Stitch Roadies No 90

[Music] good afternoon stitch roadies well thanks for stopping by i thought i just wanted to do a little stitch along stitch with me whatever you want to call it i wanted the company and i'm glad you're here i am working on let me show it to you this is my 2021 chart of the year begin a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step and we have taken some momentous steps this week i am hoping and praying that all will continue to move forward in our country i um i have high hopes i have high hopes and i watched the inauguration and it was um there were so many facets of it that gave me hope that gave me hope i am looking forward to hard work and moving forward in this country um i want my vaccine i want my vaccine so i can hang out with you guys and get hugs real hugs don't you want real hugs i do um yesterday i was a little bit under the weather today i have to say um yesterday i went for my uh new patient doctor's visit um here in my new community and um i have to i i love the the medical system that i have stepped into since we moved over here it's um called kaiser and it's kind of like hmo i guess you'd call it but i had to laugh because well everything is streamlined everything is streamlined like when you get your labs done when you see your doctor within that day all those notes are on your chart and your chart is accessible by your phone it's amazing it's amazing to actually read what your doctor wrote and i had to laugh because i i just you know i never could read the notes before i mean if you requested the notes uh you had to go through medical records and sign all the stuff but but in this system you have access to your care you are managing your care along with your physician and so i by the time i left yesterday and yesterday evening i had my chart notes and i i don't know there's a good side and a not so good side well under physical exam it says constitutional she is well developed well nourished and in no distress that is really really politically correct uh verbiage not that she's like overweight needs to lose weight needs to do this or that you know no it was and my doctor was so sweet so i love that i am well developed and well nourished oh and i'm alert so i had to get a kick out of that you know i just had to get a kick out of that so um yeah it's um i'm liking that i'm liking the the the medical care that i'm getting over here it's pretty interesting and uh she asked me what um what if there was you know what things i was worried about and stuff and i told her well that this last year the biggest health issue i had was the vertigo and i told her how i was treated for vertigo and she says we do the same thing so she already set up a connection for me with a physical therapist so if it ever happens and can you believe it i made it through that entire move and thus far without any episodes of vertigo which is thank you god thank you god i don't think i could have dealt with that that would have probably sent me off the deep end so um yeah that was a blessing that was a blessing and uh the community here i am navigating it it's bigger you know the town of sisters was three thousand and this town is like 5 000 but because it's just a it's basically a suburb a city connected to portland it has a big a big city feel once i get out out of the town because then i'm right on a freeway which is awesome but here i am sitting up on this hill my ears pop actually when i go from my house down the hill to the main road my ears pop so i am living on a hill in a valley oh it it it's just interesting and i've i'm figuring out how to get around how to find the post office easy the recycle area the grocery stores i want to use although i talked with all of my quilt roadie buddies about instacart and um i i think i'm going to give that a shot you know just i know my older daughter-in-law she always used it because working night shift on her break she would just order her groceries and then when she got off work she would pull up they'd come out loaded in and she'd go home this was pre-covered she just did it for the convenience of it so i am thinking though now i'm going to give it a shot i'm going to give it a shot and see there are some ups and downs to it like when you go to the grocery store i feel funny about someone picking my fruits and vegetables out but you know because i'm kind of looking at every little dot and bruise and they are busy i see them working hard in the grocery stores just filling those orders so um we'll have to see how that goes i'm i'm ready to try it i am ready to try it it has been um fantastic being this close to my younger son and his family i can't wait until my older son and his family i can get in some kind of rhythm but they are they are night shift workers so naturally that's a little more challenging because of that and my older grandson is school age even though he's not in school he has to do um virtual the virtual school so he's busy during the week and um my younger son's kids aren't school age yet but they're keeping their fingers crossed that that older one of theirs who is three can go to preschool this year yeah he needs it he's a busy little bee but um yeah it's been fun it's been fun playing with him having him over he were like his little summer camp or his little preschool away from home other than that still unpacking can you believe it i still have not found that floss today i went back through every piece of cross stitch i have and didn't find it i looked in every project bag and didn't find it i looked at the video where i showed it and oh it just makes me sick to think i might have you know brain fart threw it away but yeah i'm just gonna i'm gonna chill about it for a while because i just know as soon as i order the floss again it's gonna turn up and then i'm gonna have a lot of that color um i'm gonna check at the condo one more time although i can't believe i would have taken that one package there but i'm covering all the bases and i am going to look for it i mean it was 40 some dollars worth of floss and i really really want to find it yes and i'm surprised that i didn't put it in the project bag with the chart and the fabric but it made me think okay that project bag was probably already packed and so that would be the reason why it wasn't in that project bag but yeah we'll see this is how far i've gotten on my begin so i got the whole bottom line