Taken me cocktail of pills... the Iron disintegrated but the Calcium and Multi went down fine for a change!
As has happened every year since I first got it, hayfever pills work for a grand total of 10 hours for that first day then that's it. No kind of relief whatsoever.
I'm seriously considering asking my GP about having Immunotherapy for it just on the off-chance that it helps, 'cos antihistamines only work for a few hours then that's it for the whole of Summer!
Monday, 9 July 2018
Pup walked and fed
Walked and fed the pup first thing and it was way too hot out there even for me!!
Gonna take me hayfever pill and 3 supplements now then that's me sorted for the day 👍
Gonna take me hayfever pill and 3 supplements now then that's me sorted for the day 👍
Sunday, 8 July 2018
Pup walked and fed
It's waaaay too hot out there today so we just did twice between our neighbours then came home.
Supplements and hayfever pill taken
They all went down not too badly this morning, thankfully!
Almost forgot the hayfever pill though!
Almost forgot the hayfever pill though!
I know Steve's definion of "later" now
I've asked Steve for the last 3 weeks to help me clear up Mitzi's poo in the back yard.
His reply has always been "later".
I've just done it on my own so from now on I'll be using Steve's definition of "later" when he asks me to do something and I'll make "promises" that I don't keep too.
Bet it'll last hours before Steve throws a strop, yet I'll only be playing him at his own game that he's been playing for the last 3 weeks!
It's now 9.24am on Sunday 8th July... lets see how long it lasts before I use one of Steve's definitions for the first time! lol
His reply has always been "later".
I've just done it on my own so from now on I'll be using Steve's definition of "later" when he asks me to do something and I'll make "promises" that I don't keep too.
Bet it'll last hours before Steve throws a strop, yet I'll only be playing him at his own game that he's been playing for the last 3 weeks!
It's now 9.24am on Sunday 8th July... lets see how long it lasts before I use one of Steve's definitions for the first time! lol
Saturday, 7 July 2018
Supplements and hayfever pill taken
They all went down nice and easily this morning! I've got one full bottle of squash left.
Taking bets on if Steve'll fill the bottles up before I need them or not... I'm betting that he won't. 👎
Taking bets on if Steve'll fill the bottles up before I need them or not... I'm betting that he won't. 👎
Steve's promises are...
Just asked Steve if he was going to come on family walkies with me and the pup today, like he's promised for the last few days but he said he wasn't so that's one promise broken yet again. I asked him what we were having for tea and he said it was too hot to cook so I said about him promising yesterday that we'd have pasta bake today. His reply? "Oh yeah, sorry".
Same with Patrick's insurance. I asked him to phone up to renew it as soon as I saw the renewal come through, he said he'd do it "later" so I emailed them to find out what time they closed. 6pm. Steve said he'd definitely do it before then, but he didn't, so I'm gonna do it online on Tuesday using the insurers new online renewal system that goes live on Tuesday morning.
He does this all the time... promises something then goes back on it so I've given up now. As far as I'm concerned, Steve's promises are worthless from now on.
Same with Patrick's insurance. I asked him to phone up to renew it as soon as I saw the renewal come through, he said he'd do it "later" so I emailed them to find out what time they closed. 6pm. Steve said he'd definitely do it before then, but he didn't, so I'm gonna do it online on Tuesday using the insurers new online renewal system that goes live on Tuesday morning.
He does this all the time... promises something then goes back on it so I've given up now. As far as I'm concerned, Steve's promises are worthless from now on.
Friday, 6 July 2018
I knew it!!
Steve is my hubby and carer.
Mitzi is our senior pup.
I asked Steve to do two things yesterday and he promised it would happen for sure.
The first was to make pasta bake for our lunch/tea and the second was to take Mitzi on the first family walkies 'cos all three of us enjoyed them last time they happened regularly.
Steve did neither of those things today. I knew he wouldn't. He never does, despite being paid to be my carer for at least 25 hours a week. The reality is that I struggle to get an hour of care out of him a week and that's usually the few seconds it takes to do my bra up for me.
I asked him about when we were having the pasta bake at lunchtime.
"It's too hot to cook" says he.
