That is such great news! I've been using CBD - oral and topical- for a myriad of things. It really helps me too. Yay for healing!

Joy today so far:

Waking up rested an hour before the alarm- gifting me another hour to get some things done before work.

Seeing pictures from my girls weekend last weekend.

There is just something about viewing pictures.....:hangloose:

Beadboard!! A whole truck load of FREE, vintage, real wood beadboard!!

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A piece of mail from the Windy City with photos in it.......

Being invited over to my son's place. They'd just bought me pizza yesterday so I suggested moving the dinner we'd planned for tonight to sometime next week. They said no they still wanted me to come over :) plus they surprised me with a movie. They have Netflix, Amazon, Roku I think it is, cable TV in another part of the house plus oh this huge collection of DVDs. Not only that, I have a few movies I could have brought. Also my ex and his wife have their own large collection as does my youngest and they're all willing to share so there's absolutely no reason under the sun for any of us to ever have to pay for additional movies, not with all the choices we already have. However knowing I'd like to see it they paid for us to be able to watch it on their big screen TV, especially for me. Also they have brand new furniture in their family room with recliner seats and cup holders and oh it was so kick back and nice. Yep all of that combined – joy, joy, joy!

Its official, im no longer a bachelor!

Overnight snow. Because it is always beautiful to look at when noone has walked in it. Or driven in it

Where’s the hot chocolate??

Congrats..............:hangloose:

I had a great weekend

finding peace again

Thanks Homoe!

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More mail from the Windy City...:hangloose:

Finding a cluster of feathers. Ones I have never seen before, such odd coloring. I am curious to which bird they belong to. Brown with some white (or yellow tinted) A bright yellow vein down the middle. Very stunning. Ironically, school colors. Weird. But, I did talk to my mom. Perhaps I should post this one in the paranormal forum.

Still, it brought me a lot of joy today after a rough start to my week!

The Feather Atlas - Flight Feathers of North American Birds
https://www.fws.gov/lab/featheratlas/idfeather.php

All of the tiny green leaves and leaf buds.

Even the little white flowers from Bradford Pear trees that are going to be super stinky soon.

Totally welcoming the baby green stuff. :)

Tonight's scrabble game

An impromptu date with my Jedi.

Working on a sewing project, still in prep/planing stage but really jazzed about it.

Making plans for the future

Managed to get 2 sheets of drywall up. Small accomplishment but I'll take that.

I forgot...SUNSHINE...a beautiful full day of sunshine!

A LOT brought me so much joy today. Where do I even start!

On the way to lunch date, I received an email from the department secretary apparently they had written a news article about the chili cook off, and while they interviewed the division chair, they mentioned my name as being the winner! woot woot.

Then I received an email from the division chair saying I was one of 3 graduate students out of 75 who received a Foundation Scholarship!!! Ah MAZING!

Then said lunch date was a HIT! it was so darn windy in this state (and NOT illinois for that matter) that I was able to impress her with my carpentry skills as well because part of her fence had broken apart in the wind!

Hooray!

Well, it really happened yesterday so it is still a little fresh. Sorry I'm just getting to the write-up today but.......

Lets see. I received a mention in the local newspaper about the chili cook-off win. It was mixed in with the interview of our division chair (how fun) I'm glad no photos were involved! (hehe)

Second, lunch went VERY well! I am excited to know someone else here.

Third, I received news that I was 1 of 3 graduate students who were chosen to receive the Foundation scholarship for this year! WoooooHooooo! how exciting!

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Belly rubs......

Waking up feeling better (mentally) then I felt yesterday

Making it a pajama day.

Me too (Pajama Day). I even went shopping in my pajamas :|

At least no one knew I was in my pajamas, I think. :jester:


Unless they saw my slippers, which are unmistakably pajama cousins. :tease:

Did you get the long zig zag plastic thingy for cleaning drains? I have that and love it. Good for us girls with lots -o-hair.

draino works great for the hair that slips through

I sat outdoors mostly and really enjoyed watching all the dogs play. Kevie and Jeffrey got to wrestling a little too rough and I had to call Jennifer out. She was so funny. When she did something really grand wrestling with Kevie and Jeffrey, she would stop for a few seconds and look over at me to make sure I had been watching her cool and brave moves. Both of them are quite a bit larger than my little pocket pittie Princess. I fell out laughing lots of times. But it got to the point I had to make her exit the game before she got squashed or seriously injured. She didn't mind because she came over to me . I knew what she wanted so I massaged her while I was saying "she is s-o-o-o pretty, Jennifer Avery is s-o-o-o pretty" about 500 times. She loves to be told how pretty she is! Cracks me up!

When I fed them tonight, Jennifer's bowl was close to Kevin so she sat on him while she ate. She has always climbed up and sat on him, especially when she is cold. Kevie never has seemed to mind.

Confirmation received today that I am due a refund for several months of my health insurance premiums. And confirmation that I'm eligible for help paying future premiums.

A weight lifted....

It was a gorgeous day. Still a bit chilly out, but bright, sunny. We had a lot of errands to run and that made all that having to get in and out of the car and walk over and over again not so bad. Despite it being a great day weather wise , for whatever reason almost no one was out anywhere we went so we got through everything on our to do list in about ¼ the time it usually takes. Later went for lunch at a restaurant by the water and we were the only customers for about ½ an hour then a couple came in but still only four customers in the building during lunch rush – fantastic. And the food was so good, amazing. With the place dead as it was we were able to get a table right by a big picture window with a good view of the marshy area where some mallard ducks were waddling around, hanging out, and beyond that further out, a bit of a peek at the river. Just a very relaxing, unhurried day. Good company, great food, nice weather, got everything I needed at the store and stayed within budget so yeah, big smiles. Happy, happy day day.