OK, I made it thru another 1st

January 24th was my birthday. And Family and friends called and sang a variation of Happy Birthday to me and I was touched by each one of the calls. It was a good day. I missed getting my Birthday Babe Boyden card in the mail, but my big brother did wish me both Birthday Babe and Buttercup Greetings.
I did very well without my little brother around, I could laugh, do things and enjoy people, and I just miss him.
I told Randy I would like to get to the place where talking about Peter is just part of the conversation, not a reaction to a painful jolt. And I am getting there.
I loved hearing about Kyler running and using the blog for her motivation/record keeping and for her cheer leaders... Ky, I am wicked proud of you, because you are working on your goal and you are an inspiration. Not that I have gotten out and done any exercise, but I will.
I use to love to say I walked 2 miles every morning or that I walked a 17 minute mile and feel good for doing it... but I have come up with every reason in the book not to walk in the mornings yet... Now I have a cold and I am always tired... so getting up at 5:30 or 6 is just too hard... but I need to replenish my self, fill my own self up and 2 ways I know to do that is meditation and walking. Writing morning pages is always good too, and knitting and making jewelry... and I have so little time to do it all.... so, as Peter use to say: just start 1 thing, a little at a time, and it should be fun.
So I will look for some fun in walking or cleaning my room.
Randy says to start 3 piles, one for goodwill, one to throw away and one to pack away as what I will keep will be in my bins/closet... but then I can overwhelm myself, by saying I need to clean my closet before I clean my room, but I need to clean my desk off before I get to the stuff on the floor, but then I need a flat monitor to save space, but then I have to ask myself, do I need a windows 2000 and a windows 98 cpu with 1 huge monitor... ok, maybe if I answer that question 1st, but then I have to clean the hard drives on the cpu's before I give then away or throw them away ...
So this weekend I will answer that desktop question, and clean the hard drives and move these machines out of my room... there will be so much space...
So I will.
and I have been thinking I want to make my own vera bradley type of a back pack filled with lots of great pockets (I love pockets) I am thinking of a wonderful pattern I could make and even the material, it has to be cool so no sweating while I wear it but rain proof so it doesn't run...wouldn't that be fun..hmmmmmm