Category: Week in Review

I remembered to take a photo! I was rather tired so the top was accurate 🙂

This week I was mostly recovering from going out last week. Lots of sleep, lots of lying in bed not moving as it was too exhausting and painful, but as it was expected it was mostly okay.

On Monday I bought a new fitness watch. I decided to get the Garmin Forerunner 235 mostly because Johan had one and it seemed to fit my requirements. For heart rate tracking it’s much better than the Fitbit Charge HR (or Charge 2), actually noticing when my heart rate is all over the place rather than averaging it out. I love being able to change the watch face and being able to install apps on it to do various things. The downside is that it’s not as good at tracking sleep, probably because I don’t get up when I’m awake. I’ve tried using Sleep as Android with it which is a bit better, but it still records me being in deep sleep sometimes when I’m actually awake. If needs be I can go in and look at the movement, heart rate and noise data to work out when I was awake, but for my blog I’m just going to record the hours I’m asleep as it’s not as easy as the FitBit. The watch face uses a picture Sammie made me which I love 🙂

I had to call Johan home a few times because of my digestive system being evil, to the point where he’s now asking the care agency for an extra call in the afternoon, taking some time from my evening call as the evening care workers are too efficient 😛 I’ll probably need to rethink times when I’m well enough for regular showers, but that doesn’t seem likely for a while so the extra call will be more useful.

I was a bit grumpy at the weekend. Didn’t realise for a while but it turned out I had a migraine (how I missed not being able to see properly out of one eye I don’t know, but it happened). Luckily once we figured it out Johan dosed me up on meds and after a couple of days I was okay, just drained.

When I was awake, I managed to finish one book and start another, complete a couple of cross stitch patterns on the app, and also listen to some music. The official soundtrack for Vostok Inc. has finally been released, and I’ve listened to track 4, Rainbows and Unicorns, quite a bit. It’s my favourite music from the game and makes me happy 🙂 The Soundcloud page is https://soundcloud.com/nosebleedinteractive.

Hopefully I won’t get as far behind in these blog posts again. Maybe one day I’ll even post something different 😛

• Overall mood – Good, with a few Mehs when I had the migraine.
• Average daily sleep – 10 hours 25 minutes (how much is real, I don’t know :P)
• Longest sleep – 15 hours 32 minutes from Wednesday early morning to Wednesday evening.
• Clothes changed – 0
• Wipe wash – 0
• Water wash – 0
• Hair wash – 0 (need to give my scalp a scrub as soon as I’m well enough)
• Books read – 3 (Finished Shatter Me, finished Destroy Me and started The Miracle Inspector)
• TV watched – Liverpool against Roma as they were scoring a lot of goals.
• YouTube videos watched – Tom Scott, Vi Hart and Physics Girl
• Streams watched – Penguin Cam
• Music listened to – Rainbows and Unicorns from Vostok Inc. OST
• Blog posts written – 3 (got caught up)
• Penguins cuddled – yes 🐧🐧🐧
• Johan hand holds – needed
• Johan hugs – nope
• Time on Twitter – 6 hours 14 minutes (average 53 minutes a day)
• Time on Reddit – 14 hours 16 minutes (average 2 hours 2 minutes a day)
• Time on Facebook – 1 hours 59 minutes (average 17 minutes a day)
• Other –
  • I’m glad reading is a bit easier at the moment. Having a Kindle with changeable font size is awesome.
  • Destroy Me was a lot harder to get hold of than I was expecting, but I really wanted to read it after finishing Shatter Me.
  • I wish my digestive system would decide what it’s doing. Swapping between constipation and diarrhoea makes it really hard to work out what’s best to do.
  • New care workers are hard work, but I’m glad I now have an information book to give them.

Game stuff

• Games played – 5
  • Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
  • Cross Stitch
  • Neko Atsume
  • Godville
  • Bury Me, My Love
• AC: Pocket Camp Level – 93
• Godville Heroine Level – 52 (71% done)
• Godville wood for ark – 19.4%
• Godville savings – 773 thousand
• Cross stitch completed – 2
• Most played game – Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (7 hours 37 minutes, average 59 minutes a day)
• Other –
  • New animals in Animal Crossing make it much easier to gain level (though the max level also goes up with them).
  • The current event (other than fortune cookies which I’m mostly ignoring) is Gyroidite Gathering. They’re not exactly well hidden and I’ve already crafted all the items that use them.
  • Bury Me, My Love is an interactive story where you’re the husband of a Syrian woman escaping to Europe as a refugee. The title is based off a Syrian saying, which pretty much means “don’t die before me”. It’s rather emotional and I like the semi-real time play style.

