Enjoying Paper and Admin and Walking!

Hi There! I just realized that's it's been a few days since you last heard from me here. In the meantime, Alida arrived safely back in Sydney, enjoying the luxury of three whole seats to herself all the way from Vancouver to Sydney! And she went straight from our snowy winter to the beach! Ahh!


Just to keep my life even a little more exciting... the other day a police officer rang the door bell asking for me and handed me a "Subpoena to a Witness" to serve as a witness in court in May, relating to a disturbance on our street last fall, that I had reported to police.

I knew I had recorded notes about the whole incident at the time, but where were they? That triggered a search which led to sorting all kinds of folders and papers around my desk. I found the notes! And also spent many hours at the dining room table sorting all kinds of work, health and benefit records and papers. And I was able to do it!

It felt so-o-o good to be able to do this! I was starting to feel normal! My brain was connecting things! And I lo-o-o-o-o-ve!! this detailed administrative kind of work! In the process I found recipes in my benefits folder - so things have not been connecting for a while already.

On Tuesday Gerard and I went to the mission office to fill in forms for EI, Long-term disability, etc. and needed lots of information for all those forms and questionnaires, and I had it all organized and available and ready to go! Wow! that felt good! There were a few times when we needed a date and I knew I had it and didn't know quite where to find it and then all of a sudden my brain kind of froze and I got frantic which really shocked me, but after taking some down time and going for a good walk with Gerard it all settled down again and was fine. So I still experience those things and can tell that not everything is normal, but overall, I'm very excited that I was able to sort and organize and enjoy all that clean-up!

It was great to drop in at the office, meet some of the staff, and catch up a bit on what's been going on there. And then today we tromped through the slushy snow for a few hours, running errands and delivering things. It was great good excercise and refreshing to be outside!

I can walk for hours and we take lots of walks. I have to hoist myself up stairs a bit and when we walk I seem to drag slower than normal, but have lots of endurance. We go swimming twice a week, and I swam for 45 minutes yesterday, no problem at all, so lots of good healthy exercise!

What a blessing to be able to walk! And I just love paper and admin and am having such a good time sorting, and cleaning, and purging stuff around my desk.