More of a blogger

 My kid sis posted on a chat thread that I am "more of a blogger than a chit-chatter".  So I guess I'd better put a new one up, since I haven't in a couple of days, huh?

Thing is, I read that chit-chat but so many people are on it, I can't keep up!  Some of them I know from Spark, some "new" to me in the years since Spark went away.  I care about the people on it, and have an interest in their lives... they all have things happening and they are important and worthy of support and feedback... and that makes me feel... since I don't often respond... inadequate, in some way.

Blogging suits me more... I can write about my days, and reading the blogs of others, I can see into theirs and leave individual comments of support.  

The Prisoner continues to heal, and I'm back to letting him go out and in at will.  What's nibbling at the edges of my mind is that Rubia has yet to show up to come back into the household.  I've seen her out and about a few times over the past week, and I've put food out that has been eaten, but any critter can come up on the deck and get it.  This morning the water dish had been dragged to center deck, but still had a little fluid at the bottom.  Prisoner sniffed at it (as he has at the deck corner where it sat).

My own activities this week, since last blog was put up, include getting a hair cut, walking with the sister, and one workout with the trainer.

My older sister is complicating my week before surgery by asking me to come take care of her kitties in the mornings while she heads off to Kansas to care for her grandsons while their parents begin the school year.  Both parents teach and have to report before the kids return to the classroom.

This would not be a problem, but the paranoia of pre-op is setting in.  This is the same week where I will be having my pre-op physical, and my pre-op blood draw, and my last two trainer workouts before the cataract surgery.  So it's important that I stay healthy, so as not to endanger the safety of that surgery.

So, I'm shaking off that particular anxiety and resolving to do the other things that are in my control to make sure all will be well.  I said yes to the kitty care (edited to add that, as my prior paragraph didn't make it clear).  I will be extra careful with the hand washing, and probably do some preventative masking for the week.

The haircut and the rainclouds show in this selfie!  Which reminds me... we have had cooler than normal temperatures this week, and periodic rain.  The cooler than normal will last through Saturday, then it will become Summer normal, HOT and dry.  They have three triple digit predictions for next week.  

Saturday morning's State Games walk should still be OK, as the 89F high won't be until afternoon.  My friend Geri and I plan on starting our walk before 7 a.m. and we should be done before 10.  Remember to take water, I tell myself.

So yes, Life is still Good.  Spark on, my friends!