Fun and Frolic With Long-Term Love

I wonder if you could do the lettering on the inside of the glass and then it'll be protected from weather? If you need help and can't find something that will work or make it yourself, let me know and I'll try to figure out how to do it on my Silhouette machine for you. I have some vinyl that would probably work, I just haven't done mirror image lettering (would it need to be mirror image?) or cutting with vinyl on it yet.
 
I’m not sure about mirror lettering or anything. Lol I am hoping to find time tomorrow to go get a wax pencil and write on the glass with that.

I had a reporter come out and interview me and my Box (lol) will be featured in our city newspaper on the 18th. They are doing a special thing leading up til Christmas and each week they do a story on someone making a difference in the community. Apparently in the less than a week i’ve been up and running, they got 5 messages about me. Yay!

To give an idea - this is my Blessing Box after an overnight. A first look in the morning:

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Here it is before I went to bed tonight - I just added all of the lights. They are motion activated, so there is one on top that is always on, and then when the glass is slid open, they all pop on:

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Today was a little stressful, because as you can see this morning, we were out of pet food, which is usually stocked on the bottom shelf. That, with toilet paper, are the top two items that cycle out the quickest. I ran out of both of those completely today, which made me feel bad. Usually every 2 hours I have to put in a new tube of toothpaste and a deodorant - we ran out of those too. I had a guy stop and ask for deodorant, so I ran inside and grabbed a new one from PunkRock’s personal stash.

What is really getting to me is that 4 times today - totally not exaggerating - people who were here to take things also brought items, and told me they’ve felt really bad for having to use the Box. Of course I try to be very supportive - it’s here for everyone! - but I can tell they are bothered. People in my community have integrity. It’s pretty awesome.

We had so much in overflow from donations that I went and visited the other little pantry in town to take them some things. Their box was completely empty again. I am going to try and take them things every 2 days. So far it doesn’t seem like it will be a problem because that Box is so much smaller. We get lots of canned goods and boxed pasta that I can spare it just fine. What I need now are the toiletries!

Overflow photo from today - each of the closed boxes are full of stuff!

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For fun I put in a stuffed animal of my daughter’s from a box she was looking to donate elsewhere and it was gone in minutes, so I have started adding a small toy or collectible from time to time. DarkKnight has more Loot Crate toys than he knows what to do with, so he gave me a handful and those go SOOOOOOO quick. I definitely don’t want to be a toy box, but I think one or two a day in with the food makes things fun.

My new Invisalign aligners are hurting so very much - I seriously can’t stand it: I am hoping to be able to sleep tonight! The top right attachments are cutting me up something awful and eating is unbearable. I remember that it hurt this bad the first time but then eventually subsided, so I am really hoping this part is over with soon. I am such a big baby and turn into a terrible whine-ass when things hurt, and this pain is excruciating. None of our pain meds are touching it. :(
 
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Saturday’s are obviously the most popular day of the week for the Blessing Box. I couldn’t blink and it had to be refilled! Thankfully, the community had responded to my call for donations, because as often as I was refilling it, so were others. So amazing! This Box stands for hope and renewal. I am so very glad to have started this on my street!

Last night was DarkKnight’s Christmas concert, so my youngest and I went to listen to him sing. I could barely stand it - there was an organ and like an entire brass band! Every note sent tremors through my jaw and it hurt SO VERY BAD you guys. It was truly awful. I survived though, and went home and ate pizza and today things are finally feeling normal.

That said, things have been crazy today - last night a friend messaged me and begged me to go to another friend’s Christmas party, which started at 2 pm. So I ran around this morning and bought a gift for the white elephant swap and then I remembered I had to color my hair, because PunkRock’s Christmas party is tonight! Gah! So I barely made t to the party on time and then my friend didn’t go. I was bummed about that, but I hadn’t seen a bunch of the people there ina while so that was hella fun anyway. And now I get to set up a lunch date this week later on to see my friend that bailed. Lol

Tomorrow I am seeing my friend who helped me with my foster kittens. I don’t want to give her a name because I will forget it anyway here. Lol We are going to do lunch. I am trying to get a present together for her but I have had zero time. I have a date at Starbucks on Thursday with another friend, but I DO have her gift. I’m like ahhhhhhh I have too much going on! I always love hanging out with my girl friends though, they are all amazing people. <3

Right now I am waiting for someone to stop by and pick up some special baby formula. This chick requested it through the Blessing Box this morning and it was here in a couple of hours. Someone else also requested senior dog food, but they already came and picked it up. I know I keep using that word, but it really is amazing! Someone left me a card this morning that said that I was the true Blessing, and they left a giant stuffed cat. That was so sweet!

