2/24/2018

I seriously must be the worst blogger out there.  I am so inconsistent. My blog use to be called Fighting the Foodaholic Inside me.  I eat when stressed, happy, sad, etc.  But I changed it to be more of what I want to focus on...my hobbies and healing.  I am semi-retired so I am trying to turn to more things that make me happy.

I was keeping track of what books I read on this blog but I deleted those pages.  I have an excel spreadsheet that works so much better.

Reading:
I am reading a book right now called Bring Her Home.  Don't have it with me right now so I can't tell  you the author.  Lots of twists and turns.

Stitching:
I hadn't finished a project since 2016 before we moved from DC to Northwest Wisconsin. But I did start and finish a small one in February 2018.  It is on my 2018 Finishes page.  It is a birth sampler for my Great Nephew.  Now I am stitching on my eagle in flight project that I started for my husband in 2009.  This year we will celebrate our 10th anniversary.  I would really like to give it to him as a gift.  So I am pushing to complete it.  I have quite a way to go yet.  It is a brown confetti nightmare. 

Hoping to Heal:
Today's scripture is Ps 19:13 - Hold your servant back from the presumptuous acts.  Good advice.

OA For Today - We are apt to be very pert about censuring others, where we will not endure advice ourselves. - Recognition of my faults does not always save me from them.  People may seem to want my advice,  but that is no reason for me to give it.  

OA Voices of Recovery: I started the program by doing everything I was suppose to do... Action is the magic word.  Just do it!

We cleaned the house this morning.  Goofed around a bit and now I think I will try to figure out how to access my blog on my tablet.  (I was gifted a tablet - a remarkable gift.)  I also want to finish my book and cross stitch some more.

Happy Saturday.

Trying again from Wisconsin

Hey Everyone,

I put my blog aside in August 2016 when we started the huge task of moving from Alexandria, VA back to our home territory in Wisconsin.

The last 18 months have been extremely hard. In a nutshell - My husband's PTSD was off the charts.  I read a lot of books.  T-Mobile now charges for calls to OA so I haven't been doing that.  I stopped cross-stitching.  My weight has stayed level. Too high but level. I stopped living for a bit.

I am trying to get back on my feet.  I changed the name of my blog to Reading, Stitching and Hoping to Heal.  Now you can find me at ThoughtsbyDianne.blogspot.

That's all right now.  Just dipping my toe in as I get started on the path to happiness again.

Monday 8/22/16

Today is my last Monday at my job in DC.  I love this job.  But I can't take it to Wisconsin with me.
We are still living in a sea of boxes.  This week the last of our food will be eaten.  I am excited and nervous.  So glad to be going home but there is so much that can go wrong in the next 10 days.

Since my stitching is packed along with everything else, I have just been reading.  I am up to book 55 this year.

Since I am moving home, I have had a lot more thoughts about mom.  Sure wish she could have stayed healthy until I got there.  So strange to think of her as gone.  Looking forward to spending time with my niece.  She has severe anxiety and I think we could benefit from some quality time together.
I am eating too much.  Again.  Not really binging but my portion sizes are too big.  Need to take a breath and calm down.

Peace and Love

Monday August 8, 2016

Haven't been motivated to do much of anything lately.  Our apartment is mostly packed up so I am living in a sea of boxes.  It has been 98 degrees out.  So very humid out.  I can barely breathe when I am outside.  I have been reading so much this year.  But now that everything is packed that is all I have to do.  I am on my 49th book this year. 


My husband and I drove around upper Maryland and dipped into Pennsylvania to stop at Gettysburg.  We stopped at the Catoctin Zoo and State Park.  We also stopped at antique stores.  We passed through Cascade MD and saw Fort Ritchie.  It was built in WWI era.  But it is all rock and shaped like little castles.  Loved it.  It was so hot and humid, I was soaking wet most of the day.


We move back to Wisconsin on the 30th of this month.  We will be driving so we hope to be in WI by the evening of the 31st.  We will have the cats with us in the car so we want to go as far as we can each day to get them to their new home soon.  They will be so traumatized by this trip.  I just hope they don't get sick. 

Friday July 22 2016

Finally getting back to my blog.  I think I am starting to recover from the horrible month of June and losing our mother.  Things in June were such a madhouse.  Flying back and forth from DC to WI. But we got my mom's apartment cleaned out by June 30th.  

In June, my husband and I bought a home in WI too. We will be moving there at the end of August.  We both gave our bosses notice that August 26th will be our last days to work.  I just wish mom could have made it for me to move "back home".  I think we would have had some good times.

My husband has us almost totally packed already so we are living in a sea of boxes.  In some ways I dread unpacking them.  But in other ways I am looking forward to organizing and purging once we get there.  There is a facebook page for selling items in our new home town so I hope to make a little cash off my purged junk.  I will be excited to get my craft corner set up and organized too.

My husband and I also had our 8th wedding anniversary on July 12th.  This is the first year there has been so much going on that it slipped my mind.  That kind of made me sad. 

I haven't been doing so good about paying attention to my food issues.  Don't feel like I have been on any binges though. 

I haven't been stitching at all.  I was working on my Mason Jar Lineup about 2 months or so ago and I love the picture but I am hating the stitching of it.  So instead I have been reading like a maniac.  I am up to 44 books read this year.  I have them listed on this blog on a different page.  See above.

Monday, my replacement starts at work and I will start training her.  I am very worried that she won't be able to deal with my co-worker M the bigot.  I hope she can keep her opinions to herself for awhile.

It is so hot and humid here in DC but looking at the weather it seems a whole lot of the USA is in a heat wave. 

Here is a picture of our tiny house.  I think the garage is bigger than the house.  That is my husband and his brother standing there.

All in all, things are going good.

July 8, 2016

I didn't post in June because it was so awful,  I flew to Wisconsin to spend a week taking care of my mother who was gravely ill.  My sisters had taken the week and a half before I got there.  We stayed with her pretty much 24/7.  She would start to get better so the insurance company would say "okay, she has to leave the hospital". So then we would go to the nursing home/rehab facility.  A total of 7 ambulance rides.  Which did not help things.  I flew home and a few days later she passed away.  Then I flew back to do the funeral and start clearing her apartment out.  Then I went back to work.  then I flew back to help finish cleaning out her apartment by June 30th.

It was exhausting and heartbreaking and that is why I haven't been posting.  I am just so tired.

Friday 06/03/16

I haven't been posting.  My mother is in grave health and not doing well.  Just wanted to let you know why I have not been posting and I probably won't post for another week or so.

Thanks

D.