Sorry, folks...

[wiseheart]

... for not having commented properly for a while. My days have been so full with... nothing, basically, just chores and housework and bouts of physical and mental exhaustion. I'll try to do better by you, I swear!

That said, today I made an early food run, then assisted our cleaning lady, then spent a couple of hours with restoring the original configuration of the flat... and then it was 2pm already. We ate leftover soup and a sandwich and vegetated in front of the telly for an hour. Then I spent another hour or so with finally rearranging my musical sheets, grouping them accordingly the three events we'll (hopefully) have in the next four months - we practice for them in no particular order, but it helps to have them separated.

Socially, it was a good day, as H. (Little Emma's grandmother) and my friend Evie called me back (I'd tried to reach them yesterday), so there were some highlights to the day. Still, both Mum and I are quite tired, plus she managed to lie on her left hand in an awkward pose last night, so now it hurts and she has little strength to it. We put some special salve on it and she was wearing that... thing I had once bought for myself when I strained my thumb for half the day, so it's marginally better now. But she really didn't need any additional pain beyond her already aching joints. :(

Comments

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Hope your mum will get better soon! It´s so hard to see those old people struggle against old age!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

True. Fortunately, Mum is a tough cookie and rarely allows circumstances to beat her. Aching hand or not, she still did the washing up today, too.

[meathiel]

I hope your mum's hand gets better soon.

And yay for calls from friends!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Calls from friends are gifts.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, because my hand has gone numb. Oh, the joys of getting older.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I hear you! I tend to sleep in an awkward position, and then my spine will hurt for weeks afterwards!

[beauty-forashes.livejournal.com]

No worries, I'm often behind too. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It still frustrates me, though. Sometimes it appears that there's less and less time for things I actually like to do — or I'm too dead on my feet to do them, even if there is time.

[beauty-forashes.livejournal.com]

I had that for a long time after I moved here. It seemed I was just working, working, working. And the house, property, garden and things like food preserving really are a lot of work. But it helped me to slowly prioritize what's *really* important, what's important to me personally, and how to make time to do things I really enjoy just to enjoy doing them. I had to take small steps with that, since I was so used to working myself silly every day. But I cut out things that made no sense whatsoever. Like cleaning things that weren't even dirty just because it was "time to clean". I actually did that a lot and don't know how many precious life hours I wasted with it. Or growing things in the garden I don't even really enjoy eating, just time wasters like that which eroded my quality of life in the end and did nothing but wear me out too much to enjoy life. Right now my floors could use a mopping, but you know what? I don't care because I don't feel like doing it, haha! Just a year ago, I'd have seen that and felt like my whole life was spinning out of control. It was so liberating to let go of a lot of those control-freak tendencies I have.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Just doing basic stuff fills the days all too well...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And basic stuff seems to take more time the older you get...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh doesn't it just!

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Wishing you energy and rest. Hope your Mum's hand is better soon.