Hello everyone. It's been a rough week, as I already discribed, with exhaustion from all my prior work, sinus infection, and period pain which at least explains the bad stomach cramps I had earlier in the week and removes concern of a stomach bug. I'm on the good old Amoxicillian and feeling better for it and I am trying to pace myself better. Thursday night after getting the kids fed and to bed and haivng a rest, I decided to have a go at the radiator. The video, which has taken some time to compase is large so you can hopefully see the detail of the paint blistering. 1 pic/2 sec played back at 20 pics/sec
I have struggled to get anything done since as well, but I try to balance resting with keeping moving, to avoid stiffness, and getting some jobs done. Friday we went to bed at 8 or 9, though we staid up in bed watching some of the Titanic Specials. Today after sleeping in some, I drove to pick up Ben, but only made it a block or so before I pulled over and discovered a flat tire. Geoff was very effecient, getting the spare on before Ray, our neighbour, could drink his coffee and come out to help. And the tire was fixed and paid for by 12:30 pm. Ben's dad was kind enough to bring Ben over and the plastered walls have been painted with a freshly sieved basic white emulsion. and our new door as well as the toy shelves have been sanded cleaned and varnished with Deep Mahogany Varnish. I had a nice webcam with a very patient Kathy who forgave me wondering off several times to get things and paint awkward areas while talking as well as bearing with noise levels and technical difficulties.
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Friday, 22 February 2008
Still struggling, brought down by a sinus infection ontop of everything else. I've tried to pace myself and do what I can but little is happening. However some has been done: Graeme, a good friend come over on a really bad day to reinforce the bookcase with his nifty drill which has a countersink tool. Most of the times I tried to do something I had to go back and sit down before I had even left the room. On of my energy went into keeping David happy and fed etc... A few hours later He came back and bullied me into moving, doing all of the hard wotk, shifting furniture, hoovering, fetching things until it was time for me to get ruth and was finished and set up nicely in the Living room. Geoff and Ruth were both pleases when they saw it. So a big thank you to him! and I am trying to make sure it's returned to that clean state before the end of each night.
I'd been talking about stripping the radiator to make it more effient than just adding yet another layer of paint on top of the rest. But does this make an economic or practical difference? I have no idea. anyway, here it is, for a short time at least in large so you can see the detail:
hmmm... says this is a draft. Had anyone seen this before?
I'd been talking about stripping the radiator to make it more effient than just adding yet another layer of paint on top of the rest. But does this make an economic or practical difference? I have no idea. anyway, here it is, for a short time at least in large so you can see the detail:
hmmm... says this is a draft. Had anyone seen this before?
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Our newest blessing
My brother welcomed his son into the world at 7:40pm local time last night. All are well, praise the Lord!
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Holiday is over
Well, my ability to do lots in a day seems for now to be over. For the last 3 days I've been able to only do very little at a time, frequently getting up to do something only to find I must sit again before I can do it.
I crashed completely sometime around 6 today and was not able to move until 10, though I frequently woke up. Each time feeling full of lead and barely able to even adjust myself. Just getting upstairs took G 10 mins of coxing, massaging and manipulating my legs just so I could move. Frankly I'm too tired to be frustrated.
The fog is a lot worse. I can pull myself together for an hour or so, then it's several more before I can do it again, bouncing off everthing both mentally and physically. Wanted and I felt needed to go swimming today, for legs but crashed first.
Too hard to type
Prayers for my brother and his family please.
I crashed completely sometime around 6 today and was not able to move until 10, though I frequently woke up. Each time feeling full of lead and barely able to even adjust myself. Just getting upstairs took G 10 mins of coxing, massaging and manipulating my legs just so I could move. Frankly I'm too tired to be frustrated.
The fog is a lot worse. I can pull myself together for an hour or so, then it's several more before I can do it again, bouncing off everthing both mentally and physically. Wanted and I felt needed to go swimming today, for legs but crashed first.
Too hard to type
Prayers for my brother and his family please.
