So much for once a week

[tigerfort]

It seems to be a couple of months since I last managed a weekly journal entry. Again. Oops. Mostly I think that's a question of letting the good be the enemy of writing anything at all, but there has actually been an element of doing stuff and getting genuinely exhausted. Which is actually a good thing (even if making me exhausted is currently not as difficult as would be ideal).

The leg-brace continues to make my life much easier. I'm still limited in a range of ways, but I can do so much more than I could a year ago, and it really feels like freedom. The consequent reduction in stress levels does rather seem to be helping with other things, too.

Not unrelated to my regaining the ability to actually do things, the idea of moving down to the southwest has rather rapidly gone from "nice idea" through pln to "we've had a couple of market appraisals of this house and looked at a few possible places in Cornwall". My target had been to get our house onto the market this week, which sadly isn't quite going to happen. But our storage unit is filling up nicely, and the house looks a lot more spacious with half the stuff removed from it. I'm sometimes finding it tricky to pace myself properly, but mostly I seem to be managing that alright, and the satisfaction (and relief) of making the house visibly tidier every day is immense.

Comments

[ceb]

Ooh, whereaboutsish?

[tigerfort]

Current plan is probably south coast, ideally near enough to a station on the main line that it's easy for people to come and visit. The latter does clash somewhat with "maybe somewhere less urban than Didcot would be good for K's mental health", since houses near railway stations are frequently found to be in towns. OTOH, since we have a list of intimately conflicting requirements longer than all our limbs put together...

[lnr]

Oh wow. So pleased that you're feeling more mobile and Getting Stuff Done, but it'll be really weird to have you move even further away, even if we're rubbish enough at keeping in touch as it is! Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly!

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, one of the thoughts behind moving much further away from all my friends is that I might actually see people more often; we'll be close enough to K's parents for her to go there while visitors stay for a long weekend. (Not currently practical because of the amount of driving involved.) Whether any part of this actually works in practice remains to be seen, of course.