Messages To Me

Thanks to a reminder from Andy tonight I was able to work my machine so I can now leave myself messages again. It was an expensive piece of kit to do just that but when I have figured out how to do it online it will hopefully pay for itself. But I only bought it to leave messages

More Right

So today I was holding the milk in my right hand to pour it onto my coffee s'morning. Then I kept it in my right hand and tipped it onto my muesli. It might not seem like much of a difference to you but as I haven't used it for nearly 8 years 'til t'other day it is still a big step for me.

And this evening I poured both milk and my juice with my right hand. So I have a new exercise to make me better

Anniversary

So today it is exactly one year since I left the Rehabilitation Centre and came to this Supported Living place. A year when I am still better than I was last year

Pouring Milk

So tonight I had to open another bottle of milk, as usual for this process I helk the bottle in my right hand and pulled off the "seal" with my left hand. Then, for the last nearly eight years I would transfer the bottle into my (now) stronger left hand to pour. Buy tonight I poured it with my right hand, the first milk I have poured in nearly 8 years using my dominant hand

What A Day

Good lord, what a day. Well Paul and I went out shopping today. We were so activated that we didn't stop for lunch, until dinner time. Basically after much humming and hawing and asking questions I bought a new Advent Amigo 5, which hopefully I will be able to write notes on etc, and it will hopefully have interweb access too, which is a lucky bonus. Good lord, what a day it has been

And we drove up the motorway on the way back and at the end turned and took the road to Llandeilo, before we got there turned onto the Old A40 and avoided all the bank holiday queues we had passed on the way out

U&AE

Well obviously I was so excited about Paul coming to see me s'morning that I woke up and got up at 6.54 today

Phone Call

And I had a phone call tonight from another client at Kerwin Court who I used to say "Wow, aren't you....." to, I haven't thought about her for nearly a year but she phoned me tonight. She is doing very well too apparently

Strangeness

So while it is good being out and about with Ed and (Little) Paul I feel a bit...... well I wouldn't say I feel tired but I thought it was my restful weekend tomorrow from yesterday. So I am not tired but..... worn out at a guess

Right Hand

And when I was cutting up the onion to go in tonight's dinner I actually found that although my right hand is harder to use it cuts more precisely than my left

Ed

So I have been out and about with that Ed s'morning. We drove for an hour, got to WTSWW, waited for their puter to be switched on and password entered etc for fifteen minutes, did half an hours work then came back for another hour. When we got back I was introducing that Ed to the Rocky Horror Show and I expect he is gonna watch it tonight.

ObAnd for lunch today we called in at the last services on the M4 and just got a butty which I sat outside to eat

Mid link

And I had to practice again putting a link to mid page. So that this could link to the middle of this

With 'im

So I had hours with Paul s'morning, the second of my care workers to get his police check. We talked loads, looked online for some stuff (which he is gonna carry on looking for tonight and drop me an email when he finds it), went shopping for hand towels for visitors to my bathroom and looking at more gadgets, I couldn't use the one they had in stock and it was way too expensive, we were just about to go to the till when I spotted a "pick your own" stall where I filled a big tub with various candyking stuff

So on Friday he is back so we will go looking again

Forgetful

I went to bed in the dark last night (obviously) and forgot to close my curtains, so it was bright enuf to wake me up by 7.10 s'morn.

Strangenosity

Now I feel a bit weird this evening, I started a book on Digital Photography yesterday that I got for my birthday t'other day, I am enjoying it so far but today I don't feel .... patient enough to read books

Visitor

Then Freya came in to see me, it went well, she was here for much longer as it wasn't a school day

Shopping

Then later I went and did this weeks shopping with Ed. We got stuff and so on, and a packet of Hula Hoops which I haven't eaten yet

And then we went exploring, looking for places I used to live, but we took a wrong turning that I suggested and it was too narrow to turn around and we went miles and miles on single track road. in the end we met the A40 again, 5 miles past Llandeilo, about 23 miles away from home

Flirting S'morn

So first thing today The Bossy Woman was stood outside talking to another female MOS. So I went over and said to the other person "I used to think you were beautiful, but in comparison with her...."

&AE

So I got up about 20 to 8 s'morning. Ed is coming here later to have his Monday shop today, even tho it's Tuesday...

Sleep Over

And I was speaking to my friend Alex who works across the way today. I said "Did u work a 36 hour shift?? Your van was here yesterday, last night and today". He said "Nah, I worked yesterday, slept in the van last night then worked today" Now he's gone home tho...

Car

And amongst the boredom of none of my staff coming today I saw, sitting outside a car the same model as I have leased