Well, I had such a good start to my vacation days. I spent yesterday in my sewing room. Leon was watching football. I enjoyed every minute of it! Great therapy. Today started out the same way. I was being creative at the same time as I had a lot of time to think as well as plan what to bring for Thanksgiving. Then something happened - pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. HOwever it bothered me the rest of the day. It "festered" in me all day long. By tonight I have a headache. Why do I let things like this bother me so bad? I don't think the other person thought twice about it. But it ruined my entire afternoon and it shouldn't have. I have to learn how to let those things go. But how? How do I tell my brain to stop thinking about it. This is the main reason I don't always enjoy what is going on in my life. The most important thing to me right now is to ejoy every minute of the rest of my life. Okay that is what I will be contemplating the rest of my vacation. On a side note, I think I have to stop posting from my Kindle. On top of the auto correct, it is very hard to do any corrections at all.

I am so excited to have the next week off. Ifound I couple hardly toleration.g getting up in the morning to go to work. I just need some time off. Today I went to the craft show I Files and got a few Christmas gifts. Next week I intend to sew up some Christmas gifts. Sewing is very theraputic for me. I really need that therapy. I am also looking forward to being home by myself for several days. I love the feeling of cacooning myself here kn the house. On another note, I had a day of continuing ed this past week. It was very interesting. I hats to wish my life away, but this class made me very anxious for retirement. I want to retire while I am still in good health and can do traveling. In the mean time I want to really enjoy life. The next week I am going to figure out how I can do that. How can enjoy every day as tjhough it could be my last. Life is too short to waste it away!

This past week has been a little stressful at work. I am glad that is all over. I am not sure if I caught a cold from one of the kids or if I am just so worn down from worry that I was an easy target for a fold bug. Anyway, I have spent the last two nights sleeping in my chair because I was having a tough time breathing. It also gave me more time to think - yes I have been doing a lot of thinking. This time I thought a lot about stress. They say you make your own stress. I guess I do understand that. If the same thing happened to two. Different people, it might be very stressful to one person and not the other. So, it is my goal going forward to not let things at work make me fell stressed. I think I mentioned this before, but this time I am going to try extra hard to not let things bother me.

What a productive weekend!!! We got all of our fall "chores" done on Saturday. Cut all the perennials down, mowed lawn, got all the leaves taken care of. Ialso did a lot of chopping. And cooking. The tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers all need to have something done with them. Through all of that I had a lot of time to reflect on the week. In the end I came to the uglyrealization that I am a pretty selfish person. I am both embarrassed and humiliated. I have a goal now. I need to be concious of this as part of my effort to be abetted person. To day was better. We had the grandbabbies all day so mommy and daddy could keep combings. There is still a lot of corn to get out and the weatherman is talking about a storm front coming in tomorrow night. And now to get ready for a very busy week ahead.

Tonight is a very unusual evening. I am actually home. No meetings or anything. Along with that, I am home by myself. That doesn't happen very often either. Tnhis has been a very stressful week at work. Today I had a continuing ed class though. While generally I don't get too excited about continuing ed, today it was just what the doctor ordered. It was wonderful yo get away from the normal routine of work. And now I think it is time for a glass of wine.

this myfirst time trying to do this from my Kindle. It is very different tron doing it from my computer. I hope it works! I have just been thinking about all of the things I have in my life. I am so grateful for all those wonderful things. I am healthy an if you have your health you have everything. I just had all of my wellness checks done. I had a full pannel lab done as well as a mammogram, ekg, stress test and colonoscopy. Everything came back as okay. Even my cholesterol is fine. You know what they say - you can buy medical care, but you ca.n 't buy good health.

It has been a short week for me, but seems like it has taken forever.  I have to work tomorrow morning, but I don't mind.  I get a lot of catch up stuff done when I work a Saturday morning.  I am pretty excited that we are going up to see Denver and Danielle on Sunday.  We haven't seen them for quite awhile.  I should also get out to the garden and pull out all the plants.  It froze last night so the garden is done.  I don't mind though.  I have done a ton of canning and feezing this fall.  Corn, green beans, salsa, tomato sauce and chili starter.  Now I can get back to my quilting.  I love quilting almost as much as I do gardening. 

Well, Leon is working late tonight since harvest is in full swing.  They need to have someone at the shop until 8:00 every night durning harvest.   Harvest should be done in a week or so, so he may only have a few more late nights to work.  I always get a little worried during harvest.  The farmers are so anxious to get the crop out that sometimes they take shortcuts that they shouldn't and there are accidents.  Praying for a safe harvest.