Except that sensibly I didn’t set myself end targets. Otherwise I’d be very tempted to give up, having basically lost a day yesterday.
It passed in a bit of a tired painful blur. It’s amazing how little you can get done when walking hurts, when sitting hurts, when being bumped in to hurts. So all I did was take Big to rookie lifeguard (where she found out she came top of the group in their Silver two badge test) and then have tea cooked for me. Bonus. Oh hang on, I did do food shopping as well. Therein lies another post I feel, in a day or two.
And then today, I felt much better. So much better that in a burst of enthusiasm I ran this morning. And then discovered that it still hurt to move fast…but I ran, nevertheless. And I sorted, and I cleared out virtual inboxes, and sorted out the spam on my blog, and blocked/reported some spam followers. Twittered around a bit, then did things like washing – in off the line, out on to the line, into the machine. Prepared seedtrays, then was very cross with myself when I couldn’t find the seeds. Thought I’d found all the documents I needed, but was horribly wrong.
A one step forward two steps back kind of day. In which I twitched my way through over an hour off twitter while I washed up, hung out washing, planted seeds with two of the children, parcelled up and finally posted parcels. Steps back in that I thought I’d got documents but hadn’t, couldn’t find the seeds I’d wanted to plant so had to plant others (and have just realised I’ve left them all out in the cold so they are probably going to freeze tonight anyway *sigh* ) and I have not acquitted myself with glory with the children this evening.
We’ve all got colds. And we’re all a little fraught, thinking of friends going through difficult things. Which means that instead of being kind to each other, we’re all being snappy and horrid. It’s not good. It’s another pattern we need to break, but for now, recognising it will have to be enough of an achievement.
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