FREE!
The universe has been smiling upon me with a smile the strength of a thousand suns today.
On my way home from therapy, I happened upon a table full of free stuff in front of someone's house (yes, there was a "FREE" sign and everything), and I scored a bunch of art supplies! The coolest, most amazing thing is this giant "Deluxe Wooden Art Bin" (much fancier than "bin" makes it sound, as it's actually a rectangular wooden case with latches to hold it closed & little slots for all the individual items inside). It contains 36 color pencils (which have been used quite a bit, but I have plenty of color pencils of my own, so that's no big concern), 36 oil pastels (COOL! COOL!), 2 brushes (I can never have too many brushes), and 14 completely untouched watercolor cakes. I was so excited I practically flew home on my bike.
Then I got this neat email. My new backpack has normal-sized pockets on the sides, and they won't hold my ginormous Nalgene bottles, but I don't need to always carry quite that much water around with me these days, so I decided to just have a nice backpack I like & buy a smaller water bottle. I really like the one I bought (this one) & it's apparently from a small company, because they emailed me and asked if I wanted a free insulating sleeve thing (they call it a "koozie," which sounds sort of sexual to me). I emailed them back & said sure, and they asked if I would also like to do some product testing for them! So they're sending me some other water bottles & related stuff to get my feedback. Cool! Free stuff! Free stuff of a sort I actually use!
Free art supplies! Free water bottles! Free free free!
Also, my non-free desktop easel arrived today, so I will try it out tomorrow & see if it helps me hold better posture while I work on my art projects. I find it very exciting. I think it might make a big difference. I'm trying to come up with things I can do to still do the art I like, but without messing up my body.
Today also included a great therapy session, a great physical therapy session, a great lunch (leftover AMAZING half-burger from The Counter: turkey burger with brie, dried cranberries, greens, tomato, and apricot sauce), and then tonight Shannon & I are going to a Shotgun Players play.
Shannon is taking tomorrow & Friday off work to help him recover from the past few weeks of extreme stress (completely unrelated to my cataract surgeries, but unfortunately concurrent with them), so I am hoping he will be feeling much happier after a relaxing 4-day weekend. He really needs some lazy time!
My writing group has been cancelled tomorrow, so I find myself unexpectedly free (FREE! The word of the day today is FREE! Everything is FREE!) until 3:30, when I see my optometrist to get me set up with some prescription reading glasses. Yay! Reading glasses that will be right for MY particularly unmatched eyes!
Then Friday I have my (presumably) final post-surgical check-up with Dr. Lim, just to make sure that both eyes have healed well from the surgeries. My eyes feel fine, so I expect to get a clean bill of health, and then Kimberly's Cataract Saga will have reached its satisfactory conclusion. All that will remain is that actual procurement of the prescription reading glasses.
On my way home from therapy, I happened upon a table full of free stuff in front of someone's house (yes, there was a "FREE" sign and everything), and I scored a bunch of art supplies! The coolest, most amazing thing is this giant "Deluxe Wooden Art Bin" (much fancier than "bin" makes it sound, as it's actually a rectangular wooden case with latches to hold it closed & little slots for all the individual items inside). It contains 36 color pencils (which have been used quite a bit, but I have plenty of color pencils of my own, so that's no big concern), 36 oil pastels (COOL! COOL!), 2 brushes (I can never have too many brushes), and 14 completely untouched watercolor cakes. I was so excited I practically flew home on my bike.
Then I got this neat email. My new backpack has normal-sized pockets on the sides, and they won't hold my ginormous Nalgene bottles, but I don't need to always carry quite that much water around with me these days, so I decided to just have a nice backpack I like & buy a smaller water bottle. I really like the one I bought (this one) & it's apparently from a small company, because they emailed me and asked if I wanted a free insulating sleeve thing (they call it a "koozie," which sounds sort of sexual to me). I emailed them back & said sure, and they asked if I would also like to do some product testing for them! So they're sending me some other water bottles & related stuff to get my feedback. Cool! Free stuff! Free stuff of a sort I actually use!
Free art supplies! Free water bottles! Free free free!
Also, my non-free desktop easel arrived today, so I will try it out tomorrow & see if it helps me hold better posture while I work on my art projects. I find it very exciting. I think it might make a big difference. I'm trying to come up with things I can do to still do the art I like, but without messing up my body.
Today also included a great therapy session, a great physical therapy session, a great lunch (leftover AMAZING half-burger from The Counter: turkey burger with brie, dried cranberries, greens, tomato, and apricot sauce), and then tonight Shannon & I are going to a Shotgun Players play.
Shannon is taking tomorrow & Friday off work to help him recover from the past few weeks of extreme stress (completely unrelated to my cataract surgeries, but unfortunately concurrent with them), so I am hoping he will be feeling much happier after a relaxing 4-day weekend. He really needs some lazy time!
My writing group has been cancelled tomorrow, so I find myself unexpectedly free (FREE! The word of the day today is FREE! Everything is FREE!) until 3:30, when I see my optometrist to get me set up with some prescription reading glasses. Yay! Reading glasses that will be right for MY particularly unmatched eyes!
Then Friday I have my (presumably) final post-surgical check-up with Dr. Lim, just to make sure that both eyes have healed well from the surgeries. My eyes feel fine, so I expect to get a clean bill of health, and then Kimberly's Cataract Saga will have reached its satisfactory conclusion. All that will remain is that actual procurement of the prescription reading glasses.