GOOD THINGS

OK, I get the message.  A few days after I said I would stop blogging for awhile good things started happening to me that I kept feeling like I wanted to share with all of you.

The weather is actually getting nicer -- warmer.  Even though it's supposed to get cold again this weekend, I can enjoy some sun and nice days.  And I figure that it's almost March.  The worst has got to be over.  Right?  Yes?  Please?

I saw the surgeon Thursday for my three-month checkup.  She said everything was looking wonderful and I don't see her again until September.  Unless I need to, of course.  But I don't think I will need to since things are going so good.  I just have to keep massaging the scar tissue to minimize it.  But I have quite a supply of wonderfully scented body lotions to use so that it is no chore to do that.  Right now I'm using one called Winter Vanilla that I got at Target.  It smells just like vanilla too.

Also at work yesterday I am running around and I see my boss talking with a man.  They call me over.  He tells me he is a magician and asks me to help him.  I LOVE magicians.  


He tells the story of Rapunzel as he takes a piece of rope and ties it in knots like a ladder.  He said that was the ladder Rapunzel made with her hair for the prince to climb up to her in her tower.  Then, of course, the witch finds out and cuts her hair (he cuts the rope at the knots).  So now the rope is in one piece but with knots on it.  But hair grows so now she is back to normal.  He shakes the rope, the knots fall on the floor and the rope is in one piece.  He gave me the rope.

The second trick he did was have me link my hands together, tied a scarf on my wrist, then told me to do three things.  Keep my hands together, watch him like a hawk, and think magical thoughts.  I know about magicians distracting you so I was determined to keep my eyes on the scarf.  But he asked me a question, I looked at him, and bam the scarf was off of me and in his hand, still knotted.  He asked me how he did that and I said I was thinking "magical thoughts."  He laughed.  We are hoping to get enough money to hire him to do a program for the kids in a few months.

As I said, things are getting better.  Work is distracting.  Life is settling into a normal pace.  I am beginning to plan for the future.  God is good.  God's blessings in my life continue to amaze me.  The world, such as it is, goes on.  So does my blog.

Kathy
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Thursday's weather
Sunny
High: 53 degrees
Low:  29 degrees (a few days ago this was our high!)
Sunrise:  6:46 a.m.
Sunset:  5:42 p.m.
10 hours and 56 minutes of daylight