Urk! Yesterday, after the feeling of "getting our lives back", post-guest, was instead a day of feeling sorry for myself. ( Read more... )

Yesterday we took advantage of Jake's fondness for driving, and went out of Our New Hometown in a car. Well, we took a little while to get going - a long sit that was effectively breakfast at our local, first, so we were really underway by lunch. dear_hubby then made a quick trip into the local tourist office, emerging with a map of the local region that had ( Read more... )

...and my companions, dear_hubby and our visitor from Dublin.

After the suppressed litany of disasters that was our Friday afternoon, we settled to a local restaurant and had a wonderful meal, very restorative, very compensatory (for some values of compensation...) Jake ordered a local dish, containing little blood-sausages of slightly different sizes ( ( Read more... )

dear_hubby's pain level has not improved, ack! Well, only a little, he says, but he's still effectively handicapped, without the use of the hands. Except, at least, for sipping coffee and... as he so proudly put it, wiping his own backside. (sound FX: deep sigh of relief from me ( Read more... )

Deadlines are never a good idea, I'm thinking.

We have Jake here, which is a good thing. But during the day, dear_hubby pushed himself repeatedly, too much. ( Read more... )

It's not every night that dear_hubby comes late to bed, and many times, this doesn't even bother me. But for some reason last night, the entrance of himself to the bedroom jarred me from a sound sleep. That would be the first sleep-cycle disturbed then, urk.

( More fun in the bedroom... not. )

For folks who like to compare. ( Read more... )

So, breakfast was a nominally normal combination of egg, mushroom, cheese and toast. But, wait! ( 'There's more!' )

Because today hurts. The period's arrived. Twenty-four days after the previous one. Boo! (I thought once every 26 was bad enough. I'll have to ask the GP if they get closer together pre-menopause, before they begin the final slide into past tense ( Read more... )

I had a good aikido class, last night. Made extra so by the consolidation effect of the weekend's special training sessions (even if I only was on the mat for the morning ones, my muscles having stiffened past the point I could warm them up before the afternoon session - okay, I'm a baby...)

This morning, I am stretching a bit, half-asleep and - ( Read more... )