Friday-10am

Every Monday and every Friday I think things will improve and I will be able to read blogs and catch up with all my emails...but that hasn't been the case.  

At least Karma is feeling better and acting more like her old self.  :) :) 

But it seems the Universe has been conspiring against my being online the last few weeks.  On Monday my trusty old laptop table made a loud crack and partially fell into my lap!  I have used this table while in my recliner and then on the loveseat this last year after the old recliner finally broke beyond repair. 

It's around ten or twelve years old.  Looks like the glue that held the wood pieces together just dried up and let go.  Also the giant screws came right out and are dangling in the air.  The only thing keeping the top on at all appears to be the tilting mechanism--which froze up and quit working years ago. 

I know you all don't know about all the various props I have to use around here to function more easily, but this is one of them.  A big one.  It quite possible that Dagan and Leah will be able to patch this table back together so that it will work again for me, but until then I have to sit at a table or my desk again to do anything online.  

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No, I can't set the laptop on my lap.  Too painful.  Karma can't even step on me or sit in my lap--even when she was a scrawny little thing.  When she does come up for a cuddle on my chest she moves very carefully to get in position and there has to be a pillow between me and her back end.  She seems to always have known to be careful with me.  :)

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  I am having the worst spell/flare up that I have had in years in my lower back, shoulders, and neck.  This past week I can't sit much more than 15-30 minutes at a time--for online, for writing letters, for art...for anything.  Can't even manage my one hour at a time right now.

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Oh, and then I found out that I can't even print off the zendalas, either--LOL!  Discovered that with this new printer it won't even print "black only" if one of the color cartridges is empty.  *sigh*  Not that I could sit and do a zendala right now anyways--but the Universe is definitely trying to tell me something, you think?  Time to take a step back.  Whether I like it or not. ;)

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I have been slowly--very slowly--making my way through emails.  I am like a week and a half behind responding even on those!  I have not been able to read blogs--still--but I am reading emails--so I greatly appreciate the personal emails!  And every single comment on my blog, too!  Even if it is taking me a while to actually reply, know that your words have reached me and touched me and made me smile. 

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Dagan is stopping after work today to look at the laptop table.  I think I am going to have to fess up and admit that there's no way I can handle running the SpotBot right now and that I actually need help with that.  (They don't read my blog and I haven't let them know what truly bad shape I've been in the past couple weeks.) 

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Now Karma, though...she's doing better and acting more like herself all the time.  Even begging to play with her string toy and to go outside on the porch.  We will be done with pills tonight--whew!  Dagan is bringing us back for her checkup on Tuesday after work.  I probably won't post again until after her vet visit to let you know.  I think I am going to be on hiatus from any kind of regular posting schedule.  (Maybe because I announced that Murphy's Law will kick in and I'll get better, eh? LOL!) 

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Meanwhile--in the past couple months I have watched: Justified-Season 3, Call The Midwife-Series 1, Men Of A Certain Age-Season 2 (cancelled, but I really enjoyed it), Beasts of the Southern Wild, Dexter-Season 6, Shameless-Season 2, Boardwalk Empire-Season 2, Ted (dumb!), Everybody's Fine, Troubled Water, Borgia-Season 1, The Company Men, The Poker House, Bernie, Craigslist Joe, House of Cards-Season 1, and I'm now watching World Without End (the last two are Netflix originals).  Always something good to watch.  Nothing like getting lost in a good movie or series to forget your troubles.  ;)

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My body may not be doing well, but I am doing just fine and am in good spirits.  I did get quite frustrated for a while over not being able to even read blogs or use the SpotBot.  (It's hard to admit you can't function as well as you think you should.)  But when you accept it and quit fighting the facts--life is good again.  At least that is how it is for me.  ;)  So don't worry about me, okay?

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Sorry if this is a choppy post.  Can only type a few minutes at a time.  Thanks everybody!  I'll be back whenever I can--and I promise I'll let you know how Karma's checkup goes.

Bless you!!