What to Say for Myself

I got this from Amazon and could not wait to dive into it. Its been so long since the last book. I love this series.

I am not sure what I am going to blog about today, I am really scrambling to find something to write about. I have not been out of the house since I came home from the hospital on Christmas eve and the three weeks before that I was sick. End result its been a minute. When you stay at home the scope for blogging fodder narrows. I just want to assure you I am not complaining, I have had no desire to go anywhere. I am perfectly content to stay in my house and stay out of the cold.

My car is not in running order at the moment and I will need to deal with that at some point. Its just a couple of phone calls, one to the garage and one to get it towed to the garage but I have to arrange to get it back home. I have not taken a look at the back sidewalk to see if my walker will go down it. I am hoping that it will. Another thing I need to look into. Its not a huge problem just needs to be dealt with. 

Did I mention I can't find my shoe? I have one pair of runners and I can only find one of them so far. Now to be fair I have only give a very half hearted search for it. Without it I would not be able to go out even if I wanted to. I imagine it had gotten kicked under the couch or a chair in the living room and if I actually gave it some sort of effort I would find it. My life is full of first world problems at the moment.

So just so you don't get the impression that I have been lounging about doing nothing I have been making a bit of an effort. I have an appointment for the home care lady to come and look over the house to assess my need for help. I have found a commissioner of oaths to sign some of the legal documents that I need to deal with. I did my own laundry for the first time in weeks. Three loads and it was an effort learning to maneuver around with the walker and laundry baskets full of clothes but I did it. Its all fresh and clean and hanging in the dining room drying. The house is still tidy and I have a little list of things that I want to take care of before Busy and the Carpenter arrive back next week to work on the shower. I submitted my claim for the last of the equipment I needed to Blue Cross, now its fingers crossed that they cough up some money. They have been good so far.

I have no pictures to share this time. Maybe I will next post. Right now I am thinking I need to get going on something crafty. I have been thinking about it for some time but have not actually done it. I did get a mitt pattern printed out but have yet to actually get knitting. I have several quilt tops that are ready to be sandwiched and quilted but they will have to wait until after the shower reno. 

I ordered the last of the photos for 2021. If it works out that we can do a scrap booking weekend I will be ready to go to scrapbook July to December. I hope we can but with this omicron variant one never knows what is going to happen. I will be prepared in any case.

Well that is it. I got nothin else. Til next time

Toodles Linda

 

One Step at a Time

 Ok I am on the mend, of that there is no doubt. Its not going as fast as I would like it to and I get impatient with how tired I feel all the time but I am making myself focus on the fact that I am soooo much better than I was at this time last month. I hate that I am always in pain but that is not going away so I accept it.

I am continuing to putter away at getting the house to where it should be and to where I like it. I have to admit having the house tidy has made a world of difference to my mood and state of well being. I now need to find a project to work on, Crafting is a big part of me and I have not done anything for a very long time. I may just start to knit some mitts for Busy. She would like some red ones and I have a pattern that I want to try out.

I had one of my best ideas ever the other day. As I am trying to get the craft room organized, I came across a perennial problem, scraps of quilt batting. They are too big to throw away and I do use them but they take up a lot of space.

This is not even all of it, I have another bag stuffed full of the stuff. I have no place to store it. This is when I had my brain wave. I saw on YouTube that Dollartree sells large vacuum sealed storage bags. They DO!! $1.25 and they work rather well. I got some and stuffed all my stash into two of them.

On the left is the one after being vacuumed and the one on the right is prevacuum. I was thrilled

I now have it all in two reasonably small packages, Its easy to store and it will stay clean and I can reseal them when I need to. I think this is one of my better ideas I have ever had. Plus I actually have a spot to store them in a closet in the craft room. No longer stuffed behind the chairs in the living room BONUS!!

The craft room is coming along. There still is too much stuff piled into too small of a room but it looks far better than it did awhile ago.

I don't know if you can see the difference but I can and it feels easier to think in this room now things are getting put into their proper places.

I went to sew myself a new cover for my kitchen aid mixer. Mice had eaten most of the old one. Well I discovered that my sewing machine was not functioning. A teeny tiny piece had come detached in the bobbin area and needs to be fixed. Dang it! Thank goodness I have this little beauty. My Featherweight. I just love this little machine, I found out that she was made in October 1952 and still works wonderfully.

                                                  

Thanks to having her as back up, I got a new cover sewn up in no time at all. 

                                                            

I got my bath chair yesterday, thanks to Amazon. My house is really starting to look like an old lady house these days, walkers, grab bars and bath chairs but hey it is what it is. I am entering a new phase of my life and these are the tools that I need to function. No point in fighting it, lets just roll with it all.

Well I need to find my mitt pattern and get it printed out. I am not sure what else I am going to do today. I have ordered pictures, dealt with some paper work and done some cleaning in my bedroom. Its good to be productive.

Toodles Linda

Its Been a Minute

 In theory I am in my sewing room cleaning and purging as it has yet again gotten out of hand and needs to be beaten into submission. In reality I am taking some time to do a blog post because its been a minute since I last posted anything, I have had an interesting December, one in which I scared the beejeebus out of everyone I know and myself most of all.

I got sick, really sick, the don't mess around get to the hospital sick and I did not realize it. I'm not going to go into deep detail as I am sure I have told everyone and his dog the story, suffice it to say I am more grateful than I can ever say to my wonderful friends who watch over me. They came, they saw, they called the ambulance and I was in the hospital before I knew it. I stayed there for two weeks while I got back on my feet. I am home again and while I have come a long way, I am still weak and tired and I play out very easily. 

The Carpenter and Busy came to stay with me after I got home and worked like rented mules cleaning my house. All I can say is it was a filthy mess but its not that way anymore. The last three years have been harder on my that I realized and I let things get on top of me. I knew it was happening but it was just so much easier to ignore the day to day things one should do. Skim the surface and keep the black hole I had fallen into a secret than to face it all.  

I am so very blessed with my family and my friends. I have no idea what I did to deserve them but I am grateful beyond measure that they are part of my life. So many thing happened here, the house has been cleaned, grab bars have been installed, a recliner now lives in my living room and a new higher toilet is in situ. They are coming back at month end to enlarge the shower for me. They are far more generous to me than I deserve.

This has all been done without and criticism or blame, just help and support. I am so grateful for that. I learned a long time ago one cannot die of embarrassment no matter how hard you try. I know how bad things got and I know I let it happen. This whole incident scared me to the core and I need to pull myself up by the boot straps and take better care of myself and my house. So things are in motion and I am starting on a new path. One that will be a better plan than the last one I had.

So now I am taking things one day at a time, doing what I can to keep on with the getting the house under control again. To that end I should get going on this craft room,. Looking at it all makes me want to run ten miles but I just need to do a little at a time and before I know it, it will be done,

Hopefully I get back to blogging regularly again.

Toodles, Linda