one of those days!

It’s a familiar feeling madeleine , usually I just give in to it for a day figuring sometimes my body knows best then I try to get on the next day. Often these days come when I know I’ve done too much the day, or several days, before.

Thankfully that feeling wasn’t around this morning as we’ve had an enjoyable and energising morning being blown to pieces at the coast followed by an unplanned simple lunch on the way back. Now? Feet up, I’ll do nothing else needing energy today and will have no expectations of tomorrow.

I treat the no motivation or energy days (chronic pain impacts me) as just how it is, don’t try to change them telling myself tomorrow will be different. It usually is.

Dont fret. Tomorrow is as they say another day.

I don’t have any motivation either. I’ve just vacuumed one bedroom and can’t face doing the other two. I can’t be bothered cooking either though we’ll have to eat something!

No- today’s drop in temperature (max 25C) plus a very pleasant breeze inspired me to hoover through, book an engineer to come and look at my gas boiler which keeps trying to come on, do 2 load of washing, dry both and bring them in , finish my book then walk the dog! ,

I feel the same.
Have just put some laundry away but am now looking at an M&S ready meal in the freezer for a rainy day. Is not rainy but I just can’t be bothered cooking today 🙄

Same as MawsR - booked an engineer to look at my alarm system, then negotiated a new broadband contract with Sky. Two loads of laundry done, one bagged up to take to DD2. Coffee with friend and picked up milk at Aldi. Just having a cuppa before I set off to drop off that laundry and collect DD2’s Little Dog for a short stay with me. I’ll walk him in the woods on our way home, then I’ll be dead heading and watering my roses before dark.
It’s so much cooler here today and I have had a very lazy weekend!

I feel like that nearly every day, so on the days I am motivated to do things I make sure I fit in as much as I can! I hate housework with a vengeance, so much so that when the mood strikes I act on it.

It's usually something like expecting visitors that gets me going, and I think OMG, I can't let anyone see the house like this they'll think I'm a a lazy slut, so it's out with the polish and dusters, and all the tools for the Shark. And that'll be it for a week or so....

Today was the day I was definitely cleaning right through the house.
then I thought - actually I'd feel I'd accomplished more if I started on that overdue decorating, so no point cleaning first. Started on the decorating then got side-tracked (removing the painted in wires for an old alarm system) so if anything I'm further back than I was when I started & the cleaning needs doing tomorrow!

Thanks for your posts, good to read them all. I have had to accept that I wasnt up to doing much today, but somewhat annoyed about it . On the day with no wind it didnt matter but would have liked to make more of this cooler ,windy day, so just have to hope tomorrow is similar. I used to look at the day, make decisions according to weather and what I needed or wanted to do, and carry on. Have had to be sensible today, (not at all my strong point! and have sat inside and read quite a bit, but at least I am not feeling guilty about the jobs not done.

My son rang, and had been driving somewhere. I reminded him about putting a towel over the steering wheel etc., and he already had the cold freezer block and the cold flannel in side pocket etc . He was saying how the sun was in at one side of his house. So I suggested that besides closing windows etc that he should put up a gazebo they have, against the house to help block the sun from it, and he planned to do that when he got home, hopefully that might help tomorrow.

Well I have allowed myself some crisps today to add a little more salt to my diet, and have some lincoln potatoes , which I am going to cook and enjoy eating just with some butter. It is what I fancy, and have some strawberries in the fridge, to follow. May not be a very balanced diet for once but I shall enjoy it, and will cook enough potatoes to have some cold with salad tomorrow. Enjoy your evenings.

I've felt lacking in motivation for ages Madeleine. The heat doesn't help and exacerbate my existing health issues. Today is the first day in ages where I've had the energy to do anything. Buttered potatoes sound very tasty

An update folks, which I have also put on good morning post, but might remind others. I was feeling somewhat fed up with things , having lived abroad and coped with much more heat there, and wondering if it was yet another thing of getting older. However my brain finally started to work a bit more and at last I thought about being diabetic type 2.

I have lived with this for a couple of years, only on tablets and sensible diet, no insulin. On the whole havent let it take over, try to eat sensibly, do what exercise my back allows and every so often when I notice that I am going off the straight and narrow, I go back to the books, check up what I am doing and improve my ways. But we have not had a sustained long heatwave until now, and I suddenly thought about what effect this might have.

