A blog about my life, my fiber arts and pictures of my finished work. I will also throw in the very occasional recipe or shopping tip.
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Stress Management
So I have been turning the house upside down. Digging into the back of closets. Trying to be realistic with my cleaning. I am never going to get back into my pre kids clothing, so to Goodwill the clothing went. The Tupperware that was being stored in the garage went to a friends daughter. I have been dropping of delivery’s to Goodwill at least once a week. If a magazine is a few weeks old it will go to Eric’s day program for the young adults. Today’s results are 3 empty boxes of paper that at one point I had no time to look through. I filled the recycling bin to the top this week.
I have also been doing a lot of walking. My daily goal is 8,080 steps a day. Most days I leave that number in the dust. It seems to be helpful. The only hiccup has been my Knitter’s elbow. Right now it is one week without knitting, my elbow is better but not good enough to start knitting again.
I hope that it is better soon as I have a hard time finding the right time to warp the loom.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
More Deep Cleaning
The best part of this is that I have freed up enough hangers so I will not have to ask the sales clerks for hangers for quite a while. I wonder if I will be able to part with more before my next Goodwill run?
Monday, June 24, 2019
Extreme Zenning
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Crazy Busy
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
More Spring Cleaning
The craft room is now clean , dusted and vacuumed. Although at times like this I am jealous of the author Stephen King, because he has a dedicated work space and can close the door when company comes over.
I found something interesting about my new Fitbit Inspire HR model. When I am cleaning and madly dashing around the house it thinks that I am running. I did not know that I walked that fast. It also did something totally unexpected. It buzzed me and told me to take a rest. I took this to mean that my Fitbit wanted me to knit. Why it just did not say it’s time to knit, oh well. I also found that the larger band fit my wrist better. I do have to admit that about 10,000 of the 12,000 steps taken today were with out leaving the house. I did manage to get out for a walk around the block after dinner.
It’s time to call it a night.
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Busier Than Usual
So today was spent spring cleaning. Guess what I found out today? John loves getting rind of bags of junk and will even carry it to the recycle bin. John also volunteered to drive to Goodwill when I fill up my boxes. I also managed a 2 1/2 hour nap. Did some spot decluttering in Eric’s room. I just have 3 major areas to finish tomorrow. As long as I sleep tonight that should be possible.
I also finished a visit from my older sister today. Maybe a little less very rich food will help me feel better. Some how with my family it’s always over sized meals and not enough walking.
At this point it’s hard to call it an early night. But if Eric let’s me I get to sleep in tomorrow.
Monday, May 13, 2019
Zenning and gifting
I got the benefit of 3/4 of an empty shelf in my craft room and more room in the garage. The guys seem very happy too. I got all this done despite my flare up and sleeping for 3 hours after dropping Eric and staff appreciation treats dropped off. My gifts from Mothers Day. Well it is time to call it a night.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
What It’s Not Sunday?
I finished another hat and cast the next one on. I am on the final rows of 2 of 3 A Shawl Study pattern. Sadly this one is more fussy and will require blocking. Hopefully it will be done tomorrow.
Well tomorrow is going to be just as busy so it is time to call it a day.
Monday, March 4, 2019
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Life Does Not Always Bring Joy. Get Over It
Things like laundry don’t bring me joy, but it must be done on an almost daily basis. I don’t mind the car rides with Eric, but the traffic drives me nuts, but the almost daily commute must be done. I hate the noise of the percussion machine, but it must be done twice daily. I hate People who don’t pay attention to the road when they are on their cell phone, this does not bring me joy. Yet, I fear that they are here to stay. The list goes on. All life is not meant to bring joy. Some days you just have to slog through it.
I think it’s time for this cranky and over tired mom to call it a night.
Monday, January 28, 2019
Zenning
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Zenning and More
Friday, November 16, 2018
Still Zenning
I threw a party for Eric today at his day program. We went through almost an entire 1/2 sheet cake from Nadine's. Instead of gifts for the young man who has everything he needs we are asking for donations to the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona or a food bank closer to your home,in Eric's name. Just let me know if you made a donation, I don't need to know how much, so that I can let Eric know and thank you.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
11,482
Now if I could only have the G.E. 1960’s self cleaning house of the future. I could use more yarn up faster. Just imagine if the laundry washed, dried and folded itself. If the dishes washed themselves and magically made their way to the cabinets. Self mopping floors and self vacuuming carpets. On second thought just give me Rosie from the Jettison’s. Then I could spend my days playing with yarn.
I just have a few more chores to do before bed so I will cut this short.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
More Zenning
After being up most of the night with Eric and a broken kangaroo Joey pump, I had no energy for anything but getting Eric's pump replaced after the cleaning spree. On the other hand Eric was feeling better and wanted some quality mommy time. So needless to say I am really exhausted at this point in time. I hope that everyone sleeps tonight.
This out of sync post is why I should not blog when exhausted.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Surprise!!!!
Today Eric has me up at 5:30am. What else was there to do but clean the craft room. So I finished winding so yarn and the went on to try to organize some craft bags. I put all the weaving projects together in on bag. Then it was time to organize the UFO’s of knitting projects. I found a lot of lace and sock weight yarn projects which were put in to a project bag together. I also found 2 more hats in progress, in separate knitting bags, which explains the shortage of 16 inch circular knitting needles earlier this year. The yarn has the equivalent of at least 5 more hats. So instead of sixty hats it looks like it’s going to be more like seventy hats or 6 dozen hats with the yarn currently in my hat knitting bags.
I really think that I need to trim that down to just one bag with hat knitting supplies instead of 3. In some cases I think 1 is better than 3. So the Zenning of the craft room continues.
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Random Acts of Cleaning
What lead to this, is that I am leaving the guys home to go to a fiber retreat this weekend. I will be at Sheep Thrills in Prescott Arizona. Hopefully doing a lot of knitting,Spinning and relaxing.
Monday, July 23, 2018
45
Zenning went well today, I managed to get 5 bags of recycling and 2 bags of trash out of the house. I have also divided books to go to some of my knitting friends which should leave the house this week.
Physical therapy left my foot stiff and sore. Hopefully I will be done with this soon. Although there is one exercise that I can not figure out and neither can the therapist. Three different therapists have said this one exercise is done differently. Oh well.
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Day Fail?
Although I did manage 15 minuets of Zenning and a little house cleaning. I am heading to bed early.
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Zenning for Health?
I did what I call circular cleaning today. I zip all over the house. As I find something that goes to another room, I head there to put it away. Then I find something in that room to put away sometimes I stay in one place for a while, sometimes not. The end result is a lot of things are now in new homes or recycled.
I did find time to knit, spin, wash some newly spun skeins of yarn and laundry too. I skipped Eric’s planed haircut today. By the time he was ready it was raining. I decided a haircut was not worth dealing with the rain and chair in the rain. So I opted to reschedule it. There is always tomorrow.