Monday Monday...

I've been adamant from the start that writing this blog I wanted it to be personal, with article based posts reflecting personal experiences, thoughts and key issues that affect me and perhaps other lupus suffers. I didn't want to infringe on the widely more successful lupus bloggers out there by launching another blog of daily musings and helpful advice, I fear I may bore people to death with the vastly underwhelming activities of my everyday life! I also felt it better to avoid any vague possibility that I may start to get stuck and subconsciously fill my posts with vast amounts of useless guff that nobody wants to read. So I aimed for the approach to write longer pieces on a weekly basis that I could build throughout the week, a growth of ideas and reflections that I felt passionate about, dancing around in my brain like giddy elves screaming 'write me down yippee!' and so I obliged with snatched moments of scrawling whilst spilling my tuna sandwich on the staffroom table.
But this week I thought I'd try a break from the norm and try and get out a few of my lupie ramblings on a daily basis.. Mainly inspired by my husbands recent 5.30am starts in order to compete his storytelling ideas and creativity with other NanoWrimo participants.
So Monday, so far so good. As with every other working day i'm up 30 mins earlier than I really need to be.. The reason? The wonderful delights of my medicine box require my attention to make me resemble something human like for work. It goes a little something like this.
1 tablet at 7am to prepare my body for the onslaught of multiple medications at 7.45.
A gap for a bowl of porridge in between.
20 to 25mins rest before leaving so they don't turn my stomach into a knotted, churning time bomb.

Today like most days I feel like a walking advertisement for pharmaceutical companies - I could potentially earn a fortune if I was brave enough to wear one of those sandwich board signs saying "POWERED BY STEROIDS, IMMUNOSUPRESSANTS & OTHER DRUGS" all the while doing a silly dance and showing everyone how energetic I am that day.
Anyway, Monday is usually always a good day, i'm either rested from Sunday dozing on the couch or by a short and sweet shift at work that gets me home in time for the channel 5 Sunday afternoon movie. So my parting thought for today? Use Mondays to your advantage, there's plenty of days later in the week to feel tired.