Stand Up

For weeks now I've been convinced that my achy legs are a direct result of me sitting too much. I write, I draw, I knit, I read--everything I usually do I do sitting down. That's not good. So when someone last week suggested I get a standing desk I thought that might be a good idea. I looked on Amazon and all of the standing desks were 36" wide which is too big for my writing desk and I have nowhere else to put it in this little duplex. I kept scrolling. I found a laptop stand that got great reviews and was very reasonably priced so I ordered one and it came today. It was easy to assemble and fits perfectly on my desk. I spent a lot of the afternoon standing here rereading my manuscript and it worked just fine. I haven't yet tried to do much typing on it but I'll get to it and I suspect it'll work okay that way too.

The last of Dad's rosebuds has opened. There are a few straggly flowers on there but this one is the showpiece. It's beautiful and velvety and it smells great. Now if only the frost holds off for a week or so then I can enjoy it for its whole life.

When drawing zentangles this afternoon I made the frames bigger than I have before and that made the tangles easier to draw. I like the top one because it's drawn with a single line. It took a lot of concentration to squeeze the lines together and past each other to fill the frame.

Then I pulled out 20 Ways to Draw a Tree, paged to where I thought I might have left off and plunged in. I drew a feather, a winter tree, a stemmed flower, and an owl. Today I like them all.

Oh, I just got a chill. It's not cold in here but I just shivered. What does that mean? That someone walked over my grave? Yikes. I took a little walk again today. It's not getting much easier so I'm glad that I see the doctor on Monday afternoon. He'll probably tell me that I'm woefully out of shape, to stop complaining, and keep moving but I want to hear it from him and not the crabby little voice in my head. Also I think I might have sleep apnea because I wake up tired. Aging is certainly a challenge. But it's better than the alternative.

--Barbara