Back to Work Tomorrow

So I think I am back on my feet. The infection is 99% gone, there is no more pain and I am not falling asleep every time I stop moving. So its all good. I am off the heavy antibiotics so I am not dealing with the side effects anymore. Yahoo!! I still have an antibiotic cream that I have to use, twice a day for two weeks, but its all good. I am doing as I am told and the up side is I have lost 14 pounds through the course of this. I weigh 4 pounds less than I did after I had my bout of cellulitis. Infections, the new diet. Who knew???

I am not talking about going back to work. I cannot tell you how much I would rather just stay home. The fact that it is freeze your nose boogers cold out there is a big factor. Aw well, someone has to pay the mortgage and put food in the fridge.

I finished crocheting up the last of my yarn leftovers. I got three afghan out of it all. Now the bin that looked like this: ( this was not at its fullest, I did not take a picture when I started)

Now looks like this and that makes me ridiculously happy!!

I still have yarn in the house. I doubt if it will ever be yarn free, but what is left is enough to actually make something with. Its not just bits and pieces.

One blanket is going to The Teacher and the other two will be donated to the local Woman's Shelter. Its win win all around.

I joined a group on Facebook which is called 52 squares in 52 weeks or something like that. A pattern for a quilt square is released  every week and then you get a quilt at the end. Today was week three and its so fun. The squares are little, just 6 inches finished size. I am thinking it will make a nice little cuddle quilt when its done.

These are weeks one and two. The colour in this picture is really off. Quilt block three, which just came out today is a much truer rendition of the actual material colour.

I am hoping to find a nice blue for the sashing material but I have like a whole year to get that figured out.

Yesterday I finally purged out the cook books. I am living proof that you can own a million cook books and still not be a cook

So these will all go to the local rotary book sale. I did keep a few cook books. Ones that I really do use and others that are sentimental. I kept all the note books my Mom kept her recipes in, those are beyond precious.

SO I am on track with my January purge. I think I am a few days behind, but lets face it peoples, we are up in the big numbers so its getting harder.  I have not resorted to counting the recycling yet. Honestly if I did not finish it I would be happy with what I have done already.

Now what I need is to get The Banker over here to put things away in the basement, take the donation stuff away and haul the recycling stuff that needs to go to the textile recycle. Then my house would look not bad. I also need to get the big Christmas tree out of the kitchen.

The only thing I have to do today is plug in the car and shovel the back sidewalk. I should have done it yesterday before it got so cold but I never learn. This is on my list for this afternoon, cause who doesn't love -50 wind chill???. I need to shovel out the recycle dumpster so that can get emptied. I have a bunch of stuff sitting in laundry baskets in the kitchen that needs to go into it but here is no room.  I did the shoveling at the front of the house yesterday thank goodness.

So that's my world so far. On the mend, headed back to a normal routine again. Its all good

Toodles,
Linda

How Am I ............ I Don't Know Anymore

Ok I think I am better. I did not sleep today but Monday and  Tuesday all I did was sleep. I am sick of being in the house but have no ambition to go anywhere. I am hungry but have no wish to eat, I want to get on with some projects but have no energy to do anything. I just wish I felt even remotely normal. I am hoping that once I am done with the antibiotics, (last dose tonight) I will begin to feel more like I wish to feel. The side effects are kicking my butt. On the up side they are doing their job. So its worth it, I think. The pain is gone and I have high hopes that even a little smidgen of energy will come back,

I am back to work tomorrow. I also have a Doctor's appointment tomorrow so I hope he has good news for me. Time will tell.

So this blog post is not going top be very long. I have not got much to share. Its been nearly two weeks of a lot of pain, feeling like crap, dealing with side effects and falling asleep at the drop of a hat. For example I had three loads of laundry to do and I have an automatic washer. It took me five days to do it and the last load is still sitting in the dryer. Its been a laugh riot around here let me tell you.

After all tomorrow is another day. I will set my sights on things getting better. I am heartily sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Toodles,
:Linda

Fell Down the Rabbit Hole

I disappeared for a while and it feels like I did fall down a rabbit hole. Time passed, projects got started, good intentions got ignored, sickness happened yet AGAIN! This seems to be my normal these days. Ah well.

New Years came and went in the usual quiet manner. I stayed up long enough to welcome the new year in the front door and let the old year out the back then I went to bed. Not big on partying on the Eve, me. The actual day was equally quiet, so much so I cannot remember what I did.

After that the project of putting away the Christmas decorations. 99%  of them are away. I still have the stuff that is stored in the basement to be put in the basement. I also have not taken down the veranda stuff. That will happen, its just taking time. I have sorted and reorganized the storage containers and I have all but one under the stairs. I used to have three containers that did not fit under the stairs but I am down to one. I am happy about that.

I have decided that I have to give up my big tree because I cannot decorate it anymore. I have someone who will buy it from me and a back up person in case this deal falls through. I am sad to see it go but I will get a 6 foot tree which I can decorate and that is the most important thing. So, good by beloved tree.

I am on January 16th on my purge project. Its getting harder because I am getting up into the higher numbers. Its coming along though. I am also tackling my left over yarn stash. So far I am on afghan number three and I am almost to the bottom of the second yarn container. I am very happy about this. It gives me something mindless to do, someone will benefit from it and I get some excess out of the house. Win, Win, Win I think.

Then I got sick. I won't go into all the ugly embarrassing details but I got an infection. It threatened to restart the cellulitis so I hiked myself off to the doctor asap. I ended up with this

I get to come here again for five days, three times a day

I get IV antibiotics for five days. Its all done now and I am on the same medication but on pill form for 7 more days. Infections kick the stuffing out of me. If I am not at the hospital for my meds I am asleep or wishing I was asleep because I have no will to do much of anything. I did get some bragging rights as they had great fun changing the IV in my arm. Five tries before they got it in'

I used to be easy to get a needle into but I guess as you age this becomes harder to do.  Its all finihed now so I am happy about that. The bruising will fade

I am still oh so tired and severely lacking in any energy, with luck I get one thing done in the day besides crochet and sleep. The Banker was kind enough to drive me each time to get my medication. I swear that woman is a saint!! I was fed up with it and I had to be there. She volunteered to do this for me. Bless my friends, I don't deserve you but I am so blessed to have you.

So this is all I have for the moment. I will try to get back to the once a week thing again so the one or two people who read this know what is happening in my world.

I am going to go lay down. Big surprise its nap time!!

Toodles
Linda