Seriously though, I need a day off because I have my own Christmas presents to wrap and get into the mail and go grocery shopping because we are out of food. Running a food Box and I personally have nothing to eat. Lmao My living room is a mass of open, empty Amazon boxes and I have zero desire to even try and pick up. As soon as this momma gets here, I am going to start dressing for PunkRock’s party. Oh! She just arrived.
 
Kinda disappointed with PunkRock’s Christmas party this year. I was looking fabulous though, so I guess that is really what matters. LMAO

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Our raffle gift we won was a 12” cast iron skillet that we have zero use for. We already own like a 16” one that DarkKnight uses constantly, and our kitchen space is such that we keep talking about downsizing and going through everything. I don’t even know who I would regift this to, so it is kinda lame. The friends we were seated with got 2 bonus gifts, including a grand prize of a set of screens and a BluRay player for their car. I’m like, if we hit them with this skillet, we can grab the loot. Sigh.

Today I am meeting a bestie for lunch at noon. I have some phone calls to make this morning for medical bills, and I need to do some budgeting at some point. My daughter in NY sent Christmas presents that need to be wrapped - she had Amazon gift bag mine so I don’t know what I got! Little stinker!

Greg has been messaging me frequently again. I really like talking to him, but I know he is waiting to hear how my STD tests go in January - to see if I got herpes from SirGawain. I don’t plan on dating for a while even then, but he seems content to chat. I plan to test in January, but I am not going to consider myself clear until I have a clean test in April. So I am going to use that time to restart therapy and go for a few months and get my shit straight. I don’t honestly think I caught anything, but I would never put anyone at risk without being sure first. And yeah, I already know that Greg is not really what I need, sexually. I will be back to searching for someone with more of a Dom personality in the bedroom. Lately I have been so exhausted from the constant pain in my mouth from the Invisalign that my sex drive has disappeared.

Ok, that might be an exaggeration. I had sex two days in a row with PunkRock, but what I mean is that I am not crazy horny. Or if I am, I can accept a ‘not right now’ without running off to find my vibrator.
 
Holy fuck I am exhausted. I had a terrific day though!

My lunch date was super fun. I love this particular bestie so much. She convinced me to try a Diva Cup and I failed to convince her to try anal. lolololol

My daughter and I went out this afternoon to the mall to get our Christmas Eve pajamas. We are going with a teal and navy blue theme this year. I pushed her around in a wheelchair that a friend is letting us borrow - I think it did her good to escape from the house for a while.

DarkKnight and I went to Walmart and then out to dinner tonight. It was fun to hang out with him. <3

Ok, more gushing about the Blessing Box. All day long we had donations - we had plenty of visitors taking from the Box, but that sucker stayed full! I currently have an 8 foot table covered in donations that can’t all go into the Box since there is no room inside! I gave away 6 coats today, 5 of them to children. It’s amazing to see kids arrive wearing nothing but a sweater and leave with a coat and gloves on! This is seriously the best thing I’ve ever done in my life. It’s immediate, it’s up close and it’s personal. People sent me photos of their doggies!!!!
 
Ugh I am sick today. PunkRock has been ill for the past week, but was able to work. I am run down and just snotty and ick. My throat is scratchy. I hate being sick. Especially since Saturday is the busiest day for the Blessing Box!

I guess I will do a bunch of photo drops about the Box. We have been busy!

People send me small cash donations, and when they do, I buy meat packages to put out. Here is one I did the other day - eggs, breakfast sausage and chicken:

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I am hoping to do another one soon, but donations are sporadic. The cost of this one was $5 a pack, and with two $25 donations, I handed out 10 of them.

We have added coat hooks to the Box! I bought a bunch of 5 lb command hooks. The donations have been great!

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In fact, the donations were so good, PunkRock had to put up a closet bar in my classroom/game room to hold the overflow!

https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/ZtxW0wSycd0Q5ssg0XeyI1L4pwkpNEpNuJPcp4VhSDd

I have a sign up, so people know to knock if they need to try sizes. They are flowing in and out at a steady rate. We are always low on plus sizes, but so far so good.
 
