Life Reset Day 7

I almost forgot to  write this!

Another rainbow morning. 

It was a quiet day. First thing, after coffee and oatmeal, my Nashville family FaceTimed with me.  We do this most every Sunday morning and I really look forward to talking to them.  He begins a new job tomorrow and is quite excited.  She is a Kindergarten teacher and will be more excited then her students when summer vacation starts! Seriously, she loves teaching and is very good at it!  They laughed at my new toy (a cordless mini chain saw which is seriously cute!)  Then I made sweet pickles, not really from scratch but from whole dill pickles. They will certainly taste better than the Broccoli pickles.  Will have to try a different recipe when and if I make those again.  The sweet pickles are an old recipe, very easy.  They will be ready tomorrow.  I did some kitchen clean up and put in some serious time on the current jigsaw puzzle.  Didn't spend much time in the studio but it is beginning to look better.  Tomorrow is laundry day and I will be down there all morning.  I think I will be finishing up some projects as well as the general cleaning that's going on.

My life is a bit boring, but I really feel like I am getting back to myself.  Pain makes your brain fuzzy and you a bit grumpy!  Now, my brain is doing much better, I laugh easier and can take the set backs to my plans much better.  (That last part is especially good since plans rarely go as you hoped.)

 That's all for tonight.  I'm in need of  ZZZZzzzz's

Life Reset Day 6

All those little things you put off  which you are supposed to do routinely, like changing furnace filters, going to the dentist or changing the batteries in your smoke detectors, sooner or later come back around to annoy you!  That happened today about 8:30 in the morning when my smoke detectors began "chirping" about every 5 minutes.  I can't remember when I last changed the batteries, only that it has certainly been longer than two years!   Since they require  4 volt batteries I was off to Walmart before coffee.  Since I was already there I bought a few groceries.  Walking around Walmart  I think you could get in  a  few hundred steps!  I decided I didn't need the electric scooter so I was leaning on a shopping cart.  I was tired and a bit sore by the time I got home.  When I tried to change the batteries I discovered I just wasn't tall enough-I got one off but couldn't get it back on.  An SOS was sent out to my daughter for a TALL person (this is a family joke, whenever something is beyond the reach of my 5'3" I say,  " I need a Tall person") So, she added the task of saving me from the chirping of my smoke detectors to her son.  He was coming to cut my grass anyway.  He put the one back up but that didn't stop the chirping --my house has 5 smoke detectors--so we went looking for the chirping one.  In the end he changed out 2 more! I not live in glorious quiet!

While all the chirping was going on I went down to the studio for a couple of hours.  Hauled out 3 bags of trash!  Put more things away, began to see the tops of more tables, so good progress.

I wonder how many more small chores I've neglected in the past two years are going to enliven my life. 

Life Reset Day 5

 Even a rainbow morning couldn't save this day!

I did a few things, very few.  Finished nothing. SIGH.  Would have been better if the storms with their wind had gone somewhere else!  I usually have a "weather headache" before big storms so yeah my pillow called.  Right after dinner the tornado alarms went off!  Greenwood was pretty much going to take a direct hit but it was a small one, I'm not sure it even touched down but anyway, I took my laptop, my phone and my flashlight down to the studio turned on the TV and waited for the alarm to stop and the warnings to expire for I went back up.  Much thunder and lightening and rain!  Plus it was 82F and icky sticky (Humid)!  Tomorrow, it's to be in the 60's!  I really hate the hot weather that's coming.

Here's hoping I will feel more motivated tomorrow!

Life Reset Day 4

First thing this morning I opened the blinds in my bed room, mostly because the sun was shinning for the first morning this week! Then the magic  happened, rainbows from my crystals decorated every wall!  This ALWAYS makes me smile, also I get a surge of happiness from them.  What can I say, I'm simple.  Perhaps that little burst of joy is why today was a pretty good day (or maybe it was because I didn't have to deal with taxes!)  

This whole reset thing is because I've let so much slide over the past couple of years and now I want it back!  So routine things are back:  like making the bed, wearing both my teeth and my hearing aids,  and putting the trash bins on the curb after filling them.  Picked up some tree branches from all the rain and wind we've had lately.   I measured my patio swing for new cushions and finished putting away the clothes I washed on Monday.  Last but certainly not least I spent 2 hours in the Studio.  I'd like to say I made a ton of progress but the reality is I managed to clear the top of one table. Plus put away a few things on the arts and crafts  table, and emptied some baskets.  I've found a few things I was missing.  I really would like to find my rocks from Oregon-I remember bringing them in the house but I have no idea where I put them!

I'm heading off to lullaby land next!

Life Reset Day 3

Today I didn't get much done.  I spent most of the day on the phone with the Accountant or on Turbo Tax with and expert trying to make my form (from the accountant) fit.  I finally managed to make Turbo Tax happy and hit the electronic filing SEND around 2 pm.  I have no idea why but I was exhausted by the end!

 

I cruised up to Chipotle for food, yum. 

Then I worked on the current puzzle--bought  in Grand Lake, Colorado--I think this is the 6th one for this year.  It's challenging but I don't care.

After that I headed down to the Studio to do a bit more work.  Adding shelves to yet another bookcase. Tossing out the multitude of empty prescription bottles, I did keep 4 one for each machine and bent pins and needles!  Puttering mostly.  

Still feeling tired I came up to watch Chinese TV on YouTube.  Funny thing about watching TV from another country using English subtitles you can't multitask!  I do understand a little 

Chinese but don't ask me to speak it!

 

Life Reset Day 2

Today did not go as planned.  Partly because last night did not go as planned.  I was almost ready to hit post last night when a pretty nasty thunderstorm (complete with a Tornado Watch) pulled into Greenwood. Quickly followed by a power outage.  Totally dark!  I used my phone light to find my flashlight and sat down in my room.  I'm sure you guessed that I fell asleep and only woke when all the lights came back on about an hour and a half later.  I got up and finished the post then tried to go to sleep, not a great nights sleep so I didn't wake up until 10:30 am.  (don't judge I live alone, I'm the only one this bothers!)

Today, I need to complete my taxes.  I wish I didn't always leave this until the very last minute!  That did not happen quickly, and in fact I need to talk to the accountant for the estate in the morning to finish off.  

I did manage to finish my broccoli stem pickles today and made my bed.  Some small accomplishments at least.

Here's to hoping tonight is not a repeat of last night!

Resetting my life

Don't go into shock!  I am finally posting!

I am recovering nicely from surgery (hip replacement) the doctor said everything was good to go and I can now DO things!  Like Drive!  My children haven't been letting me do anything much and I was terribly bored but I was freed from all restrictions last week!  So I'm trying to reset my life and do the things I use to do before pain caused brain rot.  So, I'll be posting more often.  I hope each and every day!

 Before surgery I worked really hard at getting the house ready and my TO DO list whittled down.  Of course, a TO DO list is never done.  Not when I keep adding things to it!  Six weeks of doing nothing, plus drywall and new floor in the kitchen created a complete mess.  Not to mention work in the garden before it gets away from me!  

I decided I would work at making one space tidy and useable again so I started with my studio.  This is one room that didn't get too much done before surgery and lots of stuff dumped into it. So this is where I began on Saturday.

By Sunday evening I had moved the stitching books and project boxes to the white  bookshelf on the left above and my art and craft books as well as my paints, inks etc to the bump out case.

     

Today, while I did laundry moved more craft supplies to the bump out shelves and into the cabinet emptied by moving the art stuff out.  There is now room on the bookcase behind the ironing station for boxes of  fabric etc.

Still so much to do down there but I am determined!