Not the best start to the week if I’m honest. Work on Friday was intense and it got to me a bit I suppose. I had to get some crappy crisps. That wasn’t such a good idea.

I had a great curry in the evening though. Chicken curry, onions, tomatoes and some 0% Greek yoghurt to make it a bit creamy. It was rather nice but next time I think that I need to blitz the sauce.

This next week has to be better than that.

The weekend.

There wasn’t much planned for Saturday. The weather has been better but I got caught up in a few bits and pieces. It’s nice to have a bit of sun after 4pm but it won’t be long until the clocks forward and we’ll lose a bit of daylight again.

Saturday evening was nice. I went to Ruth’s for an evening of board games and fun with The Duffys. 56 years old and I’m still playing games! It was a really fun evening. Ruth cooked a vegan lasagne. It was delicious and apart from the cheese, it was fairly SW friendly.

I didn’t drink either. Despite being provided with a lift in to town, there was an option to have a bit of rum but I was trying to be better than Friday.

It was quite nice to wake up on Sunday without a hangover. I had a bit of a lie in but was up and then down to Sainsburys to get a chicken for my usual Sunday roast dinner.

The rest of the day was quite slow. I found some decent telly to watch and basically put my feet up and did very little.

The Week

Monday was back into the office. Another horrendous day with trying to get some work done. Some bits that I couldn’t get my head around and I’ll need to refer them tomorrow.

I decided to go to the cinema after I finished work. I wanted to see “Is This Thing On?” A film by Gerrard Butler with Will Arnett. It’s based on John Bishop’s story. A man separating from his wife who turns to stand up comedy just talking about what was happening.

I did enjoy the film. I thought that it might have been a but funnier but it was worth a watch. 3 out of 5 from me to be honest but it was watchable.

On my return home, I did myself a chicken curry so there’s plenty left to take to work for lunch tomorrow.

Tuesday wasn’t the best of days. I had a complaint to deal with and that took me well over two hours to deal with. Applying for police reports and dealing with the system to get the complaint registered. It was well into the afternoon before it was done and that really pushed me out.

Food wise, I had my left over curry for lunch. For tea it was some spagbol after I went for a swim. I only had 30 minutes in the pool last night but I was a bit tired after a couple of heavy days in work. Still, it was a little extra movement for the day.

Wednesday was a very lazy day. I was okay on plan but didn’t get out for a walk when the weather was quite good. I should have taken some time to go out.

Thursday. Not been the best of days today. Definitely on plan today. A good breakfast, a few cups of tea and a slimming world meal for lunch.

I did notice that I had what I think is a migraine this afternoon. I’ve been these moments where my vision loses bits of the scene. It’s like a kaliedoscope and it’s quite disconcerting. I had a couple of pints of water and a bit of paracetamol to see if that staved it off. The vision returned to normal but I’ve had a stinker of a headache for most of the afternoon.

I’ve sacked off the swim tonight as I’m still not feeling quite right. I’ll have a check to see if the pool is open tomorrow night.

The Tale of the Scale.

I was quietly confident that the scales would give me a good result today. It was a bad start but the rest of the week, as far as I felt had been good.

The scales of doom had other ideas and registered a 1.5lb gain.

I hope that it’s just water from the pints that I drank this afternoon to stave off the migrane but I stepped off the scale really disappointed with the effort which could have been far better given how the start of the year had been.

Still, it’s not the end of the world and I should be able to pull it back next week.

Next week.

I’m due out on Saturday to watch some rugby at the Arms Park, then over to the pub to watch England V Wales in the Six Nations. I can’t see that lifting the mood to be fair but we’ll see how it goes.

I don’t know how I’ll get on but will try to keep myself on the straight and narrow. I can’t see it but there you go.

I need to stay buoyant otherwise I’m just going to sink again over the week. I need something to pick my mood up and usually that involves food. I need a new project. Something to get the old grey matter concentrating on something else.

I’ll see how it goes but I’m not sure that it will be a better result next week.