Dear Friend,
Seriously. Prepare to be astonished. I wrote an article today and immediately submitted it to a magazine! 1500 word article, I kid you not! You may be wondering what it is about, so I'll tell you that it is regarding the woman who entered the security code to let the terrorists into the building to massacre the people in Paris. I look at her actions through the lens of the Cardinal Virtues. I try very hard to not be condemning, but to still look at the decision she made because I think it's important that things be thought out before one is looking down the barrel of a gun. I am resisting checking my email every five minutes to see if I have a response yet.
I did not exercise today, as I said. I do plan to go tomorrow at sometime despite how crazy cold it is. I have an appointment with my psychologist tomorrow, but I have misplaced my phone for two days now and am not sure what time. I'll match the exercise I do with the time of the appointment.
We are giving a dinner next week and the caterer has suggested a menu, I still haven't found my cookbooks! But I'm having to toss the entire thing. Not only does he have wheat in a lot of things, but the main course is beef! I'm hugely allergic to beef! So I've got to come u with a new menu tomorrow.
I had an enormously hard time waking up this morning. I don't know what I'm going to do about this problem.
My husband is back, thankfully. It's 11:00 and I am SOOO ready to go to sleep. So, that's it for me.
Cheers!
Lisa
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Day 168 - I WENT TO JAZZERCISE!!
Dear Friend,
Yes, I did it! And I am inordinately proud of myself! I didn't do any writing today, but I did do some reading, not a lot but some, on the topic I am writing about.
I got a message from my niece around 1:30 in the morning asking me for help in a discussion she was having with a friend of hers who is an atheist. So, I wrote a long, but terribly interesting - honestly! - response because he was saying all sorts of ugly, misinformed, ignorant things about God. So I wrote a long thing about Job and the whole council opinion heaven where Satan and God talk about God. Pearls, I'm telling you! Pearls! I wrote until 3:30 and then finished up and went to bed and was actually asleep by 4:00 am. I slept till noon and then had to rush to get to a 1:00 doctor's appointment. So, I get there and it turns out that my appointment is for the NEXT day!! I was 24 hours early! :-). They had me see the main doctor who is back now and we went over a few things. Then I went ahead and had the saline infusion with vitamin B12. She said she didn't want to make any changes to my anti-depressants, but she did add a supplement that is supposed to be very helpful with reducing yr REM sleep and increasing your deep, restful sleep. I've taken it tonight. I don't expect any immediate effect.
Then I ate lunch at a diner and went to the Jazzercise class! So glad! It felt really good and I was able to modify everything so that I really took it easy on the tendons and things. I worked up a sweat even though the studio was FREEZING cold! I have decided to stay home from yoga tomorrow. Not sure if that's the right decision, but I think it is. I'm a lot weaker than I realized and had a hard time in the yoga class, especially because of my arm. Switching from the downward dogs to lunges and all was hugely difficult. Then tonight, we did some work with hand weights. I had to put the weights down at one point because it was really hurting, but overall I was pleased with what I could do. But I think it's best that I give everything a day off. Then go back on Thursday and Friday. I still have to go back to the doctor's office tomorrow for the actual visit that I showed up for today. But other than that, I can stay home and work on things here. We are hosting a dinner next week and I really need to get my china moved into the dining room china cabinet and my milk glass moved into the china cabinet in the living room. I got a message today from the designer asking if she could come take pictures of the rooms. She is still hoping to get a piece into Southern Living about it.
My husband comes back tomorrow night from his conference he's been at. Can't wait for him to get home. And my best friend had surgery today and it went well, so that's good.
My arm is really hurting this evening. Not terribly ... But it's not good either. I'm going to have to go get that Bio-Freeze on it before I go to sleep.
I've picked a prolotherapist. It wasn't hard, really. This one is in Manhattan and I am hoping to be able to drive there. I'll have to call tomorrow and get an appointment.
So, that's my news for the day.
Cheers!
Lisa
Yes, I did it! And I am inordinately proud of myself! I didn't do any writing today, but I did do some reading, not a lot but some, on the topic I am writing about.
I got a message from my niece around 1:30 in the morning asking me for help in a discussion she was having with a friend of hers who is an atheist. So, I wrote a long, but terribly interesting - honestly! - response because he was saying all sorts of ugly, misinformed, ignorant things about God. So I wrote a long thing about Job and the whole council opinion heaven where Satan and God talk about God. Pearls, I'm telling you! Pearls! I wrote until 3:30 and then finished up and went to bed and was actually asleep by 4:00 am. I slept till noon and then had to rush to get to a 1:00 doctor's appointment. So, I get there and it turns out that my appointment is for the NEXT day!! I was 24 hours early! :-). They had me see the main doctor who is back now and we went over a few things. Then I went ahead and had the saline infusion with vitamin B12. She said she didn't want to make any changes to my anti-depressants, but she did add a supplement that is supposed to be very helpful with reducing yr REM sleep and increasing your deep, restful sleep. I've taken it tonight. I don't expect any immediate effect.
