Today is Monday. The day I usually have my grocery shopping delivered. There are pros and cons to not picking your own groceries, but thanks to my spinal issues, the least times I have to lift or carry heavy shopping bags, the better.

So today I woke up late. I guess the kitty cat was less starving than usual as she hadn’t been hounding us for breakfast. Mornings are incredibly difficult for me, I think it’s probably down to the medication I need to take at bedtime. It takes me a good couple of hours to get going, and the earlier I get up, the longer it takes. And I get physically ill. But I’m very reluctant to ask for a meds change when mostly my mood remains pretty stabilised.

I am a bit low currently. It happens. The mood has been lingering since the clocks went forward. That messes me up more than I can say. I have felt better today than yesterday however, and have been more productive.

After receiving the groceries and putting them away, I took a trip out to return something to Tesco, drop a parcel at the post office, and have a smashing time at the bottle bank.

Back home I took some rubbish and recycling out to the bins, and potted up the beautiful hydrangea I’d bought Friday. I collected up some more bits of rubbish from the garden and binned them, before heading back indoors, covered in potting compost and damp from the drizzle.

I decided to get straight in the bath and was in my nightshirt by about 5pm. I opened a couple of parcels that had arrived for me; a set of fairy lights and a job lot of Christmas decorations. After looking through the decs and beginning to think about what I might do with them, I went to start making dinner.

Also throughout the day I have been adding coats of paint and glitter to a Christmas tree ornament in the shape of a dove. Off the back of my purple apple, I’m now creating a pink dove. Why be traditional?

Had dinner with Martin, and am currently drinking the cup of tea he brought me with some dark chocolate digestives. I will shortly go and see what needs doing in the kitchen and after, I will probably stare at my phone until meds and bed. Maybe add some more sparkles to the pink dove.

And that’s probably about as exciting as my day is going to get.