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I can't believe it's been so long since I posted. So my house is painted. The painter and his crew spent about a week scraping old paint off the walls. It seems that the previous painter used cheap paint. You could just peel it off like orange peel. Anyway, the job is finally over. The colors are pretty masculine, so I'm going to add some girly touches. I'm going to write "peace" across the garage door, and I have cutouts of doves for either side of the sign. They're coated with housepaint, so they should stand up to the weather. Also, A dove with an olive branch will be flying across my mailbox.
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Great news! Peace never goes out-of-style. Thank you for making your part of the world a better place!
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I love drawing. I think it's a left-brain/ right brain thing. I makes me happy. Yesterday I was thinking about what makes me happy (besides eating and watching TV.) the answer is drawing, scrapbooking, making pretty things like doves flying across my mailbox. Why don't I know this all the time? No, playing solitaire doesn't make me happy. Bad thoughts run through my brain when I do it. Don't know why. And the bigger question - why do I play solitaire when it doesn't make me happy?????
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What I like about Solitaire is that it satisfies my inate need to put things in order. Also, it's not a totally mindless activity -- it does require some strategy.
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Writing is happening. As predicted, rewriting the end of Through Unfamiliar Waters is harder than I expected. But it's happening. I have one epilogue to go, and then I'm done. I wonder what it would look like if I had a deadline. Hmmmmm.
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Yay! Keep at it! Good for you! I heard that a famous writer once said, "I don't like writing; I like having written."
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Today, I took a friend to Kaiser. It was fun in that I don't see my friends as much as I used to. COVID got us used to being alone, And we don't just go out for lunch or something. Another Hmmmmm.
Cool possibility. She god a CPAP machine for sleep apnea. She says it's wonderful. I've resisted the idea. I have some apnea, but I'm afraid that I"ll sleep worse with a stupid cup attached to my face. She says that she feels more together - as if her body and her mind work better. When I get a bad night's sleep, I'm dumber than dirt. The thought of having my old brain back is an appealing one. I see the sleep doctor in September. I start Physical Therapy on Friday. We'll see what modern medicine has going for it.
Later,
D
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I love my CPAP machine. I wrote about it on my blog many years ago. If you do get one, make sure the DME company does a proper mask fitting on you. Then be sure to clean the mask (and perhaps your face) prior to the first use. My mask was set too tight, and the edges dug into the bridge of my nose and I got a skin infection. I used to have a "cup-like" mask (Fisher Paykel FlexiFit), but I switched to Nasal Pillows, which the new sleep doctor recommended. The improvement in comfort was unbelievable!