So, what do I do with days like these?<\/p>\n
Today is officially our Day Off, so I am officially allowed to relax. I also seem to have picked up a chest infection and feel that slight run-over-by-a-bus sensation, so that kind of puts a dampener on stuff like going out for lunch or mucking around the garden.<\/p>\n
So why do I feel slightly guilty about….ahem….doing Nothing? I am poorly, but not poorly enough to be utterly laid out. If that was so, I would be nowhere near this puter. I am in an in-betweeny stage of poorliness, which is very annoying. There’s a part of me telling me that I should be Being Productive, and not in the physio sense (Brussians will get this) But the other part saying chill, it’s OK to Mumsnet all day, it’s OK to watch rubbish daytime TV and it’s OK to download more books onto my Kindle.<\/p>\n
So on days like these, I need to find a way of being that doesn’t make me feel bad about not doing stuff like starting to be Pioneer-ish. On days like these, perhaps it’s OK to say that I have few spoons, so I will watch This Morning, drink tea and Be Happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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