RecoveringNicki
@recoveringnicki.bsky.social
Scouser, frugal, reader, witch, fibromyalgia & just a little mad 😂
Because I’ve been sat down all day at the window hardly moving I’m freezing cold and I can’t warm up. I’ve eaten a hot meal, had a hot drink, I’m wrapped up, but I can’t move round to warm up as I’m in so much pain with my legs and back 🥶This is the downside of doing my Xmas window 🥶🥶
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Because I’ve been sat down all day at the window hardly moving I’m freezing cold and I can’t warm up. I’ve eaten a hot meal, had a hot drink, I’m wrapped up, but I can’t move round to warm up as I’m in so much pain with my legs and back 🥶This is the downside of doing my Xmas window 🥶🥶
My landlady has impeccable timing. First sightly spicy scene starting in my audiobook and she knocks wanting to speak to me 🫣🫣🫣😂😂😂 Now I’ve had to rewind my book a couple of minutes 😂😂😂
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My landlady has impeccable timing. First sightly spicy scene starting in my audiobook and she knocks wanting to speak to me 🫣🫣🫣😂😂😂 Now I’ve had to rewind my book a couple of minutes 😂😂😂
And as I made a coffee to warm my numb fingers I realised I’d started with the image in the wrong place. Its supposed to be on the left as you look at it from the street & I’ve done it on the left from inside 🤦🏼♀️ 1 can’t be moved at all so now I need to rethink how I’m going to do the rest 🤦🏼♀️
Started painting the window…and I’m listening to Quicksilver. Hopefully I’ll be mainly done before the audiobook finishes 🤞🏻🤞🏻
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
And as I made a coffee to warm my numb fingers I realised I’d started with the image in the wrong place. Its supposed to be on the left as you look at it from the street & I’ve done it on the left from inside 🤦🏼♀️ 1 can’t be moved at all so now I need to rethink how I’m going to do the rest 🤦🏼♀️
Started painting the window…and I’m listening to Quicksilver. Hopefully I’ll be mainly done before the audiobook finishes 🤞🏻🤞🏻
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Started painting the window…and I’m listening to Quicksilver. Hopefully I’ll be mainly done before the audiobook finishes 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Son is in a meeting but texting me asking if I can go litter picking with him & his “colleagues”. He seems to forget my variable disability means I can’t even tell if I’ll be able to walk tomorrow never mind go somewhere on the bus & be functioning on the 20th for 11am 😂 I said I’ll go in theory 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Son is in a meeting but texting me asking if I can go litter picking with him & his “colleagues”. He seems to forget my variable disability means I can’t even tell if I’ll be able to walk tomorrow never mind go somewhere on the bus & be functioning on the 20th for 11am 😂 I said I’ll go in theory 🙃
Printing cute unicorns & dragons for my Christmas window…while watching Fifty Shades Freed 😂 That just about sums up how my life goes sometimes 😂😂😂
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Printing cute unicorns & dragons for my Christmas window…while watching Fifty Shades Freed 😂 That just about sums up how my life goes sometimes 😂😂😂
The painting planning has started. I’m at the point of laying stuff out & this year I’ve used masking tape to set out the size of the window on the floor and now I’m printing stuff & trying to work out the size difference between dragons & unicorns so it looks right 🤔🤔
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The painting planning has started. I’m at the point of laying stuff out & this year I’ve used masking tape to set out the size of the window on the floor and now I’m printing stuff & trying to work out the size difference between dragons & unicorns so it looks right 🤔🤔
I’m physically knackered again, my body is saying sleep, my brain is running around in circles and not switching off. I’ve tried meditation but brain wouldn’t shut up, I’ve tried all my other usuals and nothing is working 😭😭 I just want to sleep!
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I’m physically knackered again, my body is saying sleep, my brain is running around in circles and not switching off. I’ve tried meditation but brain wouldn’t shut up, I’ve tried all my other usuals and nothing is working 😭😭 I just want to sleep!
