Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

Humdinger1

How's the dear patient? Xx

foxgloves

Thanks everyone for your kind wishes. I'm still quite poorly. The main improvement is that I feel less horribly miserable & the feverishness seems to have gone. I am unfortunately still full of all the other covid symptoms, not getting much sleep at all which isn't helping energy levels & am now losing my sense of taste & smell. 
I've been setting myself just a couple of minor tasks each day. Yesterday's were "Have shower & hairwash" & "Make pesto pasta". Today I am going to try a little more as I want to make use of the Octopods' free 2hrs of electricity so there'll be a laundry load & putting the heated airer up. Everything else will just be switching things on for charging.
Dinner will be a slow cooker recipe, a new one to try. Mr F is working today, hosting a big  multi-agency event & it's become a bit of a tradition that I have the slow cooker primed with something good to eat when he does eventually get home. I am making beef carbonnade today. I haven't tried the recipe before but will need to rely on Mr F to tell me if it's a goodie as by then it may well just taste like something warm & vaguely savoury to me. 
I still haven't finished setting October's budget from 26th Sept but I won't be up to doing that today as well. I delayed it because I didn't know how much the boiler repair would be, then it took a week for the part to arrive, by which time I was well & truly covidyfied. I shall aim to do it tomorrow.
I haven't felt well enough to do more than read, knit, watch TV & sit around feeling miserable, & tbh, once I've set everything up for switching on at 12 for the free elec use, & got dinner into the Crockpot where it can cook itself, I shall be resting for most of today too. 
I had covid for the 1st time almost exactly 3 years ago. It was worse than a cold, but defo not as bad as flu. This time, it has been much more like flu & I've felt a lot more poorly. If I hadn't done a covid test on Tuesday, I would have assumed that I had gone down with flu. 
Right, time for some toast (aka warm crumbly cardboard) & as whatever I spread on it will probably taste the same, I may as well choose peanut butter for the protein.
Soot has had a serious zoomies session already (he's 13 next year!), has attacked a pile of library books, bashed up the crossword & been poking about in the home cinema system. 
Not the most positive post from Foxgloves Manor, I know, but I really haven't felt like my usual self at all & despite a small improvement, am still feeling poorly.
I appreciated all your kind comments & concern.
F x

KajiKita

You don’t have to be positive and upbeat. If you’re ill, you’re ill, you’re allowed to feel mis … honest! 

That’s quite an ambitious list for today. Be kind to yourself if you can’t get it all done?

Hope that your sense of taste returns soon (covid is the only time I lose it and it’s miserably tiresome) and you feel better soon. Sending hugs x

KK

Four_Seasons

Sending good wishes and gentle hugs xx

Baileys_Babe

Sorry to hear you are still feeling rotten, please take it easy and get plenty of rest. Those of us who have lived with fatigue will attest that showering and particularly hair washing are energy draining activities, so please be kind to yourself.

I hope you feel more like your normal self very soon 🤗

Moorviews

I will echo others in saying not to push yourself as it seems particularly important not to do that with Covid. You are doing well to be out of bed at all. I have had it twice and although the first time was the worst, the second was still very rough and the fatigue is real and debilitating. More days taking it easy are the way to go xx

Cheery_Daff

Big hugs foxgloves, hope you're feeling better soon x

foxgloves

Thanks all. You are very kind & caring......not to mention quite right about not doing too much too soon. I slowly & steadily did today's very few planned tasks, then decided to vacuum downstairs. A stage too far atm! I got that rushing in my ears which often happens with a virus, suddenly felt hot & horrid & had to sit down for half an hour until it passed. I've watched TV for most of the afternoon, which is very unlike me as a rule, but as my sis said when we were chatting on Wotsapp earlier, it's not likely that a nasty bout of covid is going to be b*ggering off inside a week, so I need to be realistic. 
I see there's another free Octopods hour tomorrow.
F x

PennysIntoPounds

Keep on getting better missus, and if that means several days under a blanket watching random telly then that is what is necessary x

badmemory

And they have doubled up today, so 11.5 x 2 leaving me with a full battery.  With luck tomorrow will leave me with 5kWh & 60% in the battery.