MINI COVID

Good for you Sharri!!!  That is kind of the point of the challenges.  Cherry pick what you want to do and have fun with it.

This is going to be short today.  I have mini Covid.  I had a Moderna shot yesterday and everything was fine, til the middle of the night.  My arm hurt like a son of gun!  It actually woke me up.  Man it hurt!  Way worse than the shingrix shot and I thought that one was bad.

But now it is 11 in the morning and I am sick.  If this is a taste of what covid is well I DON'T WANT COVID!!!!  Nausea, headache, sore eyes, achy, waaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!

More importantly April graduated yesterday!!!!  All the students made a grad book, an online animated one, that displayed their work.  And in spite of all the drawbacks, the endless problems with the computer equipment, no hands on teacher, everything by zoom, no camaraderie with fellow students, no in house help, many many many hours at home alone trying to be motivated, seriously, endless difficulties....they still managed to get it done.  This course was NOT supposed to be a correspondence course.  There were tears.  And not just from the students.

  I am so proud.  And yesterday I watched her reel, her animations, and they were set to music, songs Monte has written in the past.  It was too much for me.  To watch and hear my talented kids art right in front of me.  Holy Hannah!  I just cried.  I am tearing up now thinking about it.

And speaking of my kids, I just got a phone call from my notary's office.  Mortgage investment papers are ready to sign, thanks to my hugely amazing other daughter Aryn, who if she vaporized tomorrow I would be completely and utterly screwed.  She takes care of all my business in the most amazing way and I would be so completely hooped if it weren't for her.  I am sooooo lucky.  And my other one, Kevin, gave me grand children.  Sigh.  I am one lucky person. 

I didn't get my picture exchanged yet.  I haven't gotten into the shed outside.  All my pictures that aren't hung are out there.  I am going to take down my great big blue picture I have hanging over the fireplace and we are going to hang it over Monte's bed.  His whole room, including his carpet, is blue so it will suit it down there.  I am going to hang my old standbys I bought many years ago in Kamloops in a store near where my Mom was living.  They are wooden framed and painted on wood  poppies, three different red poppy pictures.  I am missing them.  I think they will look great over the fireplace in my fairly red living room.

And I am proud to say that my under the sink cupboards were pretty good.  There wasn't a whole lot to weed out and organize.  So that was a quick one.

I shall go and have a look at what 27 and 28 are.  Back in a mo.

27.  Make a memory book.  Hmmmmm.....not so easily done.  I am trying to think of a substitute activity.  Nope, can't think of one.  Never mind.

28.  Start a journal.  This is a really good idea, if an old one.  Lots of you probably already have one going and I just have a feeling that if there are any men reading this, they will NOT be starting a journal.  But really, I treat this blog like a journal and it is hugely cathartic and really handy.  And if you have kids they will appreciate it one day.  Mom wrote journals (which I can't read because her writing was soooooo tiny, paper was dear back in the day) and we love reading them.  Kathy actually read out of them to her near the end.  It was amazing to see her reactions to that.

Well thats it til Thursday or Friday.  Stay safe, don't get covid, noodle and talk to older folks.  They have wonderful stories to tell.  TTYL

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