Keeping a schedule

I am a creature of habit and like to adhere to some sort of routine, which is pretty difficult when no longer able to go out to work. A large percentage of the population having nine to five jobs, running children to school, or various extra curricular activities, participating in weekly social events keeps one on a regimented timetable and like clockwork you know what day of the week it is! Being housebound most of the time, the days can run into each other, therefore I find it's important to create some sort of schedule, giving me a framework that organises my time. There is so much in our lives we have no control over, that trying to maintain a schedule of sorts makes me feel I have a little influence in what goes on in my life however trivial it may sound. I try to do as much as I can, often overdoing things, but this is my nature. Keeping occupied when chronically ill is vitally important, and although completing a small task, may leave me exhausted, the feeling I've accomplished something more than makes up for this. Parkinson's may be keeping me hostage, but writing sets me free, hence much of my day is relegated to writing. Someone kindly gave us some lemons from their tree, so given lemons, instead of making lemonade, today I am going to attempt making a lemon meringue pie, for a special visitor. This is one of my family's old favourites, and a desert which I've not made in very long time. Wish me luck, and let's hope that I don't drop it on the floor, as I have a feeling my dog who will eat almost anything and flabbergasts us at her gastronomic tastes, might not be over enthusiastic at clearing up a sharp lemon desert!