Sunday Ramblings

It is May 3.  I thought it was May 2.  I DO know it is Sunday.  The beginning of a new week and the beginning of a new grocery list for curbside pickup.

How are you doing during this time?  I am a little frustrated.  Not because I am at home — I LIKE being at home.  I have all I need and I have the ability to get what I need.  What I am frustrated about is time — I figured I would have all this time to do things and I do but my gimpy knees are giving me trouble so I am sitting way too much and not doing all I need to do.  I am going to try to deal with that mindfully today.  I might have to make a list instead of just wandering around with no real plan.  Lists are good.

I have been doing some thinking about streamlining things around here.  Minimalizing if you will.  I don’t know about you but as I am getting, ahem, older, certain things annoy me.  Purses for instance.  I really could do without carrying a purse.  Keys.  I can’t tell you how many times I leave the house without my keys.  If I am with Hubs it is ok, I don’t need them but sometimes I do and they are a pain.  If I throw them in the purse they always sink to the bottom and I can’t find them.  So, as I laid there last night trying to fall asleep, I was trying to figure out how to eliminate the problem.  Voila, so simple, just put the keys in your wallet.  I only have two keys and a key fob for the car so take them off the key ring and put them in a zipper section of my wallet.  Then I always have them. And I put all my stuff in a clutch type wallet so if I don’t want to carry a purse I don’t have to.  I find purses to be so bulky and in the way, especially cross bodies and walking with a cane is a lot more difficult if you are trying to carry a handbag.  I had a lot of trouble in New Orleans trying to wangle a rather large crossbody and a cane and shopping bags — there was no room for a drink!

First world problem.  Not earth shattering or really insurmountable but right now little aggravations seem amplified.

I finally jumped on the baking bandwagon.  I have to be careful because my diabetic husband loves baked goods but yesterday I had a bunch of bananas that needed to be used so I made two recipes of banana muffins and sent some home with the Bean.  I think I am going to freeze the remaining, very ripe bananas.  I will see how that goes.

I am watching lots of tv — too much tv — which only adds to the problem of too much sitting.  I am attending church on my ipad.  Our clergy has made May 17 a target date for reopening for Mass but I don’t imagine we will be going anytime soon.  Hubs is vulnerable.  He is 73 and diabetic and heart issues. I have some underlying issues as well but not like his so I think we will be doing things this way for a while.

I have been trying to read but I keep not doing it.  I am still reading “The Little Shop of Found Things” and am about half done.  I need to make a plan for getting it done because I have another in the queue that I am anxious to start — “The Dutch House”.  Maybe I should put reading on my “to-do” list.

I am still working on my cross stitch project.  I am “building” St. Louis Cathedral in NOLA.  It is coming along but I ran out of one of the threads so I had to order it from an online cross stitch shop.  It took forever to come so I got impatient and placed a curbside pickup at my neighborhood Michaels.  And....wait for it....the ordered thread arrived the next day so I have a bumper crop of beige thread.  Sigh.

Apparently the thing to do on some of the cross stitch groups on FB is to show the back of the work.  I try to make the back of my work neat, I end threads at the end of a color or a row and I don’t drag threads across large areas.  It is fun looking at peoples approach — some are as good as the fronts and some are just hot messes. Here is my back—

Not perfect, but not terribly shabby.  We will see how it goes because there is a large area of greenery and lots of one or two stitches of a color and then a change.  That should mess it up nicely.  We will see.

So, that is today.  I need to trim the Trixie monster’s nails — not sure how I feel about that.  I don’t want to have to go to the emergency room but her nails are really treacherous now.  And I am needing to cut her bangs because I can’t see her eyes anymore.  Clipping her face is sort of dangerous because she doesn’t sit still and I can just see me taking an eye out.  Thinking about buying a product called Scaredy Cut — it is scissors with clipper heads on it — looks fairly benign — ha!  I will let you know.

So, have a wonderful, quiet, safe Sunday!