The usual randoms

Anyone interested in a nice little beach read thriller? I'm about half way into David Baldacci's Zero Day and I'm enjoying it enormously. It's a new series character for him and book 2 is already out. Some of his stuff I do not like at all and some is ok but with this series, I think he may have landed just right.

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The tree sweater lady is hard at work. My plan is to go out about every hour or so and snap her progress. I already got some good ones in my first shot this morning. And I was amazed at how warm it is out. I thought we were supposed to get a severe cold, wet storm - at least that's what the TV said.

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We have this shelf down in the garage. Ann calls it the free store. People put shit they don't want on the shelf and if you want it, take it. Mostly the stuff is true crap and junk but junk or jewels, it is usually gone in seconds. I've never put anything there that sat there for more than an hour. It's amazing.

The other day I walked by and someone had left a package of popup wipes - 'cleans all surfaces' from Costco. Clearly only one or two wipes had been used. It's not something I would have purchased but yikes I'm loving them!!! So easy to wipe down the kitchen counter. Usually, it's spray and then wipe with paper towel. I may well be hooked on these things.

I'm not hard over on the anti-bacteria thing but I do like having clean counters!

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I think it's time to go take another tree sweater picture.

Lungs

I try to keep track of my breathing issues here in this journal so I'll have a record if/when I need one. I'm still struggling with what to expect, how far to push and what to take fore granted. Plus, I really have trouble describing the various symptoms. It's been more than a year now so I'm getting some historical data but I'm still at a loss sometimes how to label various coughs, how to match issues with contributing circumstances, etc. It all seems pretty important until I stop and think about what I'm doing and why and what my goals are.

Today, I did very little. I watched TV, I read my book, I knitted. I went downstairs several times and walked the block taking pictures and taking out the garbage but not much else. Then, this afternoon, I got into the car and drove down the road to get a mocha and stopped at the Grocery Outlet.

I wandered around a bit and looked at stuff and found lights for my itty bitty tree and a $2 snowman with scarf and hat who lights up and one of my favorite cheeses on sale! I didn't even do the whole store. I figured I should quit before I spent too much money.

Standing at the checkout counter I think my oxygen was low and I was not breathless but just short of that. I didn't feel horrible but I was glad there was nothing more I wanted to do and could just go home. I came home, sucked on an inhaler, rested a few mins and now I'm fine.

My goal is to be able to do what I want to comfortably until I can't and then exit swiftly.

So all the worrying about symptoms and crap is a silly waste of time and energy. In the past year, I have told my doctor when I was not comfortable and he had either given me good advise or good medicine to fix it. I've got good drugs. I got good doctor. I'm comfortable. I can count on 1 hand the number of times I've wanted to do something and my health has prevented it. I need to start counting my blessings instead of counting my coughs. And that's what I will do starting now.

Please make it soon

For tomorrow. But for every day until there is a cure.