and i'm working across now through the alphabet and i'm liking this i'm liking this i i had a stumble with my um monthly orni sal but this before the end of the month i'll have one done i just either my mojo was off because it made my counting off and i counted wrong twice and i just had a little hissy fit and decided i'm just going to do an entirely different ornament and see if i can change that mojo a little bit you know and uh so i'm gonna be doing that here in the next couple of days um yeah it's um been the last couple days beautiful weather but today it looks like things are changing a bit it is um you know it is overcast and breezy although it's not raining it just is overcast and it's kind of funny because the people on this side of the mountain when there's even the hint that there might the temperature might drop for uh snow it's like a big event it's like a big event kind of funny so i just love looking at those trees i can't wait till the deciduous trees start leafing out and we start getting some flowers and yeah we got our garage door fixed although the guy's coming back tomorrow and um to do some last minute fixing yeah so this goes here okay yeah so what are you working on what are you working on i i am it's kind of interesting i i think this i i'm just gonna go with the flow i think this whole uh year the residual of this last year has just made my um mojo a little bit off and so i can't seem to concentrate do you find that are you having concentration problems but i i get very distracted i've got my sewing room almost um organized but oh are those boxes and boxes of photos just well here's the thing i know i totally love how you guys have my back and are telling me to relax and take it easy one day at a time who cares and so many of you have moved and still are not moved months or years ago and still haven't gone through all the boxes well i know i think i've told you the story before but um in one move we did we it's just it was the same kind of move that it seems like that's only kind of move we do is that we decide to move our house cells in a day and we are out of there like lickety-split i mean i i'm wondering about that uh that kind of karma but um so we moved on christmas day um we didn't even have a tree that year it was my oldest was about eight i always feel bad about that christmas although he probably doesn't remember and the youngest was a baby because they're almost nine years apart so um we drove to oregon on christmas and the week before our friends were helping us move we just moved and then you know every every year or two we move we kept moving because that's that just seems to be the way our lives go and so um i mean we were in sisters well the first time we were in sisters it was hardly a year and then the second time we were in sisters it this last time it was about seven years seven or eight years and that's really good for us uh to be in one spot that long um because we usually start getting a little bit itchy you know um around seven year itch for the seven year itch for us has to do with moving real estate so um we moved several more times without ever opening all the boxes i know i've told you this story before but i'm telling it again this is why i am so committed to opening every single box that came to this house when i finally opened a bunch of boxes you know a few years after that initial move to oregon i found a whole bag of kitchen garbage that had been thrown in a box and sealed one of our friends probably thought the bag was full of something important put it in a box we were in a rush to get on the road there was snow oh and so here i had lugged that box around for oh five or six years through several moves and when i opened it and realized it was it was totally dehydrated i mean it was it was you know it didn't smell there were no bugs it was totally dried out kitchen garbage in a garbage bag put in a box and sealed yes so i am bound and determined on this particular move to not have boxes that i have not looked in and we are so close we are really close i mean g's been working on the garage like crazy and he's been doing such a good job there it's just trying to figure out how to organize a house that you didn't build with your mindset and figure out where you want to put stuff you know it's it's a little bit different than we're used to and um so but we're doing good we're really doing good i'm i'm quite pleased with the progress we are making of course being who i am i think we should do better but um really we have been doing pretty darn good our biggest challenge is that we have we i don't want to say we're artists but we have an artist's view and we've had hobbies and so things that haven't been displayed before because there just wasn't room and they've been packed we are discovering them again and so we want to enjoy those things again and um g for many years was an art photographer a black and white art photographer where he developed his own uh photographs and he had a dark room in one house uh well he built a dark room out in the garage of one house and then yeah he actually built two different dark rooms so we have some beautiful black and white prints of his that have been just in boxes yeah just in boxes and i i really want to see them again i want them to be out which means trying to find uh how to display them here and it's kind of fun to see all that old stuff again you know it's kind of fun to see all that old stuff and that has been somewhat challenging i don't have many quilts out i have a few cross stitches and some of my stitch my wool stitching the walls in this house aren't conducive to hanging big quilts for whatever it's just the design of the house you know it was built in i think this house was built in 99 or 2000 so you would think that wouldn't be that old of a house but it does have a certain style for that time that is different than you know than what we've had that's all i could say it's not a complaint it's just a a challenge to see um how we want to do things and where we want to hang things and uh yeah it's kind of it is very fun to figure out but it is challenging don't you think wally yeah at least you made it huh yeah i'm worried about my lamp that came from the condo because i don't know what happened to the tv controller i gotta make sure that i really look for that or that um that lamp will not work without that tv controller yeah i haven't