Today's (1st September 2022) breakfast photo

Tried an innocent smoothie for a rapid breakfast and it was absolutely gorgeous and so filling.  I was gonna fill up on drinking chocolates this morning to raise my calorie count after yesterday was a just about blue (ie under calorie budget) day but I honestly don't wanna risk it for a few hours 'cos I'm so full!  I'll maybe attempt my first one for elevenses then have my soup for lunch then maybe another couple of drinking chocolates this afternoon and evening.

I'll definitely be getting the smoothies again for rapid, healthy breakfasts!

Here's the photo of today's breakfast:

Mornin' all

I've already achieved and forgotten some things on today's to-do list, but that's OK 'cos I can slip the forgotten things in together.

Today's to-do list reads like this:

1. wake up (obviously)
2. set the backups going
3. do the watering
   
4. make breakfast for me an' im
5. take my morning pills
   
6. have a bath
7. do the washing up
8. hopefully my backups will have finished so I'll put it away then
9. relax/recover for a few hours
10. make lunch
11. take my lunchtime pill
    
12. do the lunchtime watering
    
13. relax/recover for a few more hours
14. make Steve's tea
15. do the evening watering
16. head to bed.

 

I'm gonna go and do the watering then the breakfasts now.  The backups have only got about 3 minutes to go, so I'll be able to put the external hard drive away and put my laptop on the floor so that I can take a proper photo of my breakfast for you all, then carry on with the to-do list for the rest of the day.

 

Other than making our lunch, doing the washing up and watering, I don't plan to move off the sofa today, other than for bathroom breaks, obviously.

 

The backups have just finished, so time to put the external hard drive away and put my laptop on the floor.  Yesterday has seriously taken it out of both of us, so Steve's decided to cancel his regular medical appointment this morning, so that he can recover for the rest of this week then re-start the appointments next week.

 

Gonna go and sort out the gardening and breakfasts now.

 

BBL

 

Nite nite orl

Just taken my night-time pills and I'm gonna head to bed straight away after I've done the adding up of care provided by me today.  I won't be complaining quite so loudly on Sunday 'cos I got the minimum daily quota of care today, so we've both just gotta take it easy for a while as we recover from today.  I'll be stiff as a board in the morning but I'm not gonna overdo it until Friday's appointment then I'll be able to spend the next 10 days recovering properly before my next appointment.

Time to head to bed now though.

Nite nite orl

The weekly virus scan...

...has finished and found nothing nasty lurking in my laptop, so I'm gonna check my emails for the first time since yesterday, deal with any that need to be dealt with, drink my freshly brewed mug of decaff tea then take my pills and head to bed I reckon.

My current to-do list for tomorrow morning, hopefully in pretty much this order, reads like this:

1. wake up (obviously)
2. set the backups going
3. do the watering
   
4. make breakfast for me an' im
5. have a bath
6. do the washing up
7. hopefully my backups will have finished so I'll put it away then
8. relax/recover for a few hours
9. make lunch
10. do the lunchtime watering
    
11. relax/recover for a few more hours
12. make Steve's tea
13. do the evening watering
14. head to bed.

 

In amongst that will, of course, be caring for my carer, just like every other day, but it won't be my sole focus tomorrow, like it usually is.  Just for a very rare change, I'll be looking after me and my body before Steve.

He's just woken up again and wants his tea, so I'd best go and make it for him I guess.

TTFN

Cupboard rearranged slightly...

...and I've put the two cans of soup right at the front now so they are easy to grab hold of tomorrow.  

 

I've also had a look at the nutritional information for the smoothie and the bottle contains about the same calories as a bowl of granola and soya milk, so I'll have that for my breakfast without needing to find hundreds more calories out of thin air.  I just hope the backups have finished in time for me to put my laptop on the floor so that I can put my bowl of soup on the table.  If my maffs is right and I set the backups going before 9am tomorrow, I should hopefully be on track for it finishing at around 12 o'clock noon mid-day, then I'll be ready to either cook the soup myself (most likely) or set it all up for Steve to look after, assuming we both stay awake for long enough of course lol

Gotta do the washing up after Steve's finished eating his breakfast and I've had my bath too, otherwise there won't be any clean bowls or spoons.

Back now and...

