Update

• I know you have all been really worried about my lost salad spinner! So I am glad to tell you, I found it! Oddly enough, it was in the cupboard where it was supposed to have been but pushed right to the back. I normally don’t use this cupboard too much because, first, I have to bend down to get into it and i don’t do bend down too well these days, and secondly, it is narrow but very deep which usually means everything in front has to come out before I can get to the stuff at the back. Anyway, I moved the salad spinner {which I use quite a lot] to the cupboard above the stove, so when I lose it again, you can all chorus, "Look in the cupboard above the stove!"
• I was late going to bed last night, but I woke at 7:30. Because I really want to go back to my early-to-bed-and-early-to-rise routine, I got up and got things done including a short stint on the treadmill. I set the timer for ten minutes but so far have only been able to do five. I am not worried. Ten minutes a day {I  walk in the morning and the afternoon} is better than nothing, and I know from experience the length of time will improve eventually if I stick to doing it –my goal right now is to do this at least three days a week. I feel much better in my mind and have more energy even on 10 minutes a day…
• Yesterday, Diane and I went out to a thrift store in Burlington. I had enough sense to take my cane-that-opens-to-a-tiny-seat so when my back hurt, I was able to sit for a while. Diane found several sweaters she liked and she found me a pair of size 11 boots! They were plain black and calf high. Now, it is highly unusual to find boots or shoes in my size in a thrift store so I did try them on and they fit very well. However, they were $35 and I just don’t have that much to spare at this point. I would have scrimped to get them if it wasn’t for the fact that I actually have two pairs of boots already– well, three if you count my walking-in-the-snow waterproof boots! But I did buy one thing, a pair of purple gloves!
• This morning I have been watching a DVD of the Charles Dickens’ book Our Mutual Friend. It is one I have never read and so it was all new to me. I also got some tidying-up stuff done in the kitchen, too, and not before time. I need to mop the kitchen floor which I will do after lunch {a salad} and after the next five-plus minutes on the treadmill which will be done before I eat! Hmm, that has turned out to be a rather convoluted sentence!
• OK, it is 12:15 so I am off to walk on the treadmill, have lunch and mop the already-swept kitchen floor.

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“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.” -Steve Maraboli