An in-between phase

PennysIntoPounds

They really are @KajiKita, my mum can't bear them as the sound really grates, and to me they sound like sorrowful hauntings. So odd that people who wouldn't dream of blasting music in the night think it's fine for everyone else to be kept awake by their garden accessory  

KajiKita

PennysIntoPounds said:

They really are @KajiKita, my mum can't bear them as the sound really grates, and to me they sound like sorrowful hauntings. So odd that people who wouldn't dream of blasting music in the night think it's fine for everyone else to be kept awake by their garden accessory  

I went into a shop once that sold gongs and other sound bath kit and they had some gorgeous wind chimes. In different metals, far bigger than typical, with clangers (correct term?) in different materials such as rubber etc. They had a warm, deep resonance instead of the tinny dissonance they normally produce! They COST accordingly though, so I never bought any … 🤷‍♀️

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Happy(ish) Friday!

Woke up starving and wondered why then remembered I have been literally holding my body together, which is going to take some extra energy. Shoulder still awful and hand and wrist now really bad too. Had beans on toast for breakfast and it was painful cutting food.
Don't think my plan of a shower and hairwash plus lots of steps today will be happening! But on the plus side, if I'm unable to go for a walk, no-one will see how manky I am so kinda resolves itself 😂
Will stay as still as possible today and shower tomorrow before seeing Mr PIP. We're meant to be doing car boot sale on Sunday, really hope this eases off by then as it's miserable enough anyway without feeling even more bloody useless.

Anyway, it's Friday, so will try to find some good things to make happen. 
List is:
Gentle sink wash
Small sessions of carpet walks while reading or watching some online lectures I've been wanting to catch up on for ages
List a couple of things on Vinted but not get upset if faffing with hangers and camera angles is too sore
Call opinium for the third time about getting my survey payout
Attempt to understand the long tech filled message from Moneybox about how to check something before doing LISA
Possibly do LISA transfer if I haven't lost the will to live 
Read lots (it is productive 😁)
Bribe myself with a late afternoon beer on the sofa if I get all that done though I will allow the LISA transfer if it feels too much for today but will really try

CRANKY40

The HT has problems cutting food too because his fingers are so bendy and it hurts him when he puts pressure on them.

EDS for the non bendy.....you know the pain you get when you haven't exercised for ages then you do something like a whole day gardening and you get up the next day and your leg/arms hurt? Well EDS is like that but every day, Occasionally a bit of your body will give you a break but generally not. The HT's physio said that muscles are not supported by ligaments because the ligaments are too flexible so muscles have to work twice as hard. This makes things like walking on uneven ground extremely painful. In my case osteoarthritis has arrived early too so now I have boney spurs on some joints. One knee replacement done and one to go with left shoulder currently contemplating joining in. 

I hope you don't mind me explaining PIP.  People think that the HT can't possibly be disabled because he looks OK but it affects his life (and anyone else's that has it) more than you could possibly believe. 

Gentle hugs PIP and I hope that you get as far as the beer on the sofa. 

foxgloves

That's a helpful & accessible explanation @CRANKY40. I did a survey a few weeks ago. I can't recall the topic, but at the beginning, there was a question asking me is I had any of a few conditions on a list. Your hyper-mobile joints condition was one of them & if it wasn't for you & @PennysIntoPounds talking about it, I wouldn't even have known what it was. I have arthritis in my hands & I suspect it is starting in one shoulder, so I can understand your comparison about it feeling like the aftermath of a whole day of gardening. I would find it difficult if I felt like that every day. At least I can have a couple of lighter days of activity & get rid of the aching.
F x

PennysIntoPounds

I don't mind at all @CRANKY40, whenever I address it it's through the medium of sweary complaining so it's good you have 😁
Yes, the constant background/foreground ache is horrible and tiring, and then when you get a flare up it's excruciating- my connective tissue is literally not connecting my body together properly!
And it's sad and anxiety inducing and frustrating and embarrassing and boring

Glad we could at least help with your survey @foxgloves 😁

Sending gentle hugs to the both of you's joints 

PennysIntoPounds

I have largely done the things:

Gentle sink wash 👍

Small sessions of carpet walks  👍
30 mins with lecture
30 mins with other half of lecture

List a couple of things on Vinted  👍 On looking closely I saw the two items I was going to list had small patches of discoloration so listed them for free instead in case someone could use them as they're good quality material. Someone is collecting shortly 😊

Call opinium 👍 A nice chap looked into it for me and I'll hopefully get it in three weeks max

Attempt to understand message from Moneybox before doing LISA 👍 Didn't understand it but sent a message asking for clarification so that's as much as I can do for the moment

Possibly do LISA transfer if I haven't lost the will to live: Not done as waiting for further info but had £15.94 in interest in the LISA pot so have done £5.94 to flat pot, fiver to next year's LISA pot and fiver to mum's birthday pot

Read lots 👍 Well, a little bit but it was of the books I'm enjoying less so felt productive 😁

Bribe myself with a late afternoon beer on the sofa if I get all that done 👍 Bribe successful, and have also done writing (somewhat sloppily with hypermobile fingers) to my penpal, the comping rounds, and a survey

Leftover pasta for dinner and will have some garlic bread and salad with it too.

Hope everyone is having at least a decent Friday x

redofromstart

I am firmly of the view that there is no such thing as not productive reading, even if I am reading utter drivel (mills and boon style regency anyone?) because I feel better and therefore do more.

PennysIntoPounds

Absolutely @redofromstart, and I would counter there's no such thing as drivel either! Well, maybe in some cases 😁
I read years ago on, I think twitter, the opinion that societally we consider things like Mills and Boon to be rubbish because we're so used to being told what's good by men and men find it ridiculous that women would imagine themselves wanted and cherished and desirable. Leaving aside the cultural politics of that, it really stuck with me that books are meant to be enjoyable and let us live other lives, and if we scoff at them, through whose eyes did we learn to demean them and their readers (who are vastly usually women)

beanielou

Funnily enough having spent so long in hospital I love a medical romance!