Far and Away

That is great progress on your assignment @Faith-and-Hope Hope the rest comes easy for you to finish this afternoon.

It would be lovely to have the popcorn birds around but does show you have found a space in the East that you feel comfortable in too. It is also a lovely day here today. I have cleaned up the toys and rugs/doona/pillow - even washing the couch doona cover after Dog was sleeping on it. He is a bit of a dribbler after he drinks so it needed to be washed. It should dry pretty quickly in the breeze we have here this afternoon.

I even made the bed and got the washing in so getting there in baby steps. Toby is spread out on the couch after his adventure to my sister's place - worn himself out with all the attention he got lol

Next job is folding the washing and sorting out some of the schoolwork to mark and start writing reports on. There are some books I will need to take back tomorrow for them to work in but the rest can wait. I do need to go through them all though to see what I need to finish off with the kids and what groups I need to put them in to do so. ...a lot of work to get done today - I'll have to do some while I watch the Eels play in their NRL elimination final. Not expecting a win there either so very likely both of my teams will be out of the race this weekend

Oh detox day Hon - now that makes sense with all your symptoms. Look after yourself - I hope you can feel a bit better as the day goes on

@Faith-and-Hope do you still get to see your finbabies. Thought of you when I saw a video clip of these dolphin online. recently (and roses and sunflowers and art...). Smart 🐋playful 🐬 creatures 🐬

Dolphins watching two squirrel play

Thanks @Zoe7 .... I think it was the fact that it was all rolled into a late night, low sleep, then a flight, that I didn’t join the dots till now. I couldn’t work out why it was making me feel so ill, and had put that down to the stinking drains in the unit. They certainly didn’t help .... I am going to have to plan for that when I am going to be here.

Great that you are starting to settle into the school work. Sometimes I need to “next” before I can settle to a task I am not looking forward to.

Hiya @Zoe7 , hope you catch up on sleep. When's the school holidays? 🦋

@Faith-and-Hope making up some 'Tawney's Magic Soup' today, with extra garlic and Tumeric... to make you better. Oh dear hope it's not glandular fever, universities are great at passing that around. Rest and fluids 💗

Honestly Hon you have so much going on so it is not surprising you didn't join the dots. Any of those things alone would be causing stress but pile them all on together and it certainly affects you - whether it is a detox day or not @Faith-and-Hope

The stinky drains would be really unsettling - nothing worse than trying to find some sense of home in a place that is not conducive to that with unwanted smells. I hope there is a solution to that for you certainly can't be running hot water all the time to try to reduce the smell

Yes bit by bit and putting aside the hardest things to try to get a little done - hopefully that will give me a little more encouragement later to tackle the bigger things. Having the stress of not having enough money in my account removed has certainly helped - it was just another thing that I was worried about - so grateful to my sister for helping out

Hi @Former-Member Probably won't be catching up on any sleep today - too much to get done but will hope to do that early enough to get some sleep tonight. Two more weeks until the school holidays and I am very much looking forward to the break. Knowing I won't be there next year has taken a lot out of me the last 2 days - was feeling completely overwhelmed, flat and useless yesterday - slightly better today but still not great. I think if I can get some things ticked off today that will help - already started so that is a bonus.

How are you?

Hi @Former-Member 👋 💕

Much appreciate the dolphin pic 😆 and the soup. That’s probably what I need. Will see if this cafe has soup for lunch, but yours is the best.

I was unwell years ago with Metabolic Syndrome @Former-Member , and while I don’t have it any more (blood tests while that that profile is no longer there) I am stuck with junk-fat stores that my body is reluctant to unpack .....healthy eating and exercise patterns don’t move it, de-stressing does ..... it releases some more very now and then and makes me feel very unwell for 8 - 12 hours when it does, but that detox has its own “profile” aka the symptoms ticked above.

It makes sense that I had a bout of detox arrive at the back end of 10 days hubby-free .... but then landed to high-stress circumstances here yesterday morning .....

That’s my rollercoaster for ya ....

I am taking it slow @Former-Member - that is the only pace I have today lol

You have a big couple of days coming up with the funeral so reach out when you need to help you get through the day