Will work for sleep
It’s been over a month since either of us last blogged. No we haven’t abandoned the blog… we”ve just been busy. Very busy. Busy to the point where Darren can’t stay awake and I can’t get to sleep.
Since the last blog I’ve been to 2 funerals, been prescribed steroids for my scalp (I decided I’d rather just keep washing my hair all the time instead of resorting to that), given up that stupid gluten free diet (I’d rather have an itchy scalp than never eat a chocolate cake again… the sacrifices we make for the things we love, enh?) and managed to figure out how to validate a php form, customisation complete with error messages without having to use Javascript (which is also a bit of a Fred in my books). Speaking of which, Fred (our cooker) and I have almost worked out all of our differences and have been getting along splendidly. We even baked a chocolate cake that didn’t burn. Yay Team!
Monday saw the slow down (but not the end) of a project I’ve been working on for months, but my body is so wired into staying up late to work I find it hard to unwind when I get home… that is unless I don’t move from the spot I’m in once I finish dinner.
I decided to spend tonight knitting. Yes, I’ll admit I did some work, but not as much as I could have… why, because I’ve got a headache. If any you’ve known me for long enough and remember the exhausted Summer of 2005 where migraines were abound, sweets were enough to make me throw up and I didn’t attend many a social gathering for fear that the people around me might not appreciate me throwing up on their new shoes, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Yes I’ve got one of those headaches, the “my eye hurts, sinus is congested on that side of my head and it sounds almost like I’m wheezing” headaches. I’ve already been unwell this week, had a few headaches last week, dabbled in St John Wort just to get to sleep on Sunday night – after hyperventilating in the midle of a Church service (please do not ask why)…and I’ve been having random dreams, e.g. like house-sitting for a friend at work – but nothing as weird as Fi’s corn dream… that was WEIRD!!!
Anyway, I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling more tired just trying to explain how tired I am, and the more I think about how tired I am I remember how much there still is to do. Where’s my note pad when I need it? I’m going to go now. I have a busy day ahead of me tomorrow , but somehow I get the feeling I probably won’t be out of bed before 10am… Why? Well, right now, I feel nauseous – and don’t even think it, I’m not pregnant and if one more person asks when I will be I’ll…. I don’t know what I’ll do… I’ll… I’ll… I think I’ll go and iron one of Darren’ s shirts to get rid of a bit more energy so I won’t lie awake for an hour before the sandman comes to visit, because although I’m very tired, I don’t feel very sleepy right now.
I think that’s enough ranting for one night. But before I go… just want to ask you to remember my family in your prayers. Monday was the 3 year anniversary since my cousin’s death and 1 year anniversary since Grandma’s death.
We’re off to Nigeria in three weeks for the memorial service…
Mon lo sun!
Mizpah!
Finké
Oats have gluten?
Day 7 of bring gluten and wheat free…
I’ve just found out that oats contain gluten and the Tesco porridge oats I’ve been using for flapjacks contain wheat!
I haven’t been wheat or gluten free this week after all.
Tonight I’m having pizza for dinner and cake for dessert…
Finké
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)First botched batch
Day 4 of being gluten and wheat free and my scalp itches. Lesley at work said I would have to keep this diet up for at least 6 weeks to know if it actually has any effect or not! SIX WEEKS!!!
But that’s not what’s bothering me now. It’s gone 11pm, Gazelle’s fast asleep and I’m on the staircase, blogging… I’m not going mad… I’m just very frustrated.
We’re having a shared lunch at work tomorrow afternoon and having made two successful batches of flapjacks and beginning to feel that I could work the oven, I decided to make a batch of gluten free brownies.
I’ve now decided that the oven doesn’t like me anymore. I thought we were becoming friends, but it’s done that whole recipe temperature/ time combo and oven temperature/time combo not matching up thing. I need an oven thermometer… or another oven.
I tried taking the brownies out about 10 minutes ago…. about 10 minutes later than the recipe said… I left them in for longer because I couldn’t smell them, and when I opened the oven door they collapsed! AAARRRGHHH!!!
I can smell them now they’re finally out, but they look deflated. Nothing like the BBC ones…
The hole in the middle is from me checking with a knife to see if they were done... they were.
I’m going to bed.
Filed under Food | Tags: food, gas cooker, home, wheat/gluten free | Comment (0)Smoking cigarettes…
I’ve been wheat/gluten free for 2 days now…
… and no, I haven’t taken up smoking, but I now understand how smokers feel when they try to quit…
I’m half way through making a loaf of wheat/gluten free bread (using some Wheat/Gluten free flour I found in Sainsbury’s – at first it was weird, like trying to knead ground rice flour or pounded yam, very sticky… the dough is currently in the boiler cupboard rising) and learning how to use the gas cooker. I made some flapjacks earlier on. The first time I used the oven, took me over an hour to figure out how to light the darn thing. Then I didn’t turn it high enough so they weren’t cooked properly whenI first took them out, so I turned the heat up and baked them for another 10 minutes.
I’m scared of making a cake in there for fear that it will sink terribly. I haven’t got my head around the way the temperature works, and there isn’t a little light to tell me when it’s reached the right temperature, but I don’t just want to leave the gas burning for fear of emptying the credit on the meter – or burning the house down. I was spoiled with an electric oven at my Mum’s house… this one doesn’t have a timer, Mum pointed that out to me. Thank goodness for the countdown timers on phones, my mind is so all over the place at the moment I would forget to check the time if I was relying on the clock… if I even remembered what time it went in.
Gazelle’s just finished making dinner and he’s making me some tea.
Potatoes, salmon and chickpeas
We’re having potatoes, salmon and chickpeas… looks yummy… and yes, I am eating dinner in bed.
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