Hi all,
Thanks, EM. Struggling a bit with the self care, but trying really hard. Great work on yours, I can see how hard you're trying too around really difficult circumstances.
My self-cares (on a bit of a winning streak the last couple of days):
1) Attended a doctor's appointment to get some scripts and to address my worsening vertigo. This is big, as I've been buried under so many appointments for my husband that anything like that for me has been on the backburner for months.
2) Got some drawers for LM's meds - another big thing as it's been a nightmare keeping inventory of the huge pile of meds he has to take. We need a better system as he isn't keep track so well and I need to step in more and more to avoid him running out of anything.
3) Another wetland walk with LM. EM, you said you could picture it, so I'll describe more to help that along. We live in a very flat area, so it is fortunately easy to move around with a wheelchair. The wetland is surrounded by garden areas with native plants mulched with bark chips. There are concrete paths in some areas, gravel in others. The general climate is fairly dry, the wetland is artificially constructed, but attracts loads of birds. We see New Holland honeyeaters, noisy miners, blackbirds and starlings, wattle birds, the odd galah and in Summer lots of corellas. There are rainbow lorikeets, sometimes musk lorikeets, and red-rumped parrots. I usually see one or two Willie wagtails. There are tonnes of ducks of different kinds, a few geese, Eurasian coots, purple swamp hens, sometimes cormorants and the odd ibis. Occasional treats are white faced herons, pelicans, and once I saw a nankeen night heron. Swallows put on a real show around dusk, going after the bugs, which we saw this evening. The birdlife is stunning.
4) Watched Taskmaster with LM - good laugh.
5) Played a computer game with LM.
6) Lower on the list because it was yesterday - board games with friends, had a really fun night last night.
Blue.
