Winter survival!

Today it’s like 20 degrees celcius warmer then three days ago. We went from minus 10°C to plus 10°C. It’s one of the few big temperature rises I love, because now spring is coming.

Single days….

Most days I’m completely fine with it, like a 97 percentage or something. And actually I planned to make no plans for today and to be on my own. But now it’s not fun. Today is second Christmas day in the Netherlands. A day with no particular meaning to it, except more friends family and Christmas dinners.

Bored vs over demanded

One of the challenges of ADHD is finding a balance of enough rest to cope with all the different sensory input combined with an over active brain, but also having enough excitement in life to prevent myself from getting bored.

Not if, but when? Maybe at 9?

I know some countries always have dinner late at night, so probably for you it doesn’t sound weird. In the Netherlands normal people have dinner around 5.30 or 6 o’clock. And back in the days people had dinner even earlier. But for me it was 9 o’clock today. And I was happy about it, even though it may sound weird, because most people believe it’s not healthy to eat that late at night (which is probably true).

Addicted to silence

Actually, I’ve wanted to write this blog a million times already. And now I am writing it on a day that isn’t as glorious and awesome as the last few months. Today, I have no concentration at all, before I really started typing I already interrupted myself four times, because I had to make some Mocha Latte (amazing and healthy recipe!), flip over the LP and find some new batteries for my keyboard. This morning in church I couldn’t focus, while the sermon was very interesting (at least the bits and pieces I did hear), and yes I was talking way too fast last night so my parents couldn’t understand me at all…
And that all because these last few days I don’t notice the effects of my meds like I’ve gotten used to over these last few months.

Failing encouragement

Nowadays a lot of people tell me to hang in there, God is with me and that I have to listen carefully to my body. I am very blessed to have all those people around me who are supporting me in this difficult time.
And still, some of the things said are a failed attempt of encouragement.