A day with a distinct lack of fairies.

I don’t quite know where today went. I seem to have had one of those days when you run very fast, and get nowhere?

There’s the usual – feeding people, housework bits, feeding cats (only one cat, but he bleats so much he seems like more than one), popping to the shops for more milk, ferrying children places, feeding people again…

And the day’s evaporated. I didn’t do my physio today – there was so much pain after the assessment and first day of exercises yesterday that I declared today a rest day, and I think it was a good plan. Despite two drives into town, I’m not in nearly as much pain tonight as I was yesterday.

We still did picture book advent, although Smallest firmly declined the Snowman – ‘you can’t read a book without words!’ Instead she fetched one of the wintry books from the little chest she’d bought herself, and we read about the Ice Princesses and their battle with the Fire Witch. And I bit back comments about high heeled shoes in an ice kingdom and turned the pages rapidly.

I don’t like getting to the end of the day and not knowing where it went. I’ve been wrestling with wordpress, fiddling with analytics, and there was a decent 20 minutes or so that went south when one of my email accounts locked me out (gmail being so secure that even I couldn’t access my own mail). But that doesn’t add up to a day. I think there may have been some sitting around feeling sorry for myself, and there was definitely a slot this afternoon, before I went shopping, when I gazed into the air for a bit.

Hm. Might keep a timesheet tomorrow. Right now, though, quick sketch and bed.

(and there goes half an hour flicking through twitter, reading a couple of articles, browsing my groups on facebook… I think I may see where the problem is.)

Have a roadside flower.


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