Well, I don’t have it put together yet and still thinking about what I want to do with it, but this is going on the first page of my Sketchbook Project Moleskine.
I had bought a new labeler and was playing around with it and labeled myself, since I seemed to be labeling everything in sight. We’re just not normal.
What I needed to get the domain transferred was to give it TIME! It’s working this morning! No need for you to change any links to it. www.skethesofacommonlife.com, sketchesofacommonlife.com, and fotoshirl5.wordpress.com all go to the same place now. Even though domain names are cheap, I had just renewed mine last month, so I kept it even though the name of my blog has changed.
My eyes are dry this morning, but I’m not coughing…at least not yet. I hope I don’t because Don will insist I go to one of the emergency care places today. Yuck. I don’t dislike doctors, as long as ~I~ don’t have to go visit them for a medical problem!
OK, so I’ve got one of my problems cleared up this morning. However, now I’ve strained a muscle in my back from the coughing fit!
Oh! The joys of aging!
As for other pieces of my life this morning, I’m only three sips into my first cup of coffee. I’ll have to get back with you!
What a night!
I’ve gone into a coughing fit to the degree that I’ve been gagging. (I know…over-sharing!!!) Scared Don to death. He’s gone right now to make a drug run for me (Kroger for Nyquil!!!!). I’ve no idea what I’ve had this week. No fever. It behaved like an allergy attack, but I’ve never experienced so much coughing. I don’t usually cough much. Yuck!
On top of that, I had to go pick up my prep kit today for the colonoscopy. I really don’t want to do this!
And then I can’t seem to get my domain transferred to WordPress from Blogger. It’s through GoDaddy, and GoDaddy is recognizing the WordPress blog because it is showing a thumb of this blog, and WordPress seemed to accept the domain. The problem strikes me as being with Blogger itself. I’ve removed the domain name from Blogger, but the error message (‘not found on this server’) comes through Google…so that seems to be where the problem is. Yuck! Yuck! I just don’t feel like messing with it right now, so I’ve reverted to the original WordPress URL for now.
*sigh*… *cough*…*hack* My head now hurts…and my throat! Whine.
This morning’s devotional reading found me in Psalm 37. If ever we needed to read and reread that Psalm, it is today in this political climate in which we find ourselves. If ever there was a time for a nation to fall to its knees, it is now!
After devotion time, I picked Helen up and held her in my arms for a few minutes. Have you ever noticed how soothing a cat’s purr is? What a blessing these two little girls have been for us.
I have a follow-up colonoscopy on Tuesday. Please remember me when you have a minute for prayer. The last test I had revealed a pre-malignant polyp. They weren’t able to do a thorough exam because the prep had not totally done its job, so given that and the type polyp I had, they wanted to check me again in 6 months. Joy! Joy!
I told Don this morning that I am falling apart this week. I had a sizable blood vessel burst in my right eye earlier in the week, so my eye is still red from that. I’ve had some sort of crud that had me in bed a good bit this week. I thought perhaps allergies, but I’ve been a bit hoarse and coughing a lot. Then the joy of the upcoming test. This week, I feel OLD!!!
The Moleskine still sits untouched. Really hard to do that first page! But, then, I just haven’t felt well enough to get into anything creative. Lots of ideas running around in my head, but the ol’ body doesn’t feel like pursuing them.
Obviously I have nothing meaningful to say. Just life going its merry way.
P.S. – Don’t you just love the header graphic on this page! It isn’t my picture. It was part of the template I chose, but I opted to keep that graphic in the header. I find such serenity in that early-morning light in the shot. I would love to be strolling along that path right now with Don and a mug of steaming hot coffee!
…going to bed sick and waking up with two sleeping cats curled up next to you.
Look what arrived in the mail today!
My Moleskine for the Sketchbook Project!
This is a big step for me. I just up and registered one night. I ran into the living room and told Don that he would never guess what I had just done. He looked at me and asked if he needed to make a run to the liquor store before I told him…silly boy! He was thrilled for me because he knew it was a giant step for me to take…to publicly share my artsy side. I don’t do that easily.
So, here we go… The book is here. I’m chomping at the bits to get started.
As you know, I’ve been debating about what to do with my blog. I feel a strong sense of needing to start something fresh…to take a new road.
My other blog, Sketches of a Common Life, had primarily become a faith-based blog, and that’s not a bad thing. My faith is everything, actually. But I found myself trying to play a ‘role’. I need to release myself from that.
I need to talk about all my life! All the pieces that comprise the whole. I’ve always claimed to be an ordinary woman. Ordinary women have days when their minds are on domestic matters. Ordinary women have crafts and hobbies. Ordinary women have dreams and problems. Ordinary women sometimes struggle. Ordinary women have a sense of humor and have days when they are in deep commune with God, learning more about him.
Reading a fellow blogger’s post this morning, she asked why we blog. I’ve left the ‘why’ of blogging…just simply to share life…the good, the bad, the ugly, the sad, the funny, the ordinary.
I need a new start…a chance to go back down the road where I began.
This is where I begin…
P.S. – I have work to do on this page, so bear with me.
I can't believe I am actually going to do this! A totally new experience for me! I'm pumped!
