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them so very much so here we are in january my christmas things are coming down this weekend our car is in the shop and we are waiting to find out why it won t start please don t let it be the fuel pump things are back to normal back to where i started the women whose videos show them moving through their busy days keeping house and wrangling children and in one case baking all their bread and cooking from scratch and keeping the house clean and neat make me feel inadequate it shouldn t because i know that they are showing carefully curated views of their lives and who knows what things look like every day my house is not always a mess i try hard to keep it straightened because it makes me feel calm and at peace in short i do the best i can and i have to learn to let myself off the hook for not being a perfect housekeeper i was raised by a mother who had very firm ideas of how things should be done and how women should look 5 pounds lost would make a big difference you know nothing was ever good enough letting go of that not good enough feeling is hard but i am finally getting there we are clean enough to be healthy and neat enough to make us comfortable and if we want to spend the weekend in pajamas watching movies then we do that life is too short to be worried about the dust on the shelves we got our first snow in years it was not much but it was so beautiful to watch now it s just cold really cold i am grateful for the heater we had installed a short time ago i am getting things together to start a craft group at work not focusing on arts and crafts but on the good feelings you get when you immerse yourself in a favorite activity i m hopeful but i ve tried to have groups before and people feel like they need to justify the time they are taking from work and they don t always feel ok about that i want the managers to give their workers the green light to take part in some group activities cross your fingers now it s time for lunch i m going to eat and then knit for a bit and maybe watch some of jimmy carter s funeral what a good man at january 09 2025 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 29 2024 well hello friend it s almost hallowe en and i am looking forward to it this year we have a new addition to our family well actually two new additions we have the octopus and tentacles and we have a skeleton who keeps the dragon in line we decorated our front window with witches and bats and ghosts and skeleton lights in a week when the holiday is gone we ll take all of the specifically hallowe en decorations down and leave the leaves and plain pumpkins up until after thanksgiving we ll go and get our tree the day after thanksgiving and then have our family over for dinner chinese not turkey my girls cook and eat with their inlaws if i want us to be together we ll have to do it the day after i don t shop on black friday except for our tree i like cooking dinner on thanksgiving nothing fancy just the same foods lovingly prepared i once suggested a change in the menu and you d have thought i d suggested we run naked around the block fortunately if i use the oven on convection the turkey will cook in a few hours and i can watch the parades i love to see marching bands i was a majorette in high school i can still twirl somewhat and i wait for them i voted a few weeks ago and now feel perfectly justified turning off the speeches and newscasters interpreting polls i don t remember feeling as apprehensive for an election the last time trump ran i was sure he would lose it goes to show why i am not an election interpreter now that i know it can happen my anxiety goes up often i have been working on a scrap blanket i m crocheting little granny squares with left over sock yarns it s much better than any of the other attempts to use up bits and bobs of yarn it s a satisfying thing to work on each little square is with a different yarn and the rows pile up slowly we went last weekend to johnson s farm for hay rides corn mazes and pumpkin picking we had a good time we got there early and beat most of the crowds this coming weekend we re planning to take a picnic lunch to allaire state part and ride the pine creek rr they also have a flea market and i just found out james will be here with us so it will be extra fun tomorrow is my regular work from home day i love it this week i can work from home on wed and thurs since my group is having a party and i don t have to be there i can sleep almost an extra hour and not have to travel i do my laundry on wed since i am home and working anyway i ll also order our groceries for thursday so we won t have to do the putting away over the weekend i will be having a long weekend because i took off monday for my 67th birthday this year i am giving myself the gift of a day off i feel like i could use it well time to sign off so i can hold the hand of the love of my life he says he falls asleep better and who am i to argue i hope you are all doing well and are having a peaceful autumn see you soon at october 29 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 9 2024 good morning welcome to my wednesday i like wednesdays because i get to work from home i can have any distraction i want need running in the background and still get my work done i started this blog or re started it to be more accurate with the intention of writing at least once a week one month in and i ve already fallen off the schedule no i haven t been super busy just normal busy i think i am out of the habit of writing and need to get back to it i enjoy writing and sharing bits of my normal life there s a vlogger i follow who shows the messy sides of life because as she says i ve got nothing to lose and people need to be reminded that life is not perfectly organized shelves and spotless kitchens hmm i d settle for organized in that vein it s the time of year when i start to declutter cosets and drawers for the change in seasons i try to do this twice a year last week i straightened out and cleaned my drawers and cabinets in the kitchen it took about half a day but i am happy with it next week end i will be switching out our summer clothes for the winter ones i use that chore to clean out my drawers and closet and give away things that i do not wear i have a hard time letting things go my brain says but what if we want to wear that after we give it away i ve been watching a few youtube videos about how we don t need to feel bad if we don t have all of the things that people show on the internet i think the important thing is to figure out what makes you happy and feel content and go for those things i have a lot of bits and bobs of sock yarn in a container i saw this small granny square scrap blanket and thought i d give it a try mine looks wonky i don t crochet often and i m not sure blocking will smooth this out i think i ll put it aside and try a different hook size and maybe crochet a bit looser i like this method because you join the squares as you go along no sewing up it s a bit fiddly and i think i need to practice a bit more to make it smoother i voted last week and am now giving myself permission not to pay attention to any more political ads interviews debates news articles it has become mentally exhausting the choice seems so clear and obvious to me one more month to go speaking of time 12 weeks from today is january 1 2025 there are only 12 weeks left in this