Then I ate lunch at a diner and went to the Jazzercise class! So glad! It felt really good and I was able to modify everything so that I really took it easy on the tendons and things. I worked up a sweat even though the studio was FREEZING cold! I have decided to stay home from yoga tomorrow. Not sure if that's the right decision, but I think it is. I'm a lot weaker than I realized and had a hard time in the yoga class, especially because of my arm. Switching from the downward dogs to lunges and all was hugely difficult. Then tonight, we did some work with hand weights. I had to put the weights down at one point because it was really hurting, but overall I was pleased with what I could do. But I think it's best that I give everything a day off. Then go back on Thursday and Friday. I still have to go back to the doctor's office tomorrow for the actual visit that I showed up for today. But other than that, I can stay home and work on things here. We are hosting a dinner next week and I really need to get my china moved into the dining room china cabinet and my milk glass moved into the china cabinet in the living room. I got a message today from the designer asking if she could come take pictures of the rooms. She is still hoping to get a piece into Southern Living about it.
My husband comes back tomorrow night from his conference he's been at. Can't wait for him to get home. And my best friend had surgery today and it went well, so that's good.
My arm is really hurting this evening. Not terribly ... But it's not good either. I'm going to have to go get that Bio-Freeze on it before I go to sleep.
I've picked a prolotherapist. It wasn't hard, really. This one is in Manhattan and I am hoping to be able to drive there. I'll have to call tomorrow and get an appointment.
So, that's my news for the day.
Cheers!
Lisa
Monday, January 5, 2015
Day 169 - First Day Did Not Go So Well!
Dear Friends,
I hate say this but ... confession is good for the soul, right? Here's what happened. I couldn't sleep. At all. I guess I tensed up because I've been waiting for this day for so long and it was finally here! So, I couldn't sleep? I'd almost drift off and then would have kind of like a spasm that would wake me all the way up again. I didn't get to sleep until, are you ready for this? 6:00 am! Aaargh! I turned off my alarms and didn't set any others and finally went soundly to sleep. I woke up at 12:00, but I could only see the 2:00, so I thought it was 2:00 in the afternoon! I was fairly upset by this. A level of upset that could only be countered by lots of Facebook time! After a while I realized it was 12:00 not 2:00 and felt a little better. Then it became a matter of trying to figure out how to redeem what was left of the day. I thought that writing and going to yoga were the two main challenges of the day, so that's what I went after. I started working on my article that I started a couple of weeks ago and then left to go to a 4:30 yoga class. I loved the place and it is actually quite close to where I live. The teacher was lovely and started the class with a poem she read that was, you know ... okay. The class was difficult for me because of my right arm, but I hung in there and finished the class. I couldn't do the shiv asana well because I couldn't get my arm in a place where it didn't hurt. BUT ... I went! Broke down that barrier, found the place and went inside and did it. So I'm pleased about that. But, my abdominal scars from tumor removal are hurting. Weird, huh? It's like I stretched the scars are really hurting.
I came home and worked some more on the article. I don't know that I got two hours of writing in, but probably at least an hour and a half. So that's a start on attacking and forging ahead to get the new life I want. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
I have printed off the voucher I had for the jazzercise classes and got the address in my head. The class I want to go to is at 10:15.
It would have been naive of me to think that this would be easy. But I'll try again tomorrow. In the epmeantime it's now 10:46 and I have to shut the house down for the night. That means folding the whites and putting them up, taking t the darks and complaining that I out them on to dry when I wouldn't be here to take them out. Now I'm going to have to fluff the shirts and pants, but that can wait till tomorrow. But I do need to get the stuffed animals I washed out of the washing machine and start them drying. Chessie has peed in at least two places to be cleaned up. The downstairs needs to be swept at least some because I took down the Christmas tree and garlands and there are tons of needles everywhere. The cleaners come tomorrow, but I don't want to leave them with THIS huge of a mess. The kitchen is a mess because I made us large salads and used a lot of herbs, so now it's kind of all over the place in there, plus the food was delivered today and I still have some of it to put up. Then I have to take the trash out, take a bath and wash my hair and get ready to head out tomorrow. It's almost 11:00, so that looks like going to sleep at 1:00 which isn't good. Hmmmm. I guess I'd bey her get up and get moving, then! I won't be getting on Facebook any tonight, that's for sure!
Cheers!
