I do have a space heater upstairs for my bedroom, my office room, and a special one for my bathroom made to be safe to use in bathrooms. Everyone should know that I am VERY carefull with these... I don't keep them on while I am asleep or out of the house... in the morning my bedroom gets really cold so I scurry out and turn on the bathroom heater and the bedroom heater then get back under the warm covers for a while to let the rooms heat up enough for me to shower, dry and dress without getting a chill.

I am glad I stopped cooking. I sort of had a vision (not a prediction, just a sort of "worst case") of me falling down and having the house catch fire from burning eggs and how I would NOT want to be on the news that evening that way.

I'm not sure I was doing any particular "thinking" while doing the dishes but I understand what you mean. In fact the kitchen doesn't trigger me anymore, when I am depressed, for some reason I always feel a wave of grief when I enter my kitchen... really unexplainable (or rather, some for which I have been unable to find an explanation) almost as if the kitchen were haunted. That's what prompted the "haunted" poem on my website. One thing that is notably different when I am feeling better is that I no longer have that feeling, and the kitchen feels just like any other room in my house.

But while we're thinking about that... I never used to be consistant with doing my dishes before preparing my next meal. So if I waited so long to eat that would be my "excuse" for not doing the dishes currently in the sink. I've been cutting out those excuses, so maybe it is as simple as standing up for the length of time to do the dishes PLUS cook the food that got me.

I also agree that it is likely a combination of things.

Thanks everyone. No such problem today BTW (eggs over easy and grilled cheese ) but I made a point of preparing it earlier. I still napped, that seems to be my toughest hurdle.