14 July, 2010

Annoyances, etc

I've just logged in to write this, and realised something really annoying about this website; something unnecessarily annoying: it will not, not, not remember my login details, despite ticking the 'remember me' box on the login page every time. When I log in on my pocket PC though, it does remember me! How come it can do that on the pocket version, but not when I'm logging on on my desktop PC.

I went for my first session with the psychologist yesterday. Fairly traumatic, having to go over everything again to try to see if they can help with my depression and stress. It was just an evaluation session, and all I did was fill them in on how I feel about this and that, and go over the series of events from my accident onwards. All the stuff about being in hospital when mum died and missing her funeral all came up, of course, and that was very hard to talk about with a stranger.

On the plus side, we paid off our mortgage today, so the house is ours, free and clear. Feeling a bit flat today, so this didn't excite me as much as I think it should have.

Don't know what I want to do today. Linda, our cleaner, is here today, so I'm hiding up here in my den, writing this. The weather is atrocious at the moment: while the rest of the country was getting a heatwave, we've been getting rain and gale force winds.

I've had a few frustrations lately, like the new lawnmower having to go straight into the dealer's for repair because it was faulty when it arrived (the cutting height doesn't lock at the front). Because I bought it from Amazon, I couldn't just send it back, and the dealer's got a backlog of work and is prioritising commercial customers. Of course, since it's raining today, I can't cut the lawn with the electric mower, which is both annoying and quite good at the same time. Other things have been bugging me, like my clumsiness, knocking my PC keyboard off the back of the desk, and then wondering why I'm not getting any response from it after picking it up and trying to use it, before finding that the batteries have fallen out and dropped out of reach and not being able to get down there easily because my prosthetic leg's in the way and all that kind of stuff that just makes me want to scream my head off!!!

So ... I'm left feeling a little on edge all the time; part of my depression/anxiety etc., etc. I wonder if this is why my phantom pain has started up again?

1 comment:

Justine A said...

It's been ages since I looked at your blog, but here I am at work on a sunny day and thought that rather than optimise my time so I can go home early, I'd stuff aroud reading blogs... ah well...

I'm sending you supportive vibes on the frustrations and anxiety. I had a bad patch of anxiety which I think I'm getting a handle on, ever since my dad died! These things do take time, but with a psych I reckon you are sure to move faster. TOUGH WORK!