No photo again as forgot to take one.

Another mostly sleepy week. Digestive system was playing up a bit, meaning I needed more meds and had to wake Johan up and call him home more than normal I really make him earn his £64.68 a week.

When more awake, I did quite a bit of reading, books on my kindle, Reddit and TV Tropes. I also ended up reading a lot about Long Live the Queen, a game I played a few years ago. As Sammie is now old enough to play it, I bought it for her. She said she enjoyed it so I’m happy.

The book I read was Burn the Ashes by Heather Shahan, which was recommended to me on Twitter after I asked for suggestions of dystopian young adult fiction with diverse characters and not too much romance. I really enjoyed it, and it’s my favourite book of the year so far. My only problem with it is the sequel isn’t out yet.

Had a migraine on Friday and Saturday but managed to sleep through the worst of it which I’m grateful for. On Sunday I tried to watch the Commonwealth games but the Virgin tivo box was in need of an update as it hadn’t been on in months. Got it working during the men’s marathon just as Callum Hawkins collapsed. It was really sad to see him like that, and frustrating that it took so long for him to get help. I’m glad he got better quickly.

• Overall mood – Good
• Average daily sleep – 7 hours 13 minutes (of 9 hours 13 minutes)
• Longest sleep – 12 hours 28 minutes from Saturday morning to evening (of 17 hours 40 minutes)
• Clothes changed – 0
• Wipe wash – 0
• Water wash – 0
• Hair wash – 0
• Books read – Burn the Ashes. Started Shatter Me.
• TV watched – Men’s marathon at the Commonwealth games
• YouTube videos watched – Tom Scott, Vi Hart and How to Adult
• Streams watched – 0
• Music listened to – 0
• Blog posts written – 0
• Penguins cuddled – Indeed 🐧🐧🐧
• Johan hand holds – Yes!
• Johan hugs – nope
• Time on Twitter – 5 hours 7 minutes (average 43 minutes a day)
• Time on Reddit – 35 hours 17 minutes (average 5 hours 2 minutes a day)
• Time on Facebook – 1 hour 7 minutes (average 9 minutes a day)
• Other –
  • Migraines are ebil.
  • Johan went running with his Running Ninja friends. This is good.

Game stuff

• Games played – 6
  • Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
  • Cross Stitch
  • DragonVale
  • Neko Atsume
  • Godville
  • Rainbow Clouds
• AC: Pocket Camp Level – 87
• Godville Heroine Level – 51 (96% done)
• Godville wood for ark – 16.9%
• Godville savings – 701 thousand
• Cross stitch completed – 1
• Most played game – Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (8 hours 34 minutes, average 1 hour 13 minutes a day)
• Other –
  • Rainbow Clouds is too hard for me.
  • Glad the events are calming down a bit in Animal Crossing.

Overall had a very good week. Lots of exciting things happened and I wasn’t too bad physically for me. I’m happy 🙂

I didn’t manage to get out of bed, but on Tuesday I had my first proper hair wash of the year! I’m not sure exactly how long it had been, but definitely a few months. I want it to be shaved off as soon as I’m able to find someone to do it (or get to the barbers).

On Tuesday evening I went on the Surface and managed to do a food shop. Took me hours and I missed some items, but it was needed as we were running out of everything. Johan not being able to do food shops is an issue, and I’m not sure how to fix it. That’s also when I changed the blog theme and sorted out some stuff that can’t be done on my tablet.

Wednesday I went to sleep in the early afternoon, and I woke up early on Thursday from tramadol withdrawal as I’d not had any for over 16 hours (Wednesday morning before Johan left for his day service). That wasn’t fun but luckily it calmed down after a couple of doses more on time, and slept more. The big event for Thursday was seeing Vicky! I hadn’t seen her in a long time and it was good to catch up. We ended up having Indian food for tea and it was nommy.

