The Thoughtful Crockpot

Middle of May. I am behind on Ancestry dot com; I am behind in slogging out my studio, I am behind in my housekeeping, and I am behind in the paperwork Larry wants me to take care of. I am behind in organizing my photos, I am behind in work on the family cookbook I am soooo tired.

I am getting very tired of this sleep deprivation thing. BUT - I am alive. I get to live. After almost dying, that is an amazing gift.

However, I am left with NO energy and increasingly large piles of undone you-name-it. And I get to babysit my grandsons on Friday, which will REALLY make me tired! At least my food and exercise have begun well this week. Oh, wait! It is only Monday. How messed up can I get in one day? We ALL know the answer to that one, don't we? Weigh in is Thursday and I don't want a repeat of last week.

Gotta find those boot straps so I can pull myself up by them. I wonder: are they buried in the studio?

April has begun

... and I am in the same rut I have been in for far too long.  Today is a new day and though it didn't start great, it is going to end better.

Larry had his scope tests yesterday - more in the quest to find out why is he anemic?  Biopsies taken and now we wait for results.

Off to hit the bicycle, and then tons of phone calls to take care of.  Have I mentioned that I HATE talking on the phone?

I am placing this day in God's hands, and asking to SEE what I am supposed to today.  

And then there is homework.

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March Is Almost Over

If this is the year I am going to get healthy and fit I'd better make a plan and start.

Food: WW for diabetes B

Exercise: exercise bike and walking

Start in April. April 1 would be really appropriate.

One of these days

One day I will get brave enough to tell my family about this blog. Not yet though.  I want to learn how to do the cool blog things like put in a video (of Larry and me talking, for instance) or even a picture. I think I can learn it. Slowly.

The question I ask now is, why, when I am feeling overwhelmed by the amount of things to be done here at home, have I begun my blogging? It could be to put off the stuff, or to provide a way to feel as though I have gotten something done when really I am just procrastinating with technology.  Kind of like Buzz  Lightyear "falling with style" 

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What do you do when you're sick other than rest or medication?

Well, it seems there are things one should pay attention to when blogging. Such as, click the Publish button when you are done, rather than clicking on something else that attracts your attention. Why? Because you lose your post.
So all the brilliant observations and clever repartee that I had just written are now gone and you are stuck with this:
Tomorrow and Saturday are going to be busy babysitting days, so today I am not going to do much but feed the hungry who live in my house, and read drivel. I mean fiction. Not lit-er-a-ture (emphasis on the first syllable) science, social commentary or biographies. Nope, I am reading wonderful, comfortable Jan Karon today. And I am still in my jammies and I am going back to my warm bed to read and drink herbal tea because by Saturday night I will be exhausted and I am hoping I can stock pile some energy. Tho feeding the hungry here takes some time, as the dogs have now decided they really do want egg and peanutbutter sauce on their kibble. (Xyla will eat when I do this, and she is too thin. Zoe just thinks she has found food heaven, as she is too fat. So I don't give her as much food)
Mr. P will probably be perfectly happy eating cereal and ice cream all day.
So, other than washing laundry and folding laundry, and feeding the above mentioned eaters, I will accomplish little, but rest well. So don't drop in to visit me, OK? Don't call me either. You know how much I hate talking on the phone.
I am going to click on the publish button now...

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What do you do when you're sick other than rest or medication?

For the next two days I will have a marathon of babysitting and grandchild care (for the ones who are no longer babies and don't like the term "babysitting" when it refers to them. So today, I am not doing much but general home and self care. Kind of trying to save up some energy for the coming onslaught.
Not that I don't like it. Heck, I quit my job so I could do this. I just know I am going to be tired. Very tired. Verry Verrrrry tired by the time Saturday night comes around.
So besides feeding the dogs, the guinea pig and the goldfish, and tidying up after mr. p, and folding laundry, I am going to read books(not self improvement, political or social thought, history or literature. Just story books. And not Wuthering Heights. I managed to avoid that particular book throughout my school years but for some reason I decided to read it now. Can't say I like any of the people in the book, but it is an important book in the canon of literature, so I am reading it. But not today. Today I am reading a Jan Karon book, and also "I am number four" ... and the funnies in the paper, but not the doom and gloom and political ramblings and all that foolishness.
Nope. Today I am resting.
So there.

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Today is the start

This is a blog project.  Since I don't know what I am doing, this post is not going to be very enlightening.  Here I am stumbling around in the blogosphere with only the faint idea that I might share some stuff with some people I love.

This year is going to be a significant one because Larry and I are both retired now. Mostly I am thrilled about that, but I do miss my friends, and I even miss the money. 

I don't worry about not having a sense of purpose, Lord knows I am loaded with purpose: be a great wife to my hubby, be a good mom to my grown-up children and a fabulous grammy to my grandchildren. I long to be significant in their lives, full of wisdom and home baked bread.

And then there are the social issues I care deeply about: homelessness, just immigration and guest worker laws.  

And the spiritual woman I long to be.

And I want to lose enough weight to be energetic and healthy.

And I want to reorganize what needs reorganizing in my home, and declutter (more like dejunk) what needs dejunkluttering.

And I want to learn how to dress and act like a pretty woman. I can learn to pass, can't I? Huh?