Jul 2024

  • Peaceful Beach Evening: Reading, Watching, and Reflecting by the Sea

    Peaceful Beach Evening: Reading, Watching, and Reflecting by the Sea

    Solitude After a pizza tea and walking the dog, I decided to go to the beach…

  • Untypical (book review) – Part 1

    Untypical (book review) – Part 1

    I was in Bath with a friend when I saw this book. It was on a…

  • Calming down a little

    Calming down a little

    I slept for nine hours before my husband’s first alarm went off this morning. I turned…

  • There’s always somebody worse off

    Witnessing a meltdown I walked into town for my annual eye test. I’m feeling much calmer…

  • Ambushed!

    Ambushed!

    Brain turns to treacle My husband was sitting up when I got to the hospital last…

  • Colouring Emotions: Navigating the Spectrum

    Colouring Emotions: Navigating the Spectrum

    I was reflecting on something I’d said to my counsellor that I could only identify “primary…

  • Don’t go shopping with a migraine

    Don’t go shopping with a migraine

    Assuming that I’m right about being ASD, I’m proceeding to at least attempt to put in…

  • Feeling drained

    I finished the chapter on university life in “Untypical”. My brother never went to university, however…

  • Getting better

    It was hard getting off last night. I woke at half-four and struggled to get back…

  • Recovering

    The dog watched a movie, while I dicked about on the internet and chatted with friends.…

  • Too much

    Too much

    I was awake shortly after the 7am alarm. I had an eye test booked at 9:30am.…

  • Road rage

    Road rage

    Morning I slept through two out of my three alarms this morning, meaning that I woke…

  • Out of spoons

    Spoon one Yesterday morning I dropped in on my husband on the way to the office…

  • Hormones update

    Another date change With all the activity over the weekend I forgot to journal that I…

  • Validation

    Trying to care for hubby Another rough night worrying over my husband; I think that I…