I usually make some most weeks, depending on how fast I get through it lol. I'll probably have some for lunch again, and there will be perhaps 2 or 3 portions for the freezer.
It'd deceptively beautiful here today the sun is glorious but it's only 2 degrees C. I'll be heading off out with the dog soon, I'm up and about earlier than usual for a saturday but I just was wakeful so got up. Today will be dog walk and then possibly if it doesn't feel too freezing later I'll pull out my trailer tent to the front of the house and pop it up to clean. I want to sell it.
The trailer tent seemed like a good idea, a cheap and easy way to holiday after my husband left and I wanted to have some fun with my 2 kids. It did work out to a degree, but my daughter had a bit of an adhd meltdown on one trip and I ended up putting her on a train home, she really needs a room she can go to be alone in. Having said that, she's almost 2 years older than she was on that trip and a lot of the emotions we were all juggling back then (it was only a few months after my split) has faded so who knows if it would work for us really or not. Our atmosphere and relationship at home is certainly great most of the time now.
Mostly, I realised that assembling and managing this thing is at the very edge of my ability, which I find stressful. I'm only 5ft tall and as an ex engineer I'm very able technically, but my body has limits. We're not born campers... We did have a couple of trips in it that were fun alongside the fated difficult one, but if I'm honest what I'd really love is a campervan!
Anyway, all of this isn't especially relevant. What IS relevant is that in July I need money to pay my final car payment, and if I could sell this, I would be much nearer that goal. Now is typically a good time to sell I should really have been on the case a couple of weeks ago ahead of easter but if I can get it up for sale now theres a chance someone might snap it up for easter hols, or at least over the next couple of months for summer. I have accepted that holidays won't really happen for us until at least 2022, when I'll be a lot more stable financially. Perhaps even 2023. I am not complaining, we have a lovely life here and hopefully by summer the lockdowns will at least be more eased and we can go day trips to a few places.
Anyways, enough of that ramble. I think I might have a 2nd cuppa before my walkies lol.
Food for today will be... probably soup, then the last of the hello fresh meals which is a cottage pie, I'll adapt my portion to exclude the potato.
I have also defrosted the pork mince I had, to have a stab at making the sausages/meatballs/patties or whichever works to use in place of shop bought sausages, so I'll have a go at that tonight with a view to eating some tomorrow. I can always freeze them cooked in any case to use in different recipes.
Oh by the way I found a random note in a notebook, from June last year from one of my many attempts at starting to lose weight that went nowhere. I was 186lbs so I obviously went up a bit, and now I'm down a bit. Albeit not much lol. In any case I'm definitely the lightest I've been in a year, probably 2 years, and honestly probably the first time I've properly addressed my weight in about 10 years. The times in the middle where I've actually lost weight, sometimes considerable amounts have not been done in a healthy manner not even deliberate, it's been an accidental side effect of anxiety and inability to eat much for months on end, and THOSE days thankfully disappeared when my husband left
Have a lovely day miniminers.