"So we're not having it for tea either then?" says me.
"Nope, definitely tomorrow though. Promise" says he.
I asked him about taking the pup out for her family walkies when he got home from his nurse appointment.
"It's too hot out there right now" says he. "We'll definitely go this evening when it's cooled down though. Promise"
I've just asked him what time it will be cool enough for him to take her out.
"About 2am" says he.
"All three of us will be asleep then though" says me, starting to get angry.
"Yep. Sorry" says Steve.
So I've just taken Mitzi out for her walk and fed her.
25 hours a week is just over 3 hours a day for 7 days yeah?
In the last 7 days, Steve's done my bra up once and that's it. Less than a minute under his "carer" title.
Even if you include the household tasks as caring, he's put the powder into the washing machine and turned it on once which took less than a minute, so that's 3 minutes of caring so far this week, yeah?
He's cooked once this week so even if you include the 20 minute cooking time and 5 minutes plating up, that's 25 minutes caring, plus the 3 minutes from the previous paragraph, means that he's cared for me for 28 minutes this week, not the 25 hours he's being paid for!!
If he'd spent those 25 hours caring for me then I wouldn't have minded not having the pasta bake and taking Mitzi for her walk, but he hasn't even spent half an hour caring for me this week instead of the 25 hours he's being paid for!
He's got a job too that he's being paid for, yet he spends the majority of the day and night asleep then complains when his boss asks him how he's getting on with one of the tasks that he hasn't even started because he's asleep for 20 hours a f**king day!!
He's sat in his chair snoring his head of now and he's only just turned his computer on for the first time since yesterday afternoon!!
When I met up with C yesterday he asked me if I'd ever thought about moving away and I said sometimes - this is one of those times, if you're reading, C!
C does more for me in 2 hours a couple of times a month than Steve does in a f**king month of living with me! C is more like my carer than my own husband and C's not even being paid for it!!
Mitzi is our senior pup.
I asked Steve to do two things yesterday and he promised it would happen for sure.
The first was to make pasta bake for our lunch/tea and the second was to take Mitzi on the first family walkies 'cos all three of us enjoyed them last time they happened regularly.
Steve did neither of those things today. I knew he wouldn't. He never does, despite being paid to be my carer for at least 25 hours a week. The reality is that I struggle to get an hour of care out of him a week and that's usually the few seconds it takes to do my bra up for me.
I asked him about when we were having the pasta bake at lunchtime.
"It's too hot to cook" says he.
"So we're not having it for tea either then?" says me.
"Nope, definitely tomorrow though. Promise" says he.
I asked him about taking the pup out for her family walkies when he got home from his nurse appointment.
"It's too hot out there right now" says he. "We'll definitely go this evening when it's cooled down though. Promise"
I've just asked him what time it will be cool enough for him to take her out.
"About 2am" says he.
"All three of us will be asleep then though" says me, starting to get angry.
"Yep. Sorry" says Steve.
So I've just taken Mitzi out for her walk and fed her.
25 hours a week is just over 3 hours a day for 7 days yeah?
In the last 7 days, Steve's done my bra up once and that's it. Less than a minute under his "carer" title.
Even if you include the household tasks as caring, he's put the powder into the washing machine and turned it on once which took less than a minute, so that's 3 minutes of caring so far this week, yeah?
He's cooked once this week so even if you include the 20 minute cooking time and 5 minutes plating up, that's 25 minutes caring, plus the 3 minutes from the previous paragraph, means that he's cared for me for 28 minutes this week, not the 25 hours he's being paid for!!
If he'd spent those 25 hours caring for me then I wouldn't have minded not having the pasta bake and taking Mitzi for her walk, but he hasn't even spent half an hour caring for me this week instead of the 25 hours he's being paid for!
He's got a job too that he's being paid for, yet he spends the majority of the day and night asleep then complains when his boss asks him how he's getting on with one of the tasks that he hasn't even started because he's asleep for 20 hours a f**king day!!
He's sat in his chair snoring his head of now and he's only just turned his computer on for the first time since yesterday afternoon!!
When I met up with C yesterday he asked me if I'd ever thought about moving away and I said sometimes - this is one of those times, if you're reading, C!
