With sister keeping me busy helping her to organise the “wedding of the century” for her impending nuptials – something I SHALL blog about later, My back giving out on me again leaving me in agony for the best part of a week and my brain being pretty busy somewhere on another planet due to the cocktail of pain killing drugs the doctors insisted I pump into my system as a result of the agony of the bad back (that diazepam is pretty good stuff you know.). I’ve been too preoccupied to blog.

It’s not that I haven’t wanted to, I have the start of several posts in my drafts folder, one about the “wedding of the century” and another about things women never forget among others, that just wont come from my head through my fingers and onto the computer the way I want them to and I just cannot get them finished. I have ideas for posts swimming around my head but the concentration span of a gold fish and no hope of getting them done.

Since I came off the painkillers and returned to work I seem to be constantly exhausted. After spending a week in what feels like a drug induced coma sleeping naturally is an issue, well sleeping isn’t the issue, waking is I can NOT galvinize myself into action in the morning and feel groggy all day. Couple that with the soreness and stiffness I am still experiencing and I just don’t want to get out of my bed. My brain feels like the aftermath of a natural disaster at the moment with the wreck awaiting to be sifted through and all the good bits salvaged and put to use!

So I need to take action that will put my brain back into order. After work today I have a whole 9 days off work, the last of my annual holiday entitlement so here’s is the plan.

1. Declutter – I have so much “junk” and half finished projects surrounding me that is no wonder that I can’t think straight so if I don’t need it bin it (or freecycle it) and if I do need it find it a home!

2. Clean – with the constant flow of little people through the door a lot of mud gets walked through and although we try and keep on top of it sometimes the hover just isn’t enough. So after I have finished the decluttering, and hopefully miraculously turned my house in to a perfectly organised haven (wishful thinking), I am going to start at the top and work my way down and hover and dust every nook and cranny that dust balls or spiders (shudders) could be hiding in.

3. Virtual spring clean – a lot of the problems I have with blogging is I like to articulate things verbally which is really the posh way of saying I like to talk, as I’m sure anyone who knows me in the real world would tell you, and I like to tell stories but I really should only try to tell one at a time!! My drafts folder should be renamed to “idea holding page” so I am going to go through the drafts and figure out which (if any) I am actually going to use and delete the rest. I’m also going to attempt to do the same with my “My Pictures” folder as I just download all my files from my camera indiscriminately keeping all the blurry, out of focus shots along with the ones I actually want to use.

4. Sleep – I need to catch up with some sleep maybe if I just have one morning when I wake up naturally with out the screeching of the alarm clock or the ringing of the phone piercing my dreams I’d feel a lot better. So I’m going to give it a try – unplug/switch off everything and just snooze until I feel it’s time to get up.

I am hoping that by improving my surroundings and quality/quantity of sleep I will begin to feel a lot better, Maybe if I feel better I’ll be able to concentrate better, and if I can concentrate better that means I might actually finish something I’ve started and blog more

Or if that fails and I achieve nothing but to exhaust myself further at least I’ll have a tidy house!