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Monday Magic – Inspiring Blogs for You!

On By Claire Saul (PainPalsBlog)In Blog share, Blogging, Blogs, chronic illness, Valentine's Day8 Comments

This is the week of love with Valentine’s Day fast approaching – red hearts, champagne, velvet wrapped boxes of chocolates and of course red roses.  The shops are adorned and the internet is overflowing with suggestions of how to spoil your loved one.  The thing that I would just love for myself is a week of sleep.  Forget being wined and dined, fancy foil balloons or expensive flowers…..the secret to unlocking my heart is to give me sleep!!

Valentine Monday Magic

Seriously I need to find some self love this week after a week of sleep deprivation.  I never sleep brilliantly, but this week has felt like working night shifts again.  I no longer panic in the night, but read from a dimly lit kindle or listen to dramas on the BBC radio iplayer or play soothing sleep mixes on Youtube.  The problem comes half way through the next day when jet lag hits and after 3 sleepless nights this week it has well and truly hit!!  Thursday night was one of these nights, but I didn’t drop off to sleep until Friday afternoon.  By the time hubby woke me at nearly 7pm it was time to go out to play…..a takeaway with some close neighbours.  Curry for breakfast – can’t remember the last time I did the equivalent!  We had been tasked with taking liqueurs and wine – easy.  Unpacking the bag when we arrived we had red wine, white wine, limoncello, espresso liqueur, coffee cream, sambucca, oxynorm……what???  Oh no, don’t panic, just a little something for Claire and her pain!

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Something that did cheer me up this week was reading that chocolate shaped as hearts is calorie free…well, who knew?  This is something that I am totally believing for the whole week, so come on hubby remember how the lovely girl and I have always woken up to a chocolate heart on February 14th?  I promise never  to say again that snoring from the other side of the bed requires noise cancelling headphones!

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I haven’t given you a list of lovey, dovey red heart posts, but rather a diverse selection of blog posts.  They range from the breakfast pizza, to giving empowering compliments to girls to random acts of kindness.  My favourite has to be the slow cooker fudge brownies – there is a situation where the stomach rules the heart.  So sit back with a cuppa, or maybe a glass of something bubbly and enjoy some great blog posts.

 

https://www.theworldseesnormal.com/the-world-sees-normal/10-things-to-remember/

https://www.samsplaces.com/2019/02/bacon-egg-cheese-breakfast-pizza-recipe.html

https://justmuddlingthroughlife.co.uk/2019/02/08/10-tips-help-ease-stress-children-being-mum/

https://sweatpantsandcoffee.com/empowering-compliments-girls/

https://catchyourbreath60.com/february-is-heart-month-copd-and-heart-failure/

https://passionfruitpawsandpeonies.com/9-books-for-a-more-positive-2019/

https://lifeattheintersection.com/2019/02/11/practice-for-random-acts-of-kindness-day/

https://esmesalon.com/how-to-actually-chill-so-you-dont-burnout/

http://www.looneyforfood.com/slow-cooker-fudge-brownies/

https://www.unboundroots.com/my-heart/

 

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Have a great week,

Claire x

 

Monday Magic – Inspiring Blogs for You! #Valentine’sDay

On By Claire Saul (PainPalsBlog)In Blogging, Blogs, chronic illness, Valentine's Day13 Comments

Love is in the air…..well it is Valentine’s Day this week anyway, and I hope that love is in the air for you, whether it be romantic or otherwise.  February 14th has never been a huge deal in our house – I don’t think Dad has ever sent Mum a card let alone flowers.  I have had flowers and cards over the years…and the occasional meal out – but I think after a particularly memorable night, crammed between 2 other couples in a Chinese restaurant and listening to their conversations as we couldn’t hear each other, the consensus was better to stay at home. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA We might have passed this on to our kids having just mentioned it to one son, who looked at me as if I was mad even mentioning doing something to mark the day.  Funny thing is we are going out this year – hubby is taking me to a live RSC streaming of Twelfth Night….might even get a McDonalds out of it if I play my cards right (are they gluten free I wonder?!).

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So fingers crossed the current flare of POTS symptoms have passed by Wednesday otherwise he will be taking his daughter or mother in law!!  Talking of POTS – that is postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, not the cooking variety – I saw the online community working at its best over the weekend.  A member of a POTS group put up a very distressed post that signalled an intentional overdose of drugs was being taken – the members of the group went into overdrive to find out where this person lived in the world, making contact with personal friends to check on them, calling on Facebook to help via the reporting suicidal thoughts, and sending message after message of support and hope.  I am so pleased to report that a message was posted last night saying that a stranger had called an ambulance, and the POTSIE was safely in hospital being assessed and truly appreciating all the good wishes.  No trolls, no nasty comments – social media at its best!nope

Yours truly has been sitting watching the winter Olympics and gasping out loud.  The wind!! How are those snowboarders doing it?  I have found the ice dancing particularly inspiring – it took me back to being about 8 and reading the Noel Streatfield novel White Boots.  That book changed my life and I was going to be an ice skater!!  Dad took me to Streatham ice rink in south London, I put one foot on the ice expecting to glide away – and, you guessed it, my derriere met with a very cold, wet landing.  Bang went that dream.  But some of those Olympians are inspirational – the young Russian girls literally float over the ice with such ethereal beauty, and the Canadian pair are just something else.  A human body really shouldn’t be able to do that!! (My bendy  friends will recognise this sentence!).

From inspirational athletes to inspirational blog posts!  This week I have added in some posts for Valentine’s – they are alternating with the normal mix of fab posts from some old  pals and some new friends – some spoonies, others not!  So sit back and relax with some great Monday Magic blog posts!

https://shailajav.com/how-it-all-began-15-years-ago/

https://legallyblindbagged.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/night-to-shine-my-two-cents/

http://thedestinydive.com/2018/02/05/valentines-day-date-ideas-that-dont-include-a-restaurant/

https://ginlemonade.com/2018/02/05/anxiety-us/

https://thimbleandtwig.com/crafts/make-rose-petal-bath-bombs/

http://penny-pennystreasures.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/no-matter-how-long-winter-spring-is.html

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/sweetheart-coconut-cookies

https://theinvisiblef.com/2018/02/12/overcomers-louise-webb-healing-body-turning-illness-something-positive/

http://suzyhomemaker.co.uk/valentines-day-decor-2017/

http://www.abalancedbelly.co.uk/need-talk-fistulas/

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/02/bloody-sexy-drunk-origin-valentines-day/

https://melissavsfibromyalgia.com/2018/02/08/move-every-day-and-some-neck-and-back-pain-yoga-links/

https://www.elitedaily.com/p/i-cant-afford-a-valentines-day-gift-so-instead-im-planning-adorable-surprise-for-my-so-8138638

http://ladyjaney.co.uk/5-blogging-goals-2018-dares-wins/

http://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/valentines-day-blood-orange-cocktail

https://bettysib1998.wixsite.com/young-sick-invisible/single-post/2018/02/05/f

http://www.lifehack.org/524580/100-quotes-about-love

https://dinosaursdonkeysandms.com/2018/02/06/dizzycast-ep-3-a-disclosing-dizzy/

https://laurenconrad.com/blog/2018/02/friday-favorites-275/

http://mummyitsok.com/blog/what-is-postnatal-depression/

Really share the love this week and share these posts, comment and make a blogger’s day!

Have a lovely week,

Claire x

 

 

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