April 7th 2023's Random Ramblings

The weather can't make its mind up.  It doesn't know if it wants to be warm or cold, wet or dry, or somewhere in between.  So it keeps changing.  It almost seems like from one minute to the next, though I know that's not quite accurate.  This is normal for Spring, even the warm weather is in my comfortable temperature range, and we're not seeing any of the terrible storms and severe weather some places are, so I'm making an observation rather than complaining.  Although, my asthma wishes it would quit, since it always takes me some time to adjust to weather changes, and when the weather keeps changing I don't get to finish adjusting to one kind of weather before it changes again and I'm back to square one.  I know I'm not alone in dealing with this right now though.  'Tis the season for allergies and asthma to be aggravated after all.

 

Anyway, we're already a week in to April.  Can you believe that? A quarter of the year has gone already!

 

During the last week in March I had a dentist appointment andKelly had a hospital appointment.  Bothjust for routine checks, and both went smoothly.  Kelly also had to go for a routine blood testthis past Wednesday (and it really is routine for him, since he’s one of thosepeople who they have no trouble taking blood from, so is in and out in fiveminutes; it takes them longer to process his paperwork than to take the blood).

 

I’ve also been pretty busy with Zoom calls, between the onesI go to regularly just because I want to, ones I do jobs on, ones I washosting, and a couple where I stepped in to fill in for someone who was awaysomewhere for a few days.

 

Plus, I went through some fabric, set aside the kinds thatwould work well for me for a project I have planned, and packed up the rest formy Aunt Bev to take, since she’s involved in a charity upcycling project wherethey make use of any spare fabric to make things like special pillows forpeople who have had mastectomies, tearing up what can’t be used for outer layersto make filling.  My Dad told me aboutit, and I thought it would be a good way to reduce the amount of fabric I havelying around.  Especially since some ofthe stuff I was unlikely to want to use, and only had because it came with thestuff Dad gave me with Nan’s old craft stuff.

 

With my energy levels pretty low lately, those things –along with those day to day tasks that always need doing, making sure the petkidsget attention, etc – have been enough to have me taking advantage of as many opportunitiesto rest as I can most days.  SomethingLogan is a lot more enthusiastic about than Lilie, since he’s much more of afan of nap time than she is.  LOL!

 

Although, I have managed to get some crafting in (mostly thestuff I’ve worked on during the Zoom calls, but I’ve also made some progresswith the crochet blanket I’m slowly working on) as well as managed to fit inenough reading time that I’m slightly ahead on my 2023 reading challenge goal(I’ve read 18 of 52 books) including being ahead with reading April’s book ofthe month for the ACB Crafters book club, and being on track with the book we’reworking our way through as part of the 18th and 19th centurybook club I also attend.  Admittedly thisis mostly because I can listen to an audiobook while either doing day to daytasks like housework, or during those times when I’m resting but notsleeping.  But it all adds up, and it allcounts, right?

 

Interesting how it all seems somehow to be a lot and verylittle at the same time when written down in a blog post like this.  I mean, on the one hand the fact there’senough for a blog post that’s a few paragraphs long makes it seem like so muchI can’t help feeling it’s no wonder I’m tired, while on the other hand I wonderhow I can have done so little that I can sum up two weeks in just a fewparagraphs.  Funny how that works.