Today is Blue Monday apparently but I have been trying to change my mind set about January as I always associate January with Monday mornings!  You know the feeling how Mondays feel and I always think January is like that, especially after a wonderful Christmas. However……

I think I will be changing my view because possibly tomorrow I may be having a macular hole repaired in my left eye!  You know how I said that I would be leaving all medical things in 2025 and 2026 was going to be a much better year?  Well it’s not!  Apparently this type of problem with the eyes is often inherited (!) but after the Op is actually worse this time as I have to spend 45 minutes of every hour for five days with my head on my forearm which enables the gas they put in your eye to press on the hole for it to hopefully close!  The Op is done under local again so I will be awake for it all!!!!

The other thing you need to know about me and eyes is I don’t do them!  Whenever there is a film on with something about eyes I have to shut mine.  I have worn glasses since I was eighteen for reading as I  would never be able to put contact lenses in!!!  Grr.  The other thing is that it might not close and they have to do it all again and I cannot drive again for four weeks!  Also I am not able to do anything whilst I have my head down so I will be utilising my over the head earphones and listening to some books to try and keep me sane!!!!!

On to more possitve things DH and I managed to get our garage finished with the decluttering and also tidied all the boxes so we are now able to see everything and it has all been labled.  We also tidied the rest of the garage too and yesterday we did our attic so that is now complete.  A job which began this time last year.  We have managed to get rid of quite a bit, things we did not need or use, most to the Charity shop and the rest to the refuse centre.  I also went through all my clothes at the weekend and got rid of some jumpers that I was not wearing and a couple of blouses again for the Charity shop.  My final sweep of our home will be done when I do the Spring Cleaning later in the year.  

I did very well for meals last week though!  Jayne and I went out for lunch on Tuesday.  We always try and go close to home at this time of year on the basis that we do not know what the weather is going to do.  We have had a bit of snow already but it did not last long fortunately.  We were okay with the weather and the pub we went to, we have been to several times before and the food is always good.  There were a lot of people who had the same idea as it was quite busy.  Then on Friday evening we went out to dinner with the Head Coach from swimming and his Mom, who I go out for lunch with also.  It was a really nice evening and dinner was great.  

The rest of this week all depends upon whether I have my eye Op tomorrow or not.  If not then it is a quiet week with work and home jobs and a quiet weekend again too, but I am sure I can find some other jobs to do.  If the Op does not happen tomorrow hopefully it will be next Monday.

I hope you are having a good January so far and I will let you know how things go tomorrow. 

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xx