The Little Spoonie

Today I write to you from the salon chair, can you tell I love the blogger iPhone app?! I'm having a girls day with my mum, and we are both getting our hair coloured, then going out for lunch! Last night the lovely Debbie came and did our nails, she has been doing our nails for ages and even did our nails for my wedding! So all in all its been quite a titivating few days! I am certainly feeling like 'a lady who lunches' this week! ;)

So now you have had that terribly interesting update, on with the actual post. :p

Today I want to share with you the food-related epiphany I had this week.

As I have mentioned I have two chronic illnesses, and sometimes they leave me very fatigued, occasionally even bed- or couch-ridden. This usually leads to a lack of eating any kind of nourishing food during the day whilst Scott is at work (as I don't have my wonderful 'mummy' staying with me to look after me), so I don't usually eat well till Scott comes in and is able to make us a nice dinner! 

Cue my food epiphany: chicken and tomato pasta! This week I found this filling lunch that I think I would be able to rustle up on my super bad days! Now I'm not saying that everyone will be able to do this on bad days, or even at all, so please no feeling bad if you can't! But, I wanted to share it with you in case it works for you! 

So, these are all the ingredients I used:

- A tub of tomato and marscapone sauce that you can put into the microwave (I used Asda's own)

- Cooked sliced chicken breast (it comes in a packet, so you don't need to do it yourself)

- Brown pasta 

- A little salt and olive oil for the pasta water

- Parmesan (totally optional, but I love my Parmesan!). You can either get a block, or the grated kind! 

The method!

This time I cooked both the pasta and the sauce on the hob, because I wasn't feeling too bad. I simply boiled the water in the kettle, chucked that in the pot with a little salt and oil, and put the pasta in according to the packet instructions.

I put the sauce in another pot and gently heated it up, it got a little too hot and started sticking to the pan so I added a little of the pasta water to it to sort it out. I then chopped/tore up the chicken into little bits and popped it in the sauce to warm through. After the pasta was cooked, I popped it in with the chicken, mixed it through and sprinkled Parmesan over the top and - voila! 

In order to modify it for low spoon days, I would heat the sauce in the microwave according to the instructions and then bung the chicken in for about 30 secs to warm through! And then combine as usual!

Here is what mine looked like: 

Yummy!

I have had many attempts to write to you over the past few weeks, here they are for your reading pleasure, with a helpful guide to different attempts:

So, it has been a lot longer than I ever intended to be, but no matter, I have returned!

It is at this point I would usually give up, on this whole blogging thing, because I didn't keep the momentum going with my writing and so all of the self doubt and laziness would creep in. And then all of the excuses would pop into my head and fall carelessly from my lips, and that would be the end of that.

I guess what is different about this is that I have mentioned to a few people that I am doing this, and so they ask about it occasionally, and I feel a bit embarrassed that I have to tell them I have only done one post!

I also feel a bit directionless, and so I have hope that this will keep me anchored whilst I figure out my 'next move'. I put that phrase in inverted commas because I think it sounds a bit lame. (It actually took me several tries to come up with the word lame, as I was looking for a more reasonable alternative to 'douche-y'.) 

Anyway, I digress!

I'm back and I have some great news -we are getting the keys to our new house on the 11th of August! A house to decorate and make all our own, I can't wait! Whilst we are supremely grateful to my parents for letting us stay with them whilst we get everything sorted, it will be great to have our own house again! There will be many posts about our new house and the trials and tribulations of owning and decorating one, I'm sure!

I'm going to end it here for now, and leave you with a cute picture of Watson snuggling me!

This is the start of what will be my millionth attempt at blogging (or possibly the 5th attempt, but who is really counting?), lucky you, dear reader.

Yes I am, in fact, calling you "dear reader", which does remind me of Jane writing in Jane Eyre and yes it does feel vaguely ‘old timey’ but there we are. 

Anyway.

This is my place on the internet where I will hopefully find my own unique writing style, and is somewhere I can share my life experiences with people, hopefully making some friends along the way. I don’t have many hobbies, so I’m hoping this could become one.

My husband swears I’m interesting, and people would most definitely want to read my blog and watch my Vlogs (if I ever make any). I can’t help but think he is biased, but I’m doing it anyway, because it looks like fun and it is something I have always wanted to try.

Here are a few key facts about me, that I think will relate to this blog’s content and direction.

I am a female and I am 22, nearly 23.

I really like to bake, and will probably make too many posts with too many pictures of my baking creations as I will be so darn proud of them!

I have a 2:1 BA Hons Degree in English and Film, although you might not be able to actually tell from my writing, something that I want to work on!

I have two chronic illnesses: Endometriosis and Fibromyalgia, they suck.

I am recently married, to a man I have been with since I was 16 years old, and who has been my best friend for almost all of that time.

We are the proud owners of a gorgeous Border Terrier named Watson, who can be a little shit at times, but is almost always up for a snuggle!

In a week or so from when I write this, we will be moving back to our hometown, to our very first house. This is both exciting and scary in equal doses, as I never ever imagined we would move from the city back to ‘that place’.  (Side note:  I have lost touch with many of my friends back in my hometown [many through choice], although I still have one or two good ones, so that makes the move a little more daunting).

I have already left my job as a retail sales assistant here in the city, and will not be looking for a job straight away, and so will effectively be a ‘housewife’. This is a weird concept for me, as when I imagined my life, this is not exactly the way I thought it would turn out. I have a 2:1 BA Hons degree in English and Film, and I imagined that I would be doing some kind of cool job in a publishing house, or a digital media based company.

The reason that I am not even going to look for a job straight away is due to the fact that I have two chronic illnesses – Fibromyalgia and Endometriosis (If you have any questions about what they are you can feel free to ask in the comments, and I will probably cover what they are in later posts if you want to wait!).

Working as a sales assistant really took its toll on my health, and so I need the time to recover and get a bit healthier (read: lighter) before I will be able to look for another job. This actually makes me panic a bit, because I don’t want to miss out on having an awesome career, just because of my crappy health, and I can already feel people judging me because I won’t be working and will be relying on the support of my husband and family (who by the way, are really the most supportive people I could ever ask for, I honestly don’t know what I would do without their love and support).

Anyway, I will be a young housewife, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing at all, it's just very different to what I originally wanted for myself, and it is a bit hard to adjust to because it doesn’t totally feel like my choice.

So I said a few key facts and this kind of turned into a huge ramble about this new chapter in my life! If you read this far you get a smile and a gold star from me.

I will end it here for now, and will be back soon. I haven’t come up with a signature sign off, so this will have to do for now:

Until next time,

The Little Spoonie  ❤