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That's very helpful but can be sad too. Right now, I'm almost completely a home-maker or homebody. I don't work and earn money from it currently but I cook, do the dishes, laundry, make real fruit smoothies and healthy bean desserts. The only thing that's not complete is that I don't sweep and wipe the floor. That is my next goal.
I'm also mainly at home. Cooking and cleaning are great skills! Becoming a housewife was one of the best decisions I ever made. I would not be a great search and rescue team candidate but I enjoyed learning about it!
Yes, it's good to be independent in cooking, and also cleaning. I cook easy recipes with herb and spice seasonings. One of the medications I'm still on causes me what I always called 'a lack of motivation' and now I think it's called in the list of side effects 'apathy', so that's why I only do all these easy things but luckily I can still live being helpful and useful in this way. I find that sweeping and wiping the floor takes a lot of motivation so I still haven't really done it but I remember before I took this medication, I went to nutrition school and liked to read the books and was buying Christian books I thought would be interesting and helpful for me, liking to read them but after that, I stopped reading and cleaning and cooking, but now I thought to cook easy recipes and it works for me so I'm happy about that at least. I can cook more complicated recipes when I'm off this medication I'm talking about. Apart from that, I am feeling like I've been getting a sort of generalized anxiety from reducing and being on a very low dose of a benzo now. However, I have a plan for that and I hope to get this sorted out soon.
‘ I don’t work ‘……….yes you do , and you do it without financial reward, which is sometimes harder. I had to define what work was in a Christian ethical course. The conclusion I reached was that it is anything that has an end goal. I also realised that not everyone has the same skills and abilities, now I can cook but am not very skilled at that task, my son is, but give me a room to clean and sort and my natural gifting sets in.…….
I have similar problems with I'm not sure "motivation" although it's like that. I just don't have the strength to clean much, so I wait until I have to before I do. Something about my meds, it takes all the easiness out of cleaning. So that it is really hard.
I took some Ibuprofen and it's feeling better. Some sort of inflammation or something. Like what was happening to my back. My back got better though which is nice.
