One week back at school and I'm tired. Not just a lack of sleep type tired, deep down body and soul tired. Pretty sure it's the same for a lot of professions right now. I daydream A LOT about retiring and how I could afford it 😂 But it's that dream that's keeping me motivated and stopping me from going to Lidl on my way home from work to buy tortilla chips and guacamole!! 😂😂 Funny how you (ok me!) obsess about something when you're trying to be 'good.' It's a WANT not a NEED!!!
I'm sticking to the eating from the pantry challenge. Some meals are a bit basic if I'm tired (GF pasta with a bit of grated goat's cheese) but I did enjoy some Punjabi spiced cauliflower last week with the lentil curry.
I got 4 meals worth from those 2 cauliflowers I scored in M&S for 40p each. It's a Madhur Jaffrey recipe, very tasty and reheats nicely too. Find it HERE.
Emma is doing well. You can see her wee shaved patch on her tummy. The lump is just fatty tissue so thank goodness for that. We're due back at the vet on Friday after school for a post op check up and to chat about my 'options.' I really don't want to put her though another op as she's 10 and older dogs don't recover as well from repeated general anaesthetic. Plus there's the cost too. My friend has a 12yo cat that keeps getting warts that turn cancerous. So far she keeps getting them removed but we've been chatting about when is it ok to stop doing that? Never an easy decision for pet owners though.
How do you grate goat's cheese - it's so soft? The cauliflower looks delicious. I rarely buy one because 1) they are expensive and 2) I find it hard to eat a whole one before I get tired of it. Maybe I'll look up the recipe and give it a try.
ReplyDeleteThe goat's cheese I use is hard like a cheddar cheese so it can be grated. St Helen's Farm cheese. Love the soft stuff too, it's good to stir through a risotto. I can tolerate a little at a time unlike cow's milk products.
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Poor Emma. My old labrador had one of those fatty lumps on his chest (a lipoma). It was quite big but didn't bother him and we never had surgery to remove it. He lived to 13 and died due to a bout of pancreatitis😒. He didn't suffer from having the fatty lump though.
ReplyDeleteAwww, bless him. 13 is a good age for a Lab :-) I've kept Labs for the last 25 years so seen a fair few lumps. The tricky part is working out if they're tumours or just fatty lumps and unfortunately we need the vet to tell us that!
DeleteI didn't realise how utterly bone tired I was, not properly, until I retired and the energy just kept coming and coming and coming. Yes, holidays helped, but they had an end and then back came the exhaustion. It must be twice as bad now with all the extra stresses and strains.
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Sometimes I think it must be my age but my stage partner is 25 and she's as exhausted as I am!
DeleteHow wonderful that the lump was just some fatty tissue.
ReplyDeleteI think we could all be suffering from Covid fatigue right now.
God bless.
Totally agree!! It's very wearing!
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