A lost quarter? Top Notch thanks!

I seem to have lost a quarter.  Not an American coin, not even an expanse of desert, but the first three months of this year seem to have unaccountably vanished.  There I was, all good intentions and feeling organised straight after Christmas - and now here we are at Easter.  Don't expect any explanations, I have no idea what happened.  It's time doing that elastic thing again.  When I'm not feeling up to much and can't manage anything as energetic as a bit of knitting (which inevitably coincides with there being nothing I fancy watching on TV) time expands so that the five minutes before I can reasonably have lunch feels like a week.  And then when I'm feeling brighter and able to do knitting (which seems to be my fitness meter these days) time condenses, and squidges itself up into a tiny nothingness.  This means that the hour in which I plan to do 15 minutes knitting, check emails, and then update blog actually lasts for about 9 seconds. You will appreciate this isn't even time for the laptop to boot up; but of course an hour has passed by my watch, and it's lunchtime so I'm hungry. And I still haven't updated my blog, although I may have managed a couple of rows of knitting and a cup of tea.

Fitness meter:
This works like one of those diet sheets, where you have to pick one item from the selection offered at each meal, and goes something like this:-

Top notch              
Pick up knitting and work at least an inch of back of adult size sweater or several inches of sock.
   OR
Check emails and Google a little (these, like time, have their own elasticity).
   OR
Do some drawing or sewing (more tiring than knitting, motor control takes more effort)
  OR
Update blog (this takes time as well as physical and mental effort.  I really enjoy it, but other stuff seems to need to take priority.  I may have to rethink my priorities)

Fair
Pick up knitting and work about half amount of top notch knitting.
   OR
Check emails
   OR
Google a little

Middling
Decide sweater too much of a slog, but manage several rows of sock.
   OR
Read for at least half an hour!

Ropey
Look at sock knitting and wonder if I'll feel like doing a round or two tomorrow.
   OR
Start to read and fall asleep after about 3 minutes.

Hoping for a tiny scrap of carrot

This doesn't include essential activities which generally take precedence. Even during Ropey I can get my own breakfast.  I usually get my own lunch too, but can't always do this at Ropey.  Amazingly hospital clinic visits usually coincide with either Top Notch or Fair.  This is largely due to their placing in my medication schedule.  I've done some amazing stuff during Top Notch - preparing a casserole or curry  for the slow cooker for example, sitting on a stool in the kitchen with puppy waiting hopefully for a tiny scrap of carrot or garlic!



I've marked yet another Christian festival on the calendar with one of my sessions of let's phone the helpline to report an elevated temperature. I consequently spent last Sunday night being filled with antibiotics and fluid, and subsequently popping 2 kinds of oral antibiotics and a different kind of steroid from usual. This means I have to have a break before more treatment, so I'll probably be Top Notch for several days now.  This is good;  I was well enough to go to skittles on Thursday evening and had a thoroughly enjoyable evening, and I've cut and fitted several pieces of non-slip in the caravan lockers.  It still feels bizarre that a number of activities which once I would have done during the course of a morning or afternoon I now do spread over about a week.