January 3, 2021

 Good evening, all!  I hope you had a lovely day.  Me, not so much.  

The older I get the more my anxiety issues bother me.  If I get TOO anxious my atrial tachycardia kicks in.  I take medicine so it isn’t as bothersome as it used to be but I have had two episodes in the last three days, and it messes up my sleep.  So, I napped a good portion of the day and somewhere around 4 pm I actually began to feel like a person again.  This evening finds me back to normal for the most part and now it is almost time to go to bed again! Hopefully tonight will be better.

Clearly I didn’t get much accomplished today but self care was necessary.  I did make a good start on putting away the holiday decor.  Not finished but it won’t take much to get it done.  Packing up the Christmas village is my husbands job!

I did spend some time this evening working on an introduction I have been asked to write for a friend looking to publish a book. Slightly terrifying since I haven’t written anything of any merit in years and years.  But, I got a start on it and it was fun.  I do like writing,

I have three books going right now — “Wildwood” by Colin Melody, “Something About The Stars” by Katherine E. Smith and “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek”, author slipped my mind at the moment.  I don’t usually read more than one book at a time but they are all so different that I am not having difficulty with reading them all at the same time.

I am reconsidering reading on a device so much.  I love my Kindle and my iPad with the nook and kindle apps but there is something about being able to see how far you actually are in the book.  I don’t know, I don’t know which is best.  Reading on a device is a lot easier if I want to read in bed and not disturb my husband.  Pros and cons.....hmmmm.

School  starts back tomorrow for my daughter but not until Tuesday for Bean.  It appears that her whole 5th grade is going to be accomplished from her bedroom!  How different this year has been. For her it really hasn’t been bad, different but not bad.  Hopefully the plague will find its way out of our lives soon.

So far we haven’t had much winter but the last few days have been really chilly.  Hopefully this week is going to be lovely.  They promised.  We will see. 

So, on that note I think it is time for me to call it a day.  I  need to recapture all the sleep I missed last night.  Have a lovely evening all and hoping for a great tomorrow!i