Trying Old Stuff

Yesterday I tried some new stuff, today I got to try some old stuff, well actually I tried the old stuff yesterday too but let's not get picky. I went walking! I used to walk a lot and I have missed it immensely. I live in an area where there are some beautiful walks and the air is so fresh. I stepped out of the car and could smell the fresh dirt and the water on the leaves, I love it. Funnily enough I handled it quite well, I was expecting it to be a lot more difficult, today I even walked up a relatively steep hill without falling over. I am nowhere near as fit as I used to be but that's to be expected and this is a start. I am just glad that I am out in the fresh air again. Gym is good but nowhere near as good as this.

Walking in the cold, fresh air made me feel good. I felt healthier than I have in a long time. Apart from my lower back doing a bit of complaining about having to work a bit I had no pain, no discomfort, I could even forget for a while that I had reason to feel uncomfortable. This does mean that I probably won't get to gym today but oh well, there is always tomorrow.

Trying new stuff

I am determined to try out some new interests and really wanted to start with a quilt. Well, the opportunity has come up where I need to make a small quilt/wall hanging and it's great because it's pushing me into actually doing it instead of talking about it. With the help of my sister I have picked out a pattern and the first bits of material that I need. Of course nothing is all that easy as the pattern I have picked has a reasonably large bit of embroidery on it so I guess not only will I be learning how to quilt but relearning how to embroider (not that I ever really knew). I did manage to go to the shop by myself and pick out the embroidery yarns (not that difficult as the pattern tells you which ones to get) and got home all ready to start. Crap, forgot to buy a needle! Did I do that deliberately so that I had a good excuse not to start?

A week later with a few hours to spare and knowing that I have to do this I pull out the material, the yarn and my newly purchased needle. I need to start with blanket stitch. OK, I know what blanket stitch looks like and I know I have done it before.......... ok, time to google. What did we do before we had computers? Third attempt and I am off, this is easy..... so long as you don't care what it looks like! I have now decided that this quilt will have the rustic look, uneven stitches are sooooooo rustic, hehe.

And I'm off, I can do this, at least until I finish the blanket stitch and I have to another stitch............

Moving on in time

Wow! With everything that has been happening over the past year I have been contemplating starting a blog. When I saw the Blogger icon I clicked on it to check it out and low and behold it took me to a page that I started.... well.... when I was 47 I guess. I do vaguely remember starting the blog and then losing interest before I even managed to type anything. Why I chose the title I have no idea.

Since then, at the ripe old age of 48, I have been diagnosed with breast cancer, had a mastectomy, undergone both chemotherapy and radiotherapy and am now undergoing hormone treatment which thankfully is just one tablet a day. My prognosis is ok I guess, reasonably good I should say, but who knows with cancer? It's a waiting game of which I hope gets easier as time goes by. There is no sign of cancer at the moment so the aim is to stop it recurring. I try to live by the rules of 'no symptoms, no cancer, and until I am told differently that is the way it will be'. It works most of the time.

I wish I had had this blog when going through treatment as there was just so much material there to write about. Even at the worst times I could still laugh and I am sure I could still find an amusing slant to put on things. Maybe I will post a couple of blogs about those experiences if the mood takes me. This blog is not a diary and it's not a record of my journey with cancer. I don't claim to be a great writer and for those grammar buffs out there I hope I don't offend you with my lack of grammatical correctness.

Well, there's a good start, my finger slipped and I posted before I was quite ready. I have absolutely no idea of how to handle this site so it should be interesting. Anyway, now I can say that I have learnt how to edit a post. I shall leave this here until I can think of something more interesting to say. I hope I can find my way back here but nothing is guaranteed.