SUNDAY SHIVERS

ONCE AGAIN MY COMPUTER BLEW AWAY MY POST WHEN PUBLISHING.  Using Hubby's computer today.  When it happened, I simply closed the laptop and walked away thinking I'll sleep on it and try again in the morning.  No tempers flared this time.

I'll need to copy all my photos and pics before taking the sick thing to the docs incase the pics are lost as repairs take place.  Good idea.

Hello to you out there in bogland.  Is it cold where you live?  8 degrees here in the Flint Hills.  Feels like -7.  The high today will be 12.  We are chilled to the bone and I guess I can embrace it as I stay indoors working on the laundry.

Even nature needs a rest.  SPRING FLOWERS will begin to pop through the ground before I know it.  Let it happen soon.  Remembering that we're one day closer to Spring pacifies me some. 

I have to focus on other things to keep my mind busy.

                                                 

Neat idea for old sweaters that have seen better days or you just want to turn loose of.  I think I could do this project as it looks easy.  I haven't sewn in years.  Getting the itch to do it which would bring me great satisfaction.  What an easy way to make MITTENS.

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That WINTER CAMPAIGN of catching up on the laundry continues.  Not very exciting, but it's real.  Maybe by SPRING, I'll be out of the woods and caught up.  grins.  Sounds like a long ways off yet Spring is about 59 days out! 

   https://days.to/until/spring

I'm resting after our mini-vacay to Iowa.  My neck is tired from driving the car.  Slowly I'm unpacking our bags from the trip and figuring what needs done next.  

I placed the miniature Blue Willow China from the ENCHANTED FROG Antique Shoppe we stopped at on the way HOME.

Back in April, we did the same thing and I purchased some miniature Blue Willow from the same vender.  I proudly placed these pieces in my antique china cabinet amongst the china.

The children's china is sweet to look at.  It more than likely was played with by children years ago.

How sweet are the sounds of innocent children playing.  

I can imagine the conversations they had as they served their guest pretend tea and cookies or just shared with themselves.

I bought a casserole with lid and a sugar bowl with lid.

Similar to these.

At a THRIFT STORE IN DES MOINES, I purchased a beautiful coffee table book about dolls.  I don't have a coffee table, but I do have a few dolls.  Great find and price.

When we get the floor to ceiling bookcases made in the Master Bedroom, I'll have a section for my Doll Collection.  I have to be patient, but in some ways I am too old to be patient.  Some things just need to happen quickly.  Amen.  Then SUDDENLY.

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I may try to start some geranium plants from the ones I have.  Watched a video on how to do this so I must give it a try.  If it doesn't take, I'll mark it up to learning.

DAY 19 on the Daniel Diet.  Weighed myself today.  15 pounds off my frame since December 31st.  It's been a very hard thing for me this go round.  I want so badly to eat bread and meat.  Terribly hard for me to say no to myself.  I've managed thus far.

Day 21 is on Tuesday so on Wednesday, I will have my toast and eggs.  Still I must discipline myself and continue to reduce the size of my body.  By my Summer Birthday, I hope to have thinned down as I turn 70.  This year, I will do it.

I am an emotional eater.  I know it now as I was around my Mom and Sister last week and I want to eat more than I should.  BUT WHY?  I watched a video where the lady says to ask yourself why you want to eat.  So I did.  I can tell that my stomach is full, but my emotional status wants something to take pleasure in.  Something to ease any uncomfortable feelings I am having.

I don't like it when I am working at dieting and my Mom says that a little something that isn't on my diet won't hurt me.  I bugged my eyes this time and commented back that it would hurt me.

When we were eating out while shopping, I had a SALAD.  Mom asked if I was going to eat ALL THAT as she sipped on her miniature size bowl of soup?  I said yes.  I held up a lettuce leaf and said that this leaf only has one calorie in it and she replied, I don't think so.  

This isn't encouraging me to eat the way I need to.

Why my Mom wants to sabotage my efforts isn't clear so I must ignore her statements and go on.

Was I encouraged as a child to succeed?  No.

It has been the spirit of the living God in me that helped me aim to succeed.  It's alright to succeed.  I must do what I am suppose to do.  Amen.

I binged watched the television series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL on PBS.  POPCORN was permitted so I ate some and boy was it good.  I may watch it all over again.  Good TV.  

PLANS FOR THE REST OF THE MONTH OF JANUARY.

Finish the laundry.

Thin out clothing from closet that no longer fits or isn't favored.

Start putting Christmas decor away.

Stay focused on what I'm eating.  Dieting.

FEBRUARY PLANS.

Clear out the food pantry and organize it.

Same with storage area under kitchen sink.

Start making copies of pictures of family on photo paper.

Gather up Income Tax papers.

Shop for carpet.

Order new eye glasses.

Dieting continues.

The week is before us.  

Today mustn't be ignored.
~d

FEELS LIKE SATURDAY TO ME!

