Month: August 2011

Two big things today. The first one is it being our first wedding anniversary! 😀

The second was BarCamp North East 4. I’d loved the previous two, so we thought it would be nice to go for our anniversary (as well as because we’re geeks and generally like it anyway). It did mean we had our anniversary announced during the introduction 😛

Day 1 was a lot of fun. The picture is of me just after watching a presentation (Handy Tools for IT Pros I think- either that or the Hack Day one). I had warned people that if I was lying randomly on the floor, I was fine 😛 The bean bag made it quite comfortable really.

Other sessions I enjoyed were How To Win At Hack Day (which really made me want to get on with my coding so I can enter things like that), How Big Is The Internet (which was really interesting what I saw of it, but I came in late so missed the beginning), and suggestions for Rescuing Mr Duck (who is stuck down a long hole/shelf thing…).

The food was good (plenty of salad and ham and stuff for sticking to Slimming World… right up until I ate the sweets- well, it is my anniversary), then fish and chips where I ate the fish without batter :P) and then it was onto the evening sessions: Presentation Karaoke, Dr Horrible’s Sing-along Blog, and Torchwood in the cinema. It was awesome 😀

We were originally planning to stay there overnight, but we thought it was probably best to come home and sleep on proper beds. We are planning on going back in the morning 🙂

Got up when favourite carer arrived today, as had my housing medical assessment. Went on my computer for a bit, but spent most of the day in bed again.

I think the medical assessment went well. The woman who came understood what I wanted, and thinks it should be possible. I told her I wanted a bath rather than a shower because of my feet turning blue 😛 I’ve also been told to bid on anything that looks vaguely suitable, as they’ll get an OT to assess whether it is before offering it to me.

I also received this lovely letter from my Slimming World consultant today 😀 I’m definitely glad I decided to go back.

This is the poster above my television. I love it.

Slept forever today 😛 Woke up about 3pm, Went on computer, but was too tired to stay on it for long. Managed to go back on it for a bit later, though.

Didn’t do much though, other than finish reading Malory Towers on my phone, and just messing around in general. Carers were early again, and it was different people than on the schedule, so I panicked. Not happy.

Mostly resting so I can be well enough to go to BarCamp on Saturday 🙂

Johan has been sleeping downstairs for a couple of nights. He can make himself rather comfy 😛

Not had quite as good a day today. Walking was nowhere near happening, but that’s okay. Not been too bad considering how long a day I had yesterday.

Slimming World stuff has been interesting. A few of my favourite things are going to have to be occasional treats 😛 Been able to keep on track though 🙂

Had a bath tonight! First time in a week, because of illness. Also watched telly and was reading Twitter. Also reading Malory Towers on my phone, which is nice.

More rioting today. I’m praying it will end soon.

Had a very good day, despite only getting 2 hours sleep. Was able to walk a little bit, and was really happy to be able to walk to the toilet and back 🙂 Found my crutches aren’t stable enough to use though, so will be looking into alternatives.

Had my care review. My social worker is off sick, but didn’t tell us, so favourite carer phoned up to find out where he was. Before that, she’d washed dishes and things in the kitchen. This was all on her day off 😛 The review went well- she said it may be possible to only have one carer in the evenings, which would be much easier for me. I trust her, so hopefully my problems will be lessened soon.

I also went and rejoined Slimming World last night. It went well- I found the meeting a lot easier to deal with than last time. I was also able to use the same details as last time, so I ended up with a weight loss of 1 stone 11.5lbs 😛 They’ve changed the system a bit since I was last there, but it should be pretty easy to get back into the system. I’m lucky in that it takes a lot of work for me to put weight on now that my body is used to the medication I’m on, but it’s stayed the same for a little bit so hopefully this will mean I can lose some and get back down to my comfortable weight 🙂

Stayed up most of the night watching the riots on telly. It’s sad.