My carer's idea of support this morning was to...

...use her phone while I was getting washed and she didn't even glance up from her phone when I asked her if I'd washed everywhere and she said "uh-huh" so I dried myself, put my deodorant on and brushed my teeth and she still didn't stop looking at her phone.

I said "excuse me" when I tried to get through to the stairs and she was blocking the entire doorway with her bum.

Her idea of helping me to get dressed was to put my bra and t-shirt on backwards and snapping the elastic in my socks.

Then she decided to do the washing up which means that I now can't have any breakfast, so my entire calorie count until lunchtime will come from drinks.

Lunch will be another tin of baked beans and finishing off the grated cheese that I brought home with me 2-3 weeks ago and that will be the only solids in my belly today.

It's a good job that I'm having my weekly bath today so that I can put my clothes on the right way around.  Might go and turn the immersion heater on now so that I can have an early rather than late bath if my lunchtime carer doesn't turn up until 2.30pm.

Today's (23rd September 2023) to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Put drops in my ear
• Turn on air purifier
• Read email about the grocery order on Tuesday
• Read and reply to C's email
• Fill kettle with water
• Boil water in preparation
• Have breakfast
• Put breakfast photo onto this blog and In
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Refill kettle ready for tomorrow
• Do my laps
• Do the news
• Find new Pagan forum - will I be approved today?
• Have lunch
• Eat 2 pears
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Turn immersion heater on
• Have bath
• Turn immersion heater off
• Take out two slices of bread ready for tomorrow's breakfast
• Give hallway mat away to Freegler/bin it next week
• Give Graze vouchers away to Freeglers
• Read and review 3 Kindle Unlimited books
• Study my courses
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Mornin' mornin'

Sooooo cooooold this morning!  As soon as my carer has been and gone, I'll be snuggling up underneath my sleeved blanket to warm up a bit and staying under it until I need a wee lol

I've drunk my early morning glass of water, taken my morning pills, started to run the daily virus scan and turned the two bits of bread over ready for my breakfast.

You might remember that my groceries turned up 2½ hours early on Tuesday, yeah?  Well I heard back from them yesterday afternoon so I'm gonna have a read of that this morning too.

Time to put as much of my to-do list together as I can while I wait for my morning carer to turn up.

Nite nite orl

I haven't got a clue where the day has disappeared to, but I've taken my last two pills of the day, taken two slices of bread out of the freezer and now it's time for me to head to bed.

Nite nite orl

 

Third and final update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Put drops in my ear - it went all over my face and neck this afternoon! 😣
• Turn on air purifier
• Fill kettle with water
• Boil water in preparation
• Have breakfast
• Put breakfast photo onto this blog and In
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Refill kettle ready for tomorrow
• Do my laps
• Charge up my FitBit while I'm studying - see how much it charges before my lunchtime carer arrives - managed to get it to 90% and I'm giving it the last little bit now - done and dusted in about 45 minutes
• Do the news
• Find new Pagan forum - will I be approved today?
• Have lunch
• Eat 2 apples
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Take out two slices of bread ready for tomorrow's breakfast - I've literally only just done it 'cos I completely forgot earlier on and it was only this item that reminded me to do it!!
• Give hallway mat away to Freegler/bin it next week
• Give Graze vouchers away to Freeglers
• Read and review 3 Kindle Unlimited books
• Study my courses - another one bites the dust... shorter courses all weekend
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Blimmin' 'eck!

I've spent all day studying including two pauses for lunch and to give some stuff away to a Freegler and I still managed to sneak through a pass!  I had to get 70% or more to pass and I got 70% so I just about sneaked through by the skin of my teeth!

I'm only gonna study short courses at the weekend 'cos I've gotta have a bath tomorrow then go to my in-laws on Sunday, but I don't wanna get out of the mindset now that I've re-found it, so I'll be taking a 3-4 hour course after I've had my bath tomorrow and a couple of hour-long ones on Sunday, then back to a long course on Monday.

I think I've earnt a couple of chocolates after doing two loooooong courses in two days and passing both of 'em first time!

Second update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Put drops in my ear - it went all over my face and neck this afternoon! 😣
• Turn on air purifier
• Fill kettle with water
• Boil water in preparation
• Have breakfast
• Put breakfast photo onto this blog and In
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Refill kettle ready for tomorrow
• Do my laps
• Charge up my FitBit while I'm studying - see how much it charges before my lunchtime carer arrives - managed to get it to 90% and I'm giving it the last little bit now
• Do the news
• Find new Pagan forum - will I be approved today?
• Have lunch
• Eat 2 apples
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Take out two slices of bread ready for tomorrow's breakfast
• Give hallway mat away to Freegler/bin it next week
• Give Graze vouchers away to Freeglers
• Read and review 3 Kindle Unlimited books
• Study my courses
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today's (22nd September 2023) lunch photos

It was a late lunch for me today of a tin (ie 2 servings) of baked beans, a handful of vegan grated cheese and 3 apples for pud, so I've well and truly had my 5 a day today and I've finished off last week's fruit at last too lol

First update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Run daily virus scan
• Put drops in my ear
• Turn on air purifier
• Fill kettle with water
• Boil water in preparation
• Have breakfast
• Put breakfast photo onto this blog and In
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Refill kettle ready for tomorrow
• Do my laps
• Charge up my FitBit while I'm studying - see how much it charges before my lunchtime carer arrives
• Do the news
• Find new Pagan forum - will I be approved today?
• Have lunch
• Eat 2 apples
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Take out two slices of bread ready for tomorrow's breakfast
• Give hallway mat away to Freegler/bin it next week
• Give Graze vouchers away to Freeglers
• Read and review 3 Kindle Unlimited books
• Study my courses
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today's (22nd September 2023) breakfast photo

Wanna take a guess at what I had for breakfast this morning?

It looked like it would just be bread and dairy-free spread and no hot drinks for a while because neither me nor my carer could get the kettle and toaster to turn on so it was looking likely that I was going to be having a very cold few days until I could get a new extension lead bought, delivered and everything plugged in.  Thankfully my carer found a spare extension lead that worked, so I could get washed in warm water (as opposed to my usual hot, but that was my fault for putting too much cold water in the kitchen sink).  Thankfully after my carer plugged everything back in to the other extension lead, I was able to have my usual toast with dairy-free spread and of course my usual orange juice for breakfast.

Here's today's breakfast photo: