My Daily 86 Words

  Halloween. JuJu has been here for a year. She has added so much to our family. She is simply a fuzzy ball of love.   I enjoyed an hour on the phone with Jackie. Her life is her huge family and it occupies her completely. Later I had an hour with Kelle whose life is occupied with stuff and nonsense. Oh well, mine is occupied with words that don’t get written. l won’t go to church today after all. My nose runs and runs and I don’t want to have to remove the mask to wipe it. Soon the phone business.

  Wet. Of course I’ll hunker down again. Thanks to the rebounder I get steps. It’s not like real walking exercise but at least I’m not sitting all the time. Hollie made a research trip to Spectrum about changing our cell phones and tomorrow we will cancel U s   cellular to be ready for the new ones on Monday. I made a start on my story for group on Monday. It won’t be a narrative but a kind of anatomy of the story. I’m enjoying it and my mind is busy with it.

  I did walk and it was a wearifying experience. I was wobbly and kept trying to just walk like I   have my whole life. I don’t know why I falter from the   simple chore of   putting one foot in front   of the other. I will walk again today when the rain stops. The good news is that I had a new idea for the writing prompt. It came from memories of seeing older people congregating in morning coffee huddles. I’ll go from there and travel to small towns and sit with elders to hear stories.

  Good sleep with remote healing from Kelle’s friend Cynthia on the east coast. My left arm feels less alien but still has its tremor. She said my higher self helped to calm my arm. Had a good walk to Walgreen’s yesterday and walked home the long way. Felt wonderful to be outside. Today will start with Safeway for essentials. Another walk to the post office will happen with a stop at the gas company to check on my tank.

Wet and gray with possible clearing later so I can walk to Walgreens’ for my blood pressure prescription. Two social contacts” Michele visited and Family Happy hour.  Meg fills us in on her work. Her boss commended her and she was stoked about that. Michele  and I talk about everything from family to the museum to Netflix. Today I may find something new. I hope to locate my creative part instead of sinking slowly into my couch

  Big agenda: eat breakfast and take a shower. That’s it for this cold wet morning. Then, watch the board meeting. Hope to make contact with the outside world by text or phone. I am becoming content with isolation and that is scary. I don’t challenge myself to read or do a puzzle or attack the computer. Hmm. I’m too much in the comfort zone. Just for today I will pay aaattention and push the self imposed dboundaries.

  The sky is not so dense and dark after a night of pouring rain. Still more to come so an indoor day again. I binged on Netflix with Starling, and Self-made. Both worth watching. I managed 2K steps but wasn’t really interested in more. I do ffeel okay and my digestion seems to be fine again. I promise to eat a better today and not just snack. It’s so easy to drop into the comfort rut and not look for other wasy to spend time. I haven’t been counting words. It seems so silly to worry about little things when the world is so broken.