I got interrupted by a donor just now. Lol Some days it is difficult to keep up with it all!

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Every single day, I get surprise Prime Pantry Boxes, and tubs of food showing up on my doorstep!

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https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/3b3Comwxpd0MlA6gnGHpU7Rsyxj2Mwe3mmBQHSH97zS

My 8 foot table is covered every single day, and sometimes it takes a while to sort through.

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This gets pretty tiring, but it is also amazing. I have been able to be the go-between on so many wonderful experiences! This has definitely been worth it.

I never did get my Christmas tree finished yet!

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I have no bulbs for it, but at this point I don’t care.

My baby Leonard likes it ok.

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Here is the Blessing Box this morning at 10:30 am:

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That’s all the photos I have.
 
So, I missed seeing Star Wars tonight. I am so very bummed, you guys! I am just too sick to go sit in a theater though. It sucks that the tickets were prepaid, but well, I can’t be hacking and blowing my nose and ruining it for everyone else. I feel so fucking crummy. DarkKnight, PunkRock and Little Michigan all went without me. I am seriously going to have to get better soon, because I know 100% DarkKnight will not be able to keep his mouth shut. He spoils every single movie. It’s like, he seriously cannot help himself.

I feel so miserable. I just want this cold OVER.
 
Feeling better today, but as the stuff I’m hacking up now has color, I went to see the doctor and he put me on an antibiotic. Only it’s a special one, because I have something insane going on. I have a huge fucking cyst on the side of my vajoo. It hurts like a bitch.

So on Saturday I figured the bump was an ingrown hair. I get them, always in the same damn place, on the right side of my bikini line. Nothing new, only by last night it had grown to the size of like 2 grapes, and it had DEPTH, like you could scoop down and cradle it. It was mildly terrible feeling, so I asked PunkRock to lance it. He did. Twice. Nothing happened except for a little drop of blood.

This morning I called and my own doctor was able to see me this afternoon. I was glad, because he is very familiar with all the cysts and weird shit I have going on with my body (I am allergic to my own sweat and have hidradenitis - though I haven’t had a lump in years, and never in this area.) I was pretty sure this was another of the same sort of lumps, just a different area. And yep, that’s exactly what I am dealing with.

He is sending me to a specialist tomorrow to decide what to do. In other places, well, we’ve done different things. I’ve had curved incisions made to reduce the pressure, and I’ve actually also had entire sections of my body cut out and stitched up. Neither of those are great options for my vulva.

Holy shit though, tonight has been fucking unbearable. It’s grown in size again - seriously, these things can double in size in like 12 hours or so, and it feels like something is stabbing me with a needle. Not like, over and over again, but just continuous sharp pain. It fucking sucks. I can’t stand and I can’t sit. I’m fucking miserable. Imagine having a golf ball sized lump of hot coal on the side of your privates. I can’t deal with this in a sane manner.

My doc says the referral office will be calling in the morning with my appointment time, because he said there was no way they weren’t going to deal with this tomorrow. So I’ll have another exam, and then they’ll just go do whatever the treatment plan is. Seriously though, if the treatment plan was to cut away my entire gash, at this point I’d probably be okay with it, if they promised it would never hurt like this again.

I am also really frightened, because with my body, these lumps aren’t usually isolated. Like, if I get one in my armpit, in a couple of weeks another will start in the other armpit, or behind my ear. I have never had one in this area, but I always knew it was a possibility. I hope I never experience this again, and that this isn’t a herald to kick off another round of cuckoo with my skin.

This is on top of being ill, with a stuffed up head, a runny nose and a barking seal cough. And my period is due Monday, so this is going to be one fun Christmas holiday!

Good things happening today though - I was on the front page of the newspaper, featured as a “Holiday Angel” of Hagerstown. I look hugely fat in the photo, but everyone is probably looking at the Blessing Box, and not me, right? Shit, that’s the other thing, I gained like 10 pounds back and ugh, I totally knew it. Back on the diet after the new year! PunkRock and DarkKnight both want to get back to counting carbs, so at least we can support each other. Emotionally though, not like physically, since we’re all so overweight. This is Roly-Poly Amory.
 
