Dog Days Of Summer #14

MONDAY
Another Asda delivery arrived and I made sure I stocked up on crunchy Chicago Town pizza which I loved but haven't had for years. It was so tasty to have it again tonight and my dad enjoyed it too. I swear our freezer gets smaller every time I look at it. There are four drawers but each is shallow and doesn't hold what you feel it should but we don't have the space for a bigger one. Oh how I long for a house with a few more rooms to give me the space for a double fridge freezer to really hold everything we need it for.

To be honest my dad and I are both feeling a bit down about life here in Scotland. We both hate the Scottish Government and their Independence obsession (despite us voting NO to it in 2014) and their anti-English attitude. My dad and I love England and the English people, and I've always been welcomed as a tourist or worker each time I go over the border. Sadly I can't say the same about the welcome our country gives some English people who live or visit as a certain amount of the population here want to blame England for everything that is wrong in their life. Anyway, given the choice, we'd move south in a heartbeat if we could. I don't think we can raise the money even if we sell our house and my uncle's for market value but we intend to seriously look at it as soon as we can. I once thought I'd never leave Scotland but at the moment I can't wait to get out of here.

TUESDAY
I know a few of you are a bit concerned about the prospect of me coming off these long term  anti-depressants because of this dispute with my doctor. Let me assure you that I carefully weaned myself off as I did the last time I changed medication and it did all go smoothly and with no ill effects. I have been doing a ton of research on herbs and supplements as part of my prepper thing over the last few years so I have a lot of notes about doses and what I can and can't take with each option and how it all interacts with all other medications. I even have books on the subject and have consulted with an expert in herbal remedies. I'm mad as hell at the doctor for putting me in this position but I'll be making the best of it.

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY
I've been putting my energy into tackling the computer files all this week again. It's taken nearly three weeks to rename them and get them into some kind of order. Now I can finally start to examine each one and decide what to put on disk or delete. That could take the rest of the year or longer as I have the hard drives of my last three computers wired into this machine! I have a lot to deal with!

FRIDAY/SATURDAY/SUNDAY
I can report that I feel fine and I'm on a low dose of a supplement now, letting my body adjust to it and watching for any side effects. After four days, everything is going fine and my mood is unchanged from when I was on the anti-depressant. There has also been a small improvement in the sleep situation-still not getting as much as I want but I've gone up to four hours a night from two so it's a start! Hopefully in a few more days I might be sleeping better. Fingers crossed anyway as I'm fed up feeling tired all the time. 

My beloved football team played like complete haddies this week and were lucky to only be defeated by a single goal. We've still had a decent start to the season but a few wins would be nice in the coming weeks. I've spent the weekend relaxing and watching Coronation Street documentaries and behind the scenes stuff which has been a lot of fun.

MONDAY
I do feel a bit better this morning so I'm making a start on catching up with all the blog visits I never got to this week. I'm so far behind that it isn't funny. That's the down side to a blog break, enforced or chosen-too much catch up to deal with. I plan to spend the next few days catching up if I can. I'll be sort of taking it a day at a time for getting stuff done but I hope to at least post a few things this week and do a two week catchup at the weekend.