I’m just settling in to watch part of the baseball game before I head to my parents’ for dinner later.

We went to church this morning which was nice… and they held communion which, where I come from, is not normal for Easter Sunday because we held it at the Maundy Thursday service instead. But it’s been a long time and there was a flood of memories as I took bread off the plate because I remember as a child cutting the bread up with my great-grandmother who was part of the communion committee.

Our Inspirational Message for today is Whatever Easter means to you, celebrate it with loved ones. I am. That’s the best part of the holidays… family!

Our Gratitude Journal prompt for today is Your greatest achievement… another tough one because achievements come in stages. Way back, nursing school. Then having a baby. Life is like that, similar to the best thing that’s ever happened. What once was the best thing may have been topped by something else, and usually is!

I think the most important thing is having gratitude for those things as they happen.

So, have a great day & blessed Easter Sunday!

Too much. That’s all I can say. Today felt like the world exploded with rain and I felt like every little thing that could go wrong did! And I’m talking about being a spaz today! I spilled my tea in the car, I pinched my thumb in my umbrella! Got it now?

Anyway, watching The Blessing Bracelet tonight and reminding myself about faith and hope! And the importance of gratitude.

Today’s Inspirational message is Love the nature and colours around you. Use them to inspire you. Funny if you think of how blah and drab today was!

The Gratitude Journal prompt for today is The best thing that’s ever happened to you… when you’re 20 or 30 maybe there’s only one thing but when you are half a century old there’s bound to be more than one! My daughter, this beautiful town of Goderich, these are two of the best things but, of course there are others that top the list.

What’s one of the best things that ever happened to you?

A day to think and reflect but it was also a good day. Income tax is not my favourite thing to play and no, they weren’t mine. Later in the evening yesterday I did manage to put the finishing touches on my package and emailed it off, finally. Now I wait to see what happens!

The day did get away from me. I wanted to write this much earlier but one thing led to the next.

Your Inspirational message for today is Even when there’s rain, keep looking for the rainbow. All the rain is coming tomorrow so interesting that this was the message for today. I think with all the rain coming tomorrow we will have no choice but to watch for a rainbow!

Our Gratitude Journal prompt for today is Any things you have that the majority of people don’t… oh wow! Let’s see… I have a collection of books I’ve written myself and self-published… what am I at now? Seventeen? Or is it sixteen still? Even the author loses track! I also have a China cabinet with trinkets from close to home, new and very old, and from far away, gifts from travellers who thought of me. Of course there are other items I’m sure but we also can’t list everything!

I look forward to your thoughts on these for today and I’ll “see” you tomorrow!

Well hello! What have you been up to? The vertigo has gradually improved, then I had a setback, now it’s improving again. Today is the first day that I was able to shower without hanging onto something in there. I worked half days this week. While we got a lot accomplished (and was still available at home) it was definitely hard to do focus sometimes! Looking at the schedule to try to get it sorted out with these tiny little blocks and then transferring that to the computer definitely caused my brain to frown at me. I also had headaches every day. I was grateful to everyone at work who took on extra (my ADOC) and were understanding and helped me out. I think I might manage to go in on Monday without my cane. I’m not pushing myself this weekend.

I’m glad I’m, finally, on the mend and seeing improvement because maybe I can get back to working on my beloved new little project and set myself a bit of a schedule to get back to all the writing I haven’t been doing for most of the winter thanks, mostly, to the usual Seasonal Affective Disorder.

All I can say is, if you end up with Vertigo, give it time. Get checked out and just give yourself rest and time. One of the things I found was the more tired I was, the worse it got, again. So half a day of work wore me out and that made it worse. It’s a vicious cycle!

Anyway, happy spring to all. We’ve had worst first days of spring but yesterday started off with rain but, eventually, the sun came out for a bit. Three days ago we were told on the news that today was going to be 18. Not sure where that went because now the high is 4! Sigh! Well, it could be worse!

I’m going to try to pull up a really great calendar for April and maybe just get back rolling on that again!

As always, thanks for listening and sharing on this continuous winding journey of my writing path!

Since my last post it’s been interesting. Came up with some new ideas which I will keep to myself until I’m ready to unleash them on all of you! I’ve also been creating Benji & Blue’s Baseball Adventure! Also had other little things to work on inside my writing world

Then, with so much to do at work, I woke up Thursday morning with vertigo and had no other choice but to call in sick. I was in tears because there is so much to do and here I am in no shape to do it. That afternoon I had no other choice here but to go to emerg. Just shy of four hours later I was on my way with a prescription and my world spinning as fast as earlier in the day. Vertigo is pretty unpredictable with the duration it’s going to last and it’s been a literal roller coaster since then. It feels like it’s a little better only to wake up this morning in even worse shape. It’s also scary because you can so easily fall. The medication didn’t seem to work well but, again, with vertigo, it’s hit and miss!

I haven’t been at work since Wednesday which makes me feel bad because there are messages I’ve missed, a schedule to try to sort out and rebuild while my brain is doing a dance all of its own without warning me first. Since I can’t drive until this totally clears, Larry will drive me to work and I’ll see how long I last. Worst case, I can dive into some of those things from home.

I had this once before 30 years ago and not much has changed. They don’t know what causes it, they don’t know how long it will last or how severe it will get. Can’t even say if the medication will help or not. It wasn’t even available 30 years ago so it’s new to me. This morning was my last dose. I’m to go off it for a couple of days and can start it again if it all persists.

During this time resting I haven’t done much but watch TV, read a bit, but that’s tiring, and do some puzzles. It’s been BORING!

So wish me luck that this ends before I go totally crazy! And fall so behind on work that I’ll never catch up. 😔