Another lazy day on the prairie of resting and healing. I took a long nap this afternoon as I didn’t sleep well last night. The wind was blowing 20 – 25 MPH all afternoon and the sound of it wore me out after a bit. It has calmed down some this evening but still blowing. It is working hard to bring in the cold front that is due in sometime Tuesday night.
Worked on making masks again today. I have 50 made up and am out of elastic and ties so can’t finish putting any more together until my supplies get replenished. The elastic is due to arrive Wednesday and the ribbon is still MIA. Not holding my breath that the elastic will arrive as promised. The mail is all screwed up these days. I have some flannel I can cut into pieces while I wait for the elastic to show up. Still waiting on the sheets to come in so I can cut them into pieces. Got all the pieces I have cut and pressed sewed together so when the elastic comes in all I have to do is cut it to length and start pinning masks together. They will work up quickly once I get them pinned.
Did some embroidery work this afternoon. Trying to get the set of tea towels finished that I started several weeks ago. Today is the first day I have felt good enough to pick them up and work on them for a bit. Only have one more to go and the set will be finished. I am tired of looking at the clutter on my end table.
Still haven’t gotten any housecleaning done. It seems to patiently wait for me to get to it. The dust just got thicker today with all the wind. Maybe it is a good thing I hadn’t gotten to it and I would have had to do it all over again anyways. That’s the trouble with house cleaning work – you rinse and repeat over and over again. Never seems to end and things don’t stay clean for long.
Feeling better each day. Still running a bit low on energy in my tank but each day I can do more things easily. I am on day 8 of 10 of taking the antibiotic. I think once I am done taking those I will started feeling better. I still have mild stomach cramps but nothing like I had been having. I will check with my doctor mid week and see if I need to be retested or if I can assume I am no longer contagious and stop the quarantine. Fingers crossed it won’t come back.
Jim is almost out of cookies. While he is in Stillwater I will need to replenish his supply for him. I enjoy baking cookies and he enjoys eating them. I need to take some in to my grandkids too. I sure have missed them. It seems like it has been a long time since I have seen them. Hoping to get released this week so I can see them again soon.
Still haven’t made it back to volunteering for the Crisis Text Hot Line. I thought about getting on last night but decided I was too tired. I may check with them to see if I can do a day shift for a couple of weeks until my strength and energy comes all the way back. They usually have plenty of day time volunteers but guess it wouldn’t hurt to ask. I do miss doing the work. Hope I haven’t lost my skill set. It has been almost a month since I was on-line.
No plans this week other than resting and healing. Trusting by the end of the week my energy will have returned and I can gradually start working on getting some things done around here. I’m getting tired of being tired and not doing anything.
Grateful for afternoon naps, grateful my grandmother taught me how to embroidery and the joy it brings me to do so, and grateful for the healing my body continues to do.
I laughed when you talked about the cookies! Jim’s mother, Edna, made the best chocolate chip cookies, and always had plenty around!!