Good Things

After my whinge yesterday about the vertigo, I started something called the Epley procedure that is actually helping. The Epley procedure is a series of exercises that I do three times a day that is supposed to guide the wayward inner ear particles that cause dizziness out of my inner ear and into another part of my ear where they are more easily gotten rid of. That's a mouthful, but the point is that they seem to help. I'm supposed to keep them up until I go 24 hours without any vertigo. The article in the neurology journal where I found them suggests that the procedure has a 95% success rate. Those are pretty good odds.

In other good news, Dave and I had our sewing class last week. It was a one-time basic introduction class where we learned how to disassemble and clean and reassemble a sewing machine and how to sew basic stitches and things like buttonholes.



Both Dave and I have used sewing machines before, but it's been many years since either of us has sewn anything so I thought it'd be a good class to try.



We got to sew on little scraps of fabric.



At the end of the class, I signed up for another class in February and bought fabric and a pattern. This is the fabric I bought:



The darker fabric is from Japan. I love it!



And this is what I'll be sewing, something called a spice market tote:



The dark fabric will be on the outside and the lighter fabric will be on the inside. I think it'll look pretty cool when it's finished.

In other news, here is a good downward trend:



I left off the labels. The y-axis is my weight. The x-axis is time. Each dot is my weekly weigh in. Each small box is a pound. Does that make sense? Anyway, the overall trend is downward, which is good. I've dropped 29 pounds since the last week of October!

And my final good thing is a picture of Saba getting her belly scratched:



She doesn't usually brook such nonsense.