Holy fuck it burst after a bath. The smell is horrific, like something died. My pussy is disgusting. Why on earth do these parts exist?

My appointment is tomorrow at 12:45. Maybe I’ve avoided a more painful surgery, but I bet the bastards still cut me and pack the new hole with gauze. Ugh. Thank goodness I already started the antibiotic.
 
I have HS too.

It is awful. Hope it's a short lived flare.
 
You do? That's incredible - I feel like it is so rare. Thankfully, my flares are decades apart, so it has been manageable. But out of nowhere, it'll hit me with one lump, one right after the other. And then I get cysts everywhere, and ingrown hairs - my skin is gross sometimes. Other times, it's perfectly ok. My body enjoys throwing me curveballs, I guess. I was able to sleep just fine last night because my skin split. I am sure this isn't good in the long run, but it was fucking bliss. lol Do you have a lot of scaring? Mine has been limited to my armpits, since that's where all my lumps have been. I don't have hardly any of the spiral scars - my doctors have been proactive and just excise the lumps. I haven't needed any skin grafts either. I've been lucky.
 
I used to think it was really rare but then joined an HS group on Facebook. A lot of people hide that they have HS or have been told they have something else like ingrown hairs or cystic acne (I have that too oh joy)

I am blessed I am only grade 1 or 2. My flares focus many on my inner thighs, groin, buttocks. Occassionally I get some somewhere else.

I have gotten good at lancing my own and have medical knowledge. So that helps. I have some scaring and tracking but not nearly as bad as some.

Finally figured out after decades of dealing with HS that my diet triggers me a lot espeically nightshade foods which I am also allergic to some anaphylactic. Also dress pants. When I changed careers this year I went from cotton scrubs to business casual. Omg if I do not wear Undersummers under my dress pants it gets ugly.

Then other times one will pop up out of nowhere.
 
I had a private message from someone else asking about HS, and maybe I wasn’t super clear. I have a bunch of freaky shit going on, Hidradenitis, this sweat allergy, and a body that just loves making huge cysts in strange places. Seriously, I had a cyst behind my ear that freaked out all of the doctors who looked at it - when they went to fix it, they said the cavity went all the way down my neck. They pulled out some long, stringy hairs...ok, I am fucking retching now at the memory, and how weird it was. Anyway, yeah.

With regular cysts, the doctor usually cuts them and lets them drain, packs them with gauze (depending on the depth) or just leaves them be. With HS lumps, those appear and disappear - one day I will have a couple of peas in my armpit, a week later there will be a few someplace else, and then they will be gone. For like 5 years. When they do show, I wash with iodine on those days, avoid deodorant, and megadose vitamin A. Twice, I have had a pea turn into a golfball in like 3 days. At those specific times, my doctor has immediately gone in an cut out the whole offending area. Because the sweat thing is co-morbid with the HS, he’s like, fuck it and let’s get rid of it all.

I hope that is more clear.

lol BlueBird’s Body Issues Blog lol

So anyway, this bump was like a little pea. It has come and gone a couple of times in my life, and I thought it was an ingrown hair, because it’s always right after I shave or whatever. Well, this time it got bigger and painful and I DID think it was an ingrown hair, so I had PunkRock try and lance it, but nothing happened. It grew fucking huge, so that made me think it was HS related. I went to my doctor and he was like, yeah let’s cut it out, but because of the location, he sent me to a gynecologist to do it.

Last night it fucking broke in the bath, and it’s been slowly oozing all damn day. It’s nasty. I went to the gyno today and he was like, yeah, uh, I’m not doing that. Lmao He said that the swelling looked like it was down, it wasn’t red and it was draining ok. He said cutting it out or making the break point larger would just bring me more pain without clear results. He’s like, I don’t want to make things worse. He told me to do my full course of antibiotics, let it continue to drain on its own and keep taking short hot baths. Obviously come back if it gets worse.

So yeah. That’s where I am at.

Oh, and then they sent me two floors down to get a mammogram! I guess being 40 means I need one. I got a 3D digital one or whatever. I was a little nervous because I had heard how they hurt and suck, but this place was like a spa. They had heated robes, candy, coffee, muzak playing. I’m like whaaaaaat. The radiologist has this big blinking necklace of Christmas lights around her neck. I swear to god I kinda wanted to stay for a while, and I didn’t even mind that she was using a big machine to look at my tits.

