Ten things for which I give thanks this week…
1 – Although I never know in advance, what I am going to mention here, I am grateful to be of sound, and creative mind and faced with a blank page (screen) I trust that things will come to me.
2 – I was grateful to receive an email from Afshan, an Indian woman who I “met” during the A to Z Challenge 2022 – you can read about her here and I hope she may decide to participate here. Afshan is just one of many lovely people I have met through this blog and keep in touch with…
3 – My Critique Partner Nik shared his 12 in 12 month short story and I have nearly finished my second month’s story to the prompt of “Shuttered” – I will be chatting with Nik later this afternoon (for me) morning in Minneapolis… You cannot read the stories unless you are participating but I can share mine with by posting it here (next post)…
4 – I received a late “Bonus” postcard from lkast July-August Poetry Postcard Festival. Most of the participants are American but they publish a list of all the non-American participants so Americans can send a bonus card to them. So this is my second card from Grant Swados of New York – once on the regular list I was on and again on the bonus list. He has framed the original (postcard-sized) painting I sent him and sent me a reproduction of one of his paintings entitled “The Llama Lisa) a pastiche of the Mona Lisa featuring a llama. Also, he sent a poem about playing darts – a game that makes me think of English pubs, but since he sent the card, rather like when you have bought a new car, I keep seeing dartboards in American TV dramas all the time. Two countries united by a love of tiny missiles…
5 – My Continuous Blood Monitoring experiment is bearing fruit, I am losing weight slowly by keeping my carb count down to an average of 159 grams per day. The drug trial I am participating in, a lower dose of the “weight-loss” drug Semaglutide, might also be helping – I do feel less inclined to snack, am content with smaller meals – but that is not the main point of the study – it is to test whether, at this lower dose, semaglutide helps prevent cardiac events and I have to say that the feeling of queasiness and wind makes me question whether it is worth the price (if it works). I am pretty sure that after the “Randomisation” interview, I am on the real and not the placebo pills – only 4 1/2 years of the study to go – burp!
6 – I have finished “C” in the A to Z and will have time tomorrow to work on “D” which is for Decoration of Fabrics as well as a list of seven fabrics beginning with D
Damask
Dimity
Dobby (see also Piqué)
Double cloth
Double Crepe
Double Georgette
Drill
Duchesse
Dupioni
It is proving to be the most work of any of my A to Z’s so far…
7 – I am a creature of habit and so my washing is in – half already in the dryer and half about to be hung up – Sundays routine is Sunday routine…
8 – Glad to be participating here at TTOT – we had 12 posts last week and as Afshan grat#2 said it inspired her with positivity, I guess its working right!
9 – reminded I have 3 TTOT to visit…
10 – Speaking to my sister in Nova Scotia in an hour…
Have your best possible week y’all…