Short Solitary Day

Four hours of solitude.

BGWLBH left for work at 8am

I woke up at 9.30am!! That means I slept for almost ten hours!

Adoring Husband left for golf at 10.30am.

I had a 2 hour zoom meeting with The Gypsy at 10.35am.

At 12.30pm I sat down with my lunch of toasted sourdough with homegrown tomato on one piece and turkey breast on the other. I watched a Netflix movie and then an in interview on Diary of a CEO with a gut health doctor on YouTube.

BGWLBH arrived home at 2pm.

Easy tacos for dinner.

The day passed quickly.

This morning, I decided to delete the time wasting apps from my devices. The World Series of Poker Texas Hold’em, Solitaire and Mahjong.

I’ve wasted too many hours on those games - especially first thing in the morning and last thing at night - the worst times of the day for hurting my circadian rhythm and my all round health.

Time for a new morning and evening routine.

With that, I’m signing off and shutting down my devices for the evening.

Nite all.

Up and Improving

After dozing on and off all day yesterday, I slept poorly last night.

At 2am I was watching the movie “Some Kind of Wonderful” which was great because I LOVE that movie!

I had set my alarm for 7.30am because I didn’t want to sleep half the day away and spoil my chances of sleeping properly tonight.

A shower woke me up and I felt much refreshed.

Yesterday’s illness was gone and I was feeling better, so when BGWLBH invited me into the Bay, I accepted with a positive attitude.

I forgot to make a list so I forgot a few things that I needed to get, like ear buds, material patches and fabric glue.

I’ll look online.

Tonight I made honey/soy chicken with eggy rice for BGWLBH. Chicken, vegetable and noodle soup with Tom Yum Goong base for Adoring Husband.

I stole a tiny bit of both for my dinner because my only sustenance for the day was a green juice this afternoon.

When I purchased the juice, I grabbed two GF white chocolate and macadamia cookies, which I scoffed for dessert! Both of them!

Today, Bubbles and Knight in Shining Armour celebrated 20 years together! In this day and age, that’s a pretty good milestone. Congratulations to you both.

Now I’m watching The Traitors from my bed.

It’s been a decent day.

Nite all.

Ack Ugh and Blah

I slept well again last night. Seven solid hours.

When I left for meditation this morning, I was feeling fine, but within ten minutes of sitting down in class, I began to feel very woozy and lethargic.

I did not engage during the class and surprisingly, it was noticed by everyone!

I received lots of hugs at the end of the class and The Gypsy and I decided to not catch up after class because she had hurt her neck and also wasn’t feeling the best.

I rode directly home and went directly to bed.

While watching YouTube videos of ‘Diary of a CEO’ and ‘Mayim Bialik’ I dozed on and off. I drank lots of filtered water, changed into my pyjamas and remained in bed all day.

Adoring Husband served my lunch in bed and then a bowl of fresh crab meat for dinner.

He even cooked dinner for himself and BGWLBH so that I didn’t have to get out of bed.

Tonight I’m still not feeling 100% but I am much improved.

Now I will sleep.

Nite all.

More Days of Nothing

Nothing has happened in the last two days.

Most of Sunday was spent in bed.

I started to watch YouTube videos on vintage patchworking denim jeans and then I got distracted and sat in the lounge chair in my art room for over an hour until the football started.

That’s when I retreated to my room for the remainder of the day.

I only ate 2 pieces of toast all day, with my market bought lime butter and mulberry jam.

I received a phone call from Number One Son and we chatted for an hour.

I had slept for a solid 8 hours on Saturday night and then again on Sunday night. Surprisingly I know!

On Monday, I crumbed and cooked all the whiting fillets that I’d bought on Saturday, as well as 8 prawn cutlets, then shared them with Adoring Husband for lunch.

We watched a few YouTube videos on golfing until my quiz shows came on.

I rested for an hour before cooking crumbed chicken (that’s a lot of crumb in one day!) with wombok salad and garden salad for dinner. I only had a pear, which was delicious.

I did a rough sketch of how I’ll patch my old jeans …

Now I’m ready to curl up and fall asleep before 11pm because I have meditation early tomorrow morning.

Nite all.

Weekend Warrior

After two great nights of sound sleep on Wednesday and Thursday, sleep eluded me on Friday night.

It was 1.30am when I fell asleep but I woke four times dreaming of running a stall at the markets. Once selling various oils, once selling pancakes, once selling egg based tarts and pies and once selling potted plants! My alarm sounded at 5.30am so I was knackered before my day even began.

BGWLBH and I left for the drive to Howard at 7am so we arrived at the markets around 7.20am and found a “rock star car park” right out the front.

It had been raining throughout the night, so the weather must have scared some of the stall holders off. They had predicted 300 stalls because the new organisers have attracted a lot of new AND old faces, but there were a lot of marked spaces very empty.

There weren’t many new/different stalls so it only took us 45 minutes to walk through and make our purchases. 

I got 2 x handmade soaps, 1 x doterra ice rub, 1 mulberry jam, one lime butter, bag of avocados, bag of tomatoes, spring onions, sugar snap peas, snow peas, oranges and mandarins.

We brought our goodies home, then drove into the Bay where we ordered breakfast at the Boat Club - another disappointing meal. It took 45 minutes for the stone cold bacon and eggs to arrive, in which time the pot of tea went cold.

I ordered a red velvet cupcake which was stale and the cream on top had almost ‘turned’. It was served with fake cream from a spray can and some very watery, bland ice cream. (I know! Not a healthy breakfast!) My coffee tasted like sugary milk.

I felt unwell all day after that.

We stopped at Urangan fisheries where I got two bags of frozen crab meat (won’t buy frozen again) and some fresh whiting fillets.

We drove to the Boutique Bakery and bought two loaves of their house sourdough bread.

The traffic through the Bay was pretty congested for some reason so it took us quite a while to get from one side of the bay to the other and we were home by 1pm.

I wanted to change out of my good clothes but I just had to lie down and that’s where I stayed. I napped throughout the afternoon and tried to make myself some crab on toast for dinner but my body wouldn’t allow it, so AH was kind enough to make it and serve it to me in bed.

I’ve been watching the football from bed but I’m feeling very weary, so I think I’ll be sleeping very soon.

Tomorrow I think I’ll spend mostly in bed to rest my digestion and my old body.

Nite all.