When I got home from church at noon I had a sandwich and then I took a nap for the rest of the afternoon. Tonight I got home from church a couple minutes before eight and again I am so sleepy that I am going to go to bed by nine o’clock. I don’t know why I am so sleepy but am not going to fight it and just give up and go to bed.
I do not have enough things to do to keep me busy for the next twenty years so I went out and bought three bookcases that I now have to put together. Wonder what I could do for Brian in exchange for him putting the bookcases together for me? I bought one a couple of weeks ago and had to wait until I had more money so that I could buy two more. Last night when I was at Wal-Mart there was only one on the shelf but when I went today they had two so I bought both before someone else did. The nice thing is that all three were on sale. The salesman told me they would get more but they would probably be back at the regular price. Hopefully three will take care of the items that I plan to put on them here in my studio.
I woke up to rain, ran errands in the rain, went out to dinner in the rain, and it is still raining. About five this afternoon I called Ashley and asked if she and the boys would like to go out for dinner. She was already in Ruston so I met her at Fox’s Pizza. Bryce was at Karate so it was just Ashley and Brody. Today was Brody’s first birthday and Ashley was going to have a party for him with his little friends from the nursery at church but she decided against doing that. There was a conflict with Buster’s and Bryce’s karate schedules. Of course Brody was not concerned in the least. He is such a happy little guy and was smiling at everyone who passed our table at the restaurant.
Here it is almost the end of the week and again I have not gotten everything done that I wanted to do. I think I may just stop planning to do anything and then I will just do whatever needs doing at the time. Would probably work better than making plans that seldom work out anyway.
I am trying to get my studio arranged in the best way to take advantage of the room and that requires a lot of pushing, pulling, and picking up which is not great on the back. If I decide to move my computer then I will ask Brian to move the computer and desk. He is a big strong guy and he can do it with no problem. Oh I can move it but would probably have a backache for a week or more.
I have bamboo roll up shades on the eight windows but since I now have all my fabric in opaque containers, I am seriously thinking of taking the shades down and putting up curtains to cover just the bottom half of the window. Since there are no houses facing the windows, I would be happy with no window coverings at all; however, at night I don’t like looking up and seeing eight large areas of black that reflect everything in the room. Several times I have thought of making eight different very large quilt blocks and using those as half curtains. Another idea I had for curtains was to use different, special fabrics to make curtains. These fabrics are ones that I have bought just because they were beautiful fabrics and I wanted a piece. Or a third idea is that I could make patchwork using all the Paisley fabrics that I have collected over the years. Sad to say, but probably will never get any of them made. But then you never know.
I got up this morning with the intention of doing one thing but then I started doing something else. I had planned to sew but I got busy sorting, packing, and moving some things in my studio and by the time I was finished it was time to get ready for church. It is a great feeling to know that the job is done.
When I got home from church I clicked on a YouTube but all I got was a message saying that I either had turned off Java Script or had an outdated version of Adobe Flash Player. I downloaded the latest version and still I could not get the video to play. I told Brian what was happening and bless his heart he sat down and in about thirty minutes he had everything working just fine. Certainly is great to have a computer guru living here.
I had my alarm set for eight thirty and when it went off this morning I hit the snooze button. A little later I woke up, turned over, looked at the clock, and it was thirteen minutes after nine and Bible study was starting at nine thirty. You would not believe how quickly I jumped out of bed, brushed my teeth, and then jumped in the shower. Fortunately I always lay my clothes out the night before so I just had to put them on. I skipped washing my hair, putting on any makeup, and putting on my ankle brace which saved me a couple of minutes and I got to church only two minutes late. I provided a good laugh for all the ladies when I told them what had happened. When I hit the snooze button I must have also hit the alarm button. If not then the snooze button no longer works. What is funny is that a similar thing happened this past Sunday morning. I hit the snooze button one time too many and when it went off the last time I only had thirty-five minutes to get ready and get to church but that morning I made it on time.
I hate to admit this but I finally got my Christmas tree down today. I very seriously thought of just covering it and leaving it up for next year since it was in the corner of my studio and not in the way of anything. But my better judgment won out. I now understand why my mother-in-law stopped putting up a big tree when the grandkids stopped believing in Santa. I still love Christmas but just don’t have the desire and energy to do all the decorating that I did when Don was alive and the boys were still at home. I have been thinking of ways that I could display the really special ornaments year round and just have a tree with lights when December rolls around. To me it seems somewhat of a shame to have beautiful things and only get to see them once a year.
Today when I got home from church I read a few emails and then decided to treat myself to lunch. Not a novel idea since I go out for lunch nearly every Sunday after church. I was hungry for fried chicken so I had lunch at Cane’s. After lunch I went to the library and the first thing I did was the reading for the challenge to read the Bible in 90-days. Then I started reading the novel that I had started last night. I did not realize how long I had been reading until one of the librarians announced that the library would be closing in thirty minutes. I kept reading until the fifteen-minute warning and at that time I only had about fifteen pages left to read.
As I left the library, I was having a chocolate craving so I stopped at Sonic and bought a large chocolate milk shake. It was so thick that it lasted almost all the way home and oh was it good and just what my craving needed. When I got back home I had a few minutes before I needed to get ready for church so I sat here and finished the book.
When I got home from church tonight, I started reading the second book in the series and it is now about one fourth finished. I think it is safe to say that I am addicted to reading.
My back has finally stopped hurting. I am going to be very careful when I move any more boxes of fabric for I do not want to go through that pain again.
About seven tonight I decided that I was going to do some quilting. I now have two fronts and two backs quilted. I am not going to stay up to put them together tonight for it is already ten thirty and I want to be in bed by eleven for I do not want to be sleepy tomorrow at church.
Since I do not work outside the home, the weekends are not as important to me as they were when I worked or had a husband and two sons at home. I could hardly wait for Friday afternoon when I worked and then after I married I looked forward to the weekend for Don would be off work for two days and the boys would be out of school. Those busy days are way in the past and now each day of the week is just like the next. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and it takes me a minute to determine which day of the week it is. Now that is really pathetic.
My back is still hurting today so spent the afternoon doing my Bible study for Tuesday, the Sunday school and Discipleship Training lessons for Sunday and the Bible reading for the “Read the Bible in 90 days challenge.” When all that reading was done then I just sat and read a novel or worked on the computer. I am going to bed very early and hope that the warm electric blanket will help my back.