Can hear the rain outside, I thought it would be rain here and not snow although they have been dramatising about that with warnings over the last day or two.
DS is home from his school trip today. It will be nice to see him and hear how it has gone. I hope he gets home ok as meant to be windy later although coming into Gatwick so guessing that might be better than a smaller airport.
DH had a nightmare flight once with easyJet which left to Scotland with hurricane force winds forcast and it couldn't land, tried twice, was struck by lightning and then diverted to somewhere like Newcastle. Tried to land there, couldn't and finally managed it the second time round.
DH told me at Newcastle the passengers were saying "I'm not getting on another one" (back home) and I think they were bussed home in the end.
I was really surprised it went as had seen the winds on the forecast the night before.
Anyway best not to think of that perhaps!
Still cosy here, have had a supermarket delivery and have packed away the frozen things first then having a cuppa before the rest.
Also have the laundry to do. DH was going on about all his work and financial stuff this morning and it was quite stressful and I could feel my symptoms getting worse after and took my gabapentin and 2 co-codomols too and had a week rest / sleep.
It's hard because being self employed, do doesn't really have workmates / colleagues and only me to talk too, I do find myself doing things like focusing on my breathing to get through it all. It's a bit worrying being self employed when you don't know how much work is coming along, and having tax bills and the like. We also have some house maintenance stuff coming up (live in a flat in a. shared building)
He was also saying some stuff about MIL (who I'm having a break from) like think about how I feel losing the things we have build up with her over the years and that she might fall down or something, I think he was just worrying out loud but it wasn't really helpful. I told him well, why is all this my responsibility? She has several children after all. (not that I think children should be responsible for their parents, the parents should sort themselves out really) and they should get her a falls alarm if they are worried about that. He said well, you usually ring her daily so how would be know if she had fallen. To which I said I think your sister also speaks to her daily.
It's annoyed me a bit. I mean I know he's working etc but often on the weekends he is out and she will hang around waiting to see him, meaning more of my time is taken up. I also feel it is like it is the woman's job to do the caring. Now the children have grown, it seems to fall to me to look after his mum!
However I have also embroiled myself in this - and maybe that needs some reflection for me as well.
I think that fatigue course has been helpful as they talked about communication and boundaries and lowering stress, said they were 'giving us a prescription' to rest and do gentle restorative activities and basically focus on ourselves.
Anyway sorry for the long post. Hope you all survive the storm Borletti or whatever it is called, OK!