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KajiKita

Bit fed up. Whatever this lurgy is, it’s fairly ferocious. I have a horrid dry cough and wheeze if I exert myself too much. So tired. Only managed to get the car washed, do one load of washing and get it dried, cleaned the cat’s barf cushion and spent the whole afternoon in bed. It’s been a very long and boring day. I suppose I should eat something but I don’t really feel like it - very unlike me!

KK

beanielou

Feel better soon.

MissRikkiC

Hope you feel better soon. 

Tescodealqueen

I got something similar when I came back from holiday. Took a few antihistamine tablets (oh gets hay fever I don’t usually) and it cleared up so I put it down to that might be worth investigating

KajiKita

Tescodealqueen said:

I got something similar when I came back from holiday. Took a few antihistamine tablets (oh gets hay fever I don’t usually) and it cleared up so I put it down to that might be worth investigating

Thanks for the thought. I take an AH every day from early May onwards as a preventative for over-reacting to insect bites, taking one yesterday didn’t touch it. 

I did sleep quite a bit last night, finally surfaced c. 9am when I realised I was just ruminating about work! 🙄😂 Got a load of washing on and I have come back up to bed with a cuppa. Earned two points for the monthly challenge on Duolingo and am just about to start perusing the boards and continue reading the epic thread on money scrimping (most of it is a bit extreme or time consuming for me, but I did decant poppy seeds into a jar from a bag with a plate underneath to catch any escapees last night, which I gleaned from that thread, so I shall continue my reading 😊). 

Sole targets for today:
- dry the washing load

- work out the shades of green on my tapestry - what I have as wools and what I have within the pattern don’t seem to tally and my head was too befuddled to even attempt it last night
- weekly tot up / recording of spends
- try to eat

KK 

Merlin's_Beard

Hope you feel better soon - definitely rest up because COVID is going round again and that definitely doesn't  react well  to pushing through!

KajiKita

Merlin's_Beard said:

Hope you feel better soon - definitely rest up because COVID is going round again and that definitely doesn't  react well  to pushing through!

Very true! 

KajiKita

Done very little today. Washing dried, folded and put away. Much reading of forums. Had a snooze in the garden in the sun this afternoon - cat came and cwtched on me for 20 minutes ❤️

Felt so much better after that and a cuppa, that I was actually making myself a meal (runner beans from garden, cooked, smothered in HM vegan cheez sauce, topped with mashed potato, two tomatoes from the garden and some cheese-cheese) when Mr KK came home, super early! 😊❤️ Excellent news on many levels as I didn’t have to worry about him driving home and I don’t have to stay up to past 10pm welcome him. 

The runner bean bake thing was very good. I have come to conclusion that I am going to have to give up being vegan in the evenings, on week days certainly. I can manage a vegan breakfast and lunch easily when I am at work, but it is impossible to cook two different meals in the evenings without resorting to lots of UPFs and I am thinking that a veggie option in the evening would give me easier to construct meals and protein sources. I don’t like this and will never go back to eating meat, but think for now, I have to do this for my health.

I am clean and showered and looking forward to my bed 😊

KK

savingholmes

KajiKita said:

Cut flowers from my garden yesterday, they won’t last as long as shop bought flowers but I am really pleased with them 😊
I have recorded them as worth £3 on my produce tracker as that is the cheapest you can buy shop bought flowers for. I thought I had posted this earlier but it doesn’t seem to have made it onto the forum …. Will wait and see if this posts …

Hi KK - I am still only on page 98 of your diary - but these flowers made me smile... 

SandyShores

We tried a vegan diet for a while Kajikita, but there were a few things I really missed - diary products were a biggie.  And while we eat a lot of meat-free or veggie foods, when you are vegan it takes that extra bit of effort.  I admire anyone who is vegan though, and if you can cook two different meals you must be super-human!