All Better Today!

A Good Day after a breakdown…..

Yesterday, I had a really bad moment.  I was cleaning off the dining room table after scheduling an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon for July 3^rd.  I was having a friend over this morning for some sewing and I had to clear a place off on the table for her sewing machine.  I was doing really well, I was motivated to get things done when I came across the same watch that had belonged to Rudy that I found in one of the boxes from Maryland.  I was ready for a break, so I decided to take the back of the watch off to see what kind of battery it might need.  I keep a supply of several small batteries on hand and fortunately I had one here.  So I figured out how to replace the battery and found that the watch still worked.  So I set about changing the day of the week and the date.  This was more difficult.  This watch actually has hands and small windows where the information shows and I was trying to get the date to the correct date and the day to the correct day and I was finding that I could do one and then when trying to change the other it would do something to one of the other settings.  I was trying to pull the stem out to one more click to try setting the day of the week and the stem pulled totally out from the watch.  After staring at it for a bit, I broke down and just sobbed.  I had broken Rudy’s watch and I was uncontrollable. After letting the tears flow and calming down I tried calling my best friend just to talk.  No answer.  I calmed down some more and decided I could no longer hurt the watch anymore, so the back came off again and began fiddling with the stem.  I carefully inserted it back into the hole it came out of.  The first turns nothing happened, so I brought it back out and put it back in.  Carefully I turned the stem again and hands began to move.  My heart leaped.  I carefully put the back on and set about setting the watch.  This time more carefully.  I managed to get it set and am wearing it as I type.  It may fall apart or stop allowing me to set it, but for now, I have a feeling of calm I have not felt in awhile.  Perhaps I needed to get to that break to move forward.

Today was a much improved day.  My friend, Nancy Groff, came over to sew.  She enjoys learning to do some easy things.  I met her at the Log Cabin Quilt class.  She was taking the class, too.  We have become friends and she loves getting together with me to learn new and simple projects.  Today we did two of the projects that I am planning to do in North Carolina.  They were quick and simple and she was thrilled.  We talked and talked, she brought me plants for my garden (which I may kill before they get back into the ground) and some asparagus that I have enjoyed for dinner.  I reheated the delicious roast from Saturday.  It was every bit as good as it was then.  It is so fork tender that it would also make a great roast beef sandwich.  That recipe stays at the front of my book.  I found it on Facebook and it is called Three Envelope Roast.  I f you see it, try it.  If you don’t see it, I will happily share it.  Easy, simple and fast to put together.  Tastes like you spent hours!

I spent the remainder of the afternoon working on a quilt I started earlier this year.  Hopefully by the end of the day it will be finished.  It is a quick and simple quilt-as-you-go pattern and I will have it finished and ready to be used either tonight or by the end of the weekend.  I will post pictures once it is done.  I have been catching up on laundry and sorting through some of my packing items in preparation for the road trip.  I have taken several trips last year and each one I had sundries packed in different ways.  So I was consolidating them into more useful configurations.  Making progress.

Tomorrow I am helping a friend begin moving into her new digs.  I will have to go out and sink the seats of the van into the floor, but the van will be used to carry boxes from Sheila’s cousin’s house to her new place in Ephrata.  There will be a trip tomorrow and then cleaning/painting.  Saturday will be more moving.  Then next week is the big push to get her more settled.  I am so happy to be able to help her out.

Next week is the MRI, the week after is my first meeting with the surgeon, then heading out on my trip.  Keeping busy… it is a good thing!