Sometimes you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. That’s me today. I don’t want to work. I just looked at our bank account for motivation, and let me tell you, that cleared that fantasy real fast, heh. I don’t want to clean. I don’t want to cook. I don’t want to put up with renovations.
I am having my 2-year-old moment.
I am also disappointed with my cross stitch project. I’ve started it and I am reasonably sure that the floss colors are seriously off. The girl was supposed to have blonde hair but it’s clearly dark brown, which does not work, since Kid 2 has returned to her natural blonde hair color. I am not sure what to do. Right now I am tempted to scan the pattern in, pull the colors out via photoshop, and then just buy a bunch of DMC to match the scan. But that means I may have to rip a whole bunch of what I did out.
I don’t want to. Ugh.
I haven’t put my yarn up. It’s still in boxes. Ugh.
Ugh.
It doesn’t help that we’re having a heatwave. Our temperatures are hovering around 104 degrees (41 Celsius), and our upstairs AC unit probably sprang a coolant leak. One of the upstairs rooms inexplicably has haze in it. We bought an air purifier and already had AC system serviced (it worked fine before they serviced it but now the upstairs AC is not cooling,) and supposedly everything is clean. We can’t figure out where the haze coming from, so we are just running the purifier until it clears up.
Summer is our inside season. That’s when we put sunscreen on to go to the mailbox. They promised us thunderstorms yesterday. We had thunder. The house shook. No rain though. Bastards.
I need to get to the next scene so I can murder some characters horribly. It will not cheer me up, but at least it will match my current mood. One good thing that happened – I had found a suspicious mole on my back during the vacation, and the moment I came home, the dermatologist determined it needed to come off. It came off and it’s not melanoma. If you have a weird spot, go get it checked out. You will feel better, and melanoma can spread very fast.
We have annual physicals this week, and then we both have the required medical tests, like mammogram for me, etc. I don’t want to go to the physical. I will, but I don’t want to.
I am just bitter and sour today. Ugh.
Tell me something good that happened, so I am not all bitter and mopey.
My Gerber Daisies and roses are doing well & I got a strawberry off the plant!
Also, all my fabric for a baby quilt project has come in!
I got a bonus at work two Christmases ago, which I had been saving for the right thing, and resisting spending on home maintenance, kids, dogs, etc. I finally committed to spending it on something really and truly utterly just for me, and (after obligatory excessive research and agonizing) bought myself a stand-up paddle board and all the gear. The board arrived yesterday and I am SO EXCITED to go out on it for the first time this weekend.
Also, I am loving this thread about all the positive events, big and small, in the lives of the BDH 🙂
My new dog, a 3 yr old former street dog, let someone other than me pet her for the first time! Picture of dog attached. Also I am almost done with my new nephew’s baby quilt. It is Winnie the Pooh themed.
My two furb babies had their bath today with their favourite groomer just before (sorry) it started raining like the proverbial cats and dogs.
They came inside before they could roll in the dirt lol – this is very good 🙂 clean for a few more hours hahaha
I have HUGE tomatoes…still green. I’m not Southern so that’s not going to happen.
The lovely butterfly garden I planted is in full boom. The colors are glorious.: Fuchsia, deep reds, blues, whites and purples; everything smells lovely.
Of course, the pollinators are completely ignoring this bounty in favor of the chive plot, which is swarming with honey bees.
Should be some interesting honey at the farmers market.
Iwas supposed to have my teeth cleaned today but I felt HORRIBLE so I cancelled. Folks can just deal with my dragon breath. I like dragons-deal with it! 🙂
OK, something good.
Yesterday, after 18 months of pain, stress and sorrow, I had my last treatment. The day before that (the day after my beloved’s birthday) we were told I am cancer-free. So, get your mammogram as SOON AS YOU CAN. Because, when you’re thinking about the end of your life, I guarantee you won’t give a sh!t if your house is clean (heaven knows ours is a total mess ).
All we wanted was more time together and now we have it. That’s not just good – it’s amazing. And it could not have happened without the help of our amazing medical team.
All the hugs and congratulations to you, PC! You beat the bastard!
Thanks Mod R!!! Will take, and give, all the virtual hugs I can. It’s a bloody awful disease but I have a wonderful husband and I’m fortunate to live in a country with great healthcare. Have to get checked for the next 5 – 7 years but we made it and we have finally calmed down enough to get some sleep again. It’s after midnight here and I am off to bed.
There is NOTHING more frustrating than getting all of the storm except the rain. That happened several times while I was deployed to very hot, dry areas. We could actually see the rain falling, but it evaporated before it got anywhere near the ground. That by itself is worth a two year old moment.
My cat decided in the middle of the night that my face made a good pillow… I didn’t die of asphyxiation go me
My 2 year old saw Mommy had painted toes, so she demanded that her, Mommy, & Daddy all have matching toes. We all now have purple toes, and what’s more is that she regularly demands to see “our pretty toes” and my husband can’t take them off.
Our feet are very pretty.
Cross stitch wrong color? Diluted fabric paint. Screw ripping it out. Then it’s hand stitched AND hand-painted. Win.
The wonder rose bush from a former student which has been beautiful fore more than a decade was destroyed when they lifted my house to repair damage, It grew back from under the deck out the front. Also Petunias started growing from the rocks that were left from the dig. I’ve never planted them. They are spreading.
Every am at about 6 for the last week or so I have weeded. The garden is almost weed free and I have planted my second season crops. The cucumbers are doing wonderful twining their way up the rabbit fencing. In a few weeks I will have tomatoes coming out my ears. And, best of all, I have a new neighbor who has promised to have a tree surgeon come and cut back the silver maples that hasve been rubbing against the my for the last 12 years (and blocking the sunlight to my upper garden.) Things are really looking up.