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.