Happy

This is actually from yesterday

Things I enjoyed:

• Time spent with my honey
• Playing Star Wars, even if I did get  a headache
• Seeing D and watching them hang up photos of PupPup
• Walking to check the mail...in the rain
• Opening my mail to find these two wonderful gifts from a new buddy.
• Muppet Socks!!!
• Owls :) 

There's a swap group I'm part of that sends pressies to each other, or even just penpals, since we're all pretty much dealing with various illnesses. My feet love fuzzy muppet-skin socks. 

Still Sad

Trying to think of the positive.

Reasons to Smile Today:

1. Awesome boyfriend

2. Great time with two friends

3. Lemon blueberry pie

4. Jack Skellington nails

5. Sweet Sigrid Sleeping

6. Our girls in all their beauty

7. Tyra, sad sister who is beautiful with her bicolor eyes. 

Love ya, Dave.  Heart is with you. 

"Like" ya, baby, and you made my day brighter as you always do. 

Loving the Family Life

Yesterday was BBQ time for my friend's son's birthday. Happy Birthday, James! We went over, hung out in the yard. My BF hates all the photos we took of him, and I'll only post people photos with permission.

Her yard, however, was very relaxing with the breeze blowing in the trees. I was super tired and sleepy all day long since I haven't been resting well. The company was wonderful, the food a delight (I ate too much!!!) and here are some of my takeaways from the day.

The animals are Diesel, her sweet little chichi; Sultan who is her big old boy, and then Jorge who isn't much smaller. He's a chubby bubby.  Sultan is an old man and getting healthier. Please, remember catfood tends to come in a vegetarian mix and look for the kind that has the most meat to it. Cats are carnivores. He's doing fantastically.

Inspired by the Day

I'm working on coming to terms with my health issues still.  Today has been quite the day for a headache and feeling pretty out of it. I have, however, tried to make it a productive day. I hung out on Rift a little with a friend (Rift and Ride!!) and worked on beads while doing that. Earlier in the day, man and I were watching Enterprise while I made up a bracelet. 

I saw this post on Facebook, with incorrect spelling and all that. Changed it around and added the text back after playing with the colors a bit. Normally I won't do that, but with this image, I feel it is important. The essence is exactly what I want to hear right now and need to remember. It's a tough time on many levels. I really have no idea what to do with some of what I (we) are going through. There are challenges to be met. 

This one, on the other hand, totally made me think of my daughter. She loved SIMs a lot when she lived with me. I also have these moments of forgetful spaciness. :) Maybe it really is about SIMs! :P 

This is the bracelet I worked on. I'm aware that it's kind of old school. I don't have any hemp cord, so it's made with crochet thread of two types, glass beads and my paper beads. I love how it looks. My guy said, "It's so 90s." He meant, he likes it, but it has that old fashioned appeal. Is that good??? I'm trying to decide what is a good price for bracelets like this in my Etsy shop.

Trying to Count Her Blessings

It's been a stressful few days for me. I know a lot of people have more health issues than I do, but it's hitting me a bit hard. I'm trying to remember all the good things and to not let my stress levels rise. There are things to be thankful for.

Obviously, I'm always thankful for our girls. I think they are the sweetest, most adorable kitties ever. 

For a state that rarely gets rain, we're thankfully getting a lot of rain now. Flooding in some areas, but I do love the sound and smell of rain.

We also have food. Pretty thankful for that. Making a pot of homemade meatballs. I just added the pasta sauce too, after taking this photo. Mmmm. 

Sleepy

Not a bad day today at all. Ready to sleep. Had to take medicine for the pain, but that's fine. It helps for the sleeping, since I have the hardest time doing that on Sunday nights anyway. Today wasn't too bad. I could have used more time with my sweetie. That's per usual. Went grocery shopping. Since the rent thing worked out we had money for food. Mmm, lots of nice slow cooker foods that I hope will last us for most of the next two weeks. Fingers crossed, seriously. Made a really delicious mushroom chicken meal tonight with red onions, mushrooms, garlic, celery and yummy chicken. It was fall apart goodness. Have enough for tomorrow night, so if I have energy, I want to go to the gym after work. I really want to have energy. 

Made more beads....had coffee. I was missing coffee. Then played a short bit on Rift. Guild leader is a sweet dude and he got E and I these cool outfits (and swimsuits from summerfest.) I looooove this outfit. See, Myg loves it too. :) 

The Yin and Yang

Our two angels, not my two babies at Mom's, were cuddled up in that position on J's lap. We were watching 24 and then checking out photos of our girls on the TV from my phone. Aren't they gorgeous? I'm thankful for:

• Yummy food
• A wonderful man
• Two gorgeous girls
• A fun and free game to play
• Beads! 
• Food. Coffee. Did I say food? 
• A house full of warmth and LIKE :P 

At Peace

I missed yesterday, so I'll sort of recap. I enjoyed yesterday quite a lot. I did have a headache all day, but today is the first day I seem to be without one in over 5 days. It's nice. I can hear thunder in the distance and reflect on how thankful I am that Colorado has rain. I'm also thankful that I was ill this week so I didn't drive on flooded streets. I spent yesterday mostly making beads. These do bring me peace, a mindless and pleasant task that allows me to relax. I'm terrible at relaxing.

My day began with delicious pancakes, a mix of vanilla batter with chunks of apple. Mmm. I even downed milk and I rarely want white milk. Chocolate is a whole other matter, but a rare treat.

My darling unknowingly lured me into the livingroom with the sounds of Mozart and Bach. I love classical music, though Bach so far is my favorite. He prefers Mozart. LastFM has a great mix of music. Then we watched Rozencrantz & Guildenstern Art Dead.  I know I had seen it at one point long ago, but remembered very little of it. It might have only been a piece or two that I saw previously. This time, I greatly enjoyed it. There was definitely a poignant point made in that people often let themselves flow through life without making actual decisions. They let others guide them and carry them along like a current. They pay the price in many ways, such as loneliness or death. Death of the soul is still a sort of death.

Today I am at peace, but I really don't want to be around people. I'm just enjoying the sounds outside and the sleeping heavyweight on my shoulder. As you can see, these girls really do make life so much brighter for us.

A Survivor

Migraine Day, lots of rain. Yet here are some little photos of my day.

It's raining a lot outside; flooding in some areas. 

...Content

Spent today at home, attempting to feel better. Still have a massive headache, however, I'm very content.  I have my lovely kitty on my shoulder now. It's been raining this evening and I had to check out the beauty of the rain outside. The view from the balcony may not be the most splendid, but it's green and wet. I love rain for how it smells, how it feels, and how it cools the air around. I'm not a summer person at all. Don't much like sweating. Working hard? Yes. Sweating due to heat? Nasamuch.

Zoey had to watch me from the patio door and cried a little wanting me to come back inside and hold her. That's who is on my left shoulder right now.

I'm relaxing to the quiet sound of the cars driving by on rain-soaked streets, the drip drops that fall, and the howling hello calls of Sigrid hunting for something nonexistent. I have my trusty cup of coffee to chill with. I find it ironic that we put coffee cups on the highest shelf where I can barely reach them and yet I'm the coffee fiend. You can never have enough coffee mugs. You can never have too many, either.

Missing my guy as he's off to spend time with his local bestie, and yet I'm just finding it awesome to spend time with the kitties. Tucked into my favorite grey sweater tonight.