It's been a minute

 It probably hasn't been long since my last post - I didn't even bother checking! - but it feels like it because the kids have stashed my laptop in daddy's office so they could play Roblox together. Except for some reason they don't actually make sure things are plugged in, so it's been dead for a little while. (They do this with our tablet and old phone - it's dead? Oh well, time to play on something else. And then complain when it's been a while and they still can't play on it because no one's charged it. Huge eyeroll. C'mon kids.)

I've been pretty tired, which is unfortunate. My husband is still mostly down with injured body parts (it was his shoulder, then he rolled his ankle, then he missed a stair and jarred his ankle and shoulder again), yesterday my shoulder hurt quite a lot (I think I slept on it weird) but I took a long bath and that seems to help my tired muscles a lot. I just had a thought - you know how people swear by like... Epsom salt baths and things? I wonder if those people regularly take baths, or if they only do it with things in them. I have found soaks in the bathtub to be very therapeutic, and I never add anything. (I'm sure the salts do help, I just wonder) I never really took baths before this (because I never wanted to clean my bathtub that well, ahem), but in our new house, well not only was it clean, it's separate from the shower so it doesn't get as dirty. So anyway I LOVE taking baths now. It's my preferred method of cleansing, though I still haven't figured out a good way to wash my hair. I can't explain why, but it never feels as nice as when I wash it in the shower. 

I looked out the window and saw the blackberry bush peeking over our back fence. I picked a few last week, thinking about making a peach blackberry dessert, but my toddler was out there with me and then wanted to eat them all. I kind of want to go out there and see if there are more, but it's supposed to be hot this week, starting with today. I'm sure I could survive if I really wanted blackberries, but... I'm tired. I have considered taking my kids into the greenspace behind our house to look for berries. I've been reading this book about trees and it keeps mentioning how the leaves block sunlight, maintaining cooler temperatures below and it makes me want to hunker down in a forest where it might be cooler. 

(I actually don't usually mind being out when it's hot, but for some reason I really dislike the idea of being hot, so I avoid it anyway.)

Oh, yeah! I was complaining about being tired. And I'm not sure why. I haven't been doing THAT much, but a few days ago I did quite a lot, really wore myself out (which was probably my last post), and I haven't been as tired since but I also haven't been all the way better either. It's like I used to have twenty spoons, that day I used 25, the day after I had 10, and I've only had 15 since. It's not terrible, but it's not great either. I need to actually make dinner tonight (last night I sort of did, it was Costco's orange chicken from the freezer and I chopped some broccoli up for it). Ooooh I just found a perfect excuse to lay in bed - I'll bring up the recipes and figure out which one I feel like doing tonight and study the others for the next few nights. Hehehehe.