New ways and daily life

 Thank you lovely readers for all the comments, much appreciated as always.

I'm feeling so much better now, the relief from the hospital appointment no doubt, along with having a very productive day yesterday and now feeling back in control.

I redid our budget, I do it every 3 months to ensure that everything is up to date, so that's all ok now until the end of the year.  Finished off the freezer and larder inventories and menu planned for next week.  I've decided we're going shopping twice a month from now on, at the beginning and mid month.  Every fortnight we'll also go to the farmers market on a Saturday morning to get cheeses and some fresh veg and possibly meat for husband.  I've marked off on the calendar when we'll be doing the shopping (Sainsburys and Aldi) and the farmers market on the Saturdays in between the 2 shopping dates.  It's not set in stone, there'll probably be days when we have something else to do (or life happens!) and we need to bring it forward or postpone it by a day or two, but I'll try to stick to it as much as possible.  I like having structure and focus, it keeps me on an even keel.

Husband cut the front hedge and lawn and weeded a flower bed, so he did good as well.  I made a king prawn korma curry for dinner yesterday, at his request, it was really nice.  Today he's having lambs liver, which he's offered to cook himself (good, as since stopping eating meat I really don't like the look or smell of offal).  He wants mashed potato with it, so I'll make myself some kind of veggie cottage pie with just a little mash (still low carbing).  For Sunday he and the dog are having roast chicken, I'll have a plateful of lovely roast and green veggies with cauli cheese.

On Monday we're going to Clarks Village, an outlet shopping centre, we like it there, especially the M&S, Cotton Traders, Next and Clarks outlet shops, we've had some good bargains in the past.  I need a new showerproof jacket, I like the padded/quilted ones with a hood, husband's going to pay for it as my birthday present.  I could do with some new winter boots too, my last year's ones are now leaking (as I discovered the other day at the caravan in the rain).

Sue, you made me laugh when you said men need to be reminded, feels like (but probably less than) 20 times a day.  Believe me, with husband's cognitive impairment, I'm constantly reminding him of things about 100x a day (well, it certainly feels like it!!).  Every. Single. Day.  Example - yesterday we took Betty to the groomers and then nipped into town for a small top up shop....husband also needed a new battery for his watch.  I reminded him, 3 or 4 times during the morning, to put his watch on.  He didn't.  Two minutes before we were leaving home, I reminded him again to take his watch or put it on.  Arriving in the shop, he said "oh bugger, I forgot my watch!!". 😂😒  On the way back from town, he also forgot we had to collect Betty, despite me reminding him on the way home, and drove past where we needed to go.  This is daily life.