Reading my blog makes me tired
There were many feelings when I read back through my old entries and many of those were expected, so in some senses they aren't interesting. The unexpected ones are interesting to anyone but me, but are useful when it comes to filling in forms.
If you've ever had the misfortune to fill in forms for DLA (and probably some other things to), you'll find it's all about what you can't do not what you can do and that is actually quite depressing. Last time I found one of thing things I could't do was fill in the forms - I can't actually remember why, there are so many things that can go wrong to affect that, so I got my mum to do it. Fortunately these days I don't live with my parents and (touch wood) my writing ability is mostly present.
What I really noticed was that I did things - and if I did think I was too tired to cook, I didn't bat an eyelid going out for dinner, these days if I'm too tired to cook, I'm too tired to go out to eat, the back up plan is not eating.
I explored, I did new things, I browsed shops. These days shopping is never walking up and down all the possible aisles it's hitting the locations where I know there is something I need and if I can't find something, tough, it doesn't get bought. That said I do feel lucky that at the moment I can go to a big supermarket, park as close as possible and manage to walk around it a bit, there have been times when I couldn't do that and believe me, mobility scooters in supermarkets are a real pain in the butt, it's as if you are invisible.
If you've ever had the misfortune to fill in forms for DLA (and probably some other things to), you'll find it's all about what you can't do not what you can do and that is actually quite depressing. Last time I found one of thing things I could't do was fill in the forms - I can't actually remember why, there are so many things that can go wrong to affect that, so I got my mum to do it. Fortunately these days I don't live with my parents and (touch wood) my writing ability is mostly present.
What I really noticed was that I did things - and if I did think I was too tired to cook, I didn't bat an eyelid going out for dinner, these days if I'm too tired to cook, I'm too tired to go out to eat, the back up plan is not eating.
I explored, I did new things, I browsed shops. These days shopping is never walking up and down all the possible aisles it's hitting the locations where I know there is something I need and if I can't find something, tough, it doesn't get bought. That said I do feel lucky that at the moment I can go to a big supermarket, park as close as possible and manage to walk around it a bit, there have been times when I couldn't do that and believe me, mobility scooters in supermarkets are a real pain in the butt, it's as if you are invisible.