Fourth update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Run weekly virus scan - finished at 4.39am
• Do backups - started at 4.43am - finished at 6.21am
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Get sponsorship for MacMillan - my postie said that he was going to sponsor me even though he barely knows me!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J!
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me!
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it??
• Do morning laps
• Come up with spreadsheet of potential reviewers
• Find reviewers and add them to the spreadsheet - found a few more now, so I'm slowly making progress - I've got 30 potential reviewers now, so that should keep me going for a while
• Find book review bloggers and add them to the spreadsheet
• Email each reviewer individually and ask for a review
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Olio to see if anyone wants the sweets, soya milk or non-food things - someone's coming over for the sweets and soya milk at my bedtime
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of chocolate biscuit bars and coffee
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room?
• Log lunch into FitBit app
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do washing up - there isn't any to do
• Charge up vacuum cleaner battery
• Do afternoon laps
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• And vegan chocolate in the drawers too
• And vegan fruit pastilles
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• Study my courses
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of photos on my health site
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Just need to whine for a bit

It's been a while since my last whine and I'm feeling pretty rotten atm, so I figured I'd let it all out for a while.

I'm exhausted, swollen, in pain, my memory is shot, I'm thirsty, tired and just generally bleurgh.

It's one of those days where I wish I could be healthy and happy and not have to have such a limited life.

My best friend is coming over tomorrow and I bet I'll forget to text him when my lunchtime carer has gone, but even more than that, I don't want to be like an old, thread-bare, worn-out towel that's been through the wash too many times.

I'm just on a downer this afternoon.

Third update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Run weekly virus scan - finished at 4.39am
• Do backups - started at 4.43am - finished at 6.21am
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Get sponsorship for MacMillan - my postie said that he was going to sponsor me even though he barely knows me!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J!
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me!
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it??
• Do morning laps
• Come up with spreadsheet of potential reviewers
• Find reviewers and add them to the spreadsheet - found a few more now, so I'm slowly making progress - I've got 30 potential reviewers now, so that should keep me going for a while
• Find book review bloggers and add them to the spreadsheet
• Email each reviewer individually and ask for a review
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Olio to see if anyone wants the sweets, soya milk or non-food things
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of chocolate biscuit bars and coffee
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room?
• Log lunch into FitBit app
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do washing up - there isn't any to do
• Charge up vacuum cleaner battery
• Do afternoon laps
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• And vegan chocolate in the drawers too
• And vegan fruit pastilles
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• Study my courses
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of photos on my health site
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today (25th June 2025) I'm grateful for...

...remembering to make this post today lol

I'm also grateful that I got the blood pressure photos up on here and my health site this morning and I've had such a chocolatey day so far - I'm thinking that I'll steer clear of the Huel bars tomorrow and load up on hot choccies instead because my fluid intake is pretty low again.

Today's (25th June 2025) lunch photo

Today's lunch was very simple, very chocolatey and very high in calories because it was 8 Toucan chocolate biscuit bars and a 250ml mug of decaffeinated black instant coffee.

Here's today's lunch photo:

*Phew*

The letter with the result of last week's smear was that my cells were HPV negative so I'm at low risk of getting cervical cancer and my next screening isn't due until 2028, so that's a relief.

Second update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Run weekly virus scan - finished at 4.39am
• Do backups - started at 4.43am - finished at 6.21am
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Get sponsorship for MacMillan - my postie said that he was going to sponsor me even though he barely knows me!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J!
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me!
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it??
• Do morning laps
• Come up with spreadsheet of potential reviewers
• Find reviewers and add them to the spreadsheet - found a few more now, so I'm slowly making progress - I've got 30 potential reviewers now, so that should keep me going for a while
• Find book review bloggers and add them to the spreadsheet
• Email each reviewer individually and ask for a review
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Olio to see if anyone wants the sweets, soya milk or non-food things
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of chocolate biscuit bars and coffee
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room?
• Log lunch into FitBit app
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do washing up
• Do afternoon laps
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• And vegan chocolate in the drawers too
• And vegan fruit pastilles
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• Study my courses
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of photos on my health site
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

