Multitasking with cerebral palsy

I like to think I’m quite good at multitasking. I mean, I can talking on the phone, send an e-mail, and drink a cup of tea I the same time.

What can I say, I’ve got me some mad skills…

All silliness aside though, I can do lots of things at once. I’m currently working on multiple writing projects, and I’ve even been known to play more than one video at once, (one on a handheld device and one on a console plugged into the TV). Yes, I can do lots of things at the same time, as long as I’m sitting down to do them.

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Fun Fact Friday [38]

Hello and welcome to Fun Fact Friday, the place where I share facts about myself that aren’t linked to my cerebral palsy.

This week I saw a wild hedgehog for the first time since I was a little girl. I wish I could’ve taken a picture but it was too dark. My boyfriend and I waited for it to walk passed us, but it got scared and did that thing where they curl into a ball (which I’ve never seen before. We carried on walking a couple of steps because we didn’t want to frighten it and they we turned around and it had gone! It must have been very fast.

It was so cute and made me smile.

It’s the little things, right?

I can’t get no sleep

It’s almost 2AM and, like the Faithless song says, I can’t get no sleep. It has nothing to do with insomnia in my case though, but has just about everything to do with an achy back and neck that has been bothering for most of the day.

It’s not all bad though. At least the headache that came along with it on and off since I woke up seems to have gone away and I’ve been able to sort out a couple of blog posts and edit a video before I crawled into bed. I know, I know, being on the laptop writing this is hardly going to help matters, but it’s helping me feel less frustrated about the fact I can’t seem to nod off.

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Our current kettle

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We recently had to get a now kettle after our last one stopped working.

I like the way that this one looks but everything else about it is taking quite a bit of getting used to.

I fill it up using a jug because of where the handle is positioned and it’s quite a bit heavier than the old one too.

Having conversations as a wheelchair user

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Me in my wheelchair

As a wheelchair user I sometimes find having conversations in public.  Not because I can’t speak or am very shy, but because it’s hard to hear.

Being in a wheelchair means that you’re lower down than everyone else. I’m only four ft 10in but I don’t find this quite so hard when I’m on my walking frame but I still sometimes struggle.

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