Hiya!
My previous home of 10 years didn't have a shower and, so, when we moved to this house, I wanted one. Partly because my son prefers showers to baths and partly because.....well, I wanted one! So bath moved from one side of the bathroom to the other so that a shower could be put in over it giving us the choice (we have a sloping ceiling and the shower just wouldn't fit in where the bath originally was).
Now I know that there are many people out there who swear by their showers, love them, adore them, wouldn't wash any other way, but to be honest I'm not one of them. I like my shower, don't get me wrong, but to me it's the quick option. It's the 'eeek, I need to get out of the house in 5 mins' or the 'I'm hot and bothered and need to cool off' option. It's the rush, lack of time, quick option which holds no joy to me at all. I love my bath!
My bath gives me that 1/2 hour plus of me time. It gives me that 'pamper' time. It gives me that 'time to laze in hot water and meditate on the day' time. I really do love my bath time. Sometimes it is just a get in, wash, get out bath with maybe a mini laze to start with. Sometimes it's a laze in hot water and read a book before having a wash and sometimes it's candles only, lots of bubbles and a total laze in hot water.
My point is that when I have my bath, I'm relaxed, I'm chilled, I get out clean and refreshed both physically and mentally. When I have a shower, I get out clean, but I still feel harassed, still feel rushed, still feel like it's go, go, go!
There is nothing wrong with this, it has its place, but I'm sorry, give me a bath any day!!
How about you?
Monday 25 March 2013
Monday 4 March 2013
HOW DO PEOPLE DO IT?
Hi all, after a very off/on, off/on weekend with the poorly bug and other half being at home for past 4 days, today was 'back to normal'. Well, it was supposed to be, but it didn't quite turn out that way.
Woke up and enjoyed the lovely peace and quiet of no Radio 5 Live blaring from the kitchen and no teenager up yet, so a couple of very leisurely, very calm cups of tea were taken before I decided to start the day.
Then the computer awaited me. The dreaded finance time; check bank account against spreadsheet, pay bills, move money around from one account to another and then see how much was left for the month. EEEEEK!!! Skint, again and I've only just started. I've got the grand sum of £29 to last me the month, yep the whole month! Admittedly I shouldn't have any shopping to buy, but I'm going to Brighton tomorrow and I wanted to stock up on some unusual bits from Infinity Foods (different pastas, flours and the like). I have also paid for osteopath, all the household bills, Callum's trampolining lessons and set aside some money for holiday, but really, £29!!! I say again, EEEEEEEK!
So what else today. Well, after having realised the cash flow problem, I thought I'd better get out in the kitchen and get some food cooked for tomorrow's jaunt as buying bits is out of the question apart from aforementioned Infinity Food shop. So gluten free rolls made, butter bean and red pepper 'burgers' also made, broccoli hot dip made but not cooked ready for return tomorrow night which I can have with some tortillas and/or veggie crudites and I made a version of an apple sauce cake using the orchard fruit butter that I made ages ago and was beginning to look a bit, how shall we say, in need of using up quickly. I did a bit of bottom of fridge foraging and found I have enough veggies to add to the bean sprouts that I have to make a prawn stir fry tonight, so not a bad afternoon's cooking, but, boy, did my hip hurt after doing all that standing.
Then, on looking around, I thought I'd better hoover through and change the mats and dog beds as they were looking a bit grim.
So, by that time it was rather late and so no home ed was done. Callum didn't mind as he was happily playing on his new XBox game. Not exactly brilliant though is it?
Anyway, my reason for the title? I have a reasonable large kitchen, but during my furious cookathon my kitchen ended up looking like this:
And that was only one side of it. The other side was full of washing up!! I seriously don't know how people do it in a small kitchen.
Cya
Woke up and enjoyed the lovely peace and quiet of no Radio 5 Live blaring from the kitchen and no teenager up yet, so a couple of very leisurely, very calm cups of tea were taken before I decided to start the day.
Then the computer awaited me. The dreaded finance time; check bank account against spreadsheet, pay bills, move money around from one account to another and then see how much was left for the month. EEEEEK!!! Skint, again and I've only just started. I've got the grand sum of £29 to last me the month, yep the whole month! Admittedly I shouldn't have any shopping to buy, but I'm going to Brighton tomorrow and I wanted to stock up on some unusual bits from Infinity Foods (different pastas, flours and the like). I have also paid for osteopath, all the household bills, Callum's trampolining lessons and set aside some money for holiday, but really, £29!!! I say again, EEEEEEEK!
So what else today. Well, after having realised the cash flow problem, I thought I'd better get out in the kitchen and get some food cooked for tomorrow's jaunt as buying bits is out of the question apart from aforementioned Infinity Food shop. So gluten free rolls made, butter bean and red pepper 'burgers' also made, broccoli hot dip made but not cooked ready for return tomorrow night which I can have with some tortillas and/or veggie crudites and I made a version of an apple sauce cake using the orchard fruit butter that I made ages ago and was beginning to look a bit, how shall we say, in need of using up quickly. I did a bit of bottom of fridge foraging and found I have enough veggies to add to the bean sprouts that I have to make a prawn stir fry tonight, so not a bad afternoon's cooking, but, boy, did my hip hurt after doing all that standing.