First update to today's to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Run weekly virus scan - finished at 4.39am
• Do backups - started at 4.43am - finished at 6.21am
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Get sponsorship for MacMillan - my postie said that he was going to sponsor me even though he barely knows me!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J!
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me!
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it??
• Do morning laps
• Come up with spreadsheet of potential reviewers
• Find reviewers and add them to the spreadsheet - found a few more now, so I'm slowly making progress - I've got 30 potential reviewers now, so that should keep me going for a while
• Find book review bloggers and add them to the spreadsheet
• Email each reviewer individually and ask for a review
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Olio to see if anyone wants the sweets, soya milk or non-food things
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of chocolate biscuit bars and coffee
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room?
• Log lunch into FitBit app
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do washing up
• Do afternoon laps
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• And vegan chocolate in the drawers too
• And vegan fruit pastilles
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• Study my courses
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of photos on my health site
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed

Today's (25th June 2025) breakfast photo

Today's breakfast was a me-friendly creamy mug of drinking chocolate again.

It's gonna be a real choc-fest today 'cos my lunch will be 8 chocolate biscuit bars and a mug of decaff coffee to cut through the sweetness and it'll be the same until it starts getting cooler outside when it'll be instant soups again.

Here's today's breakfast photo:

Today's (25th June 2025) to-do list

• Drink glass of water
• Take morning pills
• Use blood pressure machine
• Put details onto spreadsheet
• Put BP machine away
• Run weekly virus scan - finished at 4.39am
• Do backups - started at 4.43am - finished at 6.21am
• Listen to podcasts
• Listen to playlists
• Turn on air purifier
• Read and review a book
• Get sponsorship for MacMillan - my postie said that he was going to sponsor me even though he barely knows me!! - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me too! - my youngest nephew has sponsored me through my brother!  Thank you G and J!
• Get sponsorship for LPT - my mum and brother are gonna sponsor me!
• Check forum
• Announce birthdays if necessary
• Get washed and dressed with my carer
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Make breakfast
• Take photo of my breakfast
• Have breakfast
• Do washing up
• Resize and put photo on here and Instagram
• Log breakfast into FitBit app
• Put stool together
• Contact company about perching stool going back
• Find out how to fix photo file names - first fix attempt is to charge it up - that didn't work so I posted on Facebook about it to see if anyone can give me any other ideas - no replies yet, but I'm guessing it was an update to my phone that caused it??
• Do morning laps
• Come up with spreadsheet of potential reviewers
• Find reviewers and add them to the spreadsheet - found a few more now, so I'm slowly making progress - I've got 30 potential reviewers now, so that should keep me going for a while
• Find book review bloggers and add them to the spreadsheet
• Email each reviewer individually and ask for a review
• Send them my book if they agree
• Keep my fingers crossed they enjoy and positively review my memoir
• Check Olio to see if anyone wants the sweets, soya milk or non-food things
• Check Freegle to see if anyone wants anything
• Keep an eye on Freecycle to see if anyone wants anything
• Make lunch of chocolate biscuit bars and coffee
• Take photo of lunch
• Bring lunch through to the living room?
• Log lunch into FitBit app
• Post about how much carer helped me
• Put photo of my lunch up on here and Instagram
• Take lunchtime pill
• Do washing up
• Do afternoon laps
• There's chocolate multipacks in the fridge
• As well as the snacks in the tubs on the side
• There's plenty of broken/mis-shaped chocolate in the drawers
• And vegan chocolate in the drawers too
• And vegan fruit pastilles
• If I can wait for half an hour then there's fruit bread as well
• Study my courses
• Post about something I'm grateful for today
• Download, resize and save BP machine photos
• Put 6 days' worth of photos on my health site
• Take evening pills
• Go to bed