So far, the weekend has been energetic. I always feel better after an acupuncture session, so I shouldn't be surprise that I'm bouncing around, despite the last two nights being disturbed by an alarm of some sort going off at 2 am on Friday night / Saturday morning and, last night, at 3 am, by a lot of noise that may, or may not, have been a party in the distance. Judging by the evidence in the streets while I was out with the dogs, it must have been a party - but what a lot of noise there was. Unfortunately, when the wind's "in the wrong direction", the sound of the village centre drifts up the hill, and last night, the wind was definitely in the wrong direction!
Yesterday, I spent a long time at the holiday cottage, pottering in the garden and cleaning the house. By the time I got home, I was very tired, but in a pleasant, I-deserve-to-be-tired-because-I've-been-so-busy way rather than because I'd done nothing at all.
(One thing I've learned from managing the holiday cottage - and this is definitely something that I will remember if I stay at other cottages - is that it is unbelievably irritating when guests move things around! I know exactly where everything should be, and having to find it for the inventory really slows me down. So, my advice to anyone thinking of booking a holiday cottage is, "Put things back where you find them. The owner will not thank you for having to spend those extra 20 minutes tracking them down and returning them to the right place).
So far today, I've done some gardening, followed by an hour walking the dogs. The rest of the day is already mapped out - off to a garden centre, back to do some more gardening and then I'll review a few items for some academic journals. It is so good to have sufficient energy to do all these things! While my immune system is still less efficient than it was, which means that I have a tendency to catch colds, bugs, viruses etc. more easily than I used to (might be a function of age rather than the after-effects of radiotherapy, of course!), when I feel well these days, I feel really well; it's such a contrast to the years when I felt slightly, then increasingly, unwell without realising that I wasn't "right".
Yesterday, I spent a long time at the holiday cottage, pottering in the garden and cleaning the house. By the time I got home, I was very tired, but in a pleasant, I-deserve-to-be-tired-because-I've-been-so-busy way rather than because I'd done nothing at all.
(One thing I've learned from managing the holiday cottage - and this is definitely something that I will remember if I stay at other cottages - is that it is unbelievably irritating when guests move things around! I know exactly where everything should be, and having to find it for the inventory really slows me down. So, my advice to anyone thinking of booking a holiday cottage is, "Put things back where you find them. The owner will not thank you for having to spend those extra 20 minutes tracking them down and returning them to the right place).
So far today, I've done some gardening, followed by an hour walking the dogs. The rest of the day is already mapped out - off to a garden centre, back to do some more gardening and then I'll review a few items for some academic journals. It is so good to have sufficient energy to do all these things! While my immune system is still less efficient than it was, which means that I have a tendency to catch colds, bugs, viruses etc. more easily than I used to (might be a function of age rather than the after-effects of radiotherapy, of course!), when I feel well these days, I feel really well; it's such a contrast to the years when I felt slightly, then increasingly, unwell without realising that I wasn't "right".
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