A Pint of Milk

I've not been doing much at all for the last few days, as I ate something that didn't agree with me. I stayed very close to the bathroom, and stuck to writing stuff and feeling sorry for myself. 

I have a pint of cow's milk in my fridge. Bear isn't a fan of the almond milk that I drink, and I don't usually have soy. Dairy makes me poorly, and I've had enough of that this week, and it doesn't really agree with DH either. So I got in the smallest practical unit for bear, because he likes cereal with either cow's milk or soy milk for breakfast. To the surpise of no-one, he didn't even open the carton. 

I'm frustrated by this, because now it's going to waste. If it was what I would consider normal times, I could offer it to a neighbour, preferably before it reached its 'use-by' date. However I hear the rows coming from the neighbours at the back, so I don't have the courage to knock there. Next door to the side never answers their door. They're lovely people and don't cause any fuss, but they never, ever open the door to knocking. Next door to that is empty and next door to that is someone where I can't say anything good, so I'm not saying anything at all. 

There are no houses in front of us. This is an old pic, but shows that the only ones that may be able to use up the milk are rats.

There are some young men doing thing with cars to the left of this picture, but after they abandoned a car in the middle of the street, and ignored us when we politely asked them to move it so that we could get deliveries, then we called the car in as abandoned after a few months, I don't think that we're on those sorts of terms. 

I'm annoyed at myself as I should have seen this coming and I hate the waste. Next time, I'll ask him to pick up milk for himself and I'll give him the money for it.

In other shopping news, I bought a packet of Overnight Oats. I've been making overnight oats for bear for ages. I used to get the tubs set up for him to pick up in the morning and he'd eat them when he got to college. It was just oats, chia seeds, almond milk (and he didn't complain about it then!), something like honey or agave sweetener, and cinnamon and he was fine with it. This had extra things like vitamins and stuff, though, and I picked it up on Tuesday in a moment of weakness. I feel a fool. I've spent far too much on what was described as overnight oats, but is also describe as instant overnight oats, ready in 3 minutes.

How can overnight oats be ready in 3 minutes? Doesn't it make them instant oats that can also be made the night before? I'll go back to the usual way after I've finished this packet. 

Writing stuff - I've finished the first round of editing on the complete White Hart collection. DH is checking it, but that's going to take some time. Then I'll check his edits, format, and attempt to publish. I should, in theory, be okay for the ebook, but it's pushing against the limits of the print book. It may not be possible. I'm going to have to work on this. Over a quarter of a million words takes up some space.

While that's going on in the background, I'm also collating the stories of Kane. I'll be adding a couple more new stories and I'll publish the collection at the same time as a separate novella that I'm working on. Because of the way that Amazon works, I'm going to have to take down all the Kane stories that are currently on my blog. I'll be doing that after Friday 13th March, which is as good a date as any when you're talking about ghost stories. I daren't post plans, as they never work out if I mention them aloud, but the collection of stories plus new novella should be along shortly after that. Please wish me luck. 

Hugs and good health to all.