(Slightly) Melancholy Monday

My arm finally stopped hurting this morning. One of the nasty side effects of my first dose of Covid-19 Vaccine was that the top of my arm was quite seriously painful; like I bruised it somehow but there was no bruise visible. The other side effects – headache, general yukkiness, lethargy were annoying but not debilitating, so I’ll certainly be going for my second dose when I’m called.

While Edwin is on furlough from some of his jobs (due to the fact that he had a really nasty accident in December) he has decided that we should go out some mornings just to get out of the house and get some fresh air. Unfortunately, although his plan for this morning was great – my knee was killing me. This meant that while I could get down the stairs on my bottom; getting up again was excruciating. I took some painkillers when I got back but they’ve not done an awful lot, sometimes I’ve come to the conclusion that with my knee all I can do is live with it. I don’t mind being disabled so much, but I do mind the pain. The major problem I have, and have always had is that I can go to the doctor and get prescription painkillers for my knee pain, but the side-effects are that I either end up in bed asleep, or I just feel ‘woolly’ for pretty much the remainder of the day, sometimes it’s easier just to rest my leg. To be quite honest it’s really rather annoying. I was looking forward to going out today and the ache in my knee meant that that was quite difficult. Well not getting down the stairs – but occasionally (and when I’m in pain) getting up them.

I’m still applying for work on PeoplePerHour, and I have to say that I am absolutely useless at promoting myself. I know that I’m a good Proofreader/Copyeditor, I have 7 years of Proofreading work under my belt and everyone I work for has been satisfied with what I’ve done. What am I supposed to do? Perhaps I should apply for jobs and say something like ‘I’m absolutely wonderful. I’m the best person for the job and there’s no one quite like me. I’ve sailed down the coast of the Persian Gulf to Yemen, and made sandcastles with the King of Bahrain. My outlook on the world is second to none because I spent 20 years in the Middle East and and therefore have a more cosmopolitan outlook on the world. I am bright, brave, brilliant, cunning and clever and can do the job you want me to do.’ At which point does this come across as confidence, and at which point does this come across as arrogance? Either way, I’m not quite sure how much success I’ll have when 68 other people are also applying for the same job.

Well there’s not really all that much news from my neck of the woods this week. The weather has been reasonably good, and today was gorgeous (which is why Edwin decided to take me out for an hour this morning) it was just unfortunate that my knee hurt.