A little more Zippeddy Do Dah

And yet again it's been over a month since I last posted. In that time my friend R has moved back to Germany, I have gone down to working 15 hours a week (which, to be honest, has been a blessed relief), I've joined both the photographic society and started the Tai Chi class, and I seem to have been sick almost all of the time.

I think there comes a time when your body just runs out of energy. It's got nothing to do with nutrition or the amount/quality/variety of food you eat, it's just that the body has had enough. Enough of fighting off yet another cold, enough of dealing with inconsistent weather, enough of staying alert for long periods of time. So when the chance appeared (only working in the mornings) my body said Woo Hoo and promptly crashed. In fact my 'cold' had been so bad I actually took some time off work.

Another aspect of this running out of energy is the total lack of motivation to do anything at all. This has shown itself in a variety of ways. I've stopped walking - ok I've actually been too ill to go out in the freezing cold for an hour-long walk - but I haven't even felt the inclination to go. I stopped writing in the blog as I had absolutely nothing to write about - normally I'm an observant person and the little things I notice are the things I write about, recently I couldn't even observe my hand in front of my face (bit scary when I was driving). I couldn't find any enthusiasm for photography, even when given a theme to take photos on, hell I haven't even uploaded my more recent pictures to Flickr. Work on the house ground to a standstill, even though I now had the time to get on with it.

Now before any of you (if anyone is still reading this) starts thinking that I'm depressed, let me reassure you that isn't the case. I have been depressed in the past and this isn't it. I'm just tired and need to take a little more care of myself. However, things are starting to look up, as you can see I've written this blog post. I've been working on my house again over this last week and my shed is delightfully well organised. Over the next week I intend to upload all of my photos to Flickr and get out a little more to take some. And I will start walking again!