Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Another cold day on the prairie.  Snow fell off and on most of the day although it never snowed hard enough to accumulate.  It was cold doing chicken chores today.  I was grateful for my insulated coveralls.  Wish I had gloves that kept my hands as warm as my coveralls do my ass.

The Pioneer Bluffs committee meeting went well.  I baked chocolate no-bake cookies and served those along with some Chex Mix and pistachios.  A few drank a cup of hot tea and two of us drank iced tea.  I had told them I had to leave at 4:15 but they were done and gone by 4:00.

I went into Emporia at 4:15 and did another tax preparation shift.  I did five returns tonight.  I was home by 6:45 as we ran out of clients tonight.

Tomorrow I have an empty space type of day on my calendar.  I get to choose how I spend my time tomorrow.  Don’t have much that I have to do but hate to waste an entire day.  Not sure what I will find to do.  I only have one more empty space day before my adventure with my Match guy in March.  I best use my day wisely and appreciate and enjoy it.

I found a house sitter for the time I will be gone in March.  I’m relieved to have done so.  I have a friend that would come do chores twice a day but the dogs do better when someone is in the house and they have someone to guard at night.  She will probably be available when I take my trip to CO in July too.  Yeah!  What a relief.

This morning my blood pressure was 124.77 which is perfect.  Tonight it is too high at 185/100.  What is going on?  I’ll check it again in a bit and make sure it goes down. I’ll call the doctor tomorrow if it is still too high.  I ate some Chex Mix today that has a lot of salt in it and is food I normally don’t eat.  I don’t know if that makes a difference or not.  Something feels off inside but I don’t know what it is.  Last night I thought I was getting either a UTI or a kidney stone but have had no symptoms of that today.  Hmmm…..  Just what is my body trying to tell me?  Just took it again and it is 135/86.  Up down Up down!

Today has been a better day than yesterday was for me.  My mood was much higher and more level.  I was able to walk out of the muck pond I was in yesterday and didn’t look back.  Today felt easy and grace-filled.  If I could get my blood pressure thing fixed it would be icing on my wonderful cake of life.

Grateful to have found a house sitter, grateful tax shift went easy, and grateful I was able to walk out of the muck pond and have a good day today.