Domesticated Bloggage
Domesticated Bloggage
Did You Know...
...that at 6.15am, 16,801 days ago I was born?
That's a long time ago, eh?
Hiatus Follows
In a nutshell; I'm tired and in pain. The fibro is giving me a right slapping leaving me whiney and miserable. All I can manage to do is rest and sleep.
It doesn't make for good reading.
I'll be back when I've got something more fun to talk about.
Spring Has Sprung
Today is the Vernal - or Spring - Equinox
Officially the end of winter this is a time for cleaning, egg painting and eating your spring greens!
Brightest blessings for Alban Eilir
Did You Know...
...more accidental suicides occur on St patrick's Day than any other day of the year?
Have a happy - and safe - St Patrick's Day
Paper Cuts
This site has everything you need to while away an afternoon:
Peter Callesen - Selected Works
All I've ever done is cut out paper chains or made a cardboard robot. His work is fabulous. Go see.
How True
It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.
Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 06-07-04
The fibro is biting right now. The pain has increased and I'm needing to sleep more. This yoyoing between being unable to sleep and then sleeping all the time is ridiculous. I take naps during the day and still need twelve hours at night.
I had hoped that I'd have less symptoms once I stopped working as I can live at a slower pace. That hasn't happened and, surprisingly, I feel disappointed about it. It was the wrong mindset: I gave up work because the fibro made working difficult, not that work made my fibro worse. Although there may have been some of the latter in my work/not work equation.
My eldest son has just gone back to work after some annual leave. He was so relieved to be busy again. He asked me how I can put up with such a slow, quiet day every day. I tell him, easily: this way I cope so much better. It's relatively stress and guilt-free. And that makes all the difference.
Mr Postman Made A Delivery
Look at what I got in the post
It's beautiful 100% wool sock yarn in a fingering/four ply weight. And I didn't buy it.
No really, I didn't.
Shocking as it may be, I'm keeping the letter of law on the Knit From Stash this year. I really didn't buy it.
I did some work for HipKnits and was paid in part with yarn.
I know it's sneaky but it is lovely and I already have ideas for it.
I think I may have become a yarnaholic :)
Did You Know...
...over a lifetime, people who use loose-leaf tea strainers spend an extra two weeks making cups of tea over those who use teabags?
I drink Assam tea - made using tea bags - with no sugar and just a splash of skimmed milk.
Which are you: tea or coffee?
Busy Busy Busy
Where does all my time go? I'm one of the most organised people I know - I live by the To Do List method - and I still don't have any time to cram everything in. I think I'm busier now than when I had 5 hours taken out of my day working for royal mail.
Why?
Well, the reasons are innumerable but it doesn't help that we start a whole gamut of birthdays and such in Chateau DB this month. Plus I'm trying to catch up with all the household chores that only got a brief once over while I was working (there's no excuse now) and, of course, there's the knitting.
And here are another couple of reasons:
This is Grandson1 pictured sleepy and relaxed.
And Grand-daughter3 much happier in her mum's arms than when we had her posing in her cardigan that I'd test knitted for a designer.
I can't get enough of either of them. I visit both homes as many times in a week as I'm able which is very frustrating for Himself who never gets a look in with them once I have hold of them. He ends up being little more than my chauffeur!
I'd best get on. Today I have grocery shopping and birthday present shopping *and* I need to get a box of pressies ready to post up to Scotland for grand-daughter2's birthday on Monday.
Anyone got any spare time they can let me have?
Being Grandma
What a busy weekend!
Saturday I babysat for Daughter1. Grand-daughter3 is now 6 weeks old and both Daughter1 and her DH were suffering from cabin fever. This past 6 weeks has been hard work for them both - Daughter1 had a C section that became infected almost immediately. It took 5 weeks and 5 different lots of antibiotics to finally clear it. Add to that grand-daughter3 appears to be lactose intolerant (like her big sister) and seems to get colicky at the drop of the hat. They needed some time to themselves. I didn't mind babysitting. I was looking forward to spending time with both grandchildren. Grand-daughter1 and I were going to spend some time knitting as long as grand-daughter3 let us. Which she did. They were both very well behaved in fact. I had the pleasure of watching Spongebob Squarepants with Grand-daughter1 and Grand-daughter3 soon fell asleep. Does Spongebob squarepants have a point at all? I mean does an episode actually have a storyline as it all seemed very random to me. Grand-daughter1 thought it was hilarious but I had trouble understanding it. I'm obviously just too old.
On the way home I caught the lunar eclipse. It was beautiful and the skies kindly stayed clear so we could catch it all.
Yesterday we had Daughter3 and Grandson2 over for the afternoon. Grandson2 is at the babbling stage punctuated occasionally with a real word. He's just adorable. He brought a couple of his favourite toys with him (two train engines) and sat chatting away to himself as he played with them on the coffee table. Every now and then we'd hear "no way!" or "oh wow!" which had us all giggling. He obviously listens to his mum when she's on the phone as these are two of her favourite sayings. Not too much running around after him either. He's 19 months old now and his attention span is increasing. He must have spent a good 45 minutes to an hour with us yesterday being artistic on some pieces of paper. I've kept them, of course, and will pin them up on my wall.
I'm paying for it all today. I'm very sore and feel out of energy. That's to be expected, I suppose. Himself tells me it doesn't matter and to have a lazy day today. I should really do the ironing but the lazy day is much more appealing. maybe I'll do the ironing this afternoon. After several cups of rejuvenating tea :)
Did You Know...
...that one in ten people have more than two nipples?
I have three, my eldest son has four.
In the lore of the witch, this is claimed to be an extra teat or nipple on a witch's body from which she or he permitted a familiar or imp to suckle human blood which these creatures supposedly craved. Although extra nipples appear naturally in a small percentage of the population, a fact which was either not widely known or disregarded in medieval times, these extra bodily protuberances took on an infernal association during this period.VIA
Good job I've been born now rather than then, eh?
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