Success!
I don't like to think how much of my savings I've spent on doing up my room so far. I don't like to spend money at the best of times (probably a good thing) and especially not all in one go like this! So I'm going to be very pleased when it's all finished and I can start hording my money again.
We went and bought a carpet for it at the weekend, it's snow white...so you can bet that within a month of it being fitted one or both of the cats throws up all over it ;0)! The trip to buy the carpet was a big sucess. It's quite possibly the first time since I got sick that I really stuck to my limits and as a result came back and did not crash! Wooo!! This has made me very happy! So with a carpet bought I only really have a bed left to get. This is kind of urgent seeing as the matress on the bed I've got has had it and is crippling my hips/back every night. Note...never buy a foam matress from ikea! They suck.
Also thanks to a combination of cruddy matress from ikea and my horrible habbit of sitting curled up on the settee I went to see a new chiropractor this week, which lead to the discovery that his wife is a chinese herbalist/acupuncturist. Apparently she's had some success with treating ME/CFS so I'm going to try giving that a go. Should be interesting, but if it can do anything for me I'll be incredibly happy.
The best thing that has happened happened this week however is I found out I passed my medical for the DSS and don't have to go to an appeal tribunual like last time. Thank god for that!
On a less good note, I've got to go a small get together for a friends 21st birthday on Wednessday. This is not going to be a whole lot of fun. I've known Emma (Whose birthday it is) and her family since I can remember and her mum and my mum are best friends. We all get on really well...that is apart from Emma's fiance Steve, who is the biggest bastard I know. He's pyschologically abusive to her, constantly puts her down in front of people, bosses her around, cheats on her and is so arrogant you feel like throttling him. I absolutely HATE him and I do not use the term hate lightly. He doesn't think much to me either...more I think because I stand up for Emma when he puts her down in front of me and tell him where to get off than anything else. To put it bluntly I find it very difficult to be civil to him and I know I can't hide my dislike for him...not that I'd want to really because I don't like being false to people. I wish very much that Emma would leave him...but I doubt she will...it just makes me so mad that he treats her so badly and she lets him. I know she has no self esteem and that's why she takes it all, but grrrr it makes me so mad.
Anyway for my mum and everybody else's sake's I am going to try and be civil...hard...but I shall try.
On a happier note I've started trying to read again. I really wanted to try and wade through Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince again. It's proving very slow going and the first few times I picked it up I woke up the next day with the room spinning and got some fairly bad vertigo. But the vertigo is getting less everytime I pick it up and I'm slowly getting through it. I just hope I don't end up sobbing my way through the last pages again...damn my emotionalness.
But Woot, I'm feeling really quite cheery at the moment. It is good!
We went and bought a carpet for it at the weekend, it's snow white...so you can bet that within a month of it being fitted one or both of the cats throws up all over it ;0)! The trip to buy the carpet was a big sucess. It's quite possibly the first time since I got sick that I really stuck to my limits and as a result came back and did not crash! Wooo!! This has made me very happy! So with a carpet bought I only really have a bed left to get. This is kind of urgent seeing as the matress on the bed I've got has had it and is crippling my hips/back every night. Note...never buy a foam matress from ikea! They suck.
Also thanks to a combination of cruddy matress from ikea and my horrible habbit of sitting curled up on the settee I went to see a new chiropractor this week, which lead to the discovery that his wife is a chinese herbalist/acupuncturist. Apparently she's had some success with treating ME/CFS so I'm going to try giving that a go. Should be interesting, but if it can do anything for me I'll be incredibly happy.
The best thing that has happened happened this week however is I found out I passed my medical for the DSS and don't have to go to an appeal tribunual like last time. Thank god for that!
On a less good note, I've got to go a small get together for a friends 21st birthday on Wednessday. This is not going to be a whole lot of fun. I've known Emma (Whose birthday it is) and her family since I can remember and her mum and my mum are best friends. We all get on really well...that is apart from Emma's fiance Steve, who is the biggest bastard I know. He's pyschologically abusive to her, constantly puts her down in front of people, bosses her around, cheats on her and is so arrogant you feel like throttling him. I absolutely HATE him and I do not use the term hate lightly. He doesn't think much to me either...more I think because I stand up for Emma when he puts her down in front of me and tell him where to get off than anything else. To put it bluntly I find it very difficult to be civil to him and I know I can't hide my dislike for him...not that I'd want to really because I don't like being false to people. I wish very much that Emma would leave him...but I doubt she will...it just makes me so mad that he treats her so badly and she lets him. I know she has no self esteem and that's why she takes it all, but grrrr it makes me so mad.
Anyway for my mum and everybody else's sake's I am going to try and be civil...hard...but I shall try.
On a happier note I've started trying to read again. I really wanted to try and wade through Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince again. It's proving very slow going and the first few times I picked it up I woke up the next day with the room spinning and got some fairly bad vertigo. But the vertigo is getting less everytime I pick it up and I'm slowly getting through it. I just hope I don't end up sobbing my way through the last pages again...damn my emotionalness.
But Woot, I'm feeling really quite cheery at the moment. It is good!