Life Sucks (Again)

[badly_knitted]

My life sucks. Tomorrow is mum's 80th birthday and I've got one of my 3-day migraines.

My sister, niece and nephew will be driving up tomorrow, and my boyfriend will also be here. They are all classed as guests (even though my sister lived here for 20 years), so despite my migraine, I will be expected to serve food and drinks to everyone, as well as doing all my usual jobs of feeding and cleaning out the pets, cleaning out the fire and getting the coal in. No doubt I'll also be expected to do all the washing up generated by six people. I can't even go to my room and rest in the quiet as my room is still uninhabitable and there's nowhere to comfortably sit. Not that there will be anywhere for me to sit downstairs either. There will be six people and only seating for four, so my sister will no doubt take my chair, simply because she's older and visiting. I'll have to stand or sit on the floor.

My boyfriend has bought mum a birthday cake, which was nice of him, but it's chocolate. He knows I can't have chocolate because it gives me migraines. So tomorrow, everyone but me will be eating birthday cake. =(

In two weeks, it'll be my birthday, but no one will visit for that and I'll still have to do all my jobs, and since my migraines are every two weeks, I'll probably have a migraine then too. And I still have to sleep on the lounge floor, like I have been for at least 6 weeks. I'm fed up!

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[badly_knitted]

Family SHOULD help, it's true, but my sister doesn't see it that way. She expects everything done for her when she visits. It's like she never lived here. And my boyfriend DOES know better, he just doesn't think!

Sleeping on the floor - well, an inflatable mattress (nicknamed Fred the Bed)on the floor - isn't doing my joints any good. But then again, neither is lugging heavy boxes around. The arthritis in my hands is playing up and my wrists are getting increasingly painful. I have very weak, thin wrists and it doesn't take much to damage them. Migraines are never fun, but somehow it's worse these days because I can't rest quietly on my bed. The only place I can sit is in the lounge and mum has the TV on all day, so there's no peace and quiet to be found. I've got my Lapis wand and my Moonstones working overtime, which helps, but what I really need is a decent night's sleep - I'm lucky if I get 5 hours sleep a night, and I wake up several times ever night, often having a panic attack because I'm disoriented and don't know where I am. It's so dark in here with the light out, I can't see a thing.

Thanks for the positive energy - I need all I can get *hugs tight* Hope you're doing alright.

Oh god, something went crash outside, better check that out. We've got gales at the moment!