What are you up to today?

[JamSandle]

I'm working from home. Need to pick up a prescription and planning a holiday.

Feeling a bit low (ruminating on some past decisions/unfinished business). What are you up to today and how are you feeling?

This should be in chat! Not sure how to move.

If you report your OP to MNHQ they will move it for you.

I’ve just finished reading the introduction to Nigel Slater’s Christmas Chronicles - - I’m on a read-along thread in the run-up to Christmas. It’s not just a book about Christmas - it’s about love of nature, the joys of autumn & winter, recipes for food/drink, ruminations and reminiscing about life. Very life-affirming (for me, anyway) and almost a meditative exercise if you can slow right down and read it mindfully. Highly recommended!

For all its bare twigs and pale, watery sunshine, winter is very much alive. Underneath the fallen leaves things are happening at a rate of knots; new life burgeons. Bulbs are sprouting, buds are bursting through grey bark, new shoots push their way to the surface. Many plants require vernalisation, a prolonged patch of low temperatures, in order to grow. Tulips, freesias, crocus and snowdrops, for instance. (I sometimes feel I do, too.) A secret world quietly doing what it does each year. A study in renewal, rebirth, new life.

—Christmas Chronicles

In low periods it always helps me to look at life in terms of changing seasons. Even though parts of it can be so very dark and desolate, spring will come again.

We had a cup of coffee in bed this morning, and a piece of apple cake that I baked yesterday. I used to have a very strict no-foods-in-beds rule but that’s been relaxed and now I love a leisurely breakfast in bed (as long as there aren’t crumbs!).

DH is rebuilding a wall in our upstairs office (very old house that needs a lot of maintenance). I am catching up on organising after a big move of stuff to facilitate said building of wall. I’ll go through it all and bring some things to the charity shop.

Later I will cook courgette and prawn linguine with basil and chilli.

We will have a quiet evening, ready for work tomorrow.

I'm at work and it's very quiet. I just finished Sweet Bobby podcast. Totally insane!! The most crazy thing I've listen to

Been at work . Now home, with old beloved dog .

Came home to wfh as I’m on zoom all afternoon and not feeling great. Now I’m home I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck and considering cancelling meetings and going to bed.
Might not even get the pumpkin out! 🎃

Just lying in bed doing the usual insomnia shift!

Took 12 month old DS to get his jabs today .. not a nice experience but he seems to be feeling fine since 🥰

Did my first food shop at Morrisons instead of Asda/Tesco .. wanted to see if I preferred it 🤷‍♀️

Now just sat with the dogs, DS is pottering around and I’ll settle him for a nap shortly.

Just realised I’ve been sat with a dummy in my mouth for a while now .. is it just me that does this? I’ll usually put it in my mouth if it’s been on the floor and then I’ll give it to DS, but he’s wandered off and it’s stayed put lol. I’ve even answered the door with a dummy in my mouth before 😳

Went for a walk by lakes with an old friend and saw some lovely waterfowl (ducks, geese, swans, cormorants, herons). Not a remote place - a commuter town in Herts!

Practised my music for my choir rehearsal this evening.

Did chores too and ate too much AGAIN!

I hope you feel better soon. Can't recommend getting outside in daylight hours enough, if you are able. If not, I know it's tough at this time of the year when the clocks go back. I used to hate going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark. I've been collecting a boxful of books and box sets (from Oxfam shops) to get me through the darker days of winter, which I find harder to cope with nowadays.

When I feel miserable, I make myself tidy the house. At the end, you might not feel much better, but at least you feel miserable in a tidy house.