tsk tsk

I'm not sure I can claim to be a Flybaby at the moment. I didn't even LOOK at last weeks missions, and I don't think I've done the dishes/shined the sink before bed in at least a couple of weeks. :( The motivation just isn't there! I also have far fewer visitors over winter - likely a result of not being at all sociable - and with the addition of really GREAT books to read on my Kindle...yeah.

I've been going to bed at 6, 7pm to read because there hasn't been anything on tv and to make sure the heater doesn't go on. Sometimes I head there not expecting to go to sleep, but I do. Other times, and this is frequent in winter, I read until after midnight, and still not get to sleep before 2am. On those nights, the last thing I want to do is get back up to do the dishes/sink. And it is really too cold to do it anyway. I don't have the heater on as a rule, so the indoor temperature can be as little as 7C. Getting up to wash dishes for 4 mins isn't worth the cost of whacking the heater on for that amount of time.

We are past the shortest day, and already things are looking brighter. Ok, I realise we have just as much light as we did 4 days BEFORE the solstice...but it still feels brighter :P I also realise there is another 9 weeks of Winter.

Because the temperature has risen the last couple of days - like, its a whole 11C outside, the bedroom window has been open the last two nights. On both of which I actually got to sleep before midnight. perhaps I shall take a multi vitamin, sleep with the window open again tonight and see what that does for the motivation levels. Getting tomorrows tea out of the freezer tonight would also help, especially if I want the corned beef to thaw out.

If improved vitamin levels don't help, then I expect this blog will stay very very quiet until Spring. I don't think I have fallen off the wagon, I'm just in hibernation :D That said though, I figured out the other day that if you 'have to tidy up coz a visitor is coming' then you are well slack on the housework :s

C'est la vie