Friday (Week 2) ...A Better Day

A VERY BAD drawing of my indoor walking route!

Today spirits were higher and I had a mainly good day although I did not get one thing done that I had hoped (housework, of course). I have decided that as often as possible after my morning in bed routine (prayer and meditation, journaling, and some other things in bed) sometime between eight and nine that I will get dressed and not in sweats or hide from the public leggings. While may not put on blusher or makeup, I feel much better when I am "presentable", even casually (even when no one is coming to the door). Jeans, a nice long sleeved shirt, hair done, earrings, casual perfume or sceted body lotion and chapstick at least make me feel SO much better.

I also reminded myself that an upside of this time alone is that I have extra time for discernment and planning for the coming year. Never mind the fact that I am also not spending money as such. Yeah, I spent a fair amount to stock the freezers. But without much further grocery spending, I am able to put a large part of my so called disposable income aside after a couple purchases like said chair. This is money that I can use to help my kids in the coming economy of "who knows what", and to spend on small businesses in my neighborhood now and later, as it works for me. I need three skeins of good yarn, and while they might be a bit cheaper from the big yarn store in the sky, I am ordering them from my local independently owed yarn store.  Just one example.

I got an email today with a long list of ways to "socialize" while staying at home today, from a virtual tour of the Botanic Gardens and Zoo, to a broadway show, to (believe it or not) the option to do a paint and sip type class via Zoom with friends!

Today I 

• Connected by having a forty minute chat with my sister in law (with brother on the other end talking to her) who lives accross town.
• Exercised by walking a good fifteen or twenty minutes twice around my house (for those who've asked how I can do that, the movement area in my house is a ushape and with no furniture I can get a good clip. See lousy hand drawing).
• Worked in my sewing room by spending time on the bunny wall hanging, and working on a section of my landscape quilt, as well as doing my alloted knitting time (I should be ready to start on the body this weekend)
• Did absolutely nothing cleaning or organizing wise around my house except for a quick pickup, someone else even cooked. Some days it happens.
• Missed going outside because we have rain and sleet although we are supposed to be back to sunny and fifty and then sixty for the next week and a half (with sixties and seventies in Texas so I am not feeling to terribly bad about my not being there)
• Had a combination dinner which came out well:  Two days ago I made swiss steak with beef, carrots and potatoes. We ate much of the meat out, leaving gravy and extra veg with a little meat. Last night we had boneless ribs so today dear sister put the rib meat in with the beef and gravy-which was perfect.

Son is off all weekend and has requested my help in the keep vs throw decision of clothing that no longer fits or has other issues. I'll have a mini fashion show as each shirt nd so on gets tried on I suppose. I also made some earrings and tomorrow my goal is to learn how to make a nice loop on top. We will see how it all goes.

Thank you to everyone who has been stopping by, commenting or not. I appreciate it!

I made some mistakes, the arms of the rolling walker are exactly where mine need to move. But once finished I wll put pearls o the tail and hang it on the wall.