Monday, 16 February 2026

#BlogLife1019 - Off on off period after 2 months../BT renewal

I think what's making me feel even worse is that I'm lightly spotting but it keeps stop-starting and that was it, 1-2 days and it finished.

Two months of nothingness that I was hoping it stopped forever. I'm in my late forties, it could happen..

It's never been regular, skipping a few months is nothing out of the ordinary..

Having multiples periods in a month is also routine for me, mine's just odd, it can't make up it's mind.

It can be the lightest or heaviest flow and it's the same with pmt, bloating, cramps, nausea, fatigue, chocolate or sugary cravings..

It just tends to vary one month to another..

Oh that was craziness, so that's why BT was calling I didn't know my contract with broadband was expiring soon.

I thought the mobile and the broadband was at the same time but I just realised I had to wait to upgrade because I wasn't getting a good offer.

I'll pay a pound extra, get a new hub/router thingy, whatever you want to call it.

It's ridiculous £10 for delivery yeesh, but there is 2x free engineer appointments, 1 per year, that's good.

Allegedly they guarantee wifi or £100 back, it's a pound extra but at least it's not much higher, I was hoping for lower.

But the offer that made my eyes pop out, if only my mobile contract was over..

I pay £18 now, he offered me £10 a month and 20gb of data.... What on earth!

Decades ago, they wouldn't give you any data, or would charge you so much more for it, that it wasn't affordable..

Now the running joke when they ask if I need data? Not much 1 to 2gb would do, is they keep increasing the amount.

From 6gb, to 5gb and now offered 20gb? Lol, ridiculous.

But because my contract isn't over, I'd have to pay cancellation fees so it's not worth it to have 2x contracts..

But wowser what a deal, a tenner a month, amazing. I will definitely call BT and not EE from now on.

Although only EE does the phones, that would be nice if the deal is still going, doubtful but handy.

I hope the router is easy to fix up, I dread doing that. I'm hoping also that, it improves the wifi, it's not great at present.

We'll see. I gotta hustle and finish the UC stuff so I can start the Looney Tunes event.

Plus I really should eat some food, it's lunchtime. I'm definitely feel tired and sore today as I expected too.

I don't want to do anything but lounge. I have some cleaning to do, I'll see how I feel over the weekend.

I just booked the grocery shopping for tomorrow so that's done.

There might be foodie reviews next week, well this week, when this is posted..

Ugh idiots, I told the landlord to text or email when the stock condition people were due, checked the post and missed another appointment.

No notice at all, twits! I got most of the neighbours mail again, redelivered that.

The shopping came, the chicken pizza was in stock, yay... The bread to make toasties was not.

Either I'll use Just Eat groceries or Ocado Zoom to buy bread. I fancy sushi but not fishy, but with avocado..

It's all sold out on Zoomy, the avocado one isn't listed, the veggy one is mostly just carrots, doesn't seem exciting.

Oh the router hub thingy from BT is coming later with a special or the ordinary Postie.....

Let's hope they deliver it to me and not the greedy neighbours..

Well the modem was just dropped off outside my door by the time I got to it they had left.

I think I set it up correctly, I decided to use all the new wires that came with it, maybe that's why my wifi is weak..

Maybe I made a mistake it's disconnected once already, if it keeps happening I'll have to call BT.

It's saying medium instead of weak signal which is good and just as I said that it went back to weak, now back to medium ha.

Very rarely has it ever said strong. The thing is while other parts of the country have reported snow, here it is oddly summery, sunshiney and warm.

I guess I will see if there is any difference, whether pages are quicker to load or how much the connection drops.

Plus will this make a big difference to the wifi call reception? Will I be heard completely without someone saying, I can barely decipher what you're saying or you're cutting out..

It's hard to tell with new equipment, I always feel like it needs to settle and find it's groove for now.

I don't have big issues but I know it's especially jittery when I use the microwave, it really hates that.

The box it came in was huge but slim, I was wondering how big it was but I think it's the same size.

I want to bin the old ones, I didn't realise I still had them. I'm also glad they didn't mention upgrading to fibre optic broadband, Mama had that and it's ridiculously bad.

I got to remember to change the wifi on the spare phone as well and that's it, no more devices, 2x mobiles, 1 laptop.

If we're getting bright sunshine in winter, does this mean in summer there will be snow?

I'm just going to add to this as I had a call about the stock condition appointment direct from the landlord.

That was cool because she offered an appointment this week and I thought good get it out of the way.

Surprisingly there were slots at the weekend and I thought just in case UC wants to see me, make it for then and it won't clash.

So I did it for Sunday morning 9-12pm and told her it might take me a while to get to the door, can they be patient and she said she'll let them know and I might get a call when they are on the way.

So that is finally settled at long last. I just need to do a tiny bit of sprucing.

Change the bed, wipe the bath and sink, mop the floors, wash the sheets and that's it.

I hate giving up the weekends, I like to rest and sleep in but this appointment has been weighing on me and finally it will be over.

I'm still nervous about strange men in my place but it's just a routine job, I'll have my phone and earbuds in and try to reassure myself I'm safe.

and maybe avoid the small rooms they are in like the bathroom and bedroom.

That's my plan for survival, as for cleaning, 1 room per day is my manageable plan.