Lisa
I hate say this but ... confession is good for the soul, right? Here's what happened. I couldn't sleep. At all. I guess I tensed up because I've been waiting for this day for so long and it was finally here! So, I couldn't sleep? I'd almost drift off and then would have kind of like a spasm that would wake me all the way up again. I didn't get to sleep until, are you ready for this? 6:00 am! Aaargh! I turned off my alarms and didn't set any others and finally went soundly to sleep. I woke up at 12:00, but I could only see the 2:00, so I thought it was 2:00 in the afternoon! I was fairly upset by this. A level of upset that could only be countered by lots of Facebook time! After a while I realized it was 12:00 not 2:00 and felt a little better. Then it became a matter of trying to figure out how to redeem what was left of the day. I thought that writing and going to yoga were the two main challenges of the day, so that's what I went after. I started working on my article that I started a couple of weeks ago and then left to go to a 4:30 yoga class. I loved the place and it is actually quite close to where I live. The teacher was lovely and started the class with a poem she read that was, you know ... okay. The class was difficult for me because of my right arm, but I hung in there and finished the class. I couldn't do the shiv asana well because I couldn't get my arm in a place where it didn't hurt. BUT ... I went! Broke down that barrier, found the place and went inside and did it. So I'm pleased about that. But, my abdominal scars from tumor removal are hurting. Weird, huh? It's like I stretched the scars are really hurting.
I came home and worked some more on the article. I don't know that I got two hours of writing in, but probably at least an hour and a half. So that's a start on attacking and forging ahead to get the new life I want. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
I have printed off the voucher I had for the jazzercise classes and got the address in my head. The class I want to go to is at 10:15.
It would have been naive of me to think that this would be easy. But I'll try again tomorrow. In the epmeantime it's now 10:46 and I have to shut the house down for the night. That means folding the whites and putting them up, taking t the darks and complaining that I out them on to dry when I wouldn't be here to take them out. Now I'm going to have to fluff the shirts and pants, but that can wait till tomorrow. But I do need to get the stuffed animals I washed out of the washing machine and start them drying. Chessie has peed in at least two places to be cleaned up. The downstairs needs to be swept at least some because I took down the Christmas tree and garlands and there are tons of needles everywhere. The cleaners come tomorrow, but I don't want to leave them with THIS huge of a mess. The kitchen is a mess because I made us large salads and used a lot of herbs, so now it's kind of all over the place in there, plus the food was delivered today and I still have some of it to put up. Then I have to take the trash out, take a bath and wash my hair and get ready to head out tomorrow. It's almost 11:00, so that looks like going to sleep at 1:00 which isn't good. Hmmmm. I guess I'd bey her get up and get moving, then! I won't be getting on Facebook any tonight, that's for sure!
Cheers!
Lisa
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Day 170 - TOMORROW IS THE DAY!!!
Dear Friends,
Tomorrow is indeed the day, and I've shot myself in the foot already. It's almost 2:00! I AM going to go to yoga tomorrow at 11:00 no matter what! But I've gone and stayed up too late again. Not from internet surfing, at least. But I checked my Facebook and there was in my news feed a forward of a post be Carmen something-or-other, the Christian singer who was really popular in the '80's and did the song about Lazarus. If you've never heard that song, you have GOT to go find it on you tube and listen to it. No, wait. I'll find it for you.... Okay, here you go. You'll have chills, I promise you! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWR534c5cr4
Anyway, he has some post about how more whites are being shot than blacks and blah, blah, what are we going to do about it now? Well ... you know that got me all stirred up and, you know I wrote in a long response! And then my niece wrote a reply to my comment which I didn't really understand, so I added some more!
So, here it is, almost 2:00 am.
The good news is that I have everything ready to go tomorrow and have a super good schedule worked out. I visited a Catholic Church this evening. There was no music whatsoever, so it was kind of dry. Then I went to the health food and picked up dinner for me and my daughter and we watched the second How to Train Your Dragon which was really good. :-)
And now, because I KNOW you want to read it ( surely!) I'll share with you what I wrote.
Your missing the point. Black citizens are being treated in a way that white citizens would not. Watch this video before you justify yourself in thinking black Americans can get over this by spouting some statistics at them! http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/surveillance-video-walmart-shooting-john-crawford-police. This guy was just walking around the store with a pellet gun he picked up on the toy aisle. All he is doing is STANDING THERE TALKING ON THE PHONE WHEN HE IS GUNNED DOWN!! And now they know that the white police officer's testimony was a lie. Will he be charged with perjury? Don't make me laugh! He's white! Or, if that's not enough for you, read this report http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/24/cleveland-police-kill-12-year-old-boy-wielding-bb-gun-that-looked-like-a-semi-automatic-pistol/. I submit to you that a white boy playing with a gun would not have been shot and killed sitting on a swing set in a park! To make it more interesting, find the actual transcript if the call that yr
Wait! Where's the rest of it?? Here it is ...
To make it more interesting, find the actual transcript if the call that was placed and then how the dispatcher reported it. THESE THINGS HAVE GOT TO BREAK YOUR HEART! Please read these articles from Christianity Today by black pastors if you want to better understand what is going on. http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2014/august/its-time-to-listen.html?paging=off. A very naive white woman recently posted on Facebook that all you have to do is obey the law and nothing will happen to you. NONSENSE!!! And we can't spout NONSENSE if we're Christians! We are commanded to "do justly" and "love mercy" in Micah 6. And James 2:12-13 tells us that judgment without mercy will be given to those who are not merciful and that MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUSTICE! How is mercy trumping your idea of justice when you look at these killings?
