The Weeks Just Fly By

I'm still having some bouts of anxiety.  Thought things would have improved by now, after getting back on my thyroid meds, but yoga seems to be the only thing that relieves the tension when the anxiety gets too high.

 This has been a good week even with the episodes of anxiety.  I finished the third AAQI quilt.  Lots of seed stitching instead of normal quilting was also a good antidote for the episodes.  Stitching helps me keep my monkey mind in a more meditative state and lets me work on my breathing.

The center embroidery piece was something I worked for a long time a year or so ago with no purpose in mind, so I decided to make use of it.  The bright threads represent the good memories that are being lost and covered by the black netting; fading, but still there underneath the AD plaques and tangles.

Some of the Good Things:

• B.E.'s visit
• my pretty oil cloth arrived (love it)
• two visits with my SIL
• looking forward to Max's 5th birthday, and Fee has his Spiderman bike in the truck
• Fee replaced the latch handle on the back door with a round knob (which prevents Lucy from hanging on the latch and opening the door, letting the Triad outside)
• finished the third AAQI quilt
• organized some of the fabric that had gotten spread out all over
• got a new journal that I really like (the last one went from Oct. 2008-July 2011; I have several different journals, but I buy big artist sketchbooks for the daily journal)
• got the beds cleaned out and pine straw put in; big improvement in appearance 
• I love the color in this portulaca 

 The cheerful oil cloth brightens my mood.  The new journal and reading material are covering it up; should have straightened things before taking the picture.

What have you been up to this week?  What projects have you begun or been thinking about?