Monday, 18 February 2008
Progress
Not in my house, though that has happened too but in my marriage. Most recently, G finally got around to giving me the valentines present he had bought me. He baked me a gorgeous allergy free sandwich chocolate cake with butter cream frosting (goats butter and allergy free very rich choclate) and the same choclate melted and drawn on the cake into a C (heart with arrow) G design. With this was the deluxe version of Titanic ( a movie he always swore to not see, 'after all if you've seen the trailer you've seen it all') and a promise to watch it with me. Very nice. And the cake was served with a shot of Kalua (probably why I can't sleep now but very tasty) and some fun playing Boggle. He wanted to play it together online, but I said why not use the game, since I got it. The answer and a thorny issue with G is that he does not like to compete and activly avoids it. Solution, we play the game together outloud looking for a combined record. Compromise and Progress... Yeah
Before that he rounded up the kids a few days ago and secretly made the same cake with just the solid melted chocolate covering the whole top... wonderful and surprised me with it while his parents where here and we all enjoyed it. So I was all the more surprized to find him making another before the first was fully eaten, and boy did that take willpower. So I think my progress with weight loss is now stopped and in fact reversed.
Now to the start of my progress, I've been skimming through Christian wbsites and was again skimming over the LAF website when G caught a headline over my shoulder and asked me to open it for him. and there was a brilliant article that really speaks to both of us on several levels and I am revisiting it to continue to take in on board. It hard to read openly but I feel well worth it. I also feels it answers a question I have been asking myself and God for years, but it isn't an instant answer. The title is The War of Fathers.
Otherwise, DS,2 is doing very well except for 3-4 accidents most days though dry at nights and DD,4, bless her, is going through a very rude and presumptive patch that we are working on. She frequently complains that we are "not fair" Very annoying, good thing I never said that... ; ) I also caught her trying to steal a pair of school trousers that I gave her to hold until I got to the till. You wont be surprised that I got sidetracked thenn forgot about them. Meanwhile DD, 4 had hidden them in her coat because, "She didn't want to pay for it because it had a pretty star on it" I noticed after we left the shop, closing it, and she was trying to keep it from falling out of her coat without me seeing it. I immediately returned (banging on the door of the closed shop) and made her return them and apologize. It took ages to get an explanation out of her but I truly feel that she doesn't yet get the concept of "why" inspite of the explanations/conversations sporadically over the last year. No idea how to get this through to her, but I expect that it will come with time. I'm not pushing it, only discussing it as the occasion arises.
ok, enough for now, I'm tired. God Bless you all.
Before that he rounded up the kids a few days ago and secretly made the same cake with just the solid melted chocolate covering the whole top... wonderful and surprised me with it while his parents where here and we all enjoyed it. So I was all the more surprized to find him making another before the first was fully eaten, and boy did that take willpower. So I think my progress with weight loss is now stopped and in fact reversed.
Now to the start of my progress, I've been skimming through Christian wbsites and was again skimming over the LAF website when G caught a headline over my shoulder and asked me to open it for him. and there was a brilliant article that really speaks to both of us on several levels and I am revisiting it to continue to take in on board. It hard to read openly but I feel well worth it. I also feels it answers a question I have been asking myself and God for years, but it isn't an instant answer. The title is The War of Fathers.
Otherwise, DS,2 is doing very well except for 3-4 accidents most days though dry at nights and DD,4, bless her, is going through a very rude and presumptive patch that we are working on. She frequently complains that we are "not fair" Very annoying, good thing I never said that... ; ) I also caught her trying to steal a pair of school trousers that I gave her to hold until I got to the till. You wont be surprised that I got sidetracked thenn forgot about them. Meanwhile DD, 4 had hidden them in her coat because, "She didn't want to pay for it because it had a pretty star on it" I noticed after we left the shop, closing it, and she was trying to keep it from falling out of her coat without me seeing it. I immediately returned (banging on the door of the closed shop) and made her return them and apologize. It took ages to get an explanation out of her but I truly feel that she doesn't yet get the concept of "why" inspite of the explanations/conversations sporadically over the last year. No idea how to get this through to her, but I expect that it will come with time. I'm not pushing it, only discussing it as the occasion arises.
ok, enough for now, I'm tired. God Bless you all.
