I have been working on stamping tea towels today. I stamped one upside down so tried it again and I did the same damn thing again! Man! Sometimes the simple things in life are not so simple. Third time was a charm and I got it. I took a break after that and need to get back to stamping the rest of them. Trusting the embroidery will be easier then the stamping.
It is another beautiful day on the prairie. Loving temperatures in the high 60’s for mid November. Hope it stays this way for several more weeks. We sure could use some rain though.
I have to be at my Endocrinologist office by 10:45 in the morning for my 11:00 appointment. She usually runs pretty close to on time and the visit will be short as all my labs came back normal. After that appointment I am going to Chipotle for lunch and then to a grocery store to get a ham and a turkey. Hoping to find a big turkey but a smaller one will work since I am fixing a ham this year too. I need to remember to put the cooler in the car before I leave tomorrow. I need some yogurt and would rather not have to stop in Emporia when I come home.
Thursday I have to go back to Topeka to go to the retina specialist. Kathy is going with me then as they will dilate my eyes and it is hard to drive when they do that. Hoping this will be a quick and easy visit and they won’t have to do laser surgery again. I will be interested in seeing how my cataracts are doing. From what I have read, you are almost guaranteed to get cataracts after having a retina detachment which I had earlier this year.
No plans for the weekend. I will need to get my housecleaning done so the house is ready for the company coming Thanksgiving Day. I still have room at our table if you need a place to have dinner. I always fix way too much food and have plenty of room available. The more – the merrier. I love having a full house that day.
I need to check with Ellexia to see if she is cheering this week. I haven’t heard yet. She usually has games on Tuesdays and Thursday and since I have to go to Topeka I may need to skip this week if she is cheering.
I got all my Christmas presents ordered earlier this week. I shall see if they all come in and are what I want. I like to allow lots of extra time as I don’t like the stress of last minute shopping. It will be good to get them all here and accounted for. Then I can get them wrapped and be done. Shopping for others, or even myself, is not my favorite thing to do.
Went back and read some old blogs last night. I can see things in them now that I wasn’t seeing at the time. It is amazing how often I fell into the muck pond a couple of years ago. That should have been a clue for me that something wasn’t right. I rarely fall in these days and if I do, I don’t hang out there like I used to. Funny how the obvious isn’t so obvious when you are in the middle of it.
I’m grateful for my blog. It is a wonderful record of my life and how I have changed over time. I was reading some that happened when Covid first started. Oh my, what a time that was. I still wonder what the long-term effects on all of us are from that time. I don’t think we have seen the last of it either. The world is a different place now and was forever changed as a result of Covid. Wonder what my grandkids will tell their kids about living through Covid when they are my age?
This is my third day at home and I have loved every minute of it. I’m grateful the effect of the Shingles vaccine was limited to one day of it. I did run a bit of a temperature last night but it never got over 100.5 so it wasn’t bad. Haven’t run one today so think I am over it. The reaction wasn’t as bad as I feared it might be. I will get my second vaccine for shingles sometime in January when I have a couple free days in a row.
Sirius has their Christmas music channel up and running. The best part of Christmas for me is the music. I will play it almost daily between now and Christmas. I rarely get tired of it. Not sure what it is about Christmas music but it touches my very soul and stirs up long ago memories. I must be getting old!
The only other part of Christmas I like is making special Christmas goodies. I will get those started the week after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately I have made many of them for the grandkids throughout the year so they won’t be quite as special for them this year. They seem to taste better when you only get them once a year. I haven’t made them for several months so maybe they will be special this year.
Sitting in a good head space today even with my tea towel stamping mishap. Things are still shifting inside as a result of the boundary work I am doing and learning. I feel my personal power returning. It has been missing for some time. The empty space inside is feeling like it is full of potential and possibilities and that is a good feeling.
Grateful for past blogs that remind me of how I have changed, grateful for three free days at home, and grateful my Christmas shopping is done.