When your sick

The worst thing about living alone is when you are sick.

I am very independent and very happy being on my own most of the time, but when your feeling under the weather there is nothing that better than having someone to nurse you back to health. Even silly things like refreshing your glass of water can be an exhausting when your room is spinning every time you lift your head off the pillow. I have quickly learnt that the best thing to do when ill is set up camp of the sofa as trips to the bathroom are fewer than trips to the kitchen (for food, drink, hot-water bottle replenish) and gives you easier access to DVD player, book shelf etc etc.

I have meal times down to a "t" now. After years of practice I have learnt that as long as you have cereal and soup you can survive for a good few days.

The worst thing is having to dry your own hair. Not being one for laying around unclean for days on end, no matter how unwell I feel I like to have a shower, but your hair takes a considerable amount of energy (especially with the amount I have) and often means a few hours of sleep to recover.

Food Shopping

Shopping presents to me the greatest problem when it comes to being single and living alone. Living alone tends to mean small house, small kitchen, small fridge and freezer. Buying just two carrots or two potatoes etc etc is either impossible or means you have to pay twice as much and so my fridge is either empty, from the refusal to go shopping, or full of half rotten food from my inability to eat it all in time, which leaves me feeling very guilty for throwing out what was once good food.

I have tried many things over the years:
1. Bulk cooking from fresh - results in no more room in the freezer or eating the same thing for 4 days, this soon becomes very boring
2. Only eating frozen foods - gained about half a stone and felt hungry more often than not
3. Take away night every night - as 2. and a very dry bank account
4. Eating round a different friends house every night - worked well for a while, until they started catching on
5. Ready meals - buy far the easiest option until people like Jamie Oliver make you feel guilty and also expensive
6. Not eating at all - this lasted about 4 hours

I am waiting for one of these do gooder chefs to make a programme that might actually help me eat well, save money and not waste so much food.

Getting started

Well here goes, my first attempt at blogging. I am not a writer and have never even thought about writing before, but having had many discussions with a friend recently now the big 30 is closely approaching I thought I'd do a little self analysis.

So..... a little about me.... I am a single female and have lived on my own with my cat for the past 4 years. I am lucky enough to have amazing friends and family and I am far from being lonely, but find that being a single person living alone certainly has it's draw backs. Over the next however long it takes I'm going to looking into the sometimes funny, sometimes down right depressing and often frustrating aspects of my life!

This is far from being a moan, but more of a self fulfilling prophecy. I'm not really writing this for anyone to read, but just for myself to look back on when I'm happily married with 6 kids and cats so I can think to myself "life was grand".