early starts, end daylight savings, cleaning and spa baths.... oh my!

another great day at work today which is nice...

and finishing at 2.30pm makes it even nicer!

and even nicer still, with daylight savings ending tonight, i really finished at 1.30pm lol

but on a serious note, i am sad about the end of daylight savings... i thoroughly enjoy the extra hour of daylight... but it's part and parcel of the calendar and seasons... i'll get a couple more weeks of long days in portugal later this month, so that will be a nice teaser...

getting up at 5am wasn't nearly as difficult as i thought it might have been...

i think the old part of my brain kicked in from when i used to work 3x12 hour days a week where i used to get up at 3am... i actually miss those days.... but not, at the same time.... if that makes sense...

same as anything in life really, always pro's and con's...

looking at the countdown widget on my phone and it's down to 18 days until i head overseas... so it's getting a bit closer and i'm slowly starting to get a bit excited about it...

i'm thinking maybe this week i'll start to tackle a few things on my list of chores to complete before i go away... and knuckle down next weekend, thorough cleaning, wash the thick dust off all the windows, see if i remember to get some spray cleaner to give the oven a good washing since i haven't done it yet... i guess after almost 3 years it's probably due for it lol it's not as dirty as you'd might think for having not done it in this oven before...

i should wash/clean the rangehood and filters, hopefully without slicing a finger on the aluminium frame edges this time....

cracked another dinner plate this morning, i think i should start saving for a new decent set... these plates, as much as i have liked them (one of the rare things i liked from ikea), are about 10 years old now... so i guess all the use they've had over the years has started to wear them down a bit...

so i'm going to test myself and see if i can live off what foodages i have between now and going overseas, to try and continue minimal spending to pay off some bills in the interim.... tonight i've got a chicken schnitzel (just a small one) and will do some scrambled eggs and try a tin of chilli baked beans i have had sitting there for a while, and still have some tomatoes in the fridge from what i chopped up last night.... maybe another batch of chippies in the fryer.....

my left foot is hurting a bit - when i stretch the toes forward, the top part of the foot (instep bit) hurts a bit, like i've done a muscle in there or something..... might think about running a hot bath and soaking my body for a while one day soon when it's nice and cold outside :-)

mmm hot bath.... maybe i should use the spa function at some point too... paid for it so i might as well try to use it lol more than just the once lol