2017-02-19 – Motivating myself.

My wife has a long list of jobs that she wants to do today, and is feeling overwhelmed.  I’m not feeling like doing very much at all (to be perfectly honest), but feel that I should be motivating myself to help her out – so I do!

I take the dog out for a quick morning stroll while my wife is making the tea and Nutriblasts, and then get stuck into being useful.

She has a load of stuff that she needs to print out for her youngest son’s fiancee’s baby shower, which is taking place next Saturday in Hevingham.  So, I locate the colour inkjet printer, bring it downstairs and print everything that she needs to be printed.

Then I clean the woodburner, emptying the ash and cleaning the soot from the glass in the doors.  I clean the hearth and then bring in a supply of kindling from the garden shed.  I spend some time clearing up some rubbish in the back garden, then split a load of logs and fill the log basket for this evening’s fire.

The dog is asking me (very nicely) to take her out again, so I oblige and spend a happy half hour throwing a ball for her on the field by the village hall. When we get back indoors I vacuum downstairs, and then feel that I have earned a little sit down.  I’m feeling pretty knackered – I think I overdid it in the garden, filling a sack with garden rubbish that I then struggled to lift into the wheelie bin – so I need to recover a little.  I’m still getting a significant amount of tremor breaking through on both sides – but mainly on the left.  Dystonia is a little worse today, but it has been worse, so I’m merely commenting (not complaining).  Voice is still on the weak side, balance and walking still a bit pants, weak and stiff muscles are still weak and stiff.

My wife prepares our meal while I get the fire going, and then I sit down to write my blog before getting an early night.

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