Frigid weather

 I won't bore you with a weather report, but I will say that it is COLD and snowy here and I can only hope that Wednesday (the 17th) I will be able to get to the ortho clinic.  I am hoping the doctor will clear me to begin weight bearing on my right leg.

I got a slew of packages in the mail, including 2 shirts, an electric heating pad, a pillow, and a double sized tupperware storz-alot.  It is a wonder the mailman was able to fit it all in the mailbox.  The shirts were the only thing I worried about size, but they seem to be OK, given that I can only try them on while sitting down.  The shirts are pretty plaids, and although they are from eBay they are brand new, still with tags and folded into plastic bags.  I guess they will be fine once I can stand and check the fit out.  I am waiting for a TENS unit to arrive, the one the therapist used on my shoulder worked very well at diminishing my shoulder pain for several hours.

I also got a monthly package from IPSY (makeup) despite being cancelled.  Hopefully this will be the last.  I have enough makeup to sink the good ship lollypop.

I got a phone call from St.Labre Indian School and set up a donation for $25 a month for them.  It is a lot less effort than sending a check several times a year.  I have noticed lots of pleas on the TV for abused pets, homeless children, children who need surgery, St. Jude Research Hospital, military veterans,  ($19 a month for each of them), and the like but I cannot donate to all of them, and so I am limiting my donations to St. Labre.  You don't need to go overseas to find needy  children, we have them here, and it is unconscionable that the need for donated funds is for native people living in deplorable conditions.

I am waiting for R to come, there is a small gift from Christmas and a piece of mail for her.  I accidentally ordered two necklaces with her name on them, and the second one just arrived.  I like it better than the one she was given on Christmas day, but that is just my opinion.  Needless to say, there are no returns on personalized items.  

That is it for now, hope all of you had a good holiday break, and I will see you again soon.

Cross stitch sloughing off

 I want to get back to doing cross stitch, but the stitches on these projects are never going to get done if I can't buckle down.  I need to get into the arm chair, but it is heaped full with blankets, sheets, and miscellanies and needs to be cleared so I can get back out as well as in.  Another big task to tackle before I can relax.  I looked at the other patterns (probably) and concluded they would take me around 10 years to finish.  Still, the three I have going now and no other ones additional would take me around 6 y to finish.  This is what my report cards in the early years said, that I tend to start things and fail to finish them?  Who me?

I wonder about my sister, her report cards were uniformly F, but they passed her on.  Was she listed as "retarded" (now they don't use that term, it is "special needs" or some other euphemism).  I wonder if Mom knew she was a slow learner before she started school?  There were 4 years between she and I, did she worry that I would be like her?  I was straight As, but Mom never let me see my sister's report card.  She died when she was 58 from a fall, and she couldn't read or write, but I couldn't believe that she couldn't keep a checkbook.  She seemed to think if she had checks then she had money.  I tried to keep her check register up to date, but it was impossible.  I wish I had questioned Mom, but she passed before my sister.

Anyway...

 My new glasses came today, and are quite nice.  The only adjustment they need is to the nose pads which pinch my nose.  Guess I will need to go to Spectrum Optical, and pay for the adjustment.  I can see very well with them.  They are a little heavier than the ones I used before, but sit higher on my face and so will be less foggy when I wear them in the cold-to-hot.  The tech at GlassesShop called me ahead of fabrication to verify the script, since I have a big difference with left-to-right lenses.  I think they are better than the ones I had been using.  Back in the day (age 12 to age 22) I wore contacts, first hard ones and then soft toric ones, but after that I couldn't tolerate them, although I really tried.  It was probably a reaction to contact with chemicals when I worked in the stock room at the university, I really don't know.  I will post a photo of me in the new ones.

Could have done with some makeup...

I will need to get these adjusted since they pinch my nose.  I will pay for this tweaking since I didn't buy them at the shop, but the vision seems fine.

It took C to upload this photo...

That is the end of this post, the other photos will have to wait till I can figure out how C did this.

Tupperware

I looked everywhere I could think of for the two "Storz a Lot" tupperware containers I know I have - somewhere - and in the end I bought two more on eBay.  I want them for 1. a cookie container and 2. a makeup container that I can see through.  Now I am sure the original ones will appear, but that is OK since I have more than enough makeup to sort.  The prices on eBay are too much, I guess the items are discontinued and thus have a limited supply.  

The daptomycin infusions are all done, and my PIC line has been removed, which is a relief.  On the 17th I will see the surgeon who will hopefully give me the go ahead to begin bearing weight on my right leg.  I do, however, want to be not too certain, the alternative is another month with no weight on it.  I will try not to cry if that is the decision.  The home health nurse came today, I am already bored with the exercises, which she wants me to do three times a day, as if.

I have written in my journal today, the first time in 6 months.  I will never finish the journal at this rate, it is not even half full now.  It is number 3, and the thickest one, and I have 4 empty journals which are smaller waiting for number 4.  I don't have any plans to do with them, probably the kids will pitch them after I am gone, and I don't care.

I have two Nikon cameras, the small ones S3300 and S4200 and I want to carry one in my purse.  They both have dead batteries, and I spent way too long hunting for the charger for them, although C found it in the camera bag that I don't use.  I HATE looking for stuff, I would just buy another if I could.  And since I am confined to this bedroom (can't do stairs) there is a limit as to where things could be.  We recently needed a sympathy card and I know several ones are certainly in with the greeting cards.  Finally I found one in the very bottom of the stack, but if I need another I will have to buy one.  I need to sort the box out but lack the desire to do such a large undertaking.  As it is, I need more sympathy cards than birthday cards...

I am slowly cleaning my stock of earrings, although I can't switch out the one from the piercing for another 2 weeks.  I am removing the ones that I don't like (like the great big pearl ones), and the juvenile ones (like a pair of panda bears).  I am not supposed to wear wire earrings for 6 months so the holes won't shrink up.  I don't remember all these precautions from the second set of piercings I had done, but that is OK for now, my "old" piercings got to where the front holes and the back holes didn't line up, so frustrating.  The first pair I ordered from Kay Jewelry came yesterday and I really like them; they are diamond cut gold stars and really sparkle.  They are small, which I prefer.  4 more pairs to go, just wish I got them more cheaply.  I am getting "free earrings for a year" from Claire's (where I got the piercing done), but they cater to youngsters and earrings are divided between kiddie ones (an example is fuzzy ducks) and "diamond" ones, so I don't anticipate getting any free ones. Birth stone studs are my preference.

That is the latest tidbits for now, not too thrilling and interesting I am afraid.  It is hard to come up with topics when I am confined to this one room and visits to the doctor's.  Anyway, thanks for reading this far, and I will catch up more next time.  Bye!