted soon.

Steve's said that he's still up for doing the curry at lunchtime, so hopefully I'll be able to eat my third meal of the week today.

I'd best go and make Steve's breakfast for him soon 'cos perish the thought that he should miss a meal!  It'll be his 16th meal of the week made by me and he hasn't made a single one for a week now!

The daily virus scan was still clear, thankfully, so I can keep surfing and emailing safely and reassuredly now.

Nite nite orl

I'm closing down as much as I possibly can so that I can go to bed as soon as I'm allowed to tonight.  I've put in over 60 hours this week, so I think I deserve it, don't you?

I'll be back again, as usual, tomorrow morning.

Nite nite orl.

Woops! I was wrong again, I'm sorry

I've already cared for my carer for 10 hours and I've just clocked over to 11 hours now, so there's no way I'll be able to head to bed before 8pm tonight now!