How I Managed To Recover My Merry HoHoHo!

I doodled a bit - always good to let my mind wander

After yesterday's post I realized that I was letting the discomfort of Fibro & CFS get to me. I hate it when I do that, but sometimes the pain level is just too much! These are the things I did yesterday to snap out of it! After I posted I decided that I had to unstick myself. For me, there is only one way to do that - take the first step. I began by wrapping some of DH's gifts, wondering all the while what he would like, what he would use & what might not end up being a 'winner'. Wrapping gifts actually made me feel better. It was a start. Next I started some chicken and dumplings for tonight's dinner - it's the perfect weather for this kind of comfort food & I had been having a hankering for this dish all of last week anyway. Next, thanks to DH bringing the stamps home on a break, I actually got the cards in the mail. Another resounding affimation that I was not yet permanently attached to the chair or the bed! Doing something makes doing more so much easier! Today I think I can wrap some gifts that need to get sent out - who knows, maybe they might get to their destinations for the holidays after all !

The deck had some remarkably amusing things on it!
This bird house was called "Bunk's House in honor
of our oldest cat our passed away at 19 several years ago.

I picked up my lino cutters and did some cutting - this is one that I had started & then stopped -
it was good to finish it & also made me feel good to be moving along some part of the 'creative trail'!

I marveled, as I always do at this time of year at how important warm feet are!
These are knitted with wonderful, warm, Perendale Wool & they are then fulled.

I will always be grateful to Sarah for making me realize that I simply HAD to learn to knit these booties. I have not suffered from cold feet since I learned to make them. They are, simply the cure for cold feet. Kat Bordhi does such a great job of explaingin things clearly in her book called "Socks That Soar". I was below being a neophyte knitter when I began making these. I told this story last year I think - so those of you who have read the blog for that long can just glaze over for this part. Sarah made me my first pair of these as a Christmas gift and, when we traveled to the mainland together, she would use the time to try to teach me how to make them.At that point I did not know a knit from purl or a circular needle from a crochet hook so it was like Sarah was trying to teach me Greek in an hour. It didn't work. When she moved to Maine though I knew that I was in trouble and that I simply had to buckle down and learn to make these 'cold busters' myself. The rest, as they say, is history. I ended up making about 10 pairs of them for myself and for gifts. I would not want to face a winter without them! Thanks to Sarah for her patience with me and to Cat Bordhi for her wonderful book! Next I am going to go for two socks at a time !

Thanks to all of you who write. I so appreciated your notes. I guess I was in a bit of funk - and you helped make me want to climb out of the 'garbage pail' - as Frederick Perls would have said. I know most of you are too young to remember his type of gestalt therapy ! I never liked the idea of it but he wrote a book whose title I just loved : "In and Out The Garbage Pail".