It's been a funny old week for me... some good things and some not so good things.
For the most part I'm able to take the good with the bad but sometimes I end up tipping the balance and for the past couple of weeks I seem to have been a little bit down in the dumps and tend to be dwelling on the negatives more than the positives in my life. I guess it came down to committing myself to a few too many things again and I got tired and run down... and unfortunately for me I tend to lose a bit of perspective when I get like that.
Then this past week I made the mistake of weighing myself and discovered that I was only a couple of pounds away from my all time highest weight... again. Just call me a human yo-yo but my weight does seem to go up and down with my moods. So what did I do??? I chastised myself and then soothed myself with... a block of chocolate... and then chastised myself again... but resisted soothing myself with yet more chocolate.
Then Jazz the cat appeared to be off his food... not just being fussy like he can be... he wouldn't even eat any raw mince or his all time favourite treat... ham. I took him to the vet yesterday and now I feel like a dreadful pet parent because Jazz has had to be sent to the pet hospital in Masterton. The poor little man was dehydrated, underweight, had sunken eyes, a rotten tooth and has possible kidney disease. I was also taken aback when the vet described Jazz as a geriatric cat. He's ten years old now but I tend to still see him as an over grown kitten who loves to play with wool and claw all my knitting projects.
I was so upset after I had to leave him there at the vet clinic that I walked to the supermarket and bought a LARGE block of chocolate and ate it all... and didn't even bother to chastise myself. Fingers crossed that if his treatment goes well we should be able to bring Jazz home sometime during the week.
To say that I'm not feeling overly good about myself at the moment is a bit of an understatement.
So what do I do when I get depressed??? I usually indulge in a completely unneccesary spot of retail therapy... and this time I bought myself five pairs of face furniture... otherwise known as prescription eye glasses. A friend (Hi Sharee!) put me onto an online provider of glasses and I had been putting off looking at the website for no other reason than I didn't think I needed any new glasses... or rather that I couldn't afford any new glasses. But when I did look I was completely amazed at the pricing and I purchased all these glasses complete with prescription lenses for less than the cost of my last pair I had bought locally... and that pair had been half the price of my previous Ted Baker or Gucci frames only.
So here's a photo of me wearing the most 'architectural' framed glasses I've ever contemplated wearing... I like them so much I even managed a half smile in the photo. I also seem to at last be starting to fall in love with the colour orange. I have two friends (Hi Kent and Dee!) who are huge devotees of the colour and proactively try to convert people to the colour so I guess it might also be a case of osmosis.
I'm also wearing the scarf I finished in Hamilton while I was visiting my Mother. At this stage it's going to end up being a gift as part of a facebook promise I made at the start of the year.
And I bought a couple of new tea towels, both Irish linen and at a ridiculous price... but then I feel my life is quite ridiculous some days. I bought this particular one because it made me smile and it reminded me of my trip to Northern Ireland three years ago.
Don't worry about me though... I'm not on a total downer. Last night I went to a dinner held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the company I work for. Ian was away for the weekend and I wasn't really all that keen on attending but I'm so glad that I did. I ended up having a really good time... perhaps that was due to the wine that seemed to keep disappearing from my glass... and the delicious meal which was provided... or perhaps that's just another sign of my moderation issues! But I'm very pleased I went and I came home in a much better frame of mind as a result.
And of course knitting generally keeps my mood up and here is this weeks knitting output... three baby socks, cabled strips for a knitted quilt project and another scarf half finished.
It's such a beautiful day outside today that it's now time for me to shut down the laptop and sit in the sun and knit away the afternoon... the vitamin D boost I'll get is bound to keep me in a better mood for the start of the working week.
I'll give you an update on Jazz in a few days time.



