My goodness, have I been remiss! I haven't been putting in my progress at all since Thursday. Shame on me!
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, I met my goal of getting dressed and coming downstairs for the day. I got up, did my morning pages and got dressed. Now my husband was working on Thursday and Saturday but not on Friday. Thursday I got up and wrote. I did this without the tv on, which is something I am trying to do for 2 reasons. One, I can spend all morning and afternoon watching daytime tv, without getting out of bed. Thursday my husband helped me get ready and get downstairs before he left. He carried my computer down and helped set me up. Like I said before, I ended up taking an anxiety pill because it was new and all I wanted to do was run back up to my safe place, my bedroom! But later that night, I found out I hadn't taken my morning pills and that always makes me very emotional by mid-day.
Friday, my husband had the day off so when I woke up, I wrote my morning pages, from The Artist's Way, and then came downstairs, all without turning on the tv or waking him up. Now because he had stayed up til 4am, I later found out, he slept until almost noon! Thursday I left my computer and my copy of The Artist's Way downstairs, so all I needed to bring was my phone. I later went upstairs and got dressed. Then I went upstairs and took a 3 hour nap! Heavenly!
Saturday, I slept in a little and when I got up, I got dressed in my yoga outfit that my sister had given me for my 50th birthday. When I was planning my birthday party for my 50th birthday, I told everyone I expected a present. You only turn 50 once. I asked for silly things like a hula hoop (I already had one but wanted more), roller skates, that thing you put around your ankle and swing around and hop over your other foot, jump rope or other activity presents. I want to get back in shape and wanted a fun way to do it. So I'm a little behind! Anyway, later that day my neighbor called and asked me if I wanted some tomatoes and her very tall palm tree. I said yes so I did get out of the house for a little bit. Her palm tree reaches my ceiling! My husband brought the tree back over to our house and Janice gave me a box of tomatoes, some of them green. So for dinner that night we had Shake n' Bake extra crispy (baked) fried chicken with fried green tomatoes. Yum! And there are a lot of tomatoes going red. Got to get some paper bags to help them finish turning. Since my hubby had gotten up so early, we went to bed early, which is around midnight for us.
Today was a busy day, crochet-wise, that is. I have been working on making a stuffed crochet bulldog for my parents for Christmas. The pattern I have I got off of Etsy and it only has a picture of the finished toy, so each section you kind of have to do blind. My body is a bit too long, I think I may have miscalculated my rows, so the dog is going to be a little long. It may end up being a mutant bulldog. I finished making the body, the face, the neck and the snout. Now I have to whip stitch them all together. Now I am doing the whole dog in white yarn and will give my parents brown and black paint to put on the markings that their oldest bulldog, Sophie, has. She is the mom to two of their bulldogs, The Admiral and Lacy. Lacy is a Grand Champion and The Admiral is working on his Championship. Eventually I want to make them 3 bulldogs but can't get them all done before Christmas.
We had an amazing dinner of meatloaf with mashed potatoes and a tomato sauce with green beans, my favorite! Portion control is the big thing and I managed to stay within all that and still get full! I still haven't managed to send the Halloween candy with hubby to work, so I have been slowly eating it. 5 pieces today, couldn't help myself.
Tomorrow I plan on getting up, getting dressed in something other than my yoga outfit and coming downstairs. Then I will read the rest of the chapter on The Artist's Way and do some of the exercises. After I do that, I plan on cleaning up the craft room, what is left to put away. I might even get around to pulling books out of the boxes in the family room. Finish moving in, since it's only been 3 years. Have to get ready for the rug cleaning people coming on the 19th!
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