It started sunny but the clouds have moved in. It has gotten rather chilly too. The downstairs was cold so after a walk with Avery and then lunch, I made a fire for us downstairs.
This morning the first thing I did was run an order from Etsy to the post office. I'm so grateful for anyone who is finding my shop and checking things out! Which reminds me...need to list more items. So, after I got the fire going, I pulled my cards and wrote in my journal (because I put those things off this morning). Then...fatigue started to set in. Rather annoying but it happens. After sitting in my chair for many minutes I tapped into my dynamic will to pull myself up and changed out the altar cloth. Looking around it seemed like a good idea to put up some colored lights down here. And when I did that I ended up looking through all the old journals I have stashed on an upper shelf.
Now, my journal writing has come and gone through the years. Lately, I've been fairly consistent. Years past it's been hit or miss. I pulled out one journal that I realized was from 2009. For whatever reason, I didn't note the year on the dates. I know it was from 2009, though, because the whole purpose of the journal was to write in it as I took a daily pinhole self portrait for my 50th year. I didn't even remember I'd done that. And from what I read, that was a pretty lousy year for me. Seems like all I wrote about for the first few months was the pain I had from frozen shoulder and how I got shingles! I mean, I know the frozen shoulder sucked, but it's so far behind me now that I've forgotten just how much it affected my emotional health. As much as I feel like this older body is no great shakes, I'm rather content in it as it is now, as opposed to that year!

