Monday, July 25, 2016

Prayer Meeting Sunday

Daughter and I didn't go to sleep till nearly 3:00 a.m., so we slept in, this morning.  Later in the morning, I called one of my cousins and spoke with her for a bit.  Still later in the morning, one of my neighbors called for our weekly Sunday morning phone chats. 

My daughter flew back to Berkeley, this afternoon.  I gave her one of the banana breads I had baked earlier and frozen, to take back with her. 

After I dropped daughter off at the airport, I put gas to the car ($2.89/gallon; I put for $30) and drove to the monthly prayer meeting.  This is the first time I've attended a monthly prayer meeting since November of last year.  I took another loaf of banana bread as my contribution to the prayer meeting lunch, and a jar of tomato chutney for the aunt who was hosting the prayer meeting.  I met several family members and friends at the prayer gathering, which was nice.  Driving back home, afterwards, I could see smoke from at least two of the brush fires in our area.

I got home around 5:30 p.m. and took a nap!  I woke up once when daughter called at 6:30 p.m. - she had got back to her apartment, gone grocery shopping, and come back!  I went back to sleep after I spoke with her and slept until 8:30 p.m.!

Today's decluttering was 23 items for July 23:

July 23 Decluttering
9 books and 1 file folder of papers; 8 of the books and the file folder of papers are what daughter decluttered.

10 items of clothing; all had been given to me; I've had them for at least one year and I wore one item once.  Time to let them go.

1 broken clothes hanger, 1 food container, 1 jar.

Today, I am grateful for:

- Daughter had a safe flight back to Berkeley.
- I was able to attend the monthly prayer meeting, again.
- A safe drive to the prayer meeting and back.
- A long, evening nap.
- Cooling off at night.

All in all, it has been a lovely weekend.  But it is back to radiation treatments and work, again, tomorrow.

Monday's To Do List:

- Office work
- Radiation treatment
- Clean the fridge
- Empty waste baskets
- Take trash cans to the curb
- Water the garden
- Address and mail a thank you card


How was your Sunday?  What have you planned for Monday?

14 comments:

  1. I'm glad you had a good weekend and was able to attend the prayer meeting. My Sunday was a mixed bag. Had lots of good and bad in it.

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    1. (((HUGS))) Focus on the good, and try not to dwell on the bad. Hope Bubby is feeling better.

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  2. Your decluttering is still going strong I see. Can't believe it's 23 days since I was reading about your new challenge. Where does time fly.

    Mark filled our cars up this morning. We pay £4.90 for a gallon over here. I've just converted and that's over $6, so we pay twice as much as you have to. My car only takes £25 worth as it's so tiny but Mark's takes £80! xx

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    1. Your gallon is slighter bigger than ours, but still, that's a big difference in price! Although, a few years ago, we were paying over $5 for gas. Of course, that was when I was driving 60 miles a day, taking my daughter to university and going to work. I used to budget $400 per month for gas, back then.

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  3. When will you be going back to work at your workplace? In a couple of weeks? You might want to allow sufficient time to ease yourself back onto your normal sleeping schedule.

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    1. Yes, I'll be going back to work after the radiation treatment is over. Will definitely have to get back to a more reasonable sleep schedule, although, before all this happened, my normal sleep schedule used to be 1:30 a.m. to 6-6:30 a.m.

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  4. I am so glad you managed to get to a prayer meeting! You are sounding stronger, I hope that you are feeling it x

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    1. Yes, I am feeling stronger, thank you. The radiation treatment isn't as bad as the chemo was and I am getting better, every day.

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  5. How was your radiation treatment today? Is the redness that you discovered on Friday getting a little worse? I hope the aloe lotion is helping, lather it on!

    The advice to try to go back on a more regular sleeping schedule to ease back into your office work schedule is a good one, but listen to your body and don't feel guilty about taking a quick nap either. I've read that usually a 20 minute nap is all that's needed to feel refreshed.

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    1. Today's treatment went well, thank you. The redness seems to have lessened over the weekend. I've been applying the lotion, every day.

      I am pretty sure I'll be able to get back to a regular sleep schedule when it's time to go back to the office. I'll probably ease back into it, anyway.

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  6. It's wonderful that you'll be getting back to your routine of going to the office each day. Although you didn't miss a beat working from home. Dancer will surely miss having you home. :)

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    1. Carolyn, yes, I'm looking forward to being in a nice, air conditioned office! :D

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  7. So glad you were able to attend the prayer meeting. It must feel so good not to be confined from mixing with people. You are on the way to normal!
    Bushlady

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    1. It was, Bushlady, and I am! :) I even went to the office, yesterday and today!

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