Yopping Update #42 - To the left, to the left

Happy Easter!

Spring Cleaning seems to be happening here - trying to do so with my left arm (this takes longer and is not as efficient).  Yesterday I took apart our bedroom fan (looking forward to hot July days) and cleaned all the dust and muck that has accumulated over - oh, I don't know - twenty years!!

I re-potted my Aloe Vera plant which had enough new babies to now have four pots!  I cleaned out the flower boxes and I will buy more hummingbird flower seeds to keep those dear little birds around.

I worked this week on learning to crochet with the hook in my left hand.

I finished the skein of cotton and frogged it, and now I am trying to learn the basket weave stitch.  

I narrowly avoided buying a set of knitpicks interchangeable needles (darn knitpick catalogue), but as my uncle would say - common sense prevailed.  I don't NEED any more needles, but I feel so lost
without my knitting I just want to buy something knitting related.  I wandered into a local wool shop Thursday and perused the crochet needles (I also don't need these), and again came to my senses before spending any money.

I did, though, buy a crochet pattern that has been in my queue for a while, for the Rainbow Amigurumi Monkey, and I am using the yarn I bought at Michael's at the end of March.

This will be a slow process, but it is on my Year of Projects to-do list.

I got home Monday night - and have not been doing any walking because I have been feeling sorry for myself.  I put my arm in a sling on Friday, which I think helped me be aware enough not to use it all the time for this and that.  I have my ultrasound on Tuesday, and also a physio appointment. I have been sleeping better because I am taking ibuprofen as I head to bed, which seems to make a lot of difference.

I have been reading this amazing book called Tides, by Jonathon White.  I picked it up from the library to read as prep for the course I am teaching this summer, but it is more than just that - it is such a good read, accessible in its scientific explanations, and the story telling of the different unusual tides around the world is very engaging.

I went to my Croatian lesson on Thursday and we got through another chapter of my textbook.  Yay us!

I went to my CoDA meeting yesterday morning and was late because I had slept in.  Then I sat in the corner quite weepy for the first part of the meeting (see above about feeling sorry for myself).  However by the end of the meeting I was feeling much lighter, and more hopeful and that probably explains the fan cleaning and plant re-potting yesterday afternoon.

There has been some difficult news this week of two dear friends who both have been recently diagnosed with Cancer.  F&^k Cancer!

I have set up my daughter's painting easel, and I plan to start painting again - since I can't knit or swim.  I will keep you posted on my progress but I am looking forward to getting my paints out once more.

Here is another message from my son:

And when all else fails I just play this video over and over:

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Now I have a chocolate bunny to eat.....