My Xmas gift to me is bought, a book from son to me is bought, a gift for son/his household is bought & more importantly I have ink coming tomorrow and a reminder to cancel premium service with the river site on the 2nd Jan simply so I can watch stuff for the next 3 weeks 😉 Plus anything I forget 😂
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My Xmas gift to me is bought, a book from son to me is bought, a gift for son/his household is bought & more importantly I have ink coming tomorrow and a reminder to cancel premium service with the river site on the 2nd Jan simply so I can watch stuff for the next 3 weeks 😉 Plus anything I forget 😂
Just deep cleaned my livingroom window and it’s hometime for the kids nextdoor. They must have seen my net down as they ran up to my window just to see me putting my foil decorations up and the look of disappointment was heartbreaking. Little do they know I start the painted one tomorrow 😉😂
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just deep cleaned my livingroom window and it’s hometime for the kids nextdoor. They must have seen my net down as they ran up to my window just to see me putting my foil decorations up and the look of disappointment was heartbreaking. Little do they know I start the painted one tomorrow 😉😂
Cleaning my windows properly & I’ve had to take a cotton bud to the frames around the mechanisms to clear the brick & sealant ick. I have to keep taking breaks though as I keep going wobbly & my heart keeps racing as I’m doing upstairs which is the scariest first. Not clean them this well in decades
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December 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Cleaning my windows properly & I’ve had to take a cotton bud to the frames around the mechanisms to clear the brick & sealant ick. I have to keep taking breaks though as I keep going wobbly & my heart keeps racing as I’m doing upstairs which is the scariest first. Not clean them this well in decades
I’ve just had the best sleep I’ve had in years that was exhausted induced. I’m laying in bed and there’s muffled sounds of traffic going past instead of it sounding like I’m laying on the pavement. Downside, I need to clean the windows today inside & out 🫣
December 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I’ve just had the best sleep I’ve had in years that was exhausted induced. I’m laying in bed and there’s muffled sounds of traffic going past instead of it sounding like I’m laying on the pavement. Downside, I need to clean the windows today inside & out 🫣
My windows are fixed. It’s taken him over 4 hours and 3 drill bits plus 3 tubes of silicone (my windows are 2m wide). Finally can’t hear every little thing going on outside. 🥳🥳🥳🥳
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My windows are fixed. It’s taken him over 4 hours and 3 drill bits plus 3 tubes of silicone (my windows are 2m wide). Finally can’t hear every little thing going on outside. 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Fella isn’t here yet but he did phone to say he’s unloading stuff at the shop so he’ll be here as soon as he can. I literally can’t do anything else now until he arrives as I can’t hear the door if I’m in the kitchen 😂
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Fella isn’t here yet but he did phone to say he’s unloading stuff at the shop so he’ll be here as soon as he can. I literally can’t do anything else now until he arrives as I can’t hear the door if I’m in the kitchen 😂
Well either my alarms didn’t go off or I slept through them. Either way I didn’t get up until 7.15am but everything is done except taking the nets/privacy film down, neither of which I’ll do until he’s actually here. So now I wait & hope he shows up despite the weather 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
It’s 3.22am as I type this. I need to be up at 6.30am and I’ve not been able to get to sleep yet. I’m fucking knackered but my brain won’t switch off 🤬😭😭
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Well either my alarms didn’t go off or I slept through them. Either way I didn’t get up until 7.15am but everything is done except taking the nets/privacy film down, neither of which I’ll do until he’s actually here. So now I wait & hope he shows up despite the weather 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
It’s 3.22am as I type this. I need to be up at 6.30am and I’ve not been able to get to sleep yet. I’m fucking knackered but my brain won’t switch off 🤬😭😭
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
It’s 3.22am as I type this. I need to be up at 6.30am and I’ve not been able to get to sleep yet. I’m fucking knackered but my brain won’t switch off 🤬😭😭
I feel like shit. A 10min walk just took me 25 min as I kept having to stop due to balance issues and wobbly legs. Did the shopping, got the bus home. Definitely need to apply for a disabled bus pass. I’ve spent £135 on buses so far, it’d be more than double but it caps out at £15ish a week.
