Me and my cold

Hi all,

Thanks for all the views today. There has been a good turn out today!

 I managed to survive work last night. I drew the short straw and had to drive all night around the streets of Leeds doing visits to patients and dealing with all the call outs.  We had a visit at 5.30am on the other side of Leeds and my partner looked at me and said she would drive to the visit. She said my eyes looked so sore and I looked dreadful. Our boss said we might as well both go in our separate cars to the visit then go home after as we were quite quiet. Bless her! I drove to the last patients home, did our work then home on the motorway for the 40 minute drive home. I don't know how I got home this morning! I was on the verge of falling asleep at the wheel on  numerous occasions it was scary! I think I felt this way with feeling so run down with my cold and my sore eyes. I finally arrived home in total darkness and took the dog for a walk. Fed the dog  and finally fell into bed just before 7.00am shattered. I always eat some breakfast before I go to bed, it helps me sleep longer. Today I could not face food and flopped in bed and slept for a staggering 10 hours! I never normally sleep this long  after a night shift but I needed it today.

We had homemade pizzas tonight and I wanted to take a picture for my blog but with rushing around and getting everyone to help with the preparation for our meal I forgot to get some pictures. I will one day get some pictures of our pizzas for my blog. I normally love my homemade pizzas but to tell you the truth I had trouble enjoying it tonight because I could not taste it with having my cold.  Hopefully tomorrow I will be back to normal. See you then. Thanks for reading, your all a great bunch of followers.

Karen x

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I've got a cold and my eyes are sore with it and I've to go to work shortly : (

See you tomorrow,

Bye x

I'm here

Snuggled under my nice warm fleece with no heating on. Had a busy day with mandatory training for work. I hate this time of year. All my mandatory training needs doing in October/November and there's a lot to do with the NHS. I've another day of training on Monday, can't wait until it's all done. I've noticed a lot of blogs doing  a  MY A-Z, so here's mine.

Age - 47
Bed Size - King size
Chores I hate - Ironing
Dog - Labrador
Essential start to day - Cleaning teeth. Can't do anything until my teeth are cleaned
Favourite colour - Plum
Gold or silver - Both, depends on what I'm wearing
Height - 5ft6
Interests - Cooking, dog walking, voluntary work & reading cookery books
Job Title - Nursing assistant
Kids - 3 daughters
Live - North Yorkshire
Mothers name - Maureen
Nickname - Moody cow (by Hubby) Kaz when I was younger
Overnight hospital stay - Maternity
Pet peeves - Bad manners
Quote from a film - Surley it was a good way to die, in the place of someone I loved. Noble even. That ought to count for something.        Bella, Twilight
Right/left handed - Right
Siblings - 1 brother
Time you wake - 7.00am
Underwear - white & flesh
Vegetables you hate - None. Not come across any veg I hate yet.
What makes you late - Traffic
X Rays - Teeth
Yummy food I make - Pizza from scratch
Zoo Animal - Prairie dog, they are so funny with their squeaks

My favourite colour

Menu Week 10/10/11

MONDAY - Homemade lasagne, salad and homemade bread (did not have this last week so brought it into this weeks menu)

• Roasted garlic chicken, corn-on-cob, salad, pasta & coleslaw with homemade bread
• Beef casserole, mash, greens and Yorkshire puddings or dumplings
• Roast pork, apple sauce, potatoes, vegetables
• Homemade pizza, homemade coleslaw & wedges
• Sausages, mash, veg and onion gravy
• Homemade fish cakes, chips and peas/beans 

Had a productive morning in the kitchen. Used  a lot of bits to clear out the fridge before I went shopping. Made a panful of colcannon soup using up half a savoy cabbage, a couple of leeks and some potatoes. Had this for lunch with a bagel sandwich daughter left in the fridge a few days ago. Made a beef lasagne and made myself a tuna lasagne using up half a tin of tuna that had been in the fridge a couple of days and a handful of mushrooms I had. I also added the remains of our Saturday night fajita vegetables. I also made a batch of hot cross buns for breakfasts.

Stuck to what I said I'd do on Sunday and turned the heating off again. To be honest I think it's been very mild today and I was actually very warm in the house and opened the door when ironing this afternoon.

Bought another Christmas present today for daughter No1 (won't say what in case she reads this) The item was on offer so thought I'd have one at the price. Need to find my wrapping paper in the loft so I can get wrapping. I like to wrap presents as soon as I buy them. It saves me from having to spend ages wrapping and getting bored with it.

Any xmas prep done at yours yet?

I succumed to the heating only because......

the grandchildren were coming to stay. To tell you the truth I would have happily not turned the heating on for a while yet. But I went into the living room today and thought it felt quite chilly. I mentioned to Hubby I was going to put the heating on for the grandchildren because I thought they might feel the chill when Hubby declared, he was feeling cold and had felt cold yesterday too! Now my Hubby declaring he feels chilly is unheard of . He is the one who every year lives in t-shirts in the house and declares it is warm and we don't need the heating on so high. He wanted the heating on! I was shocked. I have not felt the cold in the house yet. I only had a t-shirt on today with a hoody and I was really warm and reluctant to put the heating on. Daughter No 2 and her boyfriend were commenting on how they were chilly the other day and when  I said "it's not cold. Move around a bit more, you won't feel the chill" Daughter No2 reminded me it was only two years ago I was always feeling the cold . True. I had this thing where I had to have the central heating set to 21degrees or above! Then last year I started to take control of the thermostat and would not let it go above 20 degrees even when it was really cold. I think I have finally acclimatised to cooler temperatures and I honestly am not feeling the cold at the moment and will put a fleece on first rather than the heating. Once the grandchildren return home to Leeds tomorrow the heating  is off and if we feel chilly its a fleece blanket and a thick dressingown or jumper on thank you! We can do this a bit longer if you ask me. I really think the rest of them are getting softer as I'm getting tougher.

Great night with friends

Had a great night out with a lot of friends from the charity shop I volunteer at last night. It was a charity event to raise money for the charity we all volunteer for. Artists did a really good show for us and did not take a fee for performing choosing  instead to donate it to the charity night. They had a raffle to raise more money and we had a bucket collection to take everyones change they had left at the end of the night. Everyone had a great night and a lot of money was raised.

In true frugal style I went to the evening in a charity shop creation. Everything I wore was sourced from the charity shop except my trousers.

The top and necklace I bought last week. The sandals and bag were bought at the charity shop just before last Christmas. I love my little satin purse bag, it's a Jasper Conran bag.

My bracelets were bought from the charity shop too. A lot does not have to be spent to look smart for a night out.

Have you had any bargains from the charity shop lately?

Menu Week 03/10/11

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Doing the same as last week and just making a list of what we will eat this week but not giving any meal a set day.

Yesterday we had, Sausage pasta and homemade garlic bread. Rest of the week we are having

• Mince and onion pie, vegetables and potatoes with gravy
• Lasagne, salad, sauteed potatoes and homemade garlic bread
• Fish pie, peas and carrots
• Pork escalope, fries, peas and salad
• Chicken/tofu fajitas 

Tomorrow I am going to a charity event and at the moment my wardrobe is a bit bare of autumn/winter clothes so I have been searching the rails of the charity shop for something to wear to the charity do.  I found a M&S purple top last week which I bought for a couple of pounds. Today I found a nice necklace to go with it for a pound. I have also found a grey/black top and matching necklace so all I need to do now is decide tomorrow which to wear. Shall post a picture of the one I choose tomorrow.

Off to work now. Bye