I'm getting a little frustrated - I want to be able to do the simple things like painting my house, and weeding the garden - even the housework....

I've been putting up with this for long enough now - I know it's not gonna change - but I'd really like to have some days where I could just be "normal".

My gorgeous eldest son has been here for 2 days painting, cleaning, weeding, etc - I'm useless, I can only sit and watch or make a pathetic attempts at helping (more like getting in the way).  I don't know how I'd get things done without him.  But he lives 1.5 hours away, so I don't see as often as I'd like - and I don't want him feeling like he's got to do chores for me everytime he comes down to visit.  I have 2 younger sons who live nearby, but while they do help from time to time, they'e too busy partying to be reliable.  Wouldn't it be nice to just get up and do "stuff" again. 

I took the day off work today - I kept getting shooting pain in my leg and was having fibro face again, as well as a throbbing arm that I could barely lift.  Normally I go to work and just put up with this stuff then come home and collapse, but today I just thought stuff it, I'm not, and I also got to spend a little more time with my boy which was lovely.

Anyway, enought of my whining - it's off my chest now