saturday
Another night last night were I was up most of the night. I made this thing. It's a neck-warmer I guess. Something to wear around your neck that adds a bit of warmth, but unlike a scarf it doesn't fall off easily or need readjusted once you put it on.
Giving it a try-out today. Taking a handheld selfie with a DLSR isn't easy.
I see where lots of people are doing memes about what happened to them in 2022. This would be the day to do it. I'm more of a looking forward, planning, wanting kind of a person though. I live in the future, perhaps too much. I don't make resolutions. I like to make plans. Just because I make a plan doesn't mean it's going to happen, but it might.
If I WAS to try and remember the happenings of last year:
1. Fell and broke my right wrist on January 23. By coincidence that is the birthday of my ex. Was he reaching out from beyond to get me? No. It was just a super slippery day of ice. Later I would see other people with casts on their arms and ask them about it - they all broke their arms the same day as me.
2. Got covid - probably when I was visiting the emergi-care on the day I broke the wrist (though everyone was wearing a mask - the place was probably full of leftover covid germs).
3. Spent a lot of time laying in bed getting over covid, being very tired and trying to find comfortable places to put my arm.
4. The triumph of spring arrives and I can get out to hike again. Thank goodness my legs are good.
5. June now. The wrist never does get very good - carpel tunnel syndrome sets in. Very annoying. I worry about it a lot. I go to a new surgeon and he tells me he can do surgery but for now to wear the brace at night. It gradually starts to get better on its own. Not perfect but not so troublesome anymore. By October I feel like I can live with it.
6. Late June. Dave and I went on a special hike to the Quehanna Wilderness Area for our anniversary. That might have been my favorite outing of the year. The white birch trees and the mountain laurels were gorgeous. If I could do things like that every day life would be so good.
7. (August or September?) I go to get a new glasses prescription and the optometrist tells me that I need to get cataract surgery if I want to see the best that I can. So that gets the ball rolling on that. Is that what most of the year 2022 was for me? Stuff with my body? Seems that way. I can't remember much else about it! Though I did get out and go on the usual local hikes with friends, and with Rainy, and Dave and Andy. Went on a few bike rides - no new or extraordinary places though.
As I said before - I'm much better at thinking of things I want to do in the future than remembering things I did in the past.
Planning for next year:
Get the last cataract done (on Monday).
Get glasses so I can see well.
Take a trip to Florida - see Kathy's family.
Plan more hikes with Dave to places in national and state forests.
Make more art and collage in my "Letting Go" book.
Help Dave clean up Johnny's old room so he can have a room of his own just like I have a room of my own - I'll need to get some of my stuff out of there.
Do a reorganization of my room.
The usual other kinds of stuff like photography, weaving, crochet, painting and drawing.
I am still thinking of getting myself an electric pedal assist bike in the springtime and I will start to explore the countryside and back roads around here with that if I do get one.
Undecided if I want to get a new batch of baby chicks this year. If we do it will make going away from home and traveling in the summer almost impossible. If we don't then we won't have fresh eggs anymore.
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For now though, time to make vegetable bean soup for supper and get busy cleaning house. I invited Jules and Sebastian over for game night tonight.
Happy New Year.