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Get up and go went.
Posted Sep 14, 2015
Tired. Will whoever took the plug out of my back and drained my energy kindly replace it please?
There's a rational explanation - umpteen consecutive badly broken nights (part and parcel of being a carer), and a migraine yesterday.
Even so, tomorrow's going to be busy whether I've got the energy for it or not, so might as well get used to that now. 
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poem of the day
Posted Jun 28, 2015
Prayer at Sunrise
O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun,
Now thou art risen, and thy day begun.
How shrink the shrouding mists before thy face,
As up thou spring’st to thy diurnal race!
How darkness chases darkness to the west,
As shades of light on light rise radiant from thy crest!
For thee, great source of strength, emblem of might,
In hours of darkest gloom there is no night.
Thou shinest on though clouds hide thee from sight,
And through each break thou sendest down thy light.
O greater Maker of this Thy great sun,
Give me the strength this one day’s race to run,
Fill me with light, fill me with sun-like strength,
Fill me with joy to rob the day its length.
Light from within, light that will outward shine,
Strength to make strong some weaker heart than mine,
Joy to make glad each soul that feels its touch;
Great Father of the sun, I ask this much.
James Weldon Johnson
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Reminder
Posted Jun 18, 2015
To do tomorrow:
library books back
card sent
email reply drafted, now that the sting's worn off
pool time
unravel and rewind
baking
Plus, the usual.
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Things you don't say to a carer - umpteenth part.
Posted Jun 12, 2015
"Nice to see you letting your hair down".
Last night I may well have been out, and yes, I drank all of 2 bottles of normal strength beer, plus half a pint of cider. Big deal, that's not much when drank in 5 hours; if I were really letting my hair down and wasn't on call, I'd have drunk more heavily and more quickly instead of being careful to stay just sober enough.
All the time I was out, I was still on call. The mobile phone was on vibrate, tucked into my clothing, and if it had gone off, I would have replied gone home immediately. The venue was all of 15 minutes on a main bus route from home, which is how come I could take the risk of leaving my caree alone for so long. 
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Posted May 21, 2015
This should be over by now. i took the stuff in tiem, drowsed most of the day, and should be approaching noraml by now.
More normal than this, anyway. Touch should be dropping back down by now, the censor should have been back in place hours ago, and why on earth have I got post-attack thirst before my digestion's up and running again? There's also the klitzkleine Problem between brain and fingers - still barely on speaking terms.
Not looking for answeers or sympathy, just a bit fed up (okay, very fed up) because this would ahve usually ended by now. And it hasn't. Can't take anything else for it before late tomorrow morning, and there;s no point as no medication (conventional or otherwise) touches the bits of this which haven't gone yet.
And I really do need complete lucidity by tomorrow morning at the very latest.
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