...in absolute agony, my legs could give way at any moment and I'm absolutely exhausted, so I definitely won't be having a late night tonight.

The weekly virus scan is underway and I somehow managed to clock up 15 active minutes on my FitBit and I've had a packet of crisps, a can of Rio and a litre of cream soda since I've been back which is far from ideal but needs must and after not eating for 26 hours, my body was screaming out for help so I had to do *something* so that it would keep on keeping on.

It's a gorgeous soup for lunch tomorrow, so I need to remember to find the two cans before I go to bed tonight.

I actually got 5 hours of care out of my carer today for the first time in literally years, so I might even approach 8 hours of care this week!

I'm just gonna do the virus scan today then set the backups off as soon as I come downstairs tomorrow, then I'll make my carer's breakfast for him and go and crawl into the bath when I've taken his bowl out for him.  I don't care how cold the water is tomorrow, I won't allow myself to be rushed and I'm hoping for at least an hour rather than the 30 minutes I'm usually allowed every few months. I've done so much to care for my carer today and I'm seriously paying for it now, so I'm gonna be a bit selfish tomorrow and I don't care how much my carer whines about it... it's not often that I'm selfish, but after today and in preparation for Friday, I need to be selfish for that hour tomorrow.

 

I've got a couple of smoothies that I can have one of for my breakfast tomorrow 'cos I won't be able to put my laptop on the floor 'cos of the external hard drive, but after so few calories today and needing to put weight on this week, I need to give my body calories at every opportunity and it'll just be through thick liquids tomorrow instead of solids which is far from ideal, but better than nothing, right?

 

This blog post is waay too long again, so I'm gonna publish it then go and find the soup ready for tomorrow.

 

BBL

 

Plants watered now, sooo...

...gonna close the browser until I get home now - the less I have open, the faster it'll be to shut down after all.

Mornin' all

I've decided against running the weekly virus scan this morning - assuming we get back before it's too late, I'll run the scan when we get home and do the backups tomorrow, but if it is too late to do the scan, I'll just delay it until tomorrow then it can be running while I'm in the bath and I'll do the backups when I get out.  Thankfully today is a rare occasion for me, so just pushing it back for one day is fine by me and it'll be back to normal next week.

I've already taken my pills and I'm pondering on a few squirts of the B12 spray to keep me going today.  I'm gonna be absolutely wiped out when I get home after not being able to eat or drink all day.

I'm charging my phone up but I'm gonna leave it here today 'cos I'm not taking my bag with me so I won't have anywhere to put it.

Absolutely cream-crackered already so I'll be moving around as little as possible today and I'll definitely have an early night tonight.  My legs are already wobbly so I hope I manage to stay on my feet today 'cos if they give way on me, there's no way I'll be able to get back to my feet again.

To give him credit, Steve's boiling the kettle so that he has warm water to wash at the kitchen sink with, so hopefully there will be enough hot water in the heater for me to have a warm bath tomorrow, which'l help my legs and help me to recover from today.  It's not often that I ask Steve to not use the hot water, but he always "forgets" then wonders why I get out of the bath or shower shivering, ask for the heater to be on full blast and totally unable to warm up for literally days afterwards, even in the middle of a heatwave with 3 layers of clothes on!

It's nice and light out there now, so when Steve's finished getting washed, I'll go and give the plants their morning drink.

I'm hoping I'll be able to get a few "active minutes" on my FitBit today 'cos of walking from the car, into the station, onto the train then in reverse when it's time to come home.  I'm not gonna focus on that today though - today I'm gonna be focussing on my in-laws and staying on my feet so that I don't embarrass Steve and his family if my legs give way underneath me.

This blog post is getting too long now, so I'm gonna publish it.  Not sure if I'll make another post before we get home, so just in case, I'll say TTYL now and I'll be back as soon as I can.

Nite nite orl

Already cared for my carer for over ⅔ of the minimum required for the week, so I'm gonna have a very rare early night tonight.

I'll be back for a couple of hours in the morning but I'll be out of reach all morning and prolly a good chunk of the afternoon too.

Signing off for the night now.

Nite nite orl.

Dosed up for...

...the last time today, so I'm just waiting for them to kick in now, then I can head to bed for an early night.