Monday

It's a foggy day out. There's a hill I can see out my living room window and on top of that hill is an old former veteran's hospital that was, for a few years, Amazon's headquarters. It's an imposing sight and one that I am very fond of. Today it is missing. As is a good deal of the international district which is also part of my normal view. It's kind of eerie.

I have nothing on the calendar for today. And nothing lined up to sew. hmmmm. I have some things cut out and ready but they need black thread and the black thread is at the post office to be delivered today or tomorrow.

So maybe today is clean up sewing room day. Or make new crumb block squares. I do have a couple of errands to run but I think I'll wait until 11 and wrap in a stop at the poke place. One of their bowls is plenty for lunch and dinner.

My preferred mayoral candidate did not win. Today, the police chief announced she's leaving. I can only assume it's because she and the new mayor are on vastly different pages. I'm so sorry. We had had a great police chief who left because of politics a 15 years ago and we have crap since thing until this current chief who's been great for the three years she's been here. Now she's gone. Plus, she's so respected that I have a hard time figuring out who - of quality candidates - would look at the situation and say 'oh yeah, that's a sitch I wanna step into.' Sigh.

Tonight is a HOA meeting. It's a budget vote so could be dry as toast or kind of a mess. Our bylaws dictate default acceptance. More than 75% of the population have to vote against to defeat the budget. Actually it may be 60%. Either way, we couldn't get 30% of the population to vote for sunshine. Even though it's proforma, these are condo people. They will argue over the value of breathing.

Google has a cool coding doodle up today which turned out to almost be a rabbit hole. Happily, the music was so annoying that I was able to stop before I killed too much time.

Ok, time now to go do something other than tap a keyboard!

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Turned out to be a nice day

So I picked up some allergy pills today just in case and, of course, my doing that just completely stopped the nose running. Didn't have to ingest a single pill. Nice.

I found a new pattern that I really like at an independent company with better than average pattern scheme and instructions. I'm jazzed. I got the pattern made and the fabric cut out... tomorrow.

I got this and that done and other around the house puttering and before you know it the day was gone. Off in a few to the HOA meeting.

Oh, I did finally get my notary public license! I had put off getting it because I thought I had to have it to order a stamp but turns out I did not. Stamp will be here probably next week and then I'll finally be in the Notary Public Biz!! Which will be a total non-profit. But, also a way to help out.

Yoga Breathing

I have COPD. 75% of the time, you'd never know it. I'd never know it. But some days and parts of days regular breathing does not come easily. Today was not a bad breathing day but there were challenges. Before I went down to the HOA meeting, I put some stuff away and tidied up the sewing room and generally walked around doing stuff kind of a little in a hurry.

When I got to the elevator, I was breathing a little heavily - not panting but more breathing deliberately. I didn't even notice. I got in the elevator with a girl down the hall and we were quiet. Then she said "that's some excellent yoga breathing. my instructor would be very impressed"

Cracked me up. Yoga breathing. I can't wait to tell Dr. Lung.

The HOA meeting was over in 20 minutes. The main disrupter kept his mouth shut for once although he did have several snide remarks to share with me in the elevator back up here to our floor. Everyone at the meeting was nice and civil and the job got done. Next meeting is the annual one in January which I will skip.

Now is knittin' time.