Yopping Update #37 - A little progress

Happy Saint Patrick's Day.   I hope you are wearing green for luck.  Or leprachaun socks like my grand-daughter!

The sun is shining and the sky is blue.  The barometer is up so good weather is ahead.  Hooray!

The arm is no better, but I am going for physio tomorrow morning (at 7am!).  Wish me luck because it is a real pain (literally and figuratively). 

I did get a little knitting done - I can knit for about 30 minutes before my upper arm starts to ache.

So now I have 24 finished squares.  Slow progress for sure but it is what it is. 

I did work quite a bit this week, and on Wednesday and Friday I was the substitute teacher in the handwork room.  What a fantastic gig.  I got paid to help students knit and sew. 
One dear little grade two girl told her mum (who told me later) that Mrs. T is the 'world's best handwork teacher!'  High praise indeed!

Spring break has started here so the school will not be calling on me and I can spend more time on rehab for my arm, walking, visiting and resting.

My son is in town for a few days so that has been wonderful to catch up and hang out.  This morning while having our coffee and chatting we watched two flickers involved in a very complicated mating ritual.  Too far away for any pictures but with the binoculars we had a good view of their antics. 

Baby flickers in my future!

I have been studying a lot this week since I needed to fill my knitting time with something else and I feel like I have had quite a break through understanding the complicated conjugation rules of the Croatian language.  Yay me. 

I am still grumpy because of my arm, but today I will go to the gym instead of the pool and do some leg work - also use the stair machine.  My son will come too so then after our workout we can hang out in the hot tub and the sauna. I will probably float in the river for a time too.

I let go of some things yesterday that no longer serve me to keep them around.  Old letters and such that were written in a different time out of a different place and to hang on to them and stumble upon them was causing me sadness.  At my CoDA meeting yesterday there was a lot of sharing about relationships,and forgiveness and trust.  It seems that every meeting I go to teaches me, or reaffirms for me, things that I need to learn, or am learning about myself. 

As Marie Kondo would say 'thank the things for how they have served you and then let them go. 

Letting go is not something that comes second nature to me. Holding on to old hurts doesn't serve me.  If you read about the metaphysical reasons for pain, shoulder pain means I am perhaps not letting go of things or holding on to another's sadness or, and I like this one, YOUR BODY IS TELLING YOU: LOVE YOURSELF.

Yes, it was in capitals in the article my daughter sent me so I am paying attention. 

I also cleaned up files off my computer and phone to free up space and I found this: 

Perfect. 

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