If it's really important and you've not heard from me - please write again.
I won't be offended, I'll just appreciate your patience.
Thanks oodles in advance for your understanding.
I won't be offended, I'll just appreciate your patience.
Thanks oodles in advance for your understanding.
Here are the reasons why, so you know I'm not just being rude...
Well some of the reasons...it's a complicated life having fibromyalgia.
I feel like I spend at least 80% of my life apologising.
If I'm brave/foolish enough to make plans then about 60% of the time I have to cancel at the last minute. (And that's during a 'good' patch.)
My email inbox scares me. Really it does! I was brought up to believe it's bad manners not to reply in a timely fashion to correspondence and as a teacher keeping on top of paperwork was vital.
So now I feel like a permanent failure. People can wait weeks and weeks for a reply...if they're lucky enough to get one.
And as for Twitter or Facebook peeps...sheesh. My statuses must be mostly apologies.
Yesterday, listening to a Michael Nobbs micro-podcast, I had a bit of an epiphany. (see the post 'Catch up or Carry on.')
THIS is who I am now.
So - there's a sorry page on each site. A link to it from emails...I have an auto responder from some email addresses to try explain, (another thank you to Mr Nobbs for that idea too.) and I'm trying very hard to STOP giving myself a hard time about not managing to keep up.
Occasionally I may still think - "I may as well just delete X account, I can't cope." But I'm housebound most of the time and the social net is my lifeline and there are oodles of people I'd miss if I did that.
So if it's OK with you, can we both just assume my regret for making you wait?
I do read EVERYTHING and I LOVE receiving mail from peeps and tweets and comments and I do my best to respond when I'm able.
Just to be clear here's another big fat
sorry
which is sincerely meant.
From now on I'm going to try to stop constantly berating myself and feeling overwhelmed by everything.
I do my best, hopefully that's good enough.
It is for me from others...
I feel like I spend at least 80% of my life apologising.
If I'm brave/foolish enough to make plans then about 60% of the time I have to cancel at the last minute. (And that's during a 'good' patch.)
My email inbox scares me. Really it does! I was brought up to believe it's bad manners not to reply in a timely fashion to correspondence and as a teacher keeping on top of paperwork was vital.
So now I feel like a permanent failure. People can wait weeks and weeks for a reply...if they're lucky enough to get one.
And as for Twitter or Facebook peeps...sheesh. My statuses must be mostly apologies.
Yesterday, listening to a Michael Nobbs micro-podcast, I had a bit of an epiphany. (see the post 'Catch up or Carry on.')
THIS is who I am now.
- I can only 'work' at the PC or whatever for a limited amount of time each day and in 20 minute chunks of time. Some days I can't even manage that.
- Sometimes my hands will type what I want them to, other times, I have no chance of writing a legible sentence in less than five minutes. ONE sentence. in FIVE minutes...
- Sometimes my brain forgets the point it was trying to make in the middle of that sentence...
- Sometimes my hands are too sore to type...or my eyes...or any other number of bits of me.
So - there's a sorry page on each site. A link to it from emails...I have an auto responder from some email addresses to try explain, (another thank you to Mr Nobbs for that idea too.) and I'm trying very hard to STOP giving myself a hard time about not managing to keep up.
Occasionally I may still think - "I may as well just delete X account, I can't cope." But I'm housebound most of the time and the social net is my lifeline and there are oodles of people I'd miss if I did that.
So if it's OK with you, can we both just assume my regret for making you wait?
I do read EVERYTHING and I LOVE receiving mail from peeps and tweets and comments and I do my best to respond when I'm able.
Just to be clear here's another big fat
sorry
which is sincerely meant.
From now on I'm going to try to stop constantly berating myself and feeling overwhelmed by everything.
I do my best, hopefully that's good enough.
It is for me from others...