Truth though - her hands were cold as hell and I told her that was ruining everything. Lolol

I will get my results after Christmas. I am not worried at all. No one in my family - on either side - has ever, ever had breast cancer. Back and back and back. I would be the first, and I figure I have enough crazy shit going on that it wouldn’t want to mess with me anyway.
 
Wow! Today has been crazypants! Merry Christmas Eve to everybody. My house has been hopping - lots of visitors to the Blessing Box! People bringing me everything on the wish list (can openers, laundry soap, pop top Chef Boyardee, etc) and others frantic about not having anything for Christmas and being out of toilet paper. We’re handling it all and good feelings are filling my house. It’s absolutely lovely.

We had a deluge of hoodies and warm weather clothing come in a week or so ago, and I had to relocate it into my living room for a short bit. It went fast though - I only have like 2 tubs left.

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PunkRock came home from work last night with over 30 of these suckers:

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I was really freaked out because I was like, these say 2017 and how will I EVER get them out of here by Christmas?!?! All but 3 were gone this morning and they’re all gone now. Did I mention that it was crazypants here? Lmao

Here are 2 pics of the Box this morning:

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https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/azG0rBlXrw4xhXm9dlctvfHyeAFa038mhmPG681cdib

I’ve gone and restocked at least 20 times so far today. This is the best Christmas Eve I’ve had so far. Such good feels!

That said, I’m on day 3 of my period and my cramps suck. Lol
 
So I had an amazing Christmas. DarkKnight and PunkRock spoiled the hell out of me, and I was really overwhelmed, but in a good way. I got new chairs for our game table, 3 different expansions for Mansions of Madness season 2, an at-home Escape Room game, Onitama, and then a lot of the body spray and lotion that I use from Bath and Body Works. Oh, and a new paint cup with my WarMachine army logo on it, and another mug with penguins on it. Plus some bath bombs, and a foot rest for shaving in the shower. I think that’s it. Wait - also a gorgeous teal blue bracelet. Lol Yeah, spoiled rotten! I felt really loved and cared for by both my husbands all day.

We all pretty much just wore pajamas all day long at home. My son came over, and we had ham for dinner. We did all of our regular traditions - quiche and hot chocolate in the morning, we had on new Christmas pajamas. Oh, I should post a pic!

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Or two:

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It was a great holiday!

Today I’ve been trying to get back into the swing of things with the Blessing Box. We had over 100 people visit the day before Christmas and we are out of almost everything, so that is a little stressful. Today I had a bunch of different donors show up on my doorstep and they’ve helped us get the supply up, thank goodness. I am extremely exhausted, but very happy at the same time. Oh! I received a Christmas card with a $10 grocery store gift card this morning so I ran right over and found chicken drumsticks, 5 to a pack for $1.09 each. I bought as many as I could and they didn’t even last 20 minutes! I felt really good though - each person that got a pack or two really needed it. It’s such an amazing feeling to be able to do something like that. $10, and there are now less families hungry tonight than what would have been. Yay!

So that’s all good stuff.

Bad stuff though - my brother was arrested and I found out tonight when my sister texted me. Sure as hell my mom didn’t say anything. Sigh. When I called to talk to my mom, she told me it was no big deal, my brother was okay, that the arresting officer said he had my brother’s back so he’s sure he won’t be in any trouble, etc. I’m like, are you even listening to yourself? Holy fuck. He’s been charged with falsifying business records in the first degree. The bare bones of what my brother has said is that he stole some stuff at Walmart and returned it for money to buy cigarettes. Only the newspaper says it happened multiple times, the entire month of December. He totally downplayed it to my mom, but the internet says it’s a felony, so there’s that. There is no way in hell he did it for cigarettes, come the fuck on. Probably buying crack or heroin. Sigh.

There’s nothing my brother could do that my mom will not accept. If he murdered a bus load of babies it would be justified because it’s not like they had personalities and lives yet. Fucking hell.
 
