Annie in wonderland

 As I write this, I’m feeling a bit tired but reflecting on how I slept reasonably well last night after attending an event. This experience reinforces my belief that staying up later helps me sleep better, and I’ve discussed this with a manager of my housing facility who agrees and will address the concerns of those who are worried about my late-night schedule. I actually managed to sleep through the night, only waking up a couple of times for a quick snack and to adjust the temperature with my electric blanket. Though I’m still dealing with some pain, being tired seems to make it less noticeable. I started writing this before a support shift and am curious about how I’ll sleep tonight, as my week has a basic structure, but my day-to-day life varies significantly based on what I need to accomplish or where I need to go. I did have some coffee in the afternoon because I was tired, and I’m interested to see if pushing myself to the point of exhaustion might help me sleep better. Ton...

   This is going to be an end-of-the-year post and it’s going to be a more in depth one, so I have one of my community access team (support organization) going on personal leave. But she is so on the ball and a true team leader in that she suggested to my mum we get my finances in order and it’s never too late or even to early if you have a disability to have your finances in order and the first step we are doing before we even need to think about doing a budget is doing something really basic, a list of things that I am no longer allowed to buy and this then shift me from the day to day goals and living to being able to have a holiday or a trip of some description, so this is going to be the start of that list   as I think most people as we are heading into Christmas are doing a combination of planning for Christmas and the new year as it makes sense when a lot of gift type items are around to by them when they are on sale and put them aside for the new year. I have a ...