December 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I feel like shit. A 10min walk just took me 25 min as I kept having to stop due to balance issues and wobbly legs. Did the shopping, got the bus home. Definitely need to apply for a disabled bus pass. I’ve spent £135 on buses so far, it’d be more than double but it caps out at £15ish a week.
So much to do today in prep for my windows being fixed tomorrow but first I need to go to the shops…and I don’t want to go as my bed is warm & comfy 😭😭
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
So much to do today in prep for my windows being fixed tomorrow but first I need to go to the shops…and I don’t want to go as my bed is warm & comfy 😭😭
I needed to do something so brought the decorations down. The 4 wreaths are up, the nativity is in the window temporarily, snowglobes that were my late nana’s are up, couple of other bits up, went to get the whitetak to put other bits up and I’ve not got enough 🤦🏼♀️ Shopping tomorrow then 🙄
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I needed to do something so brought the decorations down. The 4 wreaths are up, the nativity is in the window temporarily, snowglobes that were my late nana’s are up, couple of other bits up, went to get the whitetak to put other bits up and I’ve not got enough 🤦🏼♀️ Shopping tomorrow then 🙄
Yesterday I could barely function. Today aside from shaky legs happening right now, I’ve got so much more energy, and I actually want to put the Christmas decs up. So I’m doing laundry & dishes again, then reading so tomorrow I have the energy & function to put the decs up! 😂
December 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Yesterday I could barely function. Today aside from shaky legs happening right now, I’ve got so much more energy, and I actually want to put the Christmas decs up. So I’m doing laundry & dishes again, then reading so tomorrow I have the energy & function to put the decs up! 😂
Over the summer I had so much energy & felt so normal that I was starting to doubt my diagnosis. Then the temperatures dropped, the days got shorter, it got wetter and my body & brain have both gone “ha! You are broken, let’s remind you in all the ways you are not normal…”😔
December 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Over the summer I had so much energy & felt so normal that I was starting to doubt my diagnosis. Then the temperatures dropped, the days got shorter, it got wetter and my body & brain have both gone “ha! You are broken, let’s remind you in all the ways you are not normal…”😔
Trying for a self-care Saturday. Currently running an Epsom salt bath, going to remake my bed with my favourite sheets, then spend the rest of the day reading while listening to instrumental classic Xmas music. Headphones & meditation while in the bath as well. Nextdoor are loud today 🙉
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December 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Trying for a self-care Saturday. Currently running an Epsom salt bath, going to remake my bed with my favourite sheets, then spend the rest of the day reading while listening to instrumental classic Xmas music. Headphones & meditation while in the bath as well. Nextdoor are loud today 🙉
I was supposed to be going out today. I was up late reading, then couldn’t get to sleep, bad nights sleep waking multiple times, just woken up by nextdoors school age kid banging on something in the bedroom & now shouting. I’ve woken up in lots of pain. Hermit mode it is then with headphones
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December 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I was supposed to be going out today. I was up late reading, then couldn’t get to sleep, bad nights sleep waking multiple times, just woken up by nextdoors school age kid banging on something in the bedroom & now shouting. I’ve woken up in lots of pain. Hermit mode it is then with headphones
I’ve just stayed up late reading the book series I was reading weeks ago. I’m hoping I’m now sufficiently brain tired that I’ll sleep before 3am. Started the next book after 2hrs and it’s from another (males) characters point of view so I had to read it for a while to get my brain to change narrator
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I’ve just stayed up late reading the book series I was reading weeks ago. I’m hoping I’m now sufficiently brain tired that I’ll sleep before 3am. Started the next book after 2hrs and it’s from another (males) characters point of view so I had to read it for a while to get my brain to change narrator
It was worse than I thought 🤢 I have cleaned it out & it’s now soaking in green bleach before I scrub it with boiling water & antibac stuff. I have meat I want to cook in it & I only realised it was still sitting by the sink yesterday when I went to put the meat in to cook 🙃 Brainfog sucks 😔
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It was worse than I thought 🤢 I have cleaned it out & it’s now soaking in green bleach before I scrub it with boiling water & antibac stuff. I have meat I want to cook in it & I only realised it was still sitting by the sink yesterday when I went to put the meat in to cook 🙃 Brainfog sucks 😔