So ... that's it for me. Good night!
Lisa
Tomorrow is indeed the day, and I've shot myself in the foot already. It's almost 2:00! I AM going to go to yoga tomorrow at 11:00 no matter what! But I've gone and stayed up too late again. Not from internet surfing, at least. But I checked my Facebook and there was in my news feed a forward of a post be Carmen something-or-other, the Christian singer who was really popular in the '80's and did the song about Lazarus. If you've never heard that song, you have GOT to go find it on you tube and listen to it. No, wait. I'll find it for you.... Okay, here you go. You'll have chills, I promise you! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWR534c5cr4
Anyway, he has some post about how more whites are being shot than blacks and blah, blah, what are we going to do about it now? Well ... you know that got me all stirred up and, you know I wrote in a long response! And then my niece wrote a reply to my comment which I didn't really understand, so I added some more!
So, here it is, almost 2:00 am.
The good news is that I have everything ready to go tomorrow and have a super good schedule worked out. I visited a Catholic Church this evening. There was no music whatsoever, so it was kind of dry. Then I went to the health food and picked up dinner for me and my daughter and we watched the second How to Train Your Dragon which was really good. :-)
And now, because I KNOW you want to read it ( surely!) I'll share with you what I wrote.
Your missing the point. Black citizens are being treated in a way that white citizens would not. Watch this video before you justify yourself in thinking black Americans can get over this by spouting some statistics at them! http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/surveillance-video-walmart-shooting-john-crawford-police. This guy was just walking around the store with a pellet gun he picked up on the toy aisle. All he is doing is STANDING THERE TALKING ON THE PHONE WHEN HE IS GUNNED DOWN!! And now they know that the white police officer's testimony was a lie. Will he be charged with perjury? Don't make me laugh! He's white! Or, if that's not enough for you, read this report http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/24/cleveland-police-kill-12-year-old-boy-wielding-bb-gun-that-looked-like-a-semi-automatic-pistol/. I submit to you that a white boy playing with a gun would not have been shot and killed sitting on a swing set in a park! To make it more interesting, find the actual transcript if the call that yr
Wait! Where's the rest of it?? Here it is ...
To make it more interesting, find the actual transcript if the call that was placed and then how the dispatcher reported it. THESE THINGS HAVE GOT TO BREAK YOUR HEART! Please read these articles from Christianity Today by black pastors if you want to better understand what is going on. http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2014/august/its-time-to-listen.html?paging=off. A very naive white woman recently posted on Facebook that all you have to do is obey the law and nothing will happen to you. NONSENSE!!! And we can't spout NONSENSE if we're Christians! We are commanded to "do justly" and "love mercy" in Micah 6. And James 2:12-13 tells us that judgment without mercy will be given to those who are not merciful and that MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUSTICE! How is mercy trumping your idea of justice when you look at these killings?
So ... that's it for me. Good night!
Lisa
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Day 171 - Taking Down the Christmas Tree
Dear Friends,
Well ... last night did not go well AT ALL! I woke my husband up blow drying my hair and he couldn't get back to sleep. My right shower and arm were KILLING me! The bicep tendon was even spamming, so I couldn't go back to sleep. He got up and read in the recliner finally, and I settled in on two pillows, with the heating pad behind my shoulders, my arm sprayed down with Bio-Freeze and wrapped up with a tension bandage. I got back on my iPad and, lo and behold ... I found the glasses I wanted for a much more reasonable price and one I'm willing to pay. I usually buy the super cheap glasses, but they are so thin that they break super easy. So I'm willing to put a little more money in for these heavier, but very pretty glasses. I've tried to add pictures before, unsuccessfully. I think I'll give it another try, though. Here goes.
http://www.wayfair.com/Zrike-Renaissance-Pressed-14-oz.-Glass-11080-ZRI1349.html#
Nope. I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
I'm going to try one more thing.
Yes!!didnt need it to be so huge, thgh. What's up with that? Anyway ... pretty, huh?
So, I finally got to sleep between 3:30 and 4:00 this morning. Not the way I wanted things to go. I had set my alarm for 9:30 and I heard it go off once and hit the doze, and then apparently just slept through it entirely until it quit after an hour and a half. I had it on music instead of an alarm which may be why I was able to sleep through it. Darn, darn! So, I didn't wake up until 11:00. Double darn.
