The severe cold weather and ice we had are now over. 
Even safely warm at work, I was stressing over my house, but when I got home on Monday afternoon, all was well. The house was just fine, I was safely off the roads, a martini was shortly going to be in hand, and I burst into tears after setting my things down and locking the door, grateful to be home - the very best place to be.
I spent a whole day putseying around my house and sleeping well. Then on Wednesday I shoveled the sheets of snowy ice off my walkway and managed to get to coffee with a friend, groceries bought, bins to curb. Does it say I am an old lady to need a whole day to recover from the weekend? It wasn't even overly busy! I think it was a delayed stress reaction.
I'm looking forward to sitting on my couch and reading, under this soft blanket made for me by The Girl. Where did she get her mad crochet skillz? Turns out, You Tube. It sure has come in handy.
I joined another book club at a local library branch and I think it will be perfect for me. The list of books is published in advance so you have time to find and read them. I am a fan of holding an actual book, so I ordered mine used (through Amazon) and stacked them in order right where I will be reading. The first one is The Mender by Jennifer Marchman. We will get to meet the author, too!
Last week, when I was moving pictures around, I ordered myself this chrysanthemum poster print for the collage wall in the office. I can't wait to hang it! Mostly I have been very good about not using on-line shopping for therapy. But I did earn some overtime and I have been wanting a print like this for months. The chrysanthemum represents optimism and that motif is the largest element in my tattoo that says "expect the best".
I haven't been publishing menus because I am cooking either mostly the same things, or just eating out or doing very simple things like this egg and sausage skillet with roasted Mediterranean veggies. I am back to learning how to feed just me. One night this week I did a big pot of soup using the leftover turkey broth and meat from Thanksgiving, the rest of above mentioned veggies, and a can of white beans. Nothing exciting, just getting myself fed.
I am still plugging along on the photo album project. All the pages were removed from the albums, then all of the photos removed from the pages, next I will further purge the photos, put all of them in chrono order adding in photos from separate Christmas albums (WHY did we do that), then put them back into new albums (maybe trimming some of them up), then scanning them, then adding them onto flash drives for my peeps. This will take me weeks, 'cause I can only work on it an hour or so at a time. It is unbelievably hard to trip down memory lane like this.
For stress reduction and meditative time, I have been practicing my cursive handwriting which I had abandoned as a teenager. Its like starting from scratch! Writing my whole name, correctly, is very tricky. For years I have been writing a big lowercase G for my first name. Its fun to practice your fine motor skills with fancier handwriting. I think I may like to learn calligraphy some day, who knows. For now, this is a low cost pastime of putting pencil to paper while I listen to music, and doesn't make me cry like the photo project!
Happy almost end of January,
Gina
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