Saturday, 16 February 2008
struggling
4 nights now of poor sleep/up numerous times a night, just due to fibro, but the last two days I've also been congested, basic cold type I believe.
Decorating downstairs still ongoing, I keep thinking I'm nearly finished the Living room, then something comes up, often my health blocking me from doing more.
I've worked so hard to get things done, but I now go through each day with very little eneregy left and have gone to bed before 3-4 times in the last week.
It's half term week so DD,4 is off school and I've been trying to make sure the kids have some fun time, I don't want them just watching movies while I decorate so we've spent lots of time playing at JJacks a local play area with a massive indoor playground and one day unexpectedly followed this with a playground and Godfather Steve.
I am finding peace due to my growing relationship with God, in fact a couple of really bad days He got me through collasping in the garden and having to lie down in a shop and put my feet up. 5 weeks on and I am still easily staying with the devotional, not just once a week but revisiting 2-3 times each week as well. However I am very much struggling to discover a good and productive attitude I can maintain with my marriage and Hubby. Things are better than they were a few weeks back, larging due to his doing the devotional with me, at his request, and him actively praying with all of us several times a week. He's been initiating prayer I mean. I do feel, thanks to inspiration from several sites linked from the CHCH site that I am appreciating the kids better and spending better time with them.
hmmm.... been up since 7:30 so I'm going to head off to decorate with the family.
God Bless everyone
Chris
Decorating downstairs still ongoing, I keep thinking I'm nearly finished the Living room, then something comes up, often my health blocking me from doing more.
I've worked so hard to get things done, but I now go through each day with very little eneregy left and have gone to bed before 3-4 times in the last week.
It's half term week so DD,4 is off school and I've been trying to make sure the kids have some fun time, I don't want them just watching movies while I decorate so we've spent lots of time playing at JJacks a local play area with a massive indoor playground and one day unexpectedly followed this with a playground and Godfather Steve.
I am finding peace due to my growing relationship with God, in fact a couple of really bad days He got me through collasping in the garden and having to lie down in a shop and put my feet up. 5 weeks on and I am still easily staying with the devotional, not just once a week but revisiting 2-3 times each week as well. However I am very much struggling to discover a good and productive attitude I can maintain with my marriage and Hubby. Things are better than they were a few weeks back, larging due to his doing the devotional with me, at his request, and him actively praying with all of us several times a week. He's been initiating prayer I mean. I do feel, thanks to inspiration from several sites linked from the CHCH site that I am appreciating the kids better and spending better time with them.
hmmm.... been up since 7:30 so I'm going to head off to decorate with the family.
God Bless everyone
Chris
Thursday, 14 February 2008
safe blogging
A long day, but this time I want to talk about my previous post and the comments I have just read from caring friend and family.
Thank you to both of you for your comments, I appreciate both your thoughts and time. As I mentioned in the post, I was already planning to remove it, in fact G and I discussed it first and after I edited it I posted it with the precautions I already mentioned and calling my family right away to view it before I removed it. G and I both feel that it was ok for 48 hours, but would not post anything of that nature permanently for the exact reasons the comments mentioned, and I'm sure that rest of you understand. I very much consider the content of all material I post, hence some of our material will never be posted, even for that short time. Likewise, I wont send an email out announcing such posts. Further I don't feel the need to call everyone outside family, but let you know if you feel otherwise.
God Bless you all
Chris
Thank you to both of you for your comments, I appreciate both your thoughts and time. As I mentioned in the post, I was already planning to remove it, in fact G and I discussed it first and after I edited it I posted it with the precautions I already mentioned and calling my family right away to view it before I removed it. G and I both feel that it was ok for 48 hours, but would not post anything of that nature permanently for the exact reasons the comments mentioned, and I'm sure that rest of you understand. I very much consider the content of all material I post, hence some of our material will never be posted, even for that short time. Likewise, I wont send an email out announcing such posts. Further I don't feel the need to call everyone outside family, but let you know if you feel otherwise.
God Bless you all
Chris
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