But ... today was a new day, even if it did start out much later than I intended. I worked all day on taking down the Christmas tree, an onerous task not made any easier by needle-sharp pine needles on my dried out tree. Plus the fact that almost all of ornaments are unique and have to be packed up specially. I don't actually use very many bulbs at all. So, each year I open up the big tote and see all these individual boxes and tins and what have you, and I can't remember how to get all the ornaments back into everything! It's like having to re-work a jigsaw puzzle every year. So, this year I have written on each container exactly what goes in it. This should make things a lot easier next year, but it doubled the onerous nature of the job! And I'm not even through yet. There are probably still about a dozen ornaments that I haven't figured out how to pack up yet. And I'm pretty much out of boxes and metal tins. I must have re packed everything more conservatively this time. I also managed to drop a very expensive Swarovski star ornament, probably worth around $80. It fell on the velvet Christmas tree skirt, but managed to break into three pieces despite the soft landing. I'm saving them and taking them to the jeweler to see if he can repair it for a reasonable price. I know that there is stuff out there that is used on glass, but it's a pretty involved process if I recall right.
We all went out to dinner tonight to our favorite Chinese-Japanese fusion restaurant. They have a salad that has papaya, jicama, and mango on lettuce with a peanut dressing that is delicious! I think I could eat it everyday. And they have a wonderful coconut curry shrimp soup with rice noodles and bean sprouts that I get every time.
I am determined to quit shopping in bed on my iPad. Dare me? Think I can do it? I did just a little bit tonight. (Wish I hadn't thought about that soup. Now I'm hungry!). I did get caught up spending time looking for a particular type of glass, but they are too expensive ($12) and only hold 9 ounces. But it opened u a whole new world of antique glassware that I didn't know about! And, you know ... that's JUST what I needed!
Then I looked for curtain rods for my husband's study. His curtains have been made, but I haven't gotten any rods in. I did a fair amount of work on this when I came across something called hinged curtain rods. They close together in the middle of the window, so they look like a regular curtain rod. But they are two pieces hinged on the side, so you can just open them up. This is probably what I should get because that's how these windows work. The screens are on the inside and hinge out wards, then you can adjust the window the way you want it and close the screens back up. They are delightful! They make you feel like you are at a lodge or camp or something. I have to do some measuring tomorrow, but I think that's what I'll be using for three of the windows and a regular rod for the one wide window. Now I just have to find clip on rings to match.
We had a lot of snow today. It was so beautiful! Huge flakes the size of quarters.
You are never going to believe this, but it is 12:00 and I am ready to say goodnight and go to bed!
Oh, my husband is leaving for the conference tomorrow, so I'm going to check t this one other church that someone recommended to us. Unless they meet at 9:30 or something like that.
Adieu!
Lisa
Well ... last night did not go well AT ALL! I woke my husband up blow drying my hair and he couldn't get back to sleep. My right shower and arm were KILLING me! The bicep tendon was even spamming, so I couldn't go back to sleep. He got up and read in the recliner finally, and I settled in on two pillows, with the heating pad behind my shoulders, my arm sprayed down with Bio-Freeze and wrapped up with a tension bandage. I got back on my iPad and, lo and behold ... I found the glasses I wanted for a much more reasonable price and one I'm willing to pay. I usually buy the super cheap glasses, but they are so thin that they break super easy. So I'm willing to put a little more money in for these heavier, but very pretty glasses. I've tried to add pictures before, unsuccessfully. I think I'll give it another try, though. Here goes.
http://www.wayfair.com/Zrike-Renaissance-Pressed-14-oz.-Glass-11080-ZRI1349.html#
Nope. I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
I'm going to try one more thing.
Yes!!didnt need it to be so huge, thgh. What's up with that? Anyway ... pretty, huh?
So, I finally got to sleep between 3:30 and 4:00 this morning. Not the way I wanted things to go. I had set my alarm for 9:30 and I heard it go off once and hit the doze, and then apparently just slept through it entirely until it quit after an hour and a half. I had it on music instead of an alarm which may be why I was able to sleep through it. Darn, darn! So, I didn't wake up until 11:00. Double darn.
But ... today was a new day, even if it did start out much later than I intended. I worked all day on taking down the Christmas tree, an onerous task not made any easier by needle-sharp pine needles on my dried out tree. Plus the fact that almost all of ornaments are unique and have to be packed up specially. I don't actually use very many bulbs at all. So, each year I open up the big tote and see all these individual boxes and tins and what have you, and I can't remember how to get all the ornaments back into everything! It's like having to re-work a jigsaw puzzle every year. So, this year I have written on each container exactly what goes in it. This should make things a lot easier next year, but it doubled the onerous nature of the job! And I'm not even through yet. There are probably still about a dozen ornaments that I haven't figured out how to pack up yet. And I'm pretty much out of boxes and metal tins. I must have re packed everything more conservatively this time. I also managed to drop a very expensive Swarovski star ornament, probably worth around $80. It fell on the velvet Christmas tree skirt, but managed to break into three pieces despite the soft landing. I'm saving them and taking them to the jeweler to see if he can repair it for a reasonable price. I know that there is stuff out there that is used on glass, but it's a pretty involved process if I recall right.
We all went out to dinner tonight to our favorite Chinese-Japanese fusion restaurant. They have a salad that has papaya, jicama, and mango on lettuce with a peanut dressing that is delicious! I think I could eat it everyday. And they have a wonderful coconut curry shrimp soup with rice noodles and bean sprouts that I get every time.
