Little Positive Changes You Could Make

It can jolly cary how I feel I admit with anxiety and depression thrown into the mix , I might not put my words as eloquently as some but I do it my own way and that is good enough for me . And that's one of the things is admitting you are good enough , we are all different it would be jolly boring if we were all the same. I mean honestly can you imagine 2 of me , there's enough procrastination in the world and not enough tea drinking, I don't count tea drinking as procrastination I count it as me time .


Get yourself a note book 

I got a couple of these at Christmas thanks to a blogger secret Santa , note books can be fun in them list perhaps the jobs that need doing it might not all be achievable but it's a start. Factor in a treat , rest for yourself for me you guessed it would be drinking tea ,  It is not a case of timetabling your day it is to help you feel a sense of achievement and yes some of the things you write down could take weeks of months to achieve , so this is why you limit what you write down.


I have a real problem applying myself and I easily get distracted and wander off to do something else and keeping a list is hopefully going to keep me on task.



Give Yourself Something to Look Forward To 

Giving yourself something to look forward need not be a budget buster , it could cost as little as 10 p for example : I brought myself a Flump the other day and for me it is a little bit of joy and a bargain at only 10 p , though long gone are the days when I get a load of Strawberry Bon Bons for 2 p .Book a holiday for instance I'm going to Rome and the planning alone is mind boggling but enjoyable , it doesn't have to be stressful as the further in advance you do it the better,

Regret nothing or try not to as it is a time stealer . Your time your happiness .

Find Like Minded People 

It can be hard to make change in your own ~ 

Many hands make light work 

Doing stuff on your own is very much like going into the kitchen to get a sandwich and just coming out with a tin of beans , without help I'd default to always coming out with a tin of beans .

Take my road for example , people you'd think are busier nowadays but when a neighbour needed help with an excercise bike as her husband can't get out due to an illness , it was my husband and son that went across to help. It was the neighbourly thing to do , people just do things with no expectation it's a instinctive kindness . 

I try and protect myself from big big meanies , I have a thing well a personality trait  which means I can't tell if someone is joking or just being a big big meanie , I'll be honest if they're being mean it can wound me for days . I find myself mulling over the situation which is not good for me as it's a mood alterer so when I experience something of late , I sought friendly advice from people I know and trust . Now of course I'm still coming to come across irksome people but I'm going to imagine them as a big fluffy ducky wearing a top hat.

Meal Planning 

Meal planning I hear you cry how the Dickens is that going to help me possibly ? It's the routine factor currently I'm working my way through one cookbook then I'll move onto another. I'm having a whale of a time cooking and experimenting .....

 

But I'm not like So And So

I'm pretty much a free spirit but then I think I'm not like so and so who has the word at that feet and everything they post , everything they do everywhere they go it's like they're a mini celebrity , and I think I just mentioned that yonks ago. They've been to the same places I've been perhaps but them going is so much cooler and I think I'm not like so and so.

I feel perhaps of late I've been a right misery duck.

But to Get Ahead you get a hat ...

 

Or a new haircut at least , and that's all I've done today that and made some hoisin duck and noodles , I'm jolly well trying to do more excercise and I've done that today . Some days I feel too tired to excercise but pacing myself allow me I hope more energy and then I'll get to excercise , I can't pound the pavements as I'll have to accommodate anything I've got with a proper excercise regime with advice from the hospital . And come February I hope I'll get a diagnosis , see I always knew I had special blood , they testing for Lupus , far from thinking my life is on hold till I go find out I'm adjusting my living style in preparation so less chocolate , less wine ( I don't over do ) more brown bread . Don't tell the doctor but I had some white bread the other day ooooh I'm a rebel without a Jam sandwich and I kept the crusts on.

Blogging is therapy I think we'll it is to be anyhow .

I wouldn't have the friends I have without social media .

 

and though I'm an introvert I like it .

So you see I'm not like so and so 

I'm me

How Might You Spend £50 At Amazon ?

