slowly she turned

Well, as you probably know, I try to keep this a politics free space most of the time, for my own sanity’s sake. BUT YAY! And this was too funny not to share, and I still love Bernie.

Anyway, I am still working on the Mexico posts. I have most of them written and I’m still paring down the photos and editing. Already my memory is getting fuzzy and I’m relying on my Facebook posts and the dates on my photos to remember what happened on which day, so I need to finish them up.

Honestly, I’ve been so caught up in my genealogy project and reading that I haven’t felt like editing photos. And of course I went to the Tapestry Weavers South retreat in Elkin, and that’s a whole new set of posts. Soon I’ll head to the lake again. So I guess I’d better get crackin’.

Sandy is doing better, I think. Stopping some of his meds has made him feel better, although I still disagree with him about this course of action. He met with a pharmacist and she prescribed him a new diabetes drug, which is, of course, way too expensive and there was communication problems between his insurance company and Walgreen (what a surprise – snort) but now they have covered most of the expense. I hope that these meds will work with tolerable side effects.

As for me, I stopped taking the anti-inflammatory meloxicam for my bone spur/Achilles tendinitis and after a week, my allergic reactions (hives) stopped, but now the pain has started again. I’m going to try naproxen for a while and then see if I need another steroid shot. Believe me, any way that I can put off this surgery is a good thing to do – it is going to be rough if I have to have it fixed surgically. Even the surgeon said so.

Reading: Finished Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel, which was an excellent and disturbing read. I’m tempted to pick up the third in the series, but I have a huge stack of books in my to-be-read pile already. I began reading Falls the Shadow which is the second book in Sharon Penman’s trilogy about 13th century Wales and England, but the font is SO SMALL, LOL. This one will take a while. I might have to switch back and forth to another book – maybe A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles?

The rest of the day will be busy – preparing a dish for a potluck party tonight to say farewell to a faculty member who we all love but can’t blame her for leaving the hot mess that my university is right now. Then gallery sitting at CVA Gallery in the downtown Arts Center, where I’m trying to accumulate 25 hours of volunteer time to get a free membership, although mostly I’m doing it to stay connected to and inspired by other local artists. I think that tomorrow is wide open so I’m going to try to finish up the Mexico posts then and maybe weave on the little tapestries that I began in Elkin a little over a week ago. Stay tuned!