I work full time, in the office one day per week and from home four days per week. I am pretty tired by the end of my shift each day, so I don't get to post here as much as I'd really like to. I generally develop a "to-do" list during each week of tasks I want to accomplish in my free time on weekends, since that is the best time for use of the computer other than for work. Thanks to a little challenge from a friend, I've decided to create a new website on one of my favorite topics. (I'm withholding details until the new site is up and running.) So out comes my text editor early Friday evening, with quick notes and a mini-list of tasks. Super; I'm set to begin work on the new site. Then I was asked to work late Friday evening. I agreed, and did put in the extra time, since it wasn't all that much....but my momentum for starting the new site and its associated tasks seems to have vanished into the winds. I just do not have energy to devote to it right now. I'm so exhausted all I really seem to want to do is curl up in front of the television. I hate it, but I guess it's my body's way of telling me to slow down. Nobody's holding a stopwatch on my new project (except me!) so it won't hurt anything if it doesn't happen "yesterday." Just my own impatience. Man, I hate getting reminded (forcibly) that I live in human skin that has more limitations than my mind does....

On a brighter note: the new online Babble resource site I created is a huge hit, and the owner of the site has linked my resource site with the Babble site. This is wonderfully gratifying. The same friend who challenged me (gently) to create my new, upcoming site was positively gleeful when I mentioned I had taken my personal Babble resources page and put it online; he said, "you gots a website now!" He's been chuckling ever since.

Jay's got a job all week working security from midnight to 8 AM. Kind of strange, but it won't last forever. The girls are not happy without him here; they seem restless until he comes home, and neither of them are sleeping much.

I just had my yearly physical, and have some new prescriptions. I still need some other medical stuff done, and it's pending. One of the new prescriptions is helping with an irritating (but not illness-related) issue I've struggled with for a long time ( I don't need to "go" every 15 to 30 minutes any longer), and it doesn't seem to be causing problems as far as side-effects, so that's a plus. I'm about to begin taking a prescription form of niacin (a B vitamin) for lowering cholesterol. The doctor says to avoid over the counter niacin, because it is so slowly absorbed and it is unsafe since it builds up in the bloodstream/body over time and can be toxic.

The visit with the doctor was overdue anyway, so it's a good thing it's done. He did prescribe a new wheelchair, since this one is worn to the point it's beginning to feel unsafe. So on Tuesday of last week, I had an appointment with a physical therapist who did a thorough assessement (90 minutes worth of discussion and measurements of all kinds) for a new one, which should be here in May once the insurance gets done and the chair is ordered. Perhaps by that time we will also have received our tax refund.