had the um i haven't been able to concentrate on television we've been watching some old i mean you talk about watching reruns um old reruns it's like and we're not really even watching them we're just um it's just noise it's just noise i was really excited there's in uh in this community there is a central food cart uh place you know where there's like there's probably 20 plus food carts there's a huge beautiful building with um that has sliding big doors with like nice picnic tables if you wanted to sit under the cover but out in the fresh air this was built pre-covered but boy is it great for covet although i i personally do not feel comfortable sitting there and eating with other people at other tables i don't know just a little bit more paranoid than the average so bird um but uh but the food carts oh my gosh oh my gosh i love korean food and there was there is a korean food cart oh my gosh i could eat there every day it's so good it's so good yeah i need to um i think i need to start watching my floss tubes again i haven't even watched floss tubes isn't that awful i feel awful here i am doing a flosstube and i have not kept up with my friends it's like i can't concentrate but that's just the way it is i i really believe this year is going to be um a better year than last year for sure um but there's still going to be challenges i i don't know um you know the vaccine roll out here holy moly has it had to start and stop and spits and and now i heard i don't know what it's like in your area but i heard that there that all the major hospital systems here and i mean they're big they're big hospital systems here have joined together and are going to do a mass vaccine at the convention center i can't imagine a more chaotic who thought that up that's just my personal opinion but you know it's downtown it's um you're going to have all those people where's the parking oh my gosh i don't know i i didn't i'm not sure who thought that uh probably some suit um but uh yeah and i could hear the people at the medical facility complaining because they they can't even get it at work now i'm so glad my daughter-in-law got hers because now they're making those uh people that work at the hospital go to the convention center i mean give me a break that does not make any sense yeah okay was that a little bit of a rant yeah i think that might have been a little bit of a rant yeah so i think this next week i'm gonna give the instacart thing um a chance and see how that feels and we're going to just keep organizing and keep unpacking and keep trying to figure it all out let's see here one two three four five six one two three four five six have you guys been having that same kind of um uh issue with concentrating on any one thing i mean i truly am i'm trying to cross stitch well i got a little i mean i did get a little bit done i tried to cross stitch in the evening when we come upstairs because my cross stitching area now is in my bedroom and so we don't come up here until like seven o'clock um so i'm not even starting on cross stitching until seven o'clock in the evening i need to maybe set a time set aside a little daytime cross stitching i know that i'm setting up an area out in the garage for ffowing where i can use glue and paint and that kind of thing um uh g's giving me his old workbench it's not always a nice workbench because there's already there were already some workbenches on the other side of the garage so he's giving me the one that we dragged up here for my ffo wing two three four five six this is one two three four five six seven i think this was uh you know i really wanted to do that um long dog um pandemic for my 2021 but i can't start until i find the floss and so this i think was actually a very sweet alternative because i love the sentiment of it and boy do we need to put one foot in front of the other don't we and our journey does need to start with one step so so what's your what is your 2021 kind of signature um stitch for this year um do you have just one or you know if i get this one done this year and i would think that i would be able to get this one done um i feel quite proud of myself yes and g's birthday's coming up so that um that one chart that i wanted to start for his actually thought i would get it done for his birthday i don't think so but i'm gonna start it on his birthday that'll that'll be good see one two three well i think i'll let you guys go if you haven't already left because you're bored silly but um i surely do appreciate you stopping by and um it'll be fun it'll be fun when we could actually meet up and give each other hugs i'm really looking forward to some good hugs you know i don't know about you but the old elbow bump isn't quite doing it for me um yeah it'll be good i can't wait till i get my vaccine boy that shingle shot i got my second did i tell you well my arm is sore i got my second shingle shot yesterday you're supposed to get two of them um the second one is two to six months after your first one so i got my second one yesterday and this morning i felt like crap i mean that kind of bone tired i'm not sure i slept that well seemed like i woke up three times during the night and um and this morning i was just dragging and i had to go to the post office and then i had to go um to goodwill yeah i'm taking stuff to goodwill if you can believe it i paid to have it moved up here and now i'm taking it to goodwill but um i just felt like totally like under the weather you know that kind of just blah but um i laid down a little bit today and so now this late afternoon i'm feeling kind of perky enough to do some stitching with you so i'm glad i got that done but it was interesting because she told me that i couldn't get the covet vaccine for two weeks i had to wait two weeks but she said that won't be a problem because you won't even be up for it i'm in category 1b they supposedly category 1b was this week then they moved it to next week it'll be march or april before i get it so um yeah so i won't have to worry about that but i'm glad i got that shingle shot out of the way anyway okay you guys take care thanks for stopping by and and tell me in the comments what your 2021 signature stitch is going to be and maybe i'll need to look at what you're doing yeah okay you take care and i appreciate each and every one of you thank you you

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Published: Fri Jan 22 2021