Daily Check In Thread For All... #139

I'm still here. Pushing through. Got some encouragement from the garden. The daffodils, crocus, hyacinths are all pushing foliage up through the frozen ground. The wild ajuga is blossoming already! Tiny purple flowers, close to the stem, poking out from the new light green foliage. Leaf buds on the rosebush and the lilac. All these hold the promise of the warmth to come.

I started painting the kitchen. It will be slow going. Very awkward trying to get behind the stove, etc. I am determined. Of course, working around the cats is challenging. I can just imagine little white semi gloss paw prints decorating the counter! I plan on replacing the tiles anyway, just so you know!

New mobile food pantry came today for their first time here. This group brought juice and produce! Very encouraging. They will be back in 2 weeks and said they will be bringing chicken and other meats. Yay!

me pushing too. somewhat. bugger.

thx mate. thx to you all. bed time soon.

Good frigid Sunday morning from Pennsylvania

One more day expected with this cold weather. It was hard just going out to feed the birds... I hope all the wild critters survive.

Husband is napping....jaw is still hurting...

MUST get going on project I keep putting off...bookkeeping.
I've not been 'in charge' of the finances for half a century, but now my responsibility. Hope 'stuff' isn't too overdue.

What's going on today with the rest of you folks?

~ Joyce

Hello all. Hope Valentine's Day was good to all of you.

I got more organizational stuff to go with the new shelves in the kitchen! Baskets that attach to the shelving unit itself (finally a place for the store ads) and bins to hold what used to be in the microwave cart drawer. One of my magazines said to ditch owners manuals as everything can be found online now, so I did just that! Filled a grocery bag full of them! Yay!

Harbor Freight has a tool set I'd like that has a 4 drawer chest to hold it all. Plan to get that tomorrow. Then, I can throw out all of the ones that the cat pee'd on! Double Yay!

Frigid, single digits here. Thank goodness for my snow suit!

Hello all,

Quick post. I am doing good. I have been doing a lot of soul searching, I have been going through a ton of emotions. I am super tired and just down. So I am just letting y'all in on what's been going on. I will be back when I can.

Yay Jamie, Good job!!!

Hugs, Karen...

Don't let your ex get to you Andy. That is probably causing a bit of anxiety. Try not to think about it.

I hope your day goes fine at work.

Hugs, Karen...

Good morning to all!!!

Sorry about the computer issues today. I hope you can get it back the way that it was.

Glad you painted. It is always such a good feeling to accomplish something.

I got out today which is awesome....

Cloudy but not too cold. Yay!!!

Hugs to all...

Where is Joyce? I don't remember her posting today...

Karen...

morning Jamie,

Good day to all.

Hugs, Karen...

You're very observant, Karen....Yes, I was 'absentia' yesterday, not a good day for me.

John had multiple CT scans scheduled ... I couldn't get the van started. Walked (limped) a long distance to our back up car at the business during heavy rain..and couldn't get that one started either.

Panic time...

Finally success and had the test (after I fell on the ice and hurt my hip.) He was supposed to drink a lot of water to get chemicals out of his system...but dropped it. Clean up of glass particles required.


Hope today is more pleasant. Taking him for blood test this morning (if the van starts)

~ Joyce

Glad you got out for a bit yesterday Karen, makes me feel silly for being so bothered by my health problems, I can at least get out and about now, I remember when I was housebound a couple of months ago and it was very hard, just standing and walking around the flat caused me unbearable nausea. I always forget I've come a long way since then, nausea is much better now but comes and goes, plenty of pain problems now though, and my mental state is better but still not good at all. But for those with chronic fatigue I can only imagine how difficult it is day to day.

My chest pain is still getting worse today, seeing Dr this afternoon and am hoping to try starting Gabapentin to ease the pain and address the anxiety it causes me.

Maybe it's partly related to all the upset I've been through in the last few days too, I broke up with my gf 5 months ago but it's only really recently it's been hitting me. It hurts a lot to think I won't see her again, but every time we meet up it is just so upsetting. So we're just cutting it off as best we can, we both want to stay friends but it just isn't working. Too much hurt.