C does more for me in 2 hours a couple of times a month than Steve does in a f**king month of living with me! C is more like my carer than my own husband and C's not even being paid for it!!
Supplements and hayfever pill taken
The supplements were a flippin' nightmare to take this morning and the hayfever pills don't work at all any more either! Just the same as every year in the past!
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Looking to study for free online? DO NOT go with these idiots!
I had high hopes for being able to continue with my studying with DLU. They offered lots of courses I was interested in and it was free so it didn't matter if I didn't pass each course.
I duly filled in the forms and sent them back, was sent the URL to start studying and it was really easy to learn from the course so I was feeling good about it.
A week later I was emailed with my tutor's name and email address so I sent him a quick email just introducing myself and asking if he was ready for me to send my first assessment to him.
He was a lovely, supportive, understanding man who talked me through submitting the assessment which I duly did.
A week later I got the result that I'd failed on some of the questions so I'd need to re-study those bits and re-submit just those sections.
That's when the problems started and they haven't stopped since.
I tried to resubmit the questions I'd got wrong, just like it said to do on the site but it wouldn't accept it.
Must be a computer glitch or something I ponder and try again.
Same thing.
Gave it several hours just in case they were doing something behind the scenes.
Same problem.
So I email my tutor to find out what I should do.
I'm sure I must have vented about it on this blog about it since then, so I won't repeat myself, but I heard from DLU last night to say they'd put a message on the course to contact a different email address if the student was having technical difficulties, which is fair enough, but what about fixing the thing that caused me problems to start with!?
They offered to give me a 2 week extension on my second unit assessment, even though they still hadn't fixed the problem with their site for submitting the first unit's assessment!
I'd already forgotten everything I'd learned so told them where to stick it! lol
If you're looking for an online course to study that is free and actually works, go with OpenLearn first then to Alison - you don't get a tutor with either of those sites, it's all automated, but their sites do genuinely work and it is genuinely free even if you don't complete the course you registered for!
The OpenLearn courses don't give you any kind of certificate or anything but some courses have badges that you can download after you finish the course to put on your site or CV or whatever. If you pass a certificate or diploma course on Alison you can pay for it if you want to but if you don't then there's no pressure at all either way!
Whatever you do, avoid DLU at all costs unless you want to pay an £85 non-completion fee for something that isn't even your fault!
I duly filled in the forms and sent them back, was sent the URL to start studying and it was really easy to learn from the course so I was feeling good about it.
A week later I was emailed with my tutor's name and email address so I sent him a quick email just introducing myself and asking if he was ready for me to send my first assessment to him.
He was a lovely, supportive, understanding man who talked me through submitting the assessment which I duly did.
A week later I got the result that I'd failed on some of the questions so I'd need to re-study those bits and re-submit just those sections.
That's when the problems started and they haven't stopped since.
I tried to resubmit the questions I'd got wrong, just like it said to do on the site but it wouldn't accept it.
Must be a computer glitch or something I ponder and try again.
Same thing.
Gave it several hours just in case they were doing something behind the scenes.
Same problem.
So I email my tutor to find out what I should do.
I'm sure I must have vented about it on this blog about it since then, so I won't repeat myself, but I heard from DLU last night to say they'd put a message on the course to contact a different email address if the student was having technical difficulties, which is fair enough, but what about fixing the thing that caused me problems to start with!?
They offered to give me a 2 week extension on my second unit assessment, even though they still hadn't fixed the problem with their site for submitting the first unit's assessment!
I'd already forgotten everything I'd learned so told them where to stick it! lol
If you're looking for an online course to study that is free and actually works, go with OpenLearn first then to Alison - you don't get a tutor with either of those sites, it's all automated, but their sites do genuinely work and it is genuinely free even if you don't complete the course you registered for!
The OpenLearn courses don't give you any kind of certificate or anything but some courses have badges that you can download after you finish the course to put on your site or CV or whatever. If you pass a certificate or diploma course on Alison you can pay for it if you want to but if you don't then there's no pressure at all either way!
Whatever you do, avoid DLU at all costs unless you want to pay an £85 non-completion fee for something that isn't even your fault!
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