Milann's life keeps getting in the way.......

milann · 12 January 2018 at 1:04PM

My menu plan this week - most things in stock just need to buy fresh veges

Thursday
Breakfast - Cheerios and fruit
Dinner -tuna, hard boiled eggs, rocket salad, green beans. Satsuma

Tea - chicken stuffed with lime and garlic then cooked on top of potatoes, onions and carrots. Broccoli

Friday
Breakfast - omelette with leftover chicken and mushroom

Dinner - chicken salad and cous cous

Tea - chicken, actifry chips, homemade coleslaw, sweet corn

Saturday
Breakfast bacon butty on whole meal bread with grilled tomato and mushroom
Dinner - not sure as out - maybe jacket and beans
Tea - fish, actifry chips, mushy peas

Sunday
Brunch -bacon, poached egg , tomato, mushroom and homemade hash brown
Tea - gammon, new potatoes, cabbage, carrots

Monday
Breakfast - yoghurt and fruit
Dinner - homemade minestrone using stock from gammon and cabbage as base
Tea - gammo, actifry chips poached egg tomato and pineapple

Tuesday -
Breakfast - yoghurt and fruit
Dinner - salad with gammon and egg
Tea - gammon savoury rice

Wednesday
Breakfast - porridge and frozen berries
Dinner - minestrone
Wednesday - homemade chicken korma and rice

I'm hopeless at sticking to any plan - get distracted and go off piste :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

beanielou · 12 January 2018 at 9:27PM

Hope hospital goes well.
Hope SW goes well.
I am not in the zone at the moment.

Sun_Addict · 12 January 2018 at 9:44PM

It's good to do a meal plan to keep you on the straight and narrow.

Sounds like you're making excellent progress

milann · 15 January 2018 at 1:42PM

I'm not surprised you're not in the zone Beanie there's so much else for you to concentrate on at the moment.

As for the menu plan....ahem

:o.... all was well until Saturday - we were way too early for the hospital appointment and went for a cuppa - dh wanted a cake so I had a quarter of that. We were in and out with the doctor so had a day out in York a couple of hours drive away. We went into a table to table for dinner - meal and a drink for £6 :beer::money:.....anyway I had a jacket with prawns and asked for the sauce separate. The potato had butter in:mad:I never even thought about asking without butter but it was delicious. Later after we'd had a bit of a mooch around York and dh treated himself to a little something for his garden railway then he dragged me kicking and screaming (honest:D:D) into my favourite cake shop Patisserie Valerie which do humongous cakes.....anyway we shared a Black Forest gateaux and I had tea. Which is an improvement for me as I'd normally have a latte and full cake to myself. When we got home at about 9pm as we'd called into my brothers as we pass the end of his road. I'd intended having salad and cold meat but realised I had a Camembert cheese in fridge from Christmas which was close to its sell by date so had that with crunchy tiger bread (reduced to 5p) followed by a chocolate Christmas biscuit. So my good intentions flew out of the window... It was a lovely though;) I've stayed fairly close to the menu plan since though so hopefully I can claw things back.

Anyway the doctor was lovely again - decided since I was doing so well there was no need for another MRI scan as if the swelling wasn't going down I wouldn't be doing so well. He said I can drive again but need to inform the insurance company - which I'm just about to do. My right leg is still considerably weaker than it was and he said it could take a year or so to rebuild the nerves and muscles but it might not improve much more than it is now. I might always have a tremor and reduced feeling, especially if I'm tired or under the weather. I can live with this though and am pleased I've recovered so we'll -I won't ever forget the early days. I walked around York unaided but did link dh several times.

I can go back to work with some adjustments made to the children I work with and a phased return at the end of my next sick note.----that sound really bad - no children will be harmed in adjustments - I'll just swap around with staff!!,!!!,

So life is getting back to normal :T

Had a very lazy morning watching catch up dancing on ice. Right best shape myself and get onto the insurance and see if my wages have gone in so I can make a payment.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: it's going to be a shock to my system when I go back to work........

milann · 15 January 2018 at 6:44PM

Car insurance sorted with no problem.
My wages went in so I've paid £1300 off cc. Including new spends I now owe just short of £600 - I WILL do this next month and get back to paying MR T cc off every month and collect points for nice meals out.
Got a telephone interview with occy health tomorrow and I've just been for a short walk all by myself......with no crutches- things are looking up
I've just had my hair cut at mobile hairdressers who lives facing. She cuts it lovely but I never like the way she blows it and no matter what I say it always comes out the same. But it's local and cheap(ish) plus we have a good catch up.

Haven't done the housework I'd plannned though.....

Today I'm grateful for
- short walk by myself
- making payment
- home made soup

beanielou · 15 January 2018 at 7:34PM

Thats great on the CC.
happy new hair.
Sure OH will go well.

milann · 16 January 2018 at 12:45PM

Grrrrrrrrr - I was up at half eight with the phone by my side ready for the phone call from occy health.....nothing - it got to 1/4 past and I phoned them to say I was waiting - our phone had an intermittent fault a while back but has been ok recently....anyway I'd missed a call - so they're phoning back at 2....

I've been a good girl and been doing the housework I didn't do yesterday ....Id contemplated going for a walk but it's horrid out there. Sudden blasts of hail and wind - think I'm staying put. I have got into a bad habit of sitting in front of tv so today I've put radio on instead - and I'm singing along as I do housework - actually it's more of a croak as I haven't shaken the chest infection off fully yet - it just doesn't want to go....but it's made me think of my mum in the days before all day TV.

I've still not mustered enough courage to go for a drive

Today I'm grateful for
- a NSD
- my automatic washing machine - thinking of my mum made me think of her twin tub...
- music to croak to

beanielou · 16 January 2018 at 9:04PM

HOPe OH phoned back.

Sun_Addict · 16 January 2018 at 9:13PM

Glad things are getting back to normal. It's not OH Aasist is it, they're a pain for not phoning when they say they will.

milann · 18 January 2018 at 8:46PM

OH phoned back and I apologised for missing the call and lady knew nothing about it !!! I was on the phone best part of an hour and I can go back to work with a phased return after this sick note finishes. Lol it'll interfere with my social life - it's been quite nice having friends visit and pick me up to take me out lol.

I walked from town to my slimming world today without a crutch then into work to update them and back to town. Think I've overdone it though as I've got quite a tremor tonight and muscles I'd forgotten about are aching. Me thinks I'll be stiff tomorrow but once I'd walked a while when I was a tad nervous it felt good.

I treated myself to a debenhams voucher and plan to do this each week till I get to my sw target then I'm having a trip buying clothes. I thought about it and it felt very indulgent but it's the price (or less)of a couple of cakes and coffees and chocolate bars and fizzy drinks that I used to buy regularly. The voucher means I won't dib into it.

Today I am grateful for
- a relaxing hot bath when I got in after beeing cold and wet
- a 4lb loss at chub club - my biggest EVER loss in 1 go
- my comfy chair to flop into

Milann's life keeps getting in the way.......

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