Sunday, May the 7th

Well, I hate to say it but I kind of enjoyed working on a spreadsheet this morning.  At the curia meeting for the local SCA group I was asked to input a budget into the computer and I liked it.  Maybe I should try to find my credits from the few accounting classes I took 26 years ago and see if they are worth anything going forward today.  It may be easier to just take the courses again since that college is no more.  After losing myself in that spreadsheet I joined the family at a local coffee shop for food and chit chat with friends and then we went geocaching.  I haven't done that in years.  We only looked for and found 3.  When I got home I went the website and looked at all the trackable tags and things they have.  I look forward to incorporating some geocaches into my walks and hikes.

My happy for today is getting to geocache again.  I should have taken some pictures...

The 6th of May--Saturday

When I went to the event today I was stepping a bit out of my comfort zone,  Although I knew many of the people that would be there, the theme, Schola of Love, was more adult than I said in the video.  I met some new people and got to spend time with friends I don't get to see very often so that was good.  My happy things for today are meeting new people and the rainbow in the sky tonight.  I believe rainbows are supposed to be signs of good things to come?

Sunset

Rainbow

Cinco de Mayo--short

My scheduled work is done for the week as far as I can tell so I mostly hung around the house today. I did some laundry and worked on the pressure tank for my house. I let the possibility of rain keep me from going for a walk this morning.  I did exercises for my arm, but no crunches or leg exercises.  My daughter made a bunch of tacos for dinner, yummy.  We went out to a meeting tonight for the local SCA group.  Nice to see people.  

Accomplishing something with my plumbing repairs and seeing friends are my happy things for today.  That and I had a good hand day.  I tried not to use it much with the pipe cutting and iced it a bunch after even though it felt better today than it has all week.

Even though I did very little today, I am exhausted.  Good Night!

I used this cool tool to cut pipe today.

   

May the 4th (be with you)

I forgot to take pictures on my walk to the car this morning.  😞  It was a beautiful day.  💙   For today my happy is being able to do these Blogs/Vlogs with my grandson, Gideon.  The injury stinks and I am very impatient for it to be better, but getting to spend time with the family is wonderful.  💗

Happy Star Wars Day!

I haven't checked this parody out yet, but it looks to have potential.  😜

The 3rd of May

Today was a chiropractor day, tomorrow the occupational therapist.  It was a breezy spring day.  Many trees are blooming and the tulips and daffodils.  The lilac will be blooming soon as well.  According to Map My Hike I logged 3.9 miles today.  I took 4 walks.  3 of them were back and forth to parking places for my car and 1 two mile walk, just because.

I had a long talk with a family member from out of state who keeps trying to dissuade me from hiking the trail.  After taking the time to let me know that there are murderers out there and how unprepared she thinks I am she lets me know that she is glad that I am following my dreams.

I am unprepared.  Things didn't go the way I had hoped for me this year.  That gives me quite a bit of time to become prepared though.  Truth is, I will never be completely prepared and I am okay with that.  There are some things that we can only do so much to prepare and then we take the rest as it comes.  Isn't that what life is all about?  There is only so much we can prepare for or have control of.  I certainly didn't prepare for this injury.  

My library recently started offering a bunch of free online courses.  I signed up for 2 today, bird watching and geology.  I hope I remember to follow through with them.  I finished the introductory class for both and took the quizzes for the geology one.  The Any do app on my phone is set to remind me but I sometimes snooze that for too long.  Any how, learning new things is my happy for today!

May 2nd

Last night I went to sleep to the sounds of the rain and this morning I woke up to it as well.  This sound is my happy for today.

I tried to record the sound of the pouring rain this morning.

It was sprinkling and I tried to capture the raindrops dancing on the water.  

They don't dance well as a still.  

Happy May Day!

As I sat down to write this evening a steady pitter-patter began outside my window.  30 minutes later, after a few distractions, it is pouring out.  Today for work I was supposed to retrain someone.  They had a family emergency and so I did the job instead.  There was no scanning involved and it was a job I could mostly do with my left hand, but my right bothered me the whole time.  The whole day actually.  When I got home I rested it and massaged it and then finally remembered to ice it.  I am hopeful that it will feel a little better tomorrow when I see the occupational therapist.  Driving has started bothering my knee already so I need to get back into the habit of exercising and stretching out my legs.  I stopped partially because of the need to use my hands and arms for some of the stretches.

Okay, enough complaining... My gosh.  Back to the rain.  It is like horses stampeding, through puddles...  I am hopeful that it will wash my car clean.

After my chiropractor visit and before work I stopped by the post office and got the mail and by my house to take out the trash.  There were 2 workman's comp checks in the mail. One full one and one for just a day from last week when I went back to work.  I didn't realize that I still had a full week check and that is today's happy.  That and the pouring rain... it just got louder and harder.  It is like a waterfall off the roof.

The pictures are rather dreary looking.  It didn't seem so dreary during the day, but I guess it was.