A Bad Day!

Today has been a bad day! The pain in my hands has been intense, and my thumbs felt like they were on fire! I have done very little in the house, which means I will have more to do tomorrow! But maybe tomorrow will be a better day, and that won't be a problem! And on top of that the dishwasher has given up the ghost!! Now that really is a bad thing, because washing up when you keep dropping things is no fun - wet crockery and crappy hands = lots of breakages!!
But having said that, I did go shopping to Fosse Park, and I managed to get Richard his Birthday presents! To me that felt like a major achievement!  I did have to take my walking stick, but holding on to that was hard work too! Such a pain in the proverbial!!! But, I did get a lot of things sorted, and I bought some lovely new nail varnishes in the sale at Boots, as well as a cura heat for my hands! They only had one left or I would have been tempted to buy 2, one for each hand! The right hand was the worst, which is a nightmare as that is my writing hand, so everytime I used my card and had to tap in the pin, it hurt, and when I shopped at M & S and had to sign for my purchases on my store card, holding the pen was difficult as my thumb wasn't working properly!!! Such a nightmare!  You also feel like a bit of an idiot when you are having to place your pen in a certain way to be able to write!!! Derrrr!!!
Anyway, back to the nail varnishes - I bought 4 Ted Baker varnishes in a lovely box, and they were reduced to half price, £6 instead of £12!! And one of them is bright red - this might seem a bit boring to some of you reading this, but to me it is so exciting, because last year I stopped biting my nails! I had bitten my nails all my life (I grew them when I got married and again when I was expecting my eldest son but other than that I bit them very badly!!) and for the last 6 months I have treated myself to a monthly manicure, and Lorraine, the lady who does them, says I am her star pupil as I look after my nails very well!! The funny thing is, it was my son nagging at me, and the fact that when I was out shopping one day and I saw the disgusted look from a lady sales assistant when she saw my very badly bitten nails, that made me stop!!!  So thanks to both my son Luke and that lady in the shop!
Back to my aches and pains, today has been a crap day, there is no other way to describe it, right from my shower this morning, I have had a lot of pain, trying to wash my feet was impossible because I couldn't bend to do them, I tried to put on a ring again today (as yesterday) and today none of them would fit! My hands were so swollen that even my gloves felt tight when I went out shopping!  But I will not be beaten, I am going to keep positive, and I have decided that from tomorrow I am going to do three things:
1. Set myself a task each day to complete, so that I can have a sense of achievement!
2. Get back to Weight Watchers and lose this extra weight, because my joints are stressed enough without the strain of the blubber I am carrying!!
3. I am going to start back at the beginning of my Rosetta Stone Spanish lessons, so that when we go out to Spain for the month in October i will be more fluent!!!
These are things that are achieveable for me, which I personally feel is the key to helping my self esteem, setting myself ridiculously difficult targets will not help me!! Oh and the other good thing about today - I managed to get some more things for our apartment in Spain! We bought a 2 bedroomed apartment in Murcia last year, and we will be going out there later this year to set it up for the summer, so that friends and family can hire it, and I am gradually buying all the things we need and we have gone with a black and white theme, with a bit of red thrown in!!! I am really enjoying doing this as it is a brand new apartment and everything in it will be the same - so exciting!!!!
Well, I am going to retire now, it is 12.24 on Tuesday morning, and the holidays are now well and truly over and the country is back to work fully today (including my husband and son!), so now is my time to start the year as I mean to carry on, positively!!!!