Five Friday Things

U is still on the fritz everyone. I think I've edited well, but if not.......

Boy is my recovery slow and slower, folks! I have been spending a lot of down time (thankfully with reading material and basketball). Today I went out for a routine prescription refill and tried to walk a teeny bit in the store. If I'm lucky I have two thousand steps on the day. As a matter of fact, today is the first day I have forced myself to stay "upright". Yesterday after lunch I took a book and went back to bed. 

My antibiotics are not done, I feel much better, but still, I cough. To the point of having both my back and my chest hurt sometimes. Meanwhile, in other news of the week.

1.  The basketball bracket is dead. So very, very dead. I still have Villanova winning it all, but good grief. It's a good thing I'm not a betting person, to say the least.

2. As part of my "create more" (and possibly consume less), I finished my card project. This is the first thing I have actually sketched myself and colored in, so artist of the week, I am not. I sketched a and drew and sketched and painted and drew again some succulents. I finally ended up with this version. and while it needs so very much improvement, it will make a nice card or letter for my daughter who grows them everywhere. A couple buttons for decoration and some writing, and I may even be onto the next project.

 I also joined in a "create for good" monthly challenge, with this month the project being doll quilts for homeless and kids in shelters. More pictures of those later. And since I had a bunch of strip blocks already made up, I turned them into large quited blocks and will make a throw and give it to the case manager at my volunteer shelter (she'll give one to each gal who finally moves into her own place.)

3. With my extensive down and recovery time, I neither made it out to lunch this week, nor did I do get to do my weekly outing time. I had hoped to get to the Museum of Outdoor Arts, as well as check out this restaurant. Perhaps if I feel up to it this weekend. Next week in addition Easter brunch, I have a lunch and learn how to make jewelry event, and am pushing myself to be well enough for both. 

4. My one true outing this week was to take my 27 year old to Men's Wearhouse. He's in the unique situation of needing a real suit (not a sports coat and pants) for this formal evening wedding, and nothing he has fits him. Since neither of us trusted my measuring ability, we took a gander and talked to a guy and let him confirm the measuring. Since their suits were all seven hundred dollars and this suit is probably a one off (son is losing more weight although already a slim fit, son is in IT and doesn't need formal wear), I'm taking those measurements online to Penny's, Sears and even amazon to come up with a more realistic price.

5.  My book group (or one of them) is also next Wednesday. We are reading The German Girl, and I hope to start it this evening. I generally wait until the weekend before so that the book is fresh in my mind, as I am not a note taker. I expect this one is not "uplifting" but that's okay. I joined my book groups to be challenged outside of my thriller/mystery reading box. 

And now I'm off to a weekend of chilling, before I (hopefully) get back to something like normal activity next week. A little basketball, a little sewing and crafting, two books to read, some writing, attempting a real walk and simply enjoying the yard are on my list this week.