Allergies

Hello, Allergy Season,

I'm going to try really hard not to let you get the best of me this spring. I have made all the appropriate preparations - stocked up on Claritin and cough drops, and such. I hear everybody sneezing and coughing, and I'm not having irritating allergies this year.

I just wanted to make myself clear on that matter.

Kate

An Interesting Morning

Every year in March, I help with the GR Summit at work. It is exhausting and I usually need to take at least a day off work when the meeting is over to catch up on my life. This year was different - I've been working out at the gym and haven't been as tired, and I've just been handling things better overall. I didn't miss a single workout due to the meetings. Everything was business as usual.

I kept my plan of taking a day off work, two in this case. Figured I might as well take a four day weekend. Yesterday was my first day off work and it was rather uneventful, but very relaxing. Today I woke up and walked into my bathroom and it was completely flooded from the apartment upstairs.

While the workers were waiting for the ceiling to dry out, I went to work on one of my projects that I've been meaning to complete for over a year - reupholstering my vanity bench.

This was the prior fabric on the bench.


Then I cut out the fabric and learned how to use a staple gun. The staple gun was definitely the fun part. Reminded me of Iona in Pretty in Pink, when Iona aims her staple gun at a shoplifter. Shoplifter kid: "You missed my eye by and inch!" Iona: "Half an inch. This isn't the public library, Light Fingers."

Here is the bench all finished and put back in place. Loving the fabric.

Oh...and the second best part of the morning had to be reading my horoscope: If there's a problem in the garden -- Slugs? Snails? Bulbs aren't blooming? Weeds are all-consuming? -- you're going to put on your gardening gloves and solve it. If there's a problem in the bathroom -- Toilet broken? Water boiler smoking? -- you're going to put on your bathroom-problem-fixing gloves and fix it. What's the ultimate household necessity? Trouble-solving you!

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Or reupholster furniture.

Brilliant

I started typing an e-mail and wrote "High" instead of "Hi." It's just going to be one of those days, I think. Last day before a meeting. Bleh.

So looking forward to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday when the meeting is over.

Do you even know what my diastolic is?

It's not every day you get to use a Ferris Bueller line like that one. I took my blood pressure this morning and my diastolic (the lower number in a blood pressure reading), was shockingly low. If I didn't already have a doctor appointment tomorrow, I would have made an appointment. It looks like a medication adjustment is in my near future.

Just one of the blessings of getting healthier.

Thyme, Basil and Dill

My Thyme plant is doing well. I thought my Dill plant was not doing well, but it turns out that I just couldn't see it growing in the beginning. Now the Dill has surpassed both the Thyme and the Basil. Who knew?

Speaking of Thyme, I wrote a guest blog post called, "Thyme," on a blog for LDS single women. 2 friends of mine run this blog and they have been asking me for months to write a guest post. So I did. And it turns out to be the most popular post on their blog for the entire month of February. Here is where to find it:

http://your-golden-heart.blogspot.com/2011/02/guest-post-kate.html

It's definitely one of my favorite things that I've written in a long time. Enjoy!