Today was another hectic one, but we got a lot accomplished. PunkRock has the day off, and we had pizza together for lunch, on the couch, while watching an episode of Ultimate Beastmaster. <3 I had an appointment at 2 pm with an insurance salesman. We are trying to lock down some more life insurance for pretty much all of us. We got some good rates on PunkRock, but we are waiting to hear from our current company to see if they can be competitive. We’re going to get a 30-yr term with return of premium on PunkRock for $100,000, and with that the house will be covered if he were to die. Though maybe I should rephrase that - we are thinking about it. I am wish washy about the return of premium part - I think we could do better on investing that bit due to cost but we will see. Anyway, right now PunkRock only has about $70,000 between a group policy at work and a whole life policy we pay for, and that just isn’t enough. Since he is now nicotine free, he can get some decent rates. We also all 3 of us finally had the State of the Union meeting. Holy shit it has never been this late in the year! I was pretty nervous but it went well. I am excited about the upcoming months and the plans we have set up.

Tomorrow I am going to be running around like a crazy person. I have two boxes of Christmas presents to mail out, and I have to shop for groceries. I have to get my oldest daughter some birthday gifts and I have 3 deliveries from the Blessing Box. There’s budgeting to do as well, and I have to find the flexible spending account credit card because there is money left and I have bills to pay! Gah!
 
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Woke up this morning and the Box was EMPTY. Our overflow was also on E. People in my city rallied and it was go, go, go all day long. It was amazing to see people come together for such a good cause. <3 We ended the evening with the situation much improved, several new donors, and me completely exhausted. I did manage to get some time in for my household, and I did some shopping for tomorrow night and finally took all the ornaments off my Christmas tree!

PunkRock came home from work today because he was vomiting. He spent the entire day asleep, or vomiting. Or pooping. He’s only eaten a few crackers and a bottle of Gatorade, poor guy. I think it’s probably a 24 hour bug. I opted to spend another night with DarkKnight, and hoping that no one else catches it.

Tomorrow our Pandemic Legacy friend is coming over and we’re going to ring in the New Year playing board games. Of course PL2 is on the agenda, but I want to play at least one of the new expansions I got for Christmas for Mansions of Madness 2. Oh! And I finally got a game I Kickstartered earlier this year - it was due to be shipped back in October, but t arrived today. Lol I am exited to play it - it’s a cooperative called SubTerra.

My daughter is having two friends spend the night out in the living room, so i need to finish getting the tree down in the morning. I am looking forward to having that done - ugh.

Oh! Facebook reminded me that today was the night that PunkRock first friended me, when I first noticed him noticing me at the game store. It’s really been 4 years, but it feels like for always. <3

DarkKnight and I finally finished reading Anna Karenina together - not sure if I mentioned that. Whenever we have a sleepover, he reads to me out loud. It’s always been my favorite book, and he had never read it, and now he has. Lol Since then, he started reading Lovecraft stories, which is necessarily the most calming thing right before sleeping! Though, maybe it is. He had to read “The Alchemist” to me three nights in a row because I fell asleep before he could get through it. I think so far most of the stories are predictable, but maybe they weren’t when they were first written. They are very well-written - I enjoy the sentence structure and flow.
 
We had a low key New Years and played a lot of board games. I finally received my Kickstarter version of SubTerra and we lost twice. That was followed by one of my new Mansions of Madness 2 expansion scenarios, and we lost that as well. Then we were close to midnight, so we ended with a game of Mille Bournes, and DarkKnight won. I had a couple of Angry Orchards and a 7 and 7 but it was over the course of the entire night, so I avoided a hangover. Our Pandemic Legacy friend was over, so it was a good time. We are going to all game again on Thursday night.

This week is heavily scheduled. Tomorrow I have a dental appointment where they are shaving down and creating more space on my top teeth. I am EXTREMELY nervous about it, but I am sure I will be heavily medicated! My daughter has a foot doctor appointment at the same time, but she’s grown and it’s the same building. PunkRockAwesomesauce will be taking us both.

Saturday is the start of a Journeyman League in Waynesboro, which I am crazy excited to start, because I haven’t touched my WarMachine models in over a year. I am also nervous about it for that reason! Lots of the rules have changed and it will be like learning an entirely new game. I am anxious about finding time to devote to it.

Right now I am headed out to Home Depot to get some screws and washers - PunkRock put up some new shelves for me in the game room for the Blessing Box and one set needs to be secured better. I am currently overwhelmed with a lot of donations and I need to put them away! Check out the diapers and wipes we had donated!

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This was my table view before New Years. I got it cleared off but it really necessitated the shelving installation. Honestly, my table doesn’t look much better today!

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