So I checked up and heat can have quite an effect. It hadnt been so noticeable as I already use commonsense about keeping out of sun , cool flannels water etc, but I need to drink more water, not just when I am thirsty. So I have put the amount I need to drink together in the fridge so that I can see how much I am drinking, and I try to spread it over the day, and have more each time.

So I have enjoyed the cooler start to the morning and the breeze, but it is definitely heating up now and so curtains closed cold flannel etc. However mentally it has been very good as I can do something practical , about my drinking enough, and accept that this is how it is at the moment. I can stop wondering why I am doing so little and have a genuine reason to just take it all easy. Rather sad that I cant go to the Great Yorkshire Show today, and it wont be sensible to go on any trips , but thats how things go. I have enough food in and can sit in the cool, read my books and listen to radio 3. Best of all I wont be feeling guilty or galvanising myself to do anything other than the basics!

So if you or others you know are diabetic, havent checked up on this , it might be worthwhile considering this. Many of you may be way ahead of me on this , but thought it could remind someone else. My thing now is to drink more , rather than just quenching my thirst.

The cooler morning with the breeze has been a good help today, but mentally I feel a lot better, having some ideas to help myself . Going back to reading my book in the cool with a few new potatoes cooked and ready to add to my salad lunch . Hope you are all having a good day and having a little cooler day too.

I wonder if it's a knock-on effect from the heatwaves. I try to slow down a good bit when it's hot and sit indoors with a good book or a jigsaw. I get used to that more relaxed pace of life and I'm reluctant to return to all the jobs that are piling up.

Yes! Feel a bit like this almost every day, heat or no heat!

The heat has been very very tiring. We are just not used to it. Maybe the longer it goes on we will adjust. The cool breeze last night and this morning was very refreshing. Heating up again now.
Salad for lunch with loads of cucumber. Salad tonight with loads of beetroot, tomatoes and cucumber. Ditto tomorrow.

I will read this afternoon with improving de cataracted eye. It will be a reread of a book very recently read, but whose characters' names I could not remember when I was laying awake on Sunday....I blame the heat!

This heat has completely wiped me out too. For the last 3 weeks now I've done nothing except the occasional load of washing and a bit of ironing in the very early mornings. Totally exhausted, getting very little sleep as bedrooms too hot, have spend several nights dozing on the sofa downstairs where a little cooler. Have watered the garden maybe 3 times in the very early hours and it's just a mass of frazzled, dried up plants even the big shrubs look sad but just way too hot on an evening, doesn't seem to start cooling down until 9pm ish. Heard on the BBC weather this morning that heat might continue for next 14 days, think I'll have given up altogether by then.

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It’s a familiar feeling madeleine , usually I just give in to it for a day figuring sometimes my body knows best then I try to get on the next day. Often these days come when I know I’ve done too much the day, or several days, before.

Thankfully that feeling wasn’t around this morning as we’ve had an enjoyable and energising morning being blown to pieces at the coast followed by an unplanned simple lunch on the way back. Now? Feet up, I’ll do nothing else needing energy today and will have no expectations of tomorrow.

I treat the no motivation or energy days (chronic pain impacts me) as just how it is, don’t try to change them telling myself tomorrow will be different. It usually is.

Dont fret. Tomorrow is as they say another day.

Telling it, as it is. But with hope.When pain and restricted movement can rule your life.

Thanks for sharing this.

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Now Wimbledon is over I have no excuse to do nothing. Today has been mostly rearranging appointments, the busiest I’ve been for 2 weeks!

I'm getting up at 4.30 - just in time to watch the sunrise......I then do a couple of hours weeding the garden and having coffee and a sit to pause and think. Then it's work as normal. By 2p.m. I am ready for a glorious nap, in a cool room with cotton sheets. Ahhh, bliss. Anything else is off the menu until it gets cooler again. Fed up of watering the garden though, especially as we are on a meter now.

Well, we had to empty our small shed attached to our bungalow as I was told they were coming to change meter. Anyway since we moved here the shed has been somewhere to dump stuff we have no room for! Emptied shed sweating a lot of course then just sat down then he tells me no its next Tuesday!
I see there is a small amount of washing up so I shall do that in a few minutes. Photographed some stuff we found to sell on local selling site that we do not want.
That aside did not do a lot today! There is always tomorrow