Procrastinating...

If you are familiar with Flylady.net then you would know that today was anti-procrastination day. "Fly" means finally loving yourself. I have not been very good at following the routines to have my days flow smoothly. But I do have the timer and use it sometimes to set it for 15 minutes to get something done.

So I decided to do something I have been putting off. Well, actually it was 3 somethings. First I changed my garden flags to the fall/autumn flags. I will take a picture of it later. It was too dark to do that when I put them up. Then I got my two bins of Halloween/Fall decor items from out of the shed. I could not see very well, so back into the house to get a flashlight so I could see which ones I needed to pull out from the mess. And brought them in the house.

The third thing was doing something about the coffee grounds. We save the coffee grounds to put around the plants in our yard. I had a good size mixing bowl full of them and it was beginning to smell ripe. Ewww!! So back outside I went in the now getting darker outside and got my trowel and spread the coffee grounds around the roses and other plants. When I came back in I noticed the ripe smell was gone. Yep, must have been the coffee grounds.

That takes care of Anti-procrastination day for this week. Now I need to decide how I am going to be more comfortable for work now that I am getting multiple hot flashes everyday. I am hoping to be able to put up with it without having to go to the doctor to get something to take for it. I don't want to put stuff in my body if I don't have too. Soon we will be wearing lab coats as part of our work wear. It will help to make the rehab team stand out more from the CNA's and other staff. And increase the professional look too I guess. Problem is I will be getting too hot in it. I need to figure out what kinds of lightweight tops I can find to wear under the lab coat. They will look nice with the name of the facility and our names embroidered on them. I may have to make myself some tops since it is the time of the year when that type of clothing may be hard to find. I prefer to wear knit type tops for ease of movement when pushing wheelchairs and transfering people and whatnot. I will wear the lab coat unbuttoned to keep it from binding too much. So what to do, what to do....

Perhaps tomorrow I will be able to start my fall decor. And yes I will take pictures. I want to use one as a new picture in my header instead of the Peace Rose from our yard that I have there now.

Timing Couldn't Be Better

Good thing I got the family room cleaned up, well mostly, and got the table cleared off so it can be used as a place to sit and eat again. My niece is in the area on a short leave from the Air Force while she is between bases. She is also our goddaughter and we consider her very special to us. She came over to visit and had dinner with us on Monday. We just ate a simple salad and had grapes from our grapevine. And yippee we were able to sit at the table together instead of trying to balance our plates on our knees in the midst of the mess. It was a wonderful visit. Almost as good as having our daughter home, but not quite. Our daughter did call while our niece was here. From this end it sounded like they had a crazy conversation. Of course that is not unusual, they always do. The girls are close even though they are 5 years apart. When the girls were growing up I sometimes would have my niece with us when we were out and about and people would think both girls were my daughters. I would have to explain one is my niece and one is my daughter.

Now it sounds like I will be hosting Thanksgiving this year. So that means I really need to get to the rest of the house and put up my fall decorations. On to other projects to help me get ready for that. Now that it is cooling off, that should make it easier to tackle more housecleaning. These hot flashes make it hard to stay focused on things if it is also hot out there.

Hope everyone had a good Wednesday.

The Brain Catches Fire???

Click here to read an interesting article I came across titled "The Brain Catches Fire at Menopause". Since I am in the process of going through "the change" as it used to be called or maybe it is still called that, the article title caught my eye. I found it very interesting, especially the part about the SAD(Seasonal Affective Disorder). It made sense to me that it is related. I do have issues with SAD. Some years it is worse than others. I still don't like dark rooms. That is why all the paneling in our home has been painted a soft white. Otherwise I would feel like was living in a cave. I can't stand that. I need the light to come in. Then in the summer it is frustrating to have to block it out to keep the house from getting too hot. Seems I can't win here.

At one place we lived, our room was paneled. But since it was a rental, I could not paint it or change it. In the summer time it was especially dark in there because of the sun's position being nearly directly overhead. In the Fall, Winter and Spring it was much better with the sun position towards the south. Our window faced south. There was also a tree outside the window so in the winter more light came in because the leaves had fallen off. So I started trimming some of the branches so there weren't any touching the house. That allowed more light in during the summer even with the leaves on them. I did my sewing in that room and had the ironing board under the window. The light became important to me while we lived there.

When I think of the brain catching fire, I think of the numerous "Hot Flashes" I am getting these days. Last night I had one so intense I had to open the other half of the window near my side of the bed so I could get the flow of the cool air from outside. Finally I was able to go to sleep and actually got cold eventually and needing to close the window again. My body can't make up its mind. But when I get the hot flashes, it feels like it starts with my brain and rushes from head to toe. I used to get hot flashes periodically. Now I get them daily and nightly too. But that is the stage of my life I am in right now.