Journal
Martha’s journal
Sixty-eight. Here for the strength circle and the company.
Nothing happened again
week 98content energy 13 replies
A brief account of the week. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady, twice-weekly strength work, two years of entries. Two years. My only news is that there is no news,…
Sunday night, four lines
week 95held energy 24 replies
A brief account of the week. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole mechanism. Nobody has ever asked me how…
A printout I cannot read
week 92brisk energy 32 replies
She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking…
An unremarkable week
week 90flat energy 11 reply
A brief account of the week. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine…
Quiet
week 88fine energy 53 replies
Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on…
Both bags, one go
week 85pleased energy 21 reply
Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now done it. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly,…
She read the diary
week 83brisk energy 4
A brief account of the week. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. A locum who had clearly…
No news
week 81fine energy 53 replies
A brief account of the week. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh week running. I nearly…
Wrote it on the milestones page
week 78proud, quietly energy 43 replies
Wrote it in the milestones page as well, which I would have found embarrassing a year ago. I have been waiting to write this entry for about fourteen months. Not a number. A…
Not a number
week 76proud, quietly energy 31 reply
A brief account of the week. I have been waiting to write this entry for about fourteen months. Swam in the sea at Myrtleville. Seventy words, all of them good. Not a number.…
Across the day
week 75steady energy 53 replies
A brief account of the week. Got something with protein in before nine this morning, which meant the rest of the day did not fall apart at four. Protein first, everything…
What is your secret
week 73loved energy 51 reply
A brief account of the week. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word. Sunday…
Paired
week 70held energy 44 replies
Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next…
A wedding
week 68warm energy 31 reply
A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's.…
Before nine
week 65steady energy 33 replies
Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it…
I nearly did not write
week 63flat energy 23 replies
I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. Steady. That is the whole…
Circle tonight
week 60warm energy 34 replies
Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it land. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and…
She reduced it
week 58brisk energy 52 replies
A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I got what I needed, and I have booked with my own GP for next month. Her GP was worried and they made a plan together.…
A new bin and a plan
week 57organised energy 32 replies
A brief account of the week. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Tested three…
Steady
week 55fine energy 23 replies
A brief account of the week. Steady. That is the whole entry. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a…