year this year like every year before it has gone very fast you d think we d be used to it by now but no we are not there goes my dryer signal time to move the clothes along have a happy peaceful and fulfilling week at october 09 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday september 15 2024 good morning happy sunday i hope your day is going well it s the last week of summer here and the weather is up and down and all over we haven t had much rain lately and our garden was almost a complete bust we got a small handful of cherry tomatoes that were delicious but pk planted so much more it all went to the local deer and rabbits next year we will try an electric fence it s a last resort a little while ago we went to the frankine institute s show the art of the brick legos legos and more legos this is one of my favorites it could be modeled on my husband and i we are oldish and not in the best shapes of our lives but are still upright and sucking wind one of pk s favorite sayings we still like to hold hands when we walk and we definitely have the rolls the show was amazing what you can do with plastic bricks this is one of my favorites it is called decisions and is made with 112 363 individual bricks i think a better name might be hope the hands rising from below to touch the forms suspended above i can t imagine how much time it must have taken i have a fondness for audio books most books that i read i download and listen to chirp is a good service if you want an audio book and don t want to join a subscription service or pay a lot of money chirp has a daily email listing some bargains for the day they are usually older books or an author s lesser known selections i have quite a collection at the moment i am listening to here one moment by liane moriarty i love her stories big little lies is one of my favorites when i find an author i like i look for their back list most of the time i am rewarded with new stories that i am already inclined to like that s how i read all of steven king s books one after another i enjoy some more that others but am always entertained one of the things i like best about audiobooks is that i am a visual learner when i hear a story i remember most of the story or some bits of it but often forget a lot of the details i can listen to them repeatedly and not be bored i mostly listen to fiction but a few non fiction books have caught my interest one is women in clothes by sheila heti et al it is a fascinating look at why people have favorite clothes and how we learn about fashion this was an interesting week i had a routine dr appt and got my flu shot i have to get one for work it knocked me off my feet i always have a strong reaction to vaccines last year i got a covid shot along with my flu shot and was a mess for a few days my oldest daughter will be 41 this week i know i am not old enough to be her mom we are going to green dragon farmer s market it s supposed to be the number 2 farmer s market in the us and only opened on fridays i love a good farmers market this one is in ephrata pa which is the heart of amish country so i know the baked goods and meats will be exceptional it meant taking a day off of work but i think will be well worth it i ll let you know i hope you have a good satisfying week see you next week at september 15 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday september 7 2024 what you think on grows again hello how are you this is me i am donna lee i am many things a soon to be 67 year old woman a wife of 43 years a mother of 3 and a grandmother of one i know i know i take terrible selfies i haven t written or posted a blog post in a few years i think the pandemic made me shy away from social media weird yea i know it drove or beckoned so many folks to take part and join the online community i have a new appreciation for those people and the work they put into their channels websites and all their reels i still enjoy the slice of life posts where someone brings us along for their day i like seeing how other people live and what they think and what they believe is important me to me the most important thing is being my honest self i don t edit photos or pretend to be someone i am not i am too old for that stuff i don t mind turning 67 at all my body may mind some days more than others but mentally and emotionally it s cool i like the person i am now better than the person i was back in my 20 s i am kinder and less judgemental i can more easily appreciate someone else s goodness or good fortune and not always wish it were mine i have been married since 1981 to my high school sweetheart and love of my life we seem to still enjoy each other s company and oddly finish each other s sentences or say the same thing at the same time and like doing some of the same things only some we each have hobbies and interests that are separate he likes woodworking and gardening he is retired because he s a contractor and his contract was not renewed in 2020 and it was easier to retire than to continually send out resumes into the wind and not hear anything back ageism is real i am still working i work as a social worker in behavioral health this involves working with psychiatrists to provide community mental health services in philadelphia i have been doing the same job for 30 years i look forward to retiring but have a few projects around the house that need to be taken care of i like to knit spin sew read cook talk and watch sci fi and horror movies godzilla minus one was so good watching really bad movies is something my husband and i share we ve seen some doozies recently the shark exorcist comes to mind i have been reading an interesting book craft psychology by dr anne kirketerp it was just published in english it is an interesting look at how craft any kind of handicraft can help calm a frazzled brain help people become more relaxed and refreshed her theory is that if you sit and do nothing all day you are tired and restless at the end of the day not refreshed because your brain goes to the what if place and it is usually not a positive place to spend the day if you engage in a craft that is challenging enough to require your attention but not so hard that you are sweating the details your brain goes into a state she calls flow and that is what helps your whole being feel refreshed and renewed she has the data to back up her theories and it makes for interesting reading i don t think it s earth shattering it s an idea that i have had for a long time the peace that my mind feels when i sit at my spinning wheel and find my rhythmn is real and not duplicated by anything else in my life i have been crafting my whole life i don t know what people who don t have hobbies do with themselves we used to have a wellness fair at work and i would always get the table devoted to leisure time activities i think a lot of the people who attended the fair didn t necessarily think of my leisure activities as pertaining to health but they all took one of the small craft kits i put together for knitters sewists or crocheters i have taught many of my clients over the years how to knit or crochet and several kept up with it in a few weeks i have a woman coming in for her appt with the dr and afterwards we are going to have lunch and i will teach her to knit i will get a beautiful skein of red yarn and some comfortable needles and show her how 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