Wales Wales Wales!

So, The Cubitts managed to go on an actual day trip yesterday....
Waking up at 6:30am (I had forgotten that time existed - I definitely looked like an extra from the Walking Dead...), we packed the car with a picnic, and headed off to the beach in Wales. It was gloriously hot and sunny, we all got some much needed Vitamin D, and I read half a book overlooking the sparkly sea.

Dad was in charge of pushing me around the cobbled streets in the town, and I probably would have had less of a headache walking than being in that rickety wheelchair! I picked up some cross stitch kits, a craft I've never done before but am looking forward to starting. I also bought a new book... Not that I haven't got a whole shelf and an e-reader full of new novels to read already... But who can resist the temptation a second hand bookstore? Not me anyway. Books let me escape to other worlds, even when I have to stay where I am.

It was lovely to get out, and I was flat out asleep as soon as I got home, exhausted but happy.

Which one of us has HAD brain surgery, and which one of us NEEDS brain surgery?!

Today has actually been an ok day, pain wise. I've been attempting to make friendship bracelets, and covering my earphone wires with embroidery thread so they don't tangle (pictures will be up soon), and Daisy also made me a smoothie, which was deeelish. I'm going back into college on Thursday, to see if it's okay for me to restart my Performing Arts course. As most of you know, I was in and out of hospital so much last year that I didn't attend college for more than a few months in total. Obviously, that means I didn't complete the year, so will need to restart it again, and in the last few months I've been so sedentary with headaches and dizziness, that I don't know whether I will have the physical stamina to participate fully. However, if I don't do Acting this year, I will do a less intense textiles or art course instead, and when my health gets back on track, I shall of course return!

I think it's so important to appreciate the little things that happen everyday, so I am going to document  things I am grateful for, daily, whether in my journal or blog, and I really encourage you to do the same. In the last few days, my list goes as follows:

• Mums incredible Sunday roast
• Anti sickness medication
• Being on the beach with my family in the heat
• Having colour in my cheeks finally, so I don't look ill
• The smell of a 'new' second hand book
• Smoothies
• Daisy for making me laugh with her completely random videos she's recorded (Check my Facebook if you haven't seen them!)

Fish and Chips from the chippy tonight, with a side of painkillers, anti sickness and the DVD 'Driving Miss Daisy'… 

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