Friday I mostly slept. Woke up in time for the evening carers and had fish and chips as it was Good Friday. I wanted hot cross buns but despite several reminders, Johan failed to get me any (and I’d forgotten to put them in the food shop). The fish and chips were good, and the penguins were very happy with my food choice 😛

Easter Sunday was another sleepy, peaceful day, though I had been on the Surface during the early hours working on spreadsheets (one for Animal Crossing, one for my carers). I also reset my level and stuff in Habitica as wanting to start again in my own party. Johan gave me a Thorntons fudge easter egg which I really like, and I had got him a Ferrero Rocher egg (which since I bought it in the shop he put away, I had to tell him not to look at it :P). I also looked up April Fools stuff online before sleeping through. I miss going to church but I don’t think God minds.

There were a couple of bad things during the week (other than the tramadol withdrawal). We got several letters telling us how much bills were going to go up by, including the care agency putting up the hourly rate by about £1.50 an hour (I get 17 1/2 hours a week), the rent going up by about £5 a week, and our care costs to social services going up from about £10 a week to over £40 a week each. The first two we could manage (even without a direct payment increase – we’ve not been told if that’s going up at all) but the last one is just too much. We’ll be keeping my care because we both need it, but we’re unsure about Johan and his day service. He’s going to try and sort it out this week and see what we can do.

The other bad thing is I had a new care worker who despite being told I can’t deal with perfume or strong scents, came in with so much on I could smell her before she even came into the flat. She came a couple of steps into my bedroom before I told her not to, and my body went mad, with a headache, breathing difficulties, and an itchy rash. That’s despite putting my face mask on soon after having my teeth brushed by the other, non-stinky care worker. Johan also had to hide under his quilt as he’s asthmatic. I’ve not had a reaction that bad since I started taking cetirizine regularly but it was horrible. I’ve asked one of the other care workers to tell the office I can’t have her, and Johan is going to try and contact them himself if he can. She’d been warned by at least three other care workers before she came so I don’t understand why she put so much on.

I’m still on a high from seeing Vicky and having my hair washed properly. I’m hoping that if we can avoid care workers who make me more ill that I’ll be able to do more soon 🙂

• Overall mood – Good, with some Awesome.
• Average daily sleep – 7 hours 58 minutes (of 10 hours 11 minutes)
• Longest sleep – 12 hours 17 minutes from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning (of 18 hours 10 minutes)
• Clothes changed – 2 (Not All Disabilities are Visible and The Future is Accessible)
• Wipe wash – 1
• Water wash – 0
• Hair wash – 1, with actual water and shampoo and everything!!!
• Books read – 0
• TV watched – 0
• YouTube videos watched – Vi Hart
• Streams watched – 0
• Music listened to – 0
• Blog posts written – 1
• Penguins cuddled – Yup 🐧🐧🐧
• Johan hand holds – Several a day 🙂
• Johan hugs – not yet
• Time on Twitter – 8 hours 14 minutes (average 1 hour 10 minutes a day)
• Time on Reddit – 20 hours 48 minutes (average 2 hours 58 minutes a day)
• Time on Facebook – 1 hours 56 minutes (average 16 minutes a day)
• Other –
  • Lots of marmalade on toast for lunch, as body has decided it doesn’t like cheese for some reason
  • Still working on my blog theme. I need to work on accessibility as well, and update pages as they’re way out of date now 😛
  • I’m so happy I got to see Vicky! And that I had my hair washed!
  • Carer spreadsheet is very useful. I just need to update it more often so I can add in any changes to the rota (including if I was given notice)
  • Been having issues with my tablet. If it reboots for any reason, it loads the boot screen, then reboots into recovery. I need to delete the cache to fix it.

Game stuff

• Games played – 5
  • Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
  • Cross Stitch
  • DragonVale
  • Neko Atsume
  • Godville
• AC: Pocket Camp Level – 85
• Godville Heroine Level – 51 (51% done)
• Godville wood for ark – 15.0%
• Godville savings – 624 thousand
• Cross stitch completed – 1
• Most played game – Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp ( hours minutes, average hours minutes a day)
• Other –
  • On top of the Mario event, there’s another bug catching event in Animal Crossing. This time we’re catching Scramblers, which are Easter eggs with legs.
  • Had to update my Animal Crossing spreadsheet because about 20 of my in game friends are sharing eggs with legs. I’m trying to return what they give me but it’s hard.
  • DragonVale still has their Easter event on. I’ve completed everything that isn’t the Rift. When it finishes I might be taking another break (until the next event).
  • Am working on an Easter cross stitch right now, but finding it slower as my hands are being clumsy.
  • Still haven’t got the memento from Hermeowne. It’s the last one I need!