Then, on looking around, I thought I'd better hoover through and change the mats and dog beds as they were looking a bit grim.
So, by that time it was rather late and so no home ed was done. Callum didn't mind as he was happily playing on his new XBox game. Not exactly brilliant though is it?
Anyway, my reason for the title? I have a reasonable large kitchen, but during my furious cookathon my kitchen ended up looking like this:
And that was only one side of it. The other side was full of washing up!! I seriously don't know how people do it in a small kitchen.
Cya
Friday 1 March 2013
FEELING BLURGH
Ok, I'm now officially sick of feeling sick!
Felt a little queasy on Wednesday whilst I was out but put it down to lack of proper eating and drinking. Was snacking on rather lovely things whilst looking at rather lovely things in shops in Brighton with Carol. Got home, tired, but felt fine.
Then woke up yesterday feeling sick, dizzy and achy. Not a happy bunny as I can cope with pretty much anything poorly that me body can throw at me apart from feeling sick! (Ok, migraine will knock me out, but in general I can cope with headaches, etc.) It's one of those things where you want to do something about it, but every time you either eat something, drink something or possibly take something, you know it's going to make you feel sicker! Grrrr. So it was nibble here and there, drink here and there and fall asleep on sofa once and for rather a long time.
Oh well, hoped to feel better today, but NOOOOOOOO!!!! Woke up feeling good, but then after having a cuppa and a couple of slices of gf toast, I felt sick again! Been like it off and on all day and interspersed with that lovely queasy feeling, I've been feeling dizzy! Don't know what it is, but wish it would go away!
Must admit, just watched the news and the Queen is suffering from gastro enteritis, so maybe I'm coming out in sympathy for the old girl.
Apart from that I've had rather a good time this week, plenty of chats with friends and a pretty good selection of TV to watch, a grand day out with another one due next week and a new book series to read.
However, no knitting as wrist is killing me (appointment made with docs in a couple of weeks!!!) and having been to osteopath, it hasn't improved; hence the doc appointment in case it's something a little more than strained muscles.
Had a 'surprise' couple of days with the other half being off - announce on Sunday last. Pfft, great. He's taken over kitchen and washing machine and totally buggered up the routine, but at least we had a lift today to hairdressers and shopping has now been done, so we have cupboards restocked and I'm not reduced to scrapping the bottom of the fridge for food for me.
Hoping to get some cooking done over weekend for the freezer, so I've got some quick meals in. It took me just over 30 mins tonight to cook home made potato curry, rice and my own quick recipe of peshwari nan. It took him 2 hours to cook burger and chips!!! I admit his chips are from scratch, but the burgers aren't. It never ceases to amaze me how long it takes him to cook something.
Hey ho! Hopefully feel better tomorrow for my day in the kitchen, if I can kick him out of it that it, so I'll say cya later folks.
Cya
Felt a little queasy on Wednesday whilst I was out but put it down to lack of proper eating and drinking. Was snacking on rather lovely things whilst looking at rather lovely things in shops in Brighton with Carol. Got home, tired, but felt fine.
Then woke up yesterday feeling sick, dizzy and achy. Not a happy bunny as I can cope with pretty much anything poorly that me body can throw at me apart from feeling sick! (Ok, migraine will knock me out, but in general I can cope with headaches, etc.) It's one of those things where you want to do something about it, but every time you either eat something, drink something or possibly take something, you know it's going to make you feel sicker! Grrrr. So it was nibble here and there, drink here and there and fall asleep on sofa once and for rather a long time.
Oh well, hoped to feel better today, but NOOOOOOOO!!!! Woke up feeling good, but then after having a cuppa and a couple of slices of gf toast, I felt sick again! Been like it off and on all day and interspersed with that lovely queasy feeling, I've been feeling dizzy! Don't know what it is, but wish it would go away!
Must admit, just watched the news and the Queen is suffering from gastro enteritis, so maybe I'm coming out in sympathy for the old girl.
Apart from that I've had rather a good time this week, plenty of chats with friends and a pretty good selection of TV to watch, a grand day out with another one due next week and a new book series to read.
However, no knitting as wrist is killing me (appointment made with docs in a couple of weeks!!!) and having been to osteopath, it hasn't improved; hence the doc appointment in case it's something a little more than strained muscles.
Had a 'surprise' couple of days with the other half being off - announce on Sunday last. Pfft, great. He's taken over kitchen and washing machine and totally buggered up the routine, but at least we had a lift today to hairdressers and shopping has now been done, so we have cupboards restocked and I'm not reduced to scrapping the bottom of the fridge for food for me.
Hoping to get some cooking done over weekend for the freezer, so I've got some quick meals in. It took me just over 30 mins tonight to cook home made potato curry, rice and my own quick recipe of peshwari nan. It took him 2 hours to cook burger and chips!!! I admit his chips are from scratch, but the burgers aren't. It never ceases to amaze me how long it takes him to cook something.
Hey ho! Hopefully feel better tomorrow for my day in the kitchen, if I can kick him out of it that it, so I'll say cya later folks.
Cya
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