Good Medicine

Trouble in Paradise? 

Not exactly. Okay, just a little. I am a tad worn out from a weekend of junk sickness, junk upheaval and junk revival. Nothing a little time on the couch this evening won't cure. I hope.

I thought I was over the junk sickness (which both my friend Lynette and I got earlier this week. We think we got it from that business we picked a week ago where we dug and searched and took loads and loads of stuff out of there. I'm talking about pukey stomach sickness, not the sickness that you get when you have a propensity for too much junk - oh, I have that too...obviously.) but today I was feeling cruddy again. 

Now, I don't like sitting around, so I forced myself to bust it all day to finish painting and waxing a bench that still has to be recovered. (It was a find from the same business where we got a tad junk greedy and then junk sick.)

I scraped paint off the metal Costco stool I got a few weeks ago and one of the little cabinet doors that I found in a trash pile not long ago was remade into a chalkboard today as well. Truly, truly, I promise that I really did buy and try to figure out how to put fabric onto the console panels in such a way as to be able to remove them at a later date if needed, but what a pain. Nothing's easy. I'm working on it.

I actually had to break out the emergency kit my daughter Cally was so sweet to send me so I could use one of the items inside. It really was a mini emergency because I didn't want to drive to the store just to buy something to see if it would work. The kit had just what I needed so I could see whether or not I could use said item in a pinch. I think I can.

More on the console redo another day. That project has stalled because I couldn't bring myself to go to the store. It saps my strength to think about it anyway. [back of hand to forehead as I fall back on my pillow in exhaustion] 

Trial and error is so taxing -  and it WAS very trying.

Since I was a good girl and did so much work around here all weekend, I'm now going to lounge back with my feet up and prepare to have a bowl of vanilla ice cream with some homemade hot fudge that my son cooked up last night. I know, you're thinking, "What?!" Does she ever stop eating ice cream and hot fudge?! [Oink, oink] Well, hello, this is for medicinal purposes, obviously! Yes, yes, you can have some hot fudge too if you like (See HERE - you'll just have to make your own - I don't want to get you sick. Good excuse, right?) and we can all put on the pounds together. Misery loves company. Then I think I'll watch some more episodes of Psych that I have on DVD from the library. 

Laughter is good medicine too.

Here's what I'm seeing now as I recline against my cushy pillow. I'm not showing you the console to the right because there is some fabric hanging off haphazardly that got stuck when I tried hot glue. You'll just have to wait.

I did a bit of rearranging to fit the console in so that it looked like it sort of belongs and decided to change up all the little stuff in the room as well.

 
Candlelight goes well with ice cream and hot fudge. The flickering light is soothing to my vexed mind and aching back.

The flowers add a spark of happy to the room.

 I even took down the big black letters that were up at Easter that said "RISEN", and added some color to the mantel.

The pretty lantern purchased some months ago for a song, along with the adorable tray that my friend gave me for my birthday have joined the little silver soldiers. Okay, they are salt and peppers, but sometimes they remind me of little soldiers standing guard. They never leave their post. So faithful.

These colors make me smile, and the light shimmers off the glass creating even more sparkling hues.

Can you believe I got this lantern for $1.50? I marvel at that all the time, and the bargain of it makes me smile yet again.

Speaking of smiling, time to see what Shawn and Gus are up to.

With all this good medicine, I'll be feeling better in no time. In fact, I think I already do.

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