Hearfelt Thanks

I am singing praises for the improvement in my health since having a heart cath that opened 2 arteries with stents plus pneumonia, which is resolving. I’ll be starting cardiac rehab soon.

To have finally found the answer is such an emotional relief! I remain chronically ill, but my energy level and stamina will improve. My dwindling hope has taken a 360° turn and filling my emotional cup to overflowing.  

Slowly I’ll be returning to my knitting and writing.

Feelin' good,

Connie 

P.S. No music playing during procedure.

Pick Your Own Music!

Heart Music

Next week I will be having a heart cath'.

Cardiac catheterization  is a medical procedure used to diagnose and treat some heart conditions.

For more information go to:

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/cath

I told my cardiologist 8 years ago the music they played irritated me instead of calming and relaxing me. So I want to pick my own music.

Although I haven't decided what CD to take with me, I know what it won't be:

"An 80 year old friend has been having hip/leg pain so the Dr sent him to have an MRI.

He knew nothing about the procedure, but the man at the hospital told him that some people get claustrophobic in the tunnel and that the machine is noisy, so they play music whilst one is being processed. He was very nervous, wondering what they may find. So he closed his eyes and tried to relax...

then the music started with Frank Sinatra singing " and now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain."

My friend said, "It is funny today, but it scared me at the time." (Received per e-mail from a knitting friend.)

Glass Half Full

I've known a few people who always see the best in everyone and everything. 

For me, lately, it's been hard to see the glass half full knowing I can no longer fill it to the top.

Therefore, I  went searching for some things to make me fill up my glass with smiles. Hope they give you a chuckle also!

Erma Bombeck once said, "My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell. catch fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."

                                                                - Yiddish Proverb

One of my favorites:

       

      I wish I were a teddy bear...

• Everyone expects them to wake up growling.
• No one cares how fat they are.
• Hairy legs are natural.
• The older they get, the more they're worth. 
• And everyone loves them.                                     

Catalog finds:

    

My new tee.

Then there is my old, thin Maxine t-shirt:

on the front she says, "Having a bad day?"

on the back, "Better you than me."

I've never worn it without someone laughing.

         Stop & remember the things kids say.

                     

Hanging in my kitchen is a picture of Maxine standing in front of a sink loaded with dirty dishes. She's saying, "Who cares about Prince Charming. I just want those forest animals that come and clean the kitchen."

From me to you: 

Lastly, think of each box on your calendar as a gift to open!

Selah...

Returning!

It's been 6 months without a computer, but I have one once again and it's calling to me to write.

Also I have spent nearly 3 months "sitting on the shelf" due to illness. Because my energy level was soooo-oo low, I had difficulty focusing. However, boredom prompted me to do something.

Thus in my downtime, I alphabetized my writing, cleaned out my 4 drawer filing cabinet, combined my many journals of quotes into just 3, my diary entries into another journal, and wrote memories in my grandchildren's Gramma books.

I used RAFT: Read  Act   File  Toss. 

Now I am ready to return to writing A Forgetful People: a Study of Remembrance [See consforgetfulpeple.blogspot.com]

Over the weeks ahead, I will be sharing from my journals... quotations to encourage your heart and soul.

~ ~ ~

For today:

"A child is like a white piece of paper on which every passerby writes a little."

~ Chinese Proverb

"I am part of every place I have been...
I am part of all the people I have known...
I am still every age that I have been..."

I don't set out to be disobedient; usually I just don't listen.

Scars remind me of where I've been...not where I'm going.

Trouble never leaves me where it found me; it always causes change. I can be bitter or I can be better.

Opportunity doesn't just come along-it is there all the time... I just have to see it.

Dwelling on the closed doors may mean missing the open ones.

"We spend most of our time on our facade-the part of us that's visible-not on our character."

~ George MacDonald

"Continuity gives us roots

Change gives us branches

Letting us stretch and grow

And reach new heights."

~ Pauline R. Kezer

Do you try to turn over a new leaf only to find the old ones blowing back faster than you can rake them away?

Selah... think on these...

Connie

Computer

I'm still without a computer. So frustrating as I have lots to share.

Official Now

My computer has died. Will return as able to post brief messages. Connie