Day 1357 a self care kinda day and an afternoon with Gayle!

Wait till you hear about my morning… honestly, even I don’t believe what I spent the morning doing!

I had an amazing night’s sleep, out for the count all night. I’m so grateful for that.

I felt super refreshed.

I got up at 8, let the dogs out, fed the dogs, poop scooped the garden, took all the recycling to the bins and I felt so good after it all. I know how crazy that sounds. I get an amazing sense of calm when things are in order.

It’s a beautiful morning. It’s cold but no wind or rain and the sky is a lovely colour. Not good enough for photos but lovely nonetheless.

I made freshly ground, steaming hot, black coffee…. I write that and smile as it’s all about how you describe it. It was just a pot of black coffee but as I poured it, I thought of that wonderful description. It was a new bag of coffee beans that I’d bought from Curiosity coffee shop.

It was the nicely freshly ground coffee we’ve tried.

I then headed upstairs and sat with my Self Care Journal and filled out the first lot of pages. My main purpose in life… the things I enjoy, the things that make me happy and the things that get in the way of that happiness.

How do I feel emotionally, spiritually, in my friendships and relationships, environmentally, socially and then some.

What do I want to focus on this month?

I loved every minute of it.

I used a nice pen… why does that matter…. But it did.

I used some nice stickers! One that said today was a big day as I started to work in the journal.

I hear myself right now. I have NEVER done anything like this before and in fact I was scoff at those who did. Probably only because I was envious of their clarity of mind and vision that they wanted to do so much work on themselves… when I was barely holding it together.

It feels like time. It’s time to take back control of my life. No more boredom, feeling life is passing me by…. I’m going out to get it.

I did take this photo and send it to Craig. One is the bed made by a man and one is the bed made by a woman. 🤔

He replied with “which one did I do?!? Love you xxx” I laughed out loud!!

Khaleesi and Freya had a good snooze while I did all the hard work.

I then went for a shower and found a playlist…. 100 most uplifting songs ever…. And played that and sang along to it as I showered.

I was buzzing and I felt so alive.

I had physio for my knee at 12.40. It was an NHS appointment and the nurse was lovely. She asked so many questions about the pain, about family history of arthritis, about my psoriasis and she gave both knees a good workout to see what the issue was. She’s scheduled me for blood tests on 16th January to look for inflammatory disease and has given me exercises to do up to 3 times a day. She’ll call once the blood test results come back.

I then picked up Gayle and we headed to Curiosity coffee shop in Beith. I had a mint oat milk latte with Rocky road and Gayle had a hot chocolate with Cookies and Cream cake.

It was a lovely catch up, chat, coffee and cake!! We just joined 3 other folk at the table and chatted away.

We then went to Gayle’s wholesaler in Glasgow for SALE stickers for her Christmas sale when she opens back up in January.

When we left I drove on the wrong side of the road!!!!!

I couldn’t think what side of the street to on and chose the wrong one?!?! Thankfully it was a quiet street. Gayle kept me right!!

We headed to Silverburn shopping centre but I didn’t feel quite right after that. I was a bit dizzy and lightheaded. not sure if it was too much caffeine, dehydration or not enough food. It could have been any of them…. I felt very fuzzy headed.

We had a good wonder around the shops but the feeling never really left.

Home now and I do feel better after having had dinner. Comfies on and feet up. It’s been a busy day after so long doing nothing.

A very purposeful day.

I’m so surprised that I wanted to do this. So proud that I have and excited to see what it brings.

Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️