I do have a lot, but I share. I have collected for many years and had many kids to keep busy - so we did a lot of arts. I am not a store shopper (never had the money, so it was thrift stores and garage sales - and I wouldn’t pay top dollar when people are always nearly giving it away for pennies on the dollar). I have always been thrifty and crafty. I always share my skills and supplies with different volunteer organizations. If anything needs to get bought, they purchase it, but I use what I have to dwindle mine down.
Right now, OHCE and The Methodist Church are my groups. We are making scrap quilts to donate at the church, just finished making all of the Veterans at the church lap quilts. We also do so much with OHCE. We made and donated privacy covers to emergency responders, breast cancer pillows, holiday treat bags, notecards to put on inpatient trays, and shoeboxes to soldiers. OHCE does more than you could imagine. We are feeding the children’s tummies on Tuesday.
I donated a quilt that sold for over $950 in raffle tickets - all that money goes to scholarships. Sharon had fabric for that quilt that I needed (didn’t buy) so she shared some with me and I with her. She made the same quilt, different colors.
I don’t have to have a dedicated place for my loot to go to because all of us just grab and make. If Karen doesn’t have the thread I do and it works both ways, that way we share our wealth with the community.
I am a collector, but I am a much bigger giver. And I am blessed with people that donate to my loot so we keep on keepin’ on. I love people and I love making smiles.
But, my friend Kidsmom? Yeah, she has a 54’ (?) trailer chock full of the same things that I have and more. If I don’t have it she does - and she readily shares like I do. She even buys used sewing machines for cheap, cleans and repairs just to give them away.
God has kept me here for something and I like to think it is for everything I try to do to make a difference in our world. Just me sharing and lovin’ life in our neck of woods…
This is what makes me happy. Not gonna feel guilty. Love me or not. I am who I am.
And anyway I don’t have half the tools my hubby does! 😂
So I have to try to piece part it, or take out 3 rows. Wish me luck.
I went to my Dr today. I am hurting from head to toe worse than normal, with a continuous awful headache. I always hurt, but this is a major scale worse. I was driving a few days ago, and, I have no idea how it happened, but I was driving, then suddenly in a ditch, trying to keep the truck from turning over. I have no idea what happened. I have never even had a wreck! Cattle were all that were present. Yesterday, again, country roads, I suddenly find myself in the dead center of the road! Ya’ll, I am not looking down or messing with anything. I am just suddenly where I shouldn’t be.
So I tell my Dr this, show him my CAT scan results that were taken when I fell. I tell him my sinus Dr is fighting with my insurance company about my sinus surgery, and how much worse my pain is. I told him I wanted to go to a chiropractor, I figure everything is out of place since I fell, but wanted his blessing.
He immediately said “absolutely not!” Looking at the CAT scan he said it is possible that I may have an artery aneurysm - or a cancer in the bone. *gulp* I guess and aneurysm is an eroding vessel, which is what the radiologist stated on the results.
Whatever it is is about a quarter of an inch. Tiny, right? Anyway Dr said we don’t want a chiropractor touching me until we know for sure what is going on. Oh, whatever it is is between C2/C3 in my neck.
He felt my eye socket and it is still very swollen and dense. My eyesight should return to normal once the swelling goes down, but at a month out, he thinks there could have been a fracture in there.
He thinks my brain was ‘shook’ badly and bruised when I fell. Trust me, it probably was. I swear I felt it slam against my skull - which he said could possibly be causing horrible headache and possibly small seizures, hence the driving problems. I am now punished from driving until my brain heals. I am not upset, I was genuinely scared anyway.
Dr also said that the fall put me into a major Lupus/Sjogren's flare, which combined with everything out of place, is causing my terrible headache and pain.
He is allowing me to take steroids to conquer the flares even though I am not supposed to have them. He is giving me Celebrex to try to get the inflammation down. I have my MRI for my neck (with contrast) on November 3 to determine what, if anything, is going on there. I don’t claim it, so it will be fine.
So that is where I am. Tired, hurting, frightened, and praying a lot. And definitely not thinking clearly. Back to my triangles. 😂
I met my sister after my Drs appointment to visit. I love that we are close. I shared all the details, whined a bit, ate ice cream and hugged her. ❤️
More “now you know” in my life.
God said He won’t give us more than we can handle…
