This week I finally decided to listen to reason and mete out my housecleaning into more reasonable chunks of time.
Today I settled on cleaning only the upstairs. I didn't feel pressured as a result, so I took my time and did a really good job. In the middle of the task I took my lunch break, then went over to the nearest supermarket for a handful of groceries to make life and meal planning easier should our foggy drizzle today turn into our annual winter ice cover by tomorrow. I rested after that by watching an hour of tv and replying to a couple of emails. Only then did I go back upstairs and complete the cleaning jobs.
Now I am going to check on the pork tenderloin roast I actually remembered to put into the oven because I am not too exhausted to think clearly! Housecleaning sans subsequent exhaustion that sets my recovery back by a full week...now there is a novel concept for me!
Tomorrow I will clean the main floor, leaving the laundry until the day after that and the ironing until the day after that! I know I have promised myself to have this sort of schedule in times past, BUT I am finally getting the idea through my thick skull that better organization and refusal to do more in one day than I am physically capable of is the way to keep my recovery progressing more consistently.
Well, duh.......
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