I am determined to quit shopping in bed on my iPad. Dare me? Think I can do it? I did just a little bit tonight. (Wish I hadn't thought about that soup. Now I'm hungry!). I did get caught up spending time looking for a particular type of glass, but they are too expensive ($12) and only hold 9 ounces. But it opened u a whole new world of antique glassware that I didn't know about! And, you know ... that's JUST what I needed!
Then I looked for curtain rods for my husband's study. His curtains have been made, but I haven't gotten any rods in. I did a fair amount of work on this when I came across something called hinged curtain rods. They close together in the middle of the window, so they look like a regular curtain rod. But they are two pieces hinged on the side, so you can just open them up. This is probably what I should get because that's how these windows work. The screens are on the inside and hinge out wards, then you can adjust the window the way you want it and close the screens back up. They are delightful! They make you feel like you are at a lodge or camp or something. I have to do some measuring tomorrow, but I think that's what I'll be using for three of the windows and a regular rod for the one wide window. Now I just have to find clip on rings to match.
We had a lot of snow today. It was so beautiful! Huge flakes the size of quarters.
You are never going to believe this, but it is 12:00 and I am ready to say goodnight and go to bed!
Oh, my husband is leaving for the conference tomorrow, so I'm going to check t this one other church that someone recommended to us. Unless they meet at 9:30 or something like that.
Adieu!
Lisa
Friday, January 2, 2015
Day 172 - How Did It Get to Be 1:00 am!!
Dear Friends,
Best laid plans!! We went out on a date night tonight and saw The Imitation Game! Wow! Benedict Cumber... Cumberbunch? No. Cumberbatch? Oh, well. You know who I mean, for Best Actor! But, it was a sad and depressing film the way it ended. It just broke my heart. See we watched a House when we got home to set a little better tone for the evenings. Though Cutty is still mad at House for lying to her about the patient he was sure had Hepatitis C. Just shows they have men writers, because no woman would have actually acted the way she did. BUT, ANYWAY...!
I decided to get in bed with my husband while he fell asleep before taking a bath and washing my hair. And that was at least an hr and a half ago. I got to obsessing over cleaning out my inbox for some reason, oh yeah. To find one email to send one message only to find that the email I had was a "no-reply" address. So, I did deleted things and answered some old emails for too long. I hate it, later, when I get caught up in my OCD. Then I paid some bills and then started looking for drinking glasses. Just drinking glasses. I've picked out flatware and dinnerware and am now looking for glassware. But I want something really nice for a really ordinary price! I found exactly what I want, for $10.00 a glass, like thats's ever going to happen. Anyway, apparently in spent way too long on it, though I do think I finally found something that will work nicely at Crate & Barrel and is on sale.
But here is it, 1:13 am, and I have yet to take my bath! Anyway, on to telling you about my day, because I know you can't wait to hear about it! (There should be an emoticon for sarcasm.)
Well ... I mopped the entire family area and tore up this darn shoulder and bicep again. It hasn't exactly healed, but it was doing better. But now this bicep tendon is killing me!! I also planneda week's worth of menus from my new Williams-Sonoma cookbook. Then I worked on placing a big grocery shopping order. Had to modify it several times before I finally got it right and submitted it. Then I realized my husband is going to be GONE most of next week to a conference and I am sure not cooking like that for myself and my daughter! So I had to go back online and delete a whole ton of things! I'm just glad I realized this so a lot of produce didn't go bad.
I'm reading The Belly Fat Diet and it is really sounding good.
That's it for me. I am taking down the Christmas tree tomorrow no matter what!
Cheers!
Lisa
Best laid plans!! We went out on a date night tonight and saw The Imitation Game! Wow! Benedict Cumber... Cumberbunch? No. Cumberbatch? Oh, well. You know who I mean, for Best Actor! But, it was a sad and depressing film the way it ended. It just broke my heart. See we watched a House when we got home to set a little better tone for the evenings. Though Cutty is still mad at House for lying to her about the patient he was sure had Hepatitis C. Just shows they have men writers, because no woman would have actually acted the way she did. BUT, ANYWAY...!
I decided to get in bed with my husband while he fell asleep before taking a bath and washing my hair. And that was at least an hr and a half ago. I got to obsessing over cleaning out my inbox for some reason, oh yeah. To find one email to send one message only to find that the email I had was a "no-reply" address. So, I did deleted things and answered some old emails for too long. I hate it, later, when I get caught up in my OCD. Then I paid some bills and then started looking for drinking glasses. Just drinking glasses. I've picked out flatware and dinnerware and am now looking for glassware. But I want something really nice for a really ordinary price! I found exactly what I want, for $10.00 a glass, like thats's ever going to happen. Anyway, apparently in spent way too long on it, though I do think I finally found something that will work nicely at Crate & Barrel and is on sale.
But here is it, 1:13 am, and I have yet to take my bath! Anyway, on to telling you about my day, because I know you can't wait to hear about it! (There should be an emoticon for sarcasm.)
