Mornings are better for me. I am more alert, more flexible, more focused. Afternoons are alright, but if I’m going to crash, it will happen late afternoon. Sometimes fatigue and stiffness just take over.

So I should have known better than to tackle making muffins at 3pm. But I had my new stand mixer so that would make the task easy.

Nope. I soon recognized my rigidity getting tighter as I gathered ingredients. With a very stiff upper body, I slowly and carefully measured each ingredient and got most of them into the bowl successfully. Everything but the eggs. As I was pouring them into the bowl my arm decided to move erratically, (dyskinesia) and my hand hit the mixing blade and the eggs hit the floor.

Swear words were spoken. Clean up was done. Muffins got made. And they turned out pretty good! But from now on, muffins will be made in the morning! (and I’ll leave the mixing blade out until I’m ready to use it!)