Don’t tread on the lines..

Today I went shopping with my family, and for the first time used my device whilst out all day.

Observations I would like to share;

-staff in shops are really friendly when you talk with them, many ending with ‘have a lovely day’ and it definitely sounded genuine. That was nice.

-staff are VERY appreciative if you offer them a Krispy Kreme Doughnut. I had 12 so had plenty. That made me happy.

-watching families in a restaurant, with children behaving like a young children, is a really lovely experience when your children are older but you remember similar times fondly.

Isn’t your brain clever.

You KNOW it was awful at times and often pushed you to drink and swear too much, but clever brain tells you this was a happy lovely, and even -dare I say ‘missed’ - time.

Tricky little trickster

-lots of shops have huge big fabulous fans just randomly put in the middle of the shop floor, this was very welcome. It was rather pleasant having a gush of fresh air blown on you whilst pottering around the aisles, albeit looking literally like it has just been plonked on the shop floor.

-I LOVE shopping bags. The paper, environmentally friendly ones, or even better the material ones - not plastic.

Every shop I bought something from, asked if I would like a bag, they then proceeded to show me a lovely ‘can not say no to this bag’ bag. I didn’t really need them, but they were all either ‘feel good’ bags, or ‘cool creative’ ones. I felt fabulous walking around displaying them all, basically showing off. I could have out them all inside one big bag, or just say no. But I did not.

This is not encouraging me to reuse shopping bags for shopping. I DO reuse them, but never remember to take them shopping, ever.

-I think everyone has become really friendly, chatty and smiley. This may be a side effect of the sunny weather, or possibly my medication. But I hope it is just that people are just becoming more lovely.

-So many shop floors tiles are perfect for an ‘on your own’ game of ‘do not stand on the lines’, but also ‘do not crash into anyone (or anything) else’ and ‘try and look normal’.

As an extra bonus, I feel like I can now tick off at least one day’s exercise.

Hello Crash Menopause

I am 42 and just had my Ovaries and Fallopian tubes removed. Things I have learned so far;

• I won’t be officially in menopause until 12 months of no periods - so June 2026.

• I need to take utrogestan and Progesterone

• Everyone I have spoken to so far prefers the Gel utrogestan (put on inner thighs in the morning)

• My Progesterone needs to be taken before bed on an empty stomach…goodbye late night snack bowls.

• It is very easy to forget new medication so reminders on Alexa AND my phone telling me to stop eating snacks 9pm and take medicine 11pm etc helps a bit and forcing us to eat dinner at a socially civilised time, or really quickly at 8.55pm

• For the purpose of my blog starting from now the F word will be replaced by the word Glug (dedicated to my awesome Gluggle Juggle who has given me hours of totally unfunny laughing during my ‘post op recovering on good pain meds’ days. I have moments of complete ‘I do not give a glug’. Serious, I give less of a glug than I have ever done before. It is such a beautiful peaceful feeling. Blissfully unphased and clearly eerily giving off ‘do not glugging come near me, do not talk to me, do not breathe me air, but yes I do want snacks’ vibes.

• I have started to firmly believe in telepathy - I meet random women and they just know. Suddenly everyone is super lovely and nice.

• Medical Cannabis has certainly made the experience so far quite pleasant.

• Oh and I am hot - really glugging hot - and it would be wise not to use the phase ‘I am too, it is hot’ around me or in my home or online

• Cooling blanket so far has been welcome, I think, I am undecided. I may just be in the ‘not giving a glug’ stage, it might be fabulous.

Oh final thing that is by far my favourite;

• I can have someone implant an embryo and still have a pregnancy and baby! Not my eggs though, they’ve been disected and probably turned to dust now - I did ask to keep them in a jar but this request was denied.

Being productive

I was very specific when discussing ‘my needs’ at my consultation with Curaleaf that I needed to be productive, calm, feel amazing, not be anxious or paranoid and NOT get the munchies.

So far on my new ‘productive happy meds’ I have built a website, three facebook pages (LoveNangie, Medicnation420 and DoNotAsk Frank), many reels (slowly getting better and less slapdash), learning how to use Photoshop (I have a book for every obsession so hoping this one will be used), and the ideas are just flooding. Luckily we have been ‘sorting’ which means I have found my many many notebooks where I have used just one page, so now have three project books to scribble random ideas in, and try and keep track of my gazillion ‘free trials’ which I must remember to cancel before I have to re-mortgage my home.

My blog currently is bitty, as in missing 8 years, I had my Facebook hacked last year and lost loads of stuff, so will be slowly filling them in and talking more about my diet - plant based and fish, including meal plans I have used and favourite recipes. Having a double mastectomy and my Gourmet fed chickens who are probably given a better breakfast than my children.

Thank you for all the lovely feedback so far and do send me a message if there is anything specific you want to know

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