Well ... I mopped the entire family area and tore up this darn shoulder and bicep again. It hasn't exactly healed, but it was doing better. But now this bicep tendon is killing me!! I also planneda week's worth of menus from my new Williams-Sonoma cookbook. Then I worked on placing a big grocery shopping order. Had to modify it several times before I finally got it right and submitted it. Then I realized my husband is going to be GONE most of next week to a conference and I am sure not cooking like that for myself and my daughter! So I had to go back online and delete a whole ton of things! I'm just glad I realized this so a lot of produce didn't go bad.
I'm reading The Belly Fat Diet and it is really sounding good.
That's it for me. I am taking down the Christmas tree tomorrow no matter what!
Cheers!
Lisa
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Day 173 - and ... WE'RE OFF!!!
Dear Friends,
Today has been a pretty good day!even though I stayed up excessively late last night, I didn't let myself go back to sleep after I woke up around 10 this morning. I had a long prayer time, got the disgusting kitchen cleaned up (I hate leaving cleaning the kitchen till the next morning and almost never do it). Then I had a prayer time and perfected (?) my daily schedule. I got some more laundry done, took care of a lot of packages that needed returning and packed up my mother's last gifts to send to her. Then I got some work done on putting up all of the ornaments on the Christmas tree and made a pretty nice dinner. First day with no sugar. I've used gluten-free cookies to signal to myself that dinner is over. I tried eating some pistachios tonight and that helped. I'm thinking some hot tea might be better.
I've got my light-box alarm clock set up to wake me up with an FM station I listen to a lot here, basically pop music. It has been surprising to learn the connection between REM sleep and depression. The more anxious or depressed you are, the moreREm sleep you need to calm your brain down. But too much REM sleep keeps you from getting the slow-wave sleep you need to get really rested and refreshed. Plus, it actually makes your brain tired and uses up the glucose your brain needs which causes you to be more tired when you wake up, making you less productive and making life harder, etc. which sets you up to be more anxious. It's been really interesting readin on breaking this cycle at every place you can. The one I'm going to focus on the most is not sleeping in. I dream solid when I do that.
So getting up regularly is a big resolution for the year.
Not eating sugar for six months is another.
Exercising or doing yoga five days a week is another
Having a dedicated time for writing is the next.
Quit being mean and talking ugly to myself about myself is another that I almost forgot about.
Nothing to it, huh??!
I read one thing that says that when you make resolutions, you should ask yourself about each; why am I not already doing this? What is keeping me from having this be a part of my life? What is hindering me? But then I read that too much introspection increases depression! So, there you go! What's a woman to do??
So. Would you like to see the finalized daily schedule? Why, SURE you would!
Monday-Friday
8:00 -
get out of bed, brush teeth, skin care, get dressed
Go downstairs and let the dogs out, feed them, start the coffee, clean u the floor, let dogs back in, grab coffee and an apple and go upstairs
Put on makeu and fix my hair. Make the bed, neaten my bedside table and bathroom, open the blinds. Grab up dirty clothes and any dishes and carry them downstairs.
Sort the dirty clothes and start a small load of laundry. Unload the dishwasher, load any dirty dishes, clean off the counters, tidy the den, and breakfast room
9:30-9:45 -
Make smoothie and get ready to go to yoga or Jazzercise, leave the house
10:00 - 10:15 -
Yoga or Jazzercise
After this, the day may take one of two courses depending on whether I need to run errands or come back home. Here are the two options:
A. Errands:
11:00 -
run errands, doctor's appointments, manicures, etc., read Bible and have prayer time; eat lunch out
2:30 -
be home, out laundry on to dry, change clothes, put purchases away, fold and out up laundry
B. Return Home
11:15 -
put clothes on to dry, eat lunch, fold and put away laundry; work on house: organizing, de cluttering, unpacking, etc.
2:30 -
Put house back together for the rest of the day, change clothes
And then, regardless of whether I worked at home or ran errands, the next step is the same for each day:
3:00 -
Make some hot tea and sit down in my office to write, work on query letters, submit articles, etc.
5:00 -
Start dinner, make personal phone calls, clean refrigerator as I go along, a little each day
6:15 -
Serve dinner at the table, clean the kitchen, and watch TV with family
8:30-ish -
Get ready for bed, lay out clothes for the next day, take supplements, Facebook, play around on the internet, read some ... keeping an eye on the time so that I am done NO LATER than 11:30!
Saturdays will be for planning the week's menus and putting in a food order for delivery, also for doing concentrated and focused work on the house.
Sunday will be for church and relaxing. Maybe brushing my dogs out and taking them for walks.
So, what do you think? It seems pretty doable. I realized now that I didn't include any time for working on emails and taking care of household management and repairs or planing events. I guess that could be done after exercising. Hmmmm.
