Days 16 + 17

I woke up stupidly early on Saturday morning for no good reason, I knew it was too early because it was still quite dark so I turned over to have a look at the clock only to see that the clock was off! I scrabbled around in the dark to find my glasses and mobile, switched on the flash-light function on my mobile and stumbled downstairs to find out what the problem was. Boyfriend had recently topped up the electricity key so I thought perhaps he had forgotten to put the key back into the meter but when I got downstairs I realised that the lights on the walkway outside the were off too so it was an actual power cut! Luckily I have a gas cooker so heating up water for my morning coffee and soup sachet was not a problem, but I couldn't use my hand-held blender so I had to try to make the soup with my little balloon-whisk. It took about 3 minutes of frantic whisking to stop it being too powdery and nasty to drink, but I got there in the end.

About 11 o'clock, the electricity came back on so lunch was easy but by mid afternoon I was feeling so hungry I could cry so I went out to distract myself. I decided to take a bus over to the place where I buy my green hair dye. It's a couple of hours away on a busy Saturday afternoon so by the time I was on my way home, my stomach was feeling like it was digesting it's self and I still had to go supermarket shopping. I spent way to long looking at all the pizzas and pasties but somehow managed to make myself walk away. The second I got back I cooked myself some dinner, Quorn fillets, mushrooms, spinach and a few noodles, a sensible dinner and I'm so pleased I resisted the lure of pies in the supermarket. It was so close!

Sunday has been much more relaxed. I have no idea why but I slept for a solid 10 hours and woke up feeling excellent. I had porridge and a chicken and mushroom soup sachet for breakfast. I decided to have dinner for lunch so I cooked some extra vegetables and I had them with a cheese and broccoli soup sachet later on. I'm not sure why I was so hungry yesterday but not so much today, I did drink plenty on Saturday, maybe even more than today so maybe it was the lack of sleep that made the difference.