I woke up feeling very tired and grouchy and grumpy today... AND itchy and sniffly... my nose is running like a tap today. I'm 95% sure that I've got PMS, and it'll be that time of the month again real soon now. At least it's a relatively convenient week for it because we travelled last weekend and we'll be travelling again Christmas week. I don't have to go anywhere this week if I don't want to. I thought the church christmas concert was this weekend coming up but it's not till Saturday the 21st. They're doing the ring-and-sing at the homeless center this weekend. I don't expect we'll go. John doesn't really want to do anything 'churchy'... he's resigned to the fact that I'm not going to leave that church, but he doesn't want anything to do with it. He's holding out till they find a new pastor, so that'll probably take all year because they're only starting the search now! I'm sure he's glad that we're not going to be here for Christmas so he doesn't have to go to church at all. Rita and Roger and their family aren't church-going people, so church doesn't feature into their Christmas plans at all. I don't really mind. I can go to church any time I want but I only get to see family a couple of times a year. I do wish that John would take me to midnight mass Christmas Eve... but it's not on the cards.
I was going to decorate my cane with christmas ribbon but it wouldn't stay in place, so I bought glitter tape instead. I also bought some strips of bling to use, but they won't stick to the glitter (boo hoo). I'd have to glue them down and that would make it a permanent makeover, which I don't really want - I used my expensive cane as a base because it has a better finish so it should be easier to pull the tape off without taking the paint with it. My other cane is getting battered, but I love the pattern too much to be willing to cover it up just yet. When my floral cane gets too beat up, I'll get myself another one, and then I can do what I like with the old one. I kind of like the idea of making a bedazzled cane for myself just because I can. :) I still wonder whether I REALLY need the cane at all... what would happen if I just said no and put it away and refused to use it... sure my leg would hurt, but would it KEEP hurting? Wouldn't it get used to the work and quit whining sooner or later? It's not as if I need the cane to keep me from falling, which is why most people use one. (yeah I know, I'm dreaming... by the end of any day when I've done much standing my stupid legs just plain don't want to work any more without the cane to force the issue. It's not because I'm a fall risk, I've never fallen at all.) Also wondering whether I should just stop taking all my meds and vitamins except my blood pressure pills. There's no real proof that they're doing anything and we're out of money.
I was going to make cork boards for people's christmas presents because I got some extra-large picture frames at the Dollar Tree, but when John took me to Michaels to buy cork it costs a FORTUNE! If I have time, I'll try to get him to run me over to Joanns to get some batting and fabric and I can do fabric boards instead, or else I'll just have to put that idea aside. I'm just going to buy Marissa a piece of jewellery - what teenage girl doesn't like earrings? I got Shaggy (the d-creature) a doggy toy when I bought the cat food. And I have a little doggy scrapbook sitting on my shelf nearly finished that I'm going to give to Rita. No I didn't make it now - it was a project I started last year and lost steam on...
Okay, this whole entry sounds like whining. That wasn't intended to happen. I'm actually in the christmas spirit, believe it or not. I'm not dreading the season at all, I'm enjoying the thought. It's nice to have somewhere that I belong...
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