While the apartment is being cleaned

So there's a woman here cleaning. Yes, I admit it, I'm one of Those People who pays someone else to do the dirty work for her. Mind you, I'm sitting here with a dust mask on, because the reason I don't clean myself is that I'm dreadfully allergic to dust (if it's just sitting there, it doesn't bother me, but cleaning it makes it move and then I'm toast) and it kicks up my chronic fatigue syndrome. It took me a long time to realize, but back in my 30s, when I started to clean and had to lie down after 5 minutes and I thought that was weird, I shouldn't be getting tired at such a young age--well, I was right, that was probably the beginnings of my life with CFS.

Anyway, I've got jazz playing and I've been doing other things, but there's one big thing I'm waiting to do for when the jazz stops, because I think it'll make funny noises and since I'm using Windows Media Player to play the CD (Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges, Back To Back), I don't want to mess with it right now.

It's been a rough few days/week with CFS, though. In fact, I spent most of the past weekend in bed, that's how bad it's been. I took some extra Allegra and that seems to have helped. And I'm continuing to eat better. Smaller portions, more fruits and veggies. I've managed to resist the urge to have even one day of sugar lately, though it's been touch-and-go at times. One day at a time is really helping. And, when my resistance was really low, e.g. this weekend, I reminded myself that all that sugar would just make me feel worse and I surely didn't need that. At some point I'll let myself have something sugary and chocolate-y and scrumptious, but, well, not today.

I'm also thinking these days about the new role I find myself in--manager. Really, this is what I've been doing for the last year and a half at least, where I spend just about as much time managing other people and the business as a whole as I do actual transcribing. But it's just been brought home to me more in the last few months, possibly/probably because I'm about to start up a new, sideline business. Hmm. I guess that's something else I could be working on now--my business plans, one for each business.

Okay, I'm off to do that.