I had another fun shift on the Crisis Text Hot Line. I was on for three hours but only took two calls. There are an abundance of counselors now which is a good thing as texters don’t have to wait to be taken care of. Both of my texters were able to go from a hot mess to a cool calm.
Had trouble sleeping last night. I took a second bath after my first sleep and was finally able to get a second sleep. I slept in a bit this morning and think I ended up with six hours of sleep.
I wrote some letters this morning when I got up. I baked Jim a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. It gave me something to do and he enjoys eating them.
I posted on Facebook I had masks to give away. I stayed busy for a bit getting packages ready to mail. I sent 53 masks out today to 8 different people. I am down to about a dozen masks and Jim and I need those for us. I have some old sheets in Strong City that I can use to make some more when I get back home in June. It feels good to have the masks off of the chair they have been sitting on and in the mail and into the hands of people that need them and can use them.
I went to the Post Office to mail the packages and letters I fixed today. It was good to get out for a hot minute. Most of the people at the post office were wearing masks although only one of the two clerks had one on.
I fixed hamburgers on the grill for dinner tonight. We had had chicken for two nights in a row so will fix chicken left overs for tomorrow.
We extended our walk to two miles tonight. Both of us need to walk more and we decided to add some more steps to our walk. It is muggy and sticky outside tonight. We had a thunderstorm with some high wind come through this morning. It felt good to have some rain clean up the air for a bit. Feels like it needs to rain again now. There is a lot of humidity in the air and another rain will feel good.
I went back and read some of the training material for the Crisis Text Hot Line. It sure makes a lot more sense to me now that I have taken calls. I need to print the textbook off and reread it completely. For the most part I have been doing what they recommend but had kept running into a part that was a challenge for me. After reading the textbook I understand what I can do differently to make things go easier.
I’ve run out of projects again. I am knitting a blanket but my shoulder has been bothering me. Not sure what I did to it but wondering if I landed on it when I passed out the first part of the month. If I knit too long it bothers my shoulder.
Hard to remember this is a three day holiday weekend. Everyday feels the same to me these days and I only know what day of the week it is because my iPad tells me. I will miss going to the cemeteries this weekend. Will have to visit the cemeteries after we get back to KS the first of June.
Grateful I found home for the masks I made, grateful for a two mile walk tonight, and grateful for what sleep I did get last night.