I have come so far in 2 months! It's 2 months since surgery this weekend. So in early April, I was resting a lot, and I had some more visits. Denise came back, and Emma and her little Ruby pup. I started going for a short walks. And the weather was becoming Autumn. Started to get some foggy mornings, and roses.
Our church had a combined weekend conference called Grounded. Our old pastor Simon came and did the talks, and I really love his talks. It was a great weekend, I was so glad to be able to go. I underestimated how tired I was though. Standing and singing uses a lot of abs so that got too hard, I did the morning sessions and then crashed and went home, missing the afternoons of sewing packs for Days for Girls, and the evening games.
My online friend Bei En send me a parcel of a series of books, some tea and nice things to enjoy while I recovered!
So dumb to say this but I did watch a lot of Bachelor in Paradise, it was on 4 nights a week. Really good garbage TV. This is a direct quote.
I drove my car on 10 of April, I think I drove out to Tocal to see people for an hour or so, actually there was a fire drill so I saw everybody all at once at the evacuation point. And then I started going back for mornings of work and napping in the afternoon.
Oh another thing, I ate nothing but chicken salad this whole time. Chicken in salad or chicken salad in a wrap. A whole lot of chicken skewers that I cooked on the George Foreman. Literally 6 weeks of chicken salad wraps. And then late April I transitioned to tomato soup with an egg poached in it and sourdough toast.
I went and saw Julie play violin with her orchestra, had dinner with the Burgesses and D before.
There was an epic yellow sunset with stormclouds.
This is a podcast I'm into for comfort listening. Simpsons episode recaps.
One of my surgical wounds got infected so that was a little setback to wellness. I was part of a study into hospital infections so I should have reported it, but I didn't, I just went to the doctor and got the stitches removed and some antibiotics, and then told the hospital when they rang up. Such a pity I didn't report it. They wanted photos and swabs and things, all I had was one photo I took to get a good look at it after it was healing a bit.
I have been doing a bit of organising, not like a campaign but spasmodically tackling different areas. I moved my meds into a bigger box and my oil paints and brushes into this box for example.
I culled a whole lot of drab old grey and brown clothes that I don't wear. I'm into strong bright colours and black/white lately.
Looked for some baskets for my wardrobes, the kmart $7 plastic ones are the exact right height to the mm.
My garden has been producing a lot of rocket and spinach! it's really good! The sweet peas I planted didn't really come up so eventually I tried again and this time I soaked the seeds before I planted them and now they have shot up. Phew. Spring needs sweet peas.
I started getting allergic every night. I wondered if it was the furniture that hasn't been properly de-dusted in 4 years. It might have been pollens though, apparently they can settle in the evening and be worse.
The other thing this photo reminds me of is that on this day I had a rehearsal with a guitarist from another church for the music for Women of Truth. I was actually doing organising for that for like 8 weeks until the conference which was 26 May, yesterday.
Anyway, back to life improvements. I decided to finally buy a timer switch for the living room lamp, and I love it. I love that it turns on at 5pm every night so I come home to a lit house. I love that I can go to bed leaving it on and it isn't such a dark house. it turns off at 10pm. And I also got this powerboard for 6 plugs and 2 USB, so much easier with enough plugs in your life. This is the corner of the house where the wifi and TV is, so about 9 plugs.
I culled my paper file.
I bought this white shirt because the money goes to Ovarian cancer research.
Oh here is a lovely thing. I wrote a lot of thankyou cards! I ordered them from Kikki K and they had some on sale, I got free shipping too, so I think they ended up being $1.40 per card. I wanted to reply to the get well cards, and thank people for flowers and things, and it was a really lovely morning at the end of April thinking about how kind people had been and writing to them. I would highly recommend writing thankyou notes to people who have been special during significant life events. Dwell in the gratitude and nice stationary.
Some of the cards I added punched flower to, so they aren't so shop-bought.
JK and I went to a Persian cafe on Anzac day! Also bought Baklava at the IGA on Baeumont St (I have no idea how to spell) which is the nicest baklava we can find, and I'm a bit addicted to tea and baklava at the moment.
There was great excitement over the yum cha menu at Billabongs buffet! The calamari was amazing. JK and Ros and Rosita were in the first crowd to try it.
Some office excitement was we had a rat. It was walking around IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, breaking into our food in our drawers and everything. I had the pleasure of finding it dragging itself around with it's back legs caught in the trap.
And I started getting back into exercise! Used the 7 minute workout app, which is a good workout program actually.
This is one of my favourite places, the Glebe cemetary.
My lunchtime walk buddy meeting the homestead horses.
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