dual personalities

Breaking news from my neck of the woods: I finished my sampler!

I’m not going to lie, I’m pretty proud of it. And I have COVID-19 to thank for providing the time and lack of things to do for helping me finish it.

In other news, I had planned to scale back my during the week drinking this week to my pre-COVID levels. That is, only having a glass or two of wine on the weekends. But then, with my parents visiting this weekend, some open bottles were left behind and I really should finish those and not let them go to waste. Maybe I can work on cutting back in 2021.

Also! I get to pick up my new mouthguard at the dentist in Columbia tomorrow. I really can’t tell you how exciting this is. Seriously, I clench my teeth so hard at night that I wake up most mornings with a headache. I hope this does the trick.

So, as you can see, lots of exciting things going on in my world. I did have a really splendid time with my guests this weekend. We travelled out and about and everyone was respectful of the guidelines and properly social distanced. But, I still feel like maybe we shouldn’t have been so confident. And I’m getting pretty tired of feeling this way. I listen to an hour and a half conference call every morning that goes over exactly what is happening in the state and I still feel this way–I can’t imagine how people who only have the news as a source feel!

One thing that I learned from working on that sampler is that sewing or having something to do with my hands really helped keep me grounded. I found reading difficult during quarantine because my mind wandered, but sewing allowed me to focus on something that didn’t require too much thought.

As usual, a reminder to not worry so much is in order.

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

–2 Corinthians 4:16-18