Thursday, and I am lying low, trying to avoid any thursday-ish occurences. I dared to go into the outdoors earlier to attempt some herb-garden-weeding but I stood on a very hot and melted citronella candle and burnt my foot.
I have retreated to the indoors with air-con pumping and curtains drawn, in order to clean the house in relative comfort. No sharp objects. Did I mention I stabbed myself in the back of the hand with a stanley knife whilst covering schoolbooks?
The girls started back at school yesterday (yr 2 n 7) with much excitement! Today was much less enthusiastic with both kids worn out from the big first day back and the return to usual routine. I helped Titchy to unpack into yr2, she’s already quite familiar with it all due to the cleverness of her and being moved up to year two for literacy and maths last year. I’m sure she’ll be back to usual form soon and asking the teacher if she can help teach the class. Lil was nervous but excited about her new class – Senior!! She has made an awful lot of resolutions and set a lot of goals for the year so I hope she can keep a few of them up and make herself proud!
I’m finding my current workload very do-able, and enjoying it while I can, trying to get a lot done around the house. I know it will become hectic and draining soon enough with the return to Study and Prac. I think I’ll just do one day a week of Prac this term and study at my own pace – if certain Government Departments aren’t happy with that then i shall suggest and recommend to them the practice of eating shit and dying.
Yesterday I was amazed at how much more I can get done with the girls at school! It’s bizarre when they are both fairly independent and self-sufficient that they are so much more work, almost as though just being in close approximation to them exhausts me. I guess when I am home alone there is a lot less talking, nagging, and thinking for three people while simultaneously keeping track of who’s eaten/washed/dressed, who’s playing/messing what and how everyone is feeling. It is life draining. So yesterday I did my meetings in town, cooked myself a scrummy lunch, ironed and hung curtains, cleaned up the kitchen, swept and tidied then slept deeply for 1 hour before picking up the kids. After Snack and Homework time, I started weeding the herb garden. Turns out it’s mostly weeds and mint in there, with the occasional sprig of a struggling tomato or basil and a good clump of chives. It’s that fantastic big clump of chives i’ve been nurturing for 4 years now that qualifies it as a ‘herb’ garden and not just another weed patch. I have great plans for that patch, so listen up Thyroid and general health: don’t mess with me, ok? I have gardening to do;)
Today I am washing, washing, washing and cleaning out the kitchen dumping grounds cupboards. I have an extremely sore left shoulder/back muscle thanks to carrying the school books/reams of copy paper up to school yesterday. I’m trying to take things easy and make no sudden movements in order to prevent a cramp. That last one lasted for months. I’m taking nurofen and magnesium/calcium to help too.
I see my new (old) doctor on Tuesday, shall be interesting to see what she makes of my latest diagnosis’is;) I never did phone in for my Lupus/MS test results but I’m assuming they were all clear, a Dr would ring you about something like that, right? My usual (fave) Dr.M has gone on maternity leave, so it’s back to Dr.J who was the one who first diagnosed me with Hashimoto’s (only because i cried and begged and refused to eat the antidepressants until everything physical was ruled out) I hope that she will listen to my latest brand of whinging without whipping out that script book again, Sure, i get depressed sometimes but that is Because of the physical illness – fix my sick and i’ll be happy as Larry:) (whoever he is)
Ok, time to hang wash and de-clutter things. i’m sure i had more to report?? but I’ll be back, promise;) m.
