A Very Frustrating Total Waste of a Day
Yesterday I waited in all day since the evening of the day before for a plumber and drainage people because raw sewage has been seeping its way up inside our downstairs wet room and toilet, bubbling noises coming from the two downstairs sinks, the smell has been out of this world and I had started to feel totally sick to my stomach. The repair was set as a 24 hour emergency, I phoned it in at 4:10pm when I got home from the gym on Thursday therefore it should have been repaired before 4pm Friday. I ended up making seven phone calls, accepted four calls back, it was a nightmare. Finally just at 7:01pm last night the water board sent someone to unblock the drains. The grey sludge was immense and stunk so bad, the whole house needed a total airing. I could take the smell no more and put both boys in the car instead allowing them to eat their food inside the car instead of inside the house.
This morning the smell is going but is still there, its snowing outside and settling on the ground, we were supposed to be doing the country park tour today, with both girls away camping I thought it would be a good time to spend doing something nice with the boys alone, but now the bad weather has come I am not sure whether I can walk in the ice or not so will have to rethink it all whilst Harvey is asleep still. At least the girls camp is inside, Angelica is a Cubs Leader so has gone on their winter camp to run activities herself. Today they are at the RAF so hopefully will have some great pictures for when the girls return home. Imogen went to make up the numbers of girls, her and a couple of other scouts volunteered to both help and take up spaces so that the girls bedroom wasn't empty with only one or two cub scouts who might have got homesick or upset in a large room by themselves.
Feeling achy still after my marathon gym session on Thursday afternoon, the tops of my thighs feel quite tingly and almost sore, is this normal? I hope so, its not hurting until Harvey climbs on my thighs, they just feel pleasantly used for want of a better phrase. I've been trying to remember what it feels like to use my legs as much as I have been doing, how they used to feel but my brain has just blocked out most of the past memories of using those legs I think and is retraining its pathways again just like it does when you are a toddler finding your feet.
Nerve damage is serious stuff, one part of me still wants to fold towards the right then when I find myself leaning my hands start getting pins and needles, the 100+ times a day I remember though, I am pulling myself back upright, clenching those abdominal muscles and making an effort to be physically straight stretching my spine instead of being hunched up. Its making a giant difference physically and I look and feel a lot younger posture wise. I know its early days I have only just been back to physical fitness routines for two whole weeks just starting the third, I need to focus on breathing more, relaxing the diaphragm and generally taking care of my well being without focusing on how long everything is taking.
Weight wise I feel fine, it all just feels like its taking forever when I know it isn't and the weight is falling off me all be it slowly at the moment. I just need to focus on remaining calm and seeing all of this through mainly and everything else will fall into place behind my sense of well being and calm.
This morning the smell is going but is still there, its snowing outside and settling on the ground, we were supposed to be doing the country park tour today, with both girls away camping I thought it would be a good time to spend doing something nice with the boys alone, but now the bad weather has come I am not sure whether I can walk in the ice or not so will have to rethink it all whilst Harvey is asleep still. At least the girls camp is inside, Angelica is a Cubs Leader so has gone on their winter camp to run activities herself. Today they are at the RAF so hopefully will have some great pictures for when the girls return home. Imogen went to make up the numbers of girls, her and a couple of other scouts volunteered to both help and take up spaces so that the girls bedroom wasn't empty with only one or two cub scouts who might have got homesick or upset in a large room by themselves.
Feeling achy still after my marathon gym session on Thursday afternoon, the tops of my thighs feel quite tingly and almost sore, is this normal? I hope so, its not hurting until Harvey climbs on my thighs, they just feel pleasantly used for want of a better phrase. I've been trying to remember what it feels like to use my legs as much as I have been doing, how they used to feel but my brain has just blocked out most of the past memories of using those legs I think and is retraining its pathways again just like it does when you are a toddler finding your feet.
Nerve damage is serious stuff, one part of me still wants to fold towards the right then when I find myself leaning my hands start getting pins and needles, the 100+ times a day I remember though, I am pulling myself back upright, clenching those abdominal muscles and making an effort to be physically straight stretching my spine instead of being hunched up. Its making a giant difference physically and I look and feel a lot younger posture wise. I know its early days I have only just been back to physical fitness routines for two whole weeks just starting the third, I need to focus on breathing more, relaxing the diaphragm and generally taking care of my well being without focusing on how long everything is taking.
Weight wise I feel fine, it all just feels like its taking forever when I know it isn't and the weight is falling off me all be it slowly at the moment. I just need to focus on remaining calm and seeing all of this through mainly and everything else will fall into place behind my sense of well being and calm.