The worse thing about being sick when you're alone is you guessed it, you're alone. There is no one to make you chicken soup or pick-up after you. No one to say, 'poor baby' or fluff your pillow. It can get a little depressing, and when you are finally on the mend you are happy to get back to your job. However, the scenario builds.You come home on the first day and are not quite up to snuff. You peel off your clothes and drop them somewhere, anywhere in a randomness that defies order.
You go through a work week of this and by the time the weekend comes
your place is really a wreck and you are overwhelmed with the little known and mostly unacknowledged
Post-alone Illness Trauma! or P.I.T.
The first thing you HAVE GOT to do is relax about it!
Yes, perhaps visitors will be uncomfortable when they sit on that fork,
or find a spoon sticking up between the cushions of the sofa.
But, once YOU DECIDE to realize few humans have a clue of what YOU
experience with P.I.T., the situations become quite amusing, even entertaining to you.
I do love my funny friends! LOL!
or find a spoon sticking up between the cushions of the sofa.
But, once YOU DECIDE to realize few humans have a clue of what YOU
experience with P.I.T., the situations become quite amusing, even entertaining to you.
I do love my funny friends! LOL!
After those friends leave the next thing you have GOT to do after re-relaxing is to take an inventory of just what is right about your place and see the upheaval as part of the beauty of your LIFE! Laughing will stave off hysteria at this point.
I have been leading up to this great idea for you to get all your beautiful messes in order! This idea works!
Isolate each messy area as you look it over again and rather than feeling overwhelmed about getting the whole thing in order just choose one or two messy areas to organize at a time!
For example when I had the flu, the coffee table
became the catch-all for dishes, cough medicine, magazines, art
projects, nail clippers (and other pedicure items I used after showers
trying to help myself feel better by having pretty looking toes, you know what I'm talking about). Though hardly worth mentioning are oddities like food-crumbs & spills all mixed in with little pieces of polymer clay & glue.This is beginning to sound like a masterpiece indeed!
I'm starting with that messy coffee table, then my cozy studio area.
ABSOLUTELY!
Much better!
Time to stop and reward myself!
Movie time! Starbucks!
*Once you have organized the mess of choice be sure to STOP and reward yourself !
I remind you what Scarlett O'Hara, said in that great classic Gone With The Wind. Just put your little hand to your brow, gasp, then sigh a little and repeat after Scarlett,
``I'll think about that tomorrow!", and then in breathy words...
Dulin is a freelance writer by night and
an edit clerk for the State of Texas by day.
She is a proud mother of 3 grown sons
and 6 grand children.She loves to blog
about life from her Shabby Nest!
