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The Sunday Salon: Checking In

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Sunday Salon

Hello! Stopping by for a quick ‘hello’ before I take a much-needed nap. This time change is wonderful! I feel as if I’ve had a full day, but I am way sleepy and want to kick back with a book and maybe, just maybe, take a cat nap. Think it will happen? It might. The Girl has been totally absorbed with her new Kindle Fire and the novelty has yet to wear off so I am going to take advantage of that.

What am I reading?

I am reading a lot, but haven’t had the energy to write any reviews. I’ve got to write them soon though because the details are already slipping from my mind. Let’s see, what am I reading? I am reading The Shining Girls. Meh. I am not liking it all that much and it’s gotten so much buzz. I just started The Abominable but haven’t read enough to give it a fair shake yet. I’ve also started How To Be a Good Wife. That one is very interesting. Not sure what to make of it yet.

What am I cooking?

Yesterday I made homemade spaghetti sauce so we will probably have that tonight. I am not in the mood to cook. I had some weird reaction to food recently and my mouth is swelling in the same spot I had a problem with last March. Long story short, unless the food is very soft, I don’t really have an appetite for it. Auto-immune issues suck.

What am I watching?

Oh my goodness. I have discovered The Walking Dead. With all that I had going on, I needed a distraction and let me tell you, I could not have picked a better show. I started with the first episode last week and I am already half-way through season three! I love it!

Thank you all for the kind emails and Facebook posts. It’s been a rough couple of weeks. We have started the “fixing” that needs to take place and I feel more like myself, but there are times where I feel very low. The flip side is that through all of this, I’ve turned to walking and I have lost ten pounds just from pounding the pavement. Hard to believe that just a few miles a day could make that much of a difference but it can.

I hope you are all well and that you are enjoying the weekend. Off I go to take that nap.

Life

My Mind, Right Now

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I struggled over whether I should write something or not, but this blog has been such a part of my life for so long, and all of you have been such a huge source of happiness for me, that I find it hard not to say at least something about what is going on and why my heart just isn’t in it at the moment.

Without going into detail, my life came crashing down around me last week and it’s left me feeling lost, confused and there’s no other word for it, sad. If I really focus, I know things will be okay but with all of the distractions around me, I find myself not wanting to think about the stuff I have to do. It would be easy to let everything go and just crawl back into bed, but the other half me thinks that will just make it worse.

I am not going anywhere. I thought about taking a blogging break but then at the same time, I feel as if I need to keep my friends around me and whether you know it or not, you are friends to me. I interact with so many of you daily that the thought of not hearing from you would make me even sadder. So, no…I won’t be taking a break but the posting may be erratic and I may not be able to interact as much as I normally do. I’ve never kept to a posting schedule before but a week could slip by without me posting one darn thing and then one day you might get three posts back to back. It could happen.

Lastly, if you are the praying type, my family could use some prayers right now. Good thoughts? I’ll take those too. In the mean time, I am going to keep reading and hope that in a few month’s time, we will be in a better place.