{"id":190,"date":"2007-10-12T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T09:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/why-i-havent-done-well-anything\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:15:16","slug":"why-i-havent-done-well-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/why-i-havent-done-well-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I haven&#8217;t done, well, anything!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With sister keeping me busy helping her to organise the &#8220;wedding of the century&#8221; for her impending nuptials &#8211; 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&#8217;ve been too preoccupied to blog.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I haven&#8217;t wanted to, I have the start of several posts in my drafts folder, one about the &#8220;wedding of the century&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s is the plan.<\/p>\n<p>1. Declutter &#8211; I have so much &#8220;junk&#8221; and half finished projects surrounding me that is no wonder that I can&#8217;t think straight so if I don&#8217;t need it bin it (or freecycle it) and if I do need it find it a home!<\/p>\n<p>2. Clean &#8211; 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>3. Virtual spring clean &#8211; 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&#8217;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 &#8220;idea holding page&#8221; 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&#8217;m also going to attempt to do the same with my &#8220;My Pictures&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>4. Sleep &#8211; 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&#8217;d feel a lot better. So I&#8217;m going to give it a try &#8211; unplug\/switch off everything and just snooze until I feel it&#8217;s time to get up.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ll be able to concentrate better, and if I can concentrate better that means I might actually finish something I&#8217;ve started and blog more<\/p>\n<p>Or if that fails and I achieve nothing but to exhaust myself further at least I&#8217;ll have a tidy house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With sister keeping me busy helping her to organise the &#8220;wedding of the century&#8221; for her impending nuptials &#8211; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/why-i-havent-done-well-anything\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I haven&#8217;t done, well, anything!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wbiagw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-34","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":116,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/15\/yesterday-today-and-mid-afternoon-drinking\/","url_meta":{"origin":190,"position":0},"title":"Yesterday, Today and mid afternoon drinking!!","date":"March 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Spent all yesterday afternoon in the pub with my mate Phil (who I dont see enough of) Where I took up the role of agony aunt Steph disecting his relationship and the position he's found himself in!! 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