May 20th:
Not sure where the days go, but they go. What have i been up to?
I've been doing some sewing. I bought a book on sewing clothes without patterns and I actually made a shirt, but it is comically large because I am not great at taking my own measurements so I just guessed and ended up with a Dolan sleeved shirt sewn from rectangles that is 40 inches across. I used cheap white muslin to make it (didn't want to spend much money on an experiment) and when I tried on the shirt, it so reminded me of the boxy white scrub tops I had to wear during nursing school that I was disgusted. I took it off and haven't touched it again.
I never wrote much about nursing school, how much I hated it, because when I was in the midst of it the stress was so awful that I was having heart palpitations and more than one ended up in the ER. When I was done with school I just wanted to be done, to put it behind me and never think about it again. I wanted to burn my uniforms, but I settled for throwing them in the garbage.
So when I put on the huge, boxy white shirt I had just sewn and I looked in the mirror and saw the huge, boxy white scrub top staring back at me, I was done. I still want to sew clothes, but I don't think I'll ever again use white muslin or sew any boxy tops.
May 26:
Some excitement yesterday after my mother fell and broke her arm. The doctor set it in the emergency room but she has instructions to follow up with orthopedics. They can see her on Friday. She stayed with us last night and will again tonight.
Today Gray Kitty has to go to the vet. He has ascites, fluid build up in his abdomen and chest. They don't know the cause yet, but they took x-rays and did labs to try to determine the cause and how to treat it, but for now we are just to help him stay comfortable.
Dave and I are out running errands. We went by the walmart pharmacy and now we're at the grocery store.
It's stormy weather, raining and thundering right now. I stayed in the car because this weather makes my head feel not great. (Migraine headache medication sales go up during storms, so I don't think it's just me.)
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