GLAD IT'S ONLY THURSDAY.  I have stayed in my housecoat ALL DAY working on sorting through financial papers.  Making headway and needed a break.  

I took all the papers that were in one rather large cardboard box and made individual piles for each account such as Banking, checking, savings, retirement, credit cards, etc.  

This morning I began taking a pile at a time and sorting through the pile dating each paper on the upper righthand corner for quick identification of dates then putting the papers in monthly order.  When I finish a pile, I go to the next one.  I am so contented to be making progress.  ahhh.  

I like having my paperwork in order.  This downsizing phase is helping me move forward in LIFE as an older woman.  Once again I will have order.  After our 2016 fire, all the order I physically had was gone.  Total mess.  After 5 and a half years, I have finally been able to dive into the boxes that we had stored in the garage shed.

It's like having a heavy load lifted off my chest.  

My plans are to stay in my housecoat and work all day focused on paperwork getting organized. After these financial piles are done, the medical box full of info about health issues and individual accounts will be dealt with.  I know I have medical papers from as far back as 1987.  It use to be when you visited your doctor, that as you were checking out you were handed a piece of paper showing what you were there for, the diagnosis, tests ran, etc.  Here's your receipt. 

I want to keep these older papers as a LIFE HEALTH JOURNAL.    

No more is this done.  It's now, you owe us this much, no paper, no print out, no nothing. I SUPPOSE I COULD PRINT OUT MY OWN AT HOME to keep on file for future references such as why and when I went to see the doctor, their diagnosis, medicine prescribed, follow up. Might come in very handy.  I know there have been times that my recall of when I had such and such doesn't come to remembrance.  The health portals are very helpful these days for recall if the portal is up and going.  I started printing out my pages.  I know more paper, but it sure is handy having these print outs on hand for quick recall.  

After going through THYROID CANCER, I began to do loads of reading and printing off articles that I wanted to keep on hand.  Each health issue will have a file on it.  

THYROID
DIABETES
OBESITY
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
CHOLESTEROL
NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA
VITAMINS AND MINERALS
DIETS/FOOD PROGRAMS
BLOOD WORK/LABS
ETC.

I may have a medical library after I get done.

YESTERDAY I MADE ANOTHER TRIP TO TOPEKA.  Had a great time getting out.  I returned to OFFICE MAX for a wider binder for my greeting cards.  This morning I transferred my 25th Wedding Anniversary cards into a 1 1/2" thick binder.  This size holds the cards nicely.  I wanted to get a sparkling silver colored binder representing our 25th Wedding Anniversary, but they didn't have this color.  I may have to try the internet for my Wells Fargo Wagon order.  

OFFICE MAX did have a gold sparkly one that would be great for one's 50th Anni. cards.  I bought a ruby colored one for when I come across our 40th Wedding Anniversary cards.  I have them somewhere around here. 

When I glance at the book shelves, I will know in an instant that those are our cards.  Silver binder for 25th anniversary cards, Ruby colored for 40th and gold for 50th.  Instead of having these cards boxed up, they will be in binders sitting on a shelf.  

Each Grandchild will have a binder in either light pink for the girls and light blue for the boys or I will chose a special color per child.  Don't want to make this complicated.  I've already done that and it kept me from being productive.  

Welp, I had better get after more sorting.  I've finished retirement papers, credit union, savings account piles...now for checking accounts and credit cards.  I'm forging ahead and will have another paper shredding day very soon which is actually FUN.  

Did I ever think  P A P E R  would have such importance in my book keeping?   

N E V E R! Here I be going through papers GALORE again.  

Fine tuning is a must.

ALSO went to SAMS as I saw the day before some wonderful interior paint with primer  called Tribute CONTEMPORARY WHITE made by KILZ in eggshell.  It has a blue undertone making it look slightly gray.  

I checked this paint and color out on the internet and liked it thinking it would be a good fit for our COTTAGE and our BUDGET.  The price was exceptional.  We bought enough for the COTTAGE's two bedrooms, living room and dining.  It's a soft white that I believe will be relaxing to be around.  

 

With a gift card from my Oklahoma Family, I ordered a book I had on my WISH LIST.  It arrived yesterday and I am so please with its content.  BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED A GUIDE TO FUNCTION AND STYLE IN YOUR HOME BY NIKKI BOYD.  

I came across Nikki Boyd's youtube channel a few years back and fell in love with her style and ability to organize then when she wrote this book... I wanted it.  I waited.  I FORGOT.  I remembered.  I ordered.  I received!  

The book is chalked full of helpful ideas.  One can watch for FREE her videos which are all informative.  www.athomewithnikki.com 

She has recently relocated so I know there will more than likely be newer videos coming out about her new HOME.  

I like the bright WHITE cabinets and the airiness of this KITCHEN.

Back to it.  I had a nice BREAK now to get after another pile of those  w o n d e r f u l  PAPERS that aren't going anywhere unless I help them along.

AND AWAY I GO,

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Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.