This is the first I've had a chance to sit down in my room today. We took the dogs and drove over to Clarion so we could have lunch with Chloe and then on the way home walked the dogs in the woods near Kossuth. We are right in the prime days of autumn color right now. Mid October. Today we had sun and clouds - the perfect weather too, when it wasn' ( Read more... )

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I got up early this morning so I had time to look at the pictures I've taken over the last few days. Lake geese, mud cracks, snail trails and garden bugs.( Read more... )

It's amazing where we spend our time in our minds. At least when I look at my mind and how I can't seem to control it very well. The thought patterns. Obsessions. I think mine are mostly harmless (to others): wanting to buy things, plans and projects, feeling guilty and less than and replaying interchanges with others over and over, looking forward ( Read more... )

Up even earlier today - 3 am ( Read more... )

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I got a lot done in the evening in the guest room after we spent hours yesterday afternoon driving places to see if I could find a perfect size of plastic tote that would fit under the bed (no wasted space). My plan was to sort all the yarn that I could into the totes and stow them under the bed in the guest room. I never did find the absolute ( Read more... )

Slept till 5:30 when the alarm went off. Though I had been sleeping on the couch since 2 am which isn't the best sleep in my opinion. Got a lot done yesterday with throwing out about 50 pounds of outdated food. That's what I like about cleaning out food (unlike cleaning out junk in the basement) - you just have to find the date on the bag or can ( Read more... )

A while ago at Women's group I said that I feel like I am some kind of bipolar. There was some agreement that maybe I was. Though not to the point where it is a terrible problem or that I need meds to correct it but my highs (and buying of things that excite me) can go very high and my lows can go very low (lying in bed multiple times in a day and ( Read more... )