Now I really really struggle to spend money on myself I really do unless it a cup of tea and perhaps some cake , then maybe if I have a look and browse in a charity shop then maybe I might spend something on myself . This is something of such value that the family will find useful and derive joy from ! As they say a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush , now treating yourself can be hard , the last time I had treated myself previous was when I went to York for the day and went to Bettys tea rooms , I pushed the boat out and enjoyed a Kir Cocktail. This I hasten to say was in October( Bettys tearooms ) so you can see it is a jolly long time since I treated myself!

Now when I was lucky enough to win £50 of Amazon thanks to ChelseaMamma blog and Kinfo the winning email told me I must spend the money on myself , this is where I was really racking my brains as to what I could buy myself.

Now as I child I love listening to War of the Worlds on vinyl , after all I am I am a child of the 70's and this was pure joy especially when it was dark , I used to put the chunky headphones on and then scare myself witless.

Another flashback to the 1970's comes in the shape of Doctor Who , and for me my most beloved Doctor Who my hero my saviour of the Cosmos was Tom Baker . Back in the day the episodes were longer and one of my most favourite epsidosdes was over 2 hours split into several programs. The Doctor Who program in question is

Doctor Who - The Talons of Weng-Chiang

The cat needed a treat as well so I ordered a mouse come octopus toy but when it arrived the cat was sacred witless of it , so I had to return it and order the cat a play mouse instead .

What would you order from Amazon for £50 ?

Malteser Cheesecake

When you need a sweet fix but you don't want to overload on calories .

I suppose you do a deconstructed cheesecake if you wish it's the posh thing to do but I rather mostly that things are together .

Ingredients 

Pinch of Ginger

4 Digestives biscuits (crushed)

150 g of low fat cheese

150 g of  low fat creme fraiche 

2 tablespoons of Icing sugar

A bag of Malteser 2 normal sized bags should do it 

Zest and juice of an orange , though you can use Lime as well .

Method 

Put the digestive biscuits in a bag and bash into a crumb ( it's a great stress reliever ) 

Mix in with the pinch of Ginger .

Divide the mixture between 4 glass ramekins .

In another bag place the Malteser and press each one by hand or bash . In crushing each one I shouted out a worry to crush .

In a mix mix the cream cheese or quark till smooth ten add in the orange or lime juice aling with the zest . Add in the icing sugar and crem fraiche mix throughly .If you wish for a more tart taste then lessen the amount of icing sugar or leave out.

Divide the mixture between the ramekins and then top with the crushed Malteser .

My son suggested that you couid mix the cream cheese mixture with the crushed Maltesers.

This recipe allows for any change of topping .

 

 

How Would You Start Your Novel ?

They say that there is a novel burning inside of all us just bursting to get out and this is something I have thought about , perhaps not entirely about writing about a book , I mean what on earth would little old me write about . I write I blog but I don't suppose I can stretch to writing an inspirational high living pat on the back book resulting in all those book awards and being on all those chat shows * note to self get your hair dyed and nails done , ditch the Minnie mouse socks and bobble hats . Otherwise I would be be looking like a character out of an Alan Bennett play ...

But perhaps that would would be my mystique naturally surreptitiously I would have have to a nome de plume ( gosh doesn't than sound better than a pen name , I have always thought that a lot of things sound better in French . Look even the humble pea sounds romantic 'petit pois' , you purse your lips to say it  . Yes all the attention seekers would be out to say how they knew me at school how we played marbles , how quiet I was , eating my packet of wotsits away from the bullies , wearing my bobble hats , lost in the library with my nose in a book , only a handful would know the real me . Those who knew me really would know how kind I was how random I was how me I was , never one to compare myself to others.


I have been musing long and had over this , had a hissy fit and all that Greta Garbo hipster millennial touchy feeling mumbo jumbo.

SO here is my the opening line to my novel the one that I haven't even written yet , the one that I am writing this blog post about .


"The 3 seconds as I poured the milk on my Weetabix were the best 3 seconds of my life .."

 


Disclosure other similar products are available they aren't quite Weetabix . The Weetabix is my own purchased at a rather nice supermarket I mean you wouldn't purchase Weetabix at a horrible supermarket would you now ...