Well, I don't want to stay up too late, so I will say good night. I hope this has been a restful and peaceful day for you ... and that you didn't spend it either with your head in the toilet or lying flat in a darkened room all day suffering the after effects of too much partying last night! It takes almost nothing at all to make me slightly drunk. Were talking about anything more than one glass of wine. But let me tell you what! I am HYSTERICAL when I'm a little drunk! At least Inthink I'm hysterical. I know people with me are usually laughing! WITH me, I'm sure! Not AT me!
Stay classy!
Lisa
Today has been a pretty good day!even though I stayed up excessively late last night, I didn't let myself go back to sleep after I woke up around 10 this morning. I had a long prayer time, got the disgusting kitchen cleaned up (I hate leaving cleaning the kitchen till the next morning and almost never do it). Then I had a prayer time and perfected (?) my daily schedule. I got some more laundry done, took care of a lot of packages that needed returning and packed up my mother's last gifts to send to her. Then I got some work done on putting up all of the ornaments on the Christmas tree and made a pretty nice dinner. First day with no sugar. I've used gluten-free cookies to signal to myself that dinner is over. I tried eating some pistachios tonight and that helped. I'm thinking some hot tea might be better.
I've got my light-box alarm clock set up to wake me up with an FM station I listen to a lot here, basically pop music. It has been surprising to learn the connection between REM sleep and depression. The more anxious or depressed you are, the moreREm sleep you need to calm your brain down. But too much REM sleep keeps you from getting the slow-wave sleep you need to get really rested and refreshed. Plus, it actually makes your brain tired and uses up the glucose your brain needs which causes you to be more tired when you wake up, making you less productive and making life harder, etc. which sets you up to be more anxious. It's been really interesting readin on breaking this cycle at every place you can. The one I'm going to focus on the most is not sleeping in. I dream solid when I do that.
So getting up regularly is a big resolution for the year.
Not eating sugar for six months is another.
Exercising or doing yoga five days a week is another
Having a dedicated time for writing is the next.
Quit being mean and talking ugly to myself about myself is another that I almost forgot about.
Nothing to it, huh??!
I read one thing that says that when you make resolutions, you should ask yourself about each; why am I not already doing this? What is keeping me from having this be a part of my life? What is hindering me? But then I read that too much introspection increases depression! So, there you go! What's a woman to do??
So. Would you like to see the finalized daily schedule? Why, SURE you would!
Monday-Friday
8:00 -
get out of bed, brush teeth, skin care, get dressed
Go downstairs and let the dogs out, feed them, start the coffee, clean u the floor, let dogs back in, grab coffee and an apple and go upstairs
Put on makeu and fix my hair. Make the bed, neaten my bedside table and bathroom, open the blinds. Grab up dirty clothes and any dishes and carry them downstairs.
Sort the dirty clothes and start a small load of laundry. Unload the dishwasher, load any dirty dishes, clean off the counters, tidy the den, and breakfast room
9:30-9:45 -
Make smoothie and get ready to go to yoga or Jazzercise, leave the house
10:00 - 10:15 -
Yoga or Jazzercise
After this, the day may take one of two courses depending on whether I need to run errands or come back home. Here are the two options:
A. Errands:
11:00 -
run errands, doctor's appointments, manicures, etc., read Bible and have prayer time; eat lunch out
2:30 -
be home, out laundry on to dry, change clothes, put purchases away, fold and out up laundry
B. Return Home
11:15 -
put clothes on to dry, eat lunch, fold and put away laundry; work on house: organizing, de cluttering, unpacking, etc.
2:30 -
Put house back together for the rest of the day, change clothes
And then, regardless of whether I worked at home or ran errands, the next step is the same for each day:
3:00 -
Make some hot tea and sit down in my office to write, work on query letters, submit articles, etc.
5:00 -
Start dinner, make personal phone calls, clean refrigerator as I go along, a little each day
6:15 -
Serve dinner at the table, clean the kitchen, and watch TV with family
8:30-ish -
Get ready for bed, lay out clothes for the next day, take supplements, Facebook, play around on the internet, read some ... keeping an eye on the time so that I am done NO LATER than 11:30!
Saturdays will be for planning the week's menus and putting in a food order for delivery, also for doing concentrated and focused work on the house.
Sunday will be for church and relaxing. Maybe brushing my dogs out and taking them for walks.
So, what do you think? It seems pretty doable. I realized now that I didn't include any time for working on emails and taking care of household management and repairs or planing events. I guess that could be done after exercising. Hmmmm.
Well, I don't want to stay up too late, so I will say good night. I hope this has been a restful and peaceful day for you ... and that you didn't spend it either with your head in the toilet or lying flat in a darkened room all day suffering the after effects of too much partying last night! It takes almost nothing at all to make me slightly drunk. Were talking about anything more than one glass of wine. But let me tell you what! I am HYSTERICAL when I'm a little drunk! At least Inthink I'm hysterical. I know people with me are usually laughing! WITH me, I'm sure! Not AT me!
Stay classy!
Lisa
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