Posts from ‘January, 2007’

I haven’t written very much about this here but my new years resolution for this year was to be healthier.
So I’ve been taking my medication everyday (seriously I haven’t missed a single dose this year, how I don’t know), I’ve gotten my sleep pattern into something vaguely resembling sense and I’ve been eating somewhat healthier.  [...]

I’m working on a piece in word right now, not for here but for another project. And I wrote a sentence about being asked how having a disability affects certain things. Basically it goes “when I was asked how disability affects this my first thought was that my CP…”
Apparently that sentence is passive [...]

My sister is on the train home from Manchester right now and she just text me the following:
“Ooh Emma they just announced on the train about not leaving luggage in the wheelchair spaces and that it’s a legal requirement. lol. yay!”
Maybe, just maybe they are finally taking this access to trains thing seriously. [...]

All day
Staring at the ceiling
Makin’ friends with shadows on my wall
All night
Hearing voices telling me
that I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for something
Hold on
Feeling like I’m headed for a breakdown
and I don’t know whyWell I’m not crazy
I’m just a little unwell
I know right now you can’t tell
But stay a while and maybe [...]

While at work yesterday, the topic of Part M of the Building Regulations came up in conversation with another adviser (I’d been advising on building regulations. yeah, that was one of those ones which makes me go “argh!”) Part M relates to access to buildings and is the part which covers disability issues. [...]

I went to Birmingham on Saturday and got very very excited on the train up there.  I frequently have to argue with people about moving their luggage or themselves or their child in the buggy out of the wheelchair space which I’ve reserved.  On at least one occasion the journey care assistant with me (a [...]

I didn’t come online at all yesterday and I didn’t come online tonight until 8.
I spent most of the day up in Birmingham with friends yesterday and today I visited my parents and then went for a long walk in my powerchair.  I’ve also been reading a lot, working on a cross stitch and I’ve [...]

My friend Mary wrote a poem for/about me. I think it’s absolutely wonderful and love it. I was especially touched as she is one of the best writers I know and she managed to sum up so well who I am. It’s title is my name and surname which I don’t share [...]

Thirteen Things about Emma
1…. This is the first time I’ve done T13 since last May!
2. I am working on a cross stitch bookmark at the moment
3. And I’m reading The Other Eden by Sarah Bryant
4. I’ve lost 3lb since New Years Day – 40 to go!
5. I’ve been writing some more poems on and [...]