Sometimes Up To Something

Look at me being all alliterative with the title there! So, at the social group I go to, most people will usually end up making a pasta dish for lunch. Which is difficult for me since I'm trying to eat less refined carbs. I already feel like I regained a bit of weight just from one weekend where I ate more regular pasta and white bread plus some white rice. Anyway, the person who runs the group seemed to have gotten tired of having pasta just about every week. So I was under the impression that the next person whose turn it was to make lunch would do something else. Nope. Pasta again. If I'd known that, I wouldn't have made myself a pasta dish last night, nor would I have left the leftovers out on the stove (the kitchen is quite cold). So now I have to go and put the leftovers in a container in the fridge or freezer. At least it means I should have something ready to heat up and eat on Saturday when I'll be busy.    

Unlreated to my previous post. So I'd agreed to make lunch at the social group today. The idea I had in mind was a Thai style curry. The simplest recipe I could find ended up having to have some modifications, though, namely replacing the prawns with chicken because not everyone likes prawns, and also not having onions because one of the people can't eat them for some reason (some kind of allergy?). I also wanted it to have more veg in general, so I went for courgettes and peppers (actually those are technically fruit). The person who runs the group wanted to have it with noodles instead of rice. I thought that was a good idea because as much as I like rice, I find it so difficult to cook without it sticking to the pan that I mainly just go for microwave rice, and it would be a hassle to microwave several packets of those for the number of people there. He also suggested adding beans to it, which I wasn't sure about because I didn't think they would go (I have been tryi...

Seems like that cold did want to come back for more after all. I've been trying to power through it, because the social group were doing a trip today and I thought I'd look bad if I dropepd out at the last minute, especially since they went all out for it by getting a rather fancy coach (but smaller than the one for our wildlife park trip last summer). So many unexpected things happened to led to me having a meltdown, though. I felt terrible, not really because of the metldown itself but more the fact that my stress had made me act rude when I didn't mean to be rude, I didn't mean to hurt anyone, I just had a build up and now I'd reached the last straw. That always seems to happen with me. I don't even realise how much I've got built up until it's too late. I will say, though, jumping on a trampoline is a surprisingly good way of letting out all that built up energy. Too bad I don't have room at home for one (and it would cost a lot anyway). I don...

Today a friend of mine brought in this mechanism used to make round badges and magnets at our social group. I was the only one who really used it today, though. She's planning on bringing it to the youth club at some point. Anyway, as I'd recently thought of an idea for something I don't want to give any details for at the moment in case a certain person I know reads this, the night sky and constellations were on my mind, and I thought they'd make some good badge designs. This friend's sign is Leo, and I asked a few more people when their birthdays were to make badges for them as well. The others are Aquarius, Scorpius (Scorpio), and Gemini. You can see where the gold pen I used for the lines was starting to run out a bit.

I think I've got a bit of an acid problem today, but for some reason it's making me feel the need to eat more. Doesn't it usually do the opposite? At least tomorrow I'll get to see some people from the youth club again, the people that run it also do a social group during the week and I go on Thursdays, some of the people there are volunteers at the youth club but others aren't so I don't see them on Saturdays. It's been so cold lately, you'd think with the days gradually getting longer that it would start to get warmer again. 

Saturday is usually when I volunteer at a youth club for people with disabilities like mine, but it's not open again until the 10th. Normally I'd be glad to have a whole Saturday to myself (I mean, I could at any time, but I'd rather not miss any), but I want to go back and see people again already. Well, at least I've got work training on Monday, but I have to get up really early and leave the house really early for it. I have to get 2 buses there, and the morning rush hour makes the second bus a bit unreliable. I'm usually fine with waking up really early, but I recently had a bad cold, and it's been taking me longer to wake up recently because of it. Needing the extra rest to fully recover, I guess. So I'm going to see if an early night can help my wake up time go back to what it was before.