The Year of the Ox

Well I've made some Chinese New Year cards now, so unsure about whether the Chinese characters are saying the right thing.

I am sure there is a market for DoCrafts or other manufacturers to produce Chinese New Year stickers etc, but hopefully they will put what the characters mean in English. I bought the DoCraft oriental kit but it is impossible to tell whether the papers and brads and stickers are saying things in Japanese or Chinese and whether what they say might offend.

A new year

It seems that the days are passing by quicker now. Until recently time just dragged and dragged - and I couldn't summon up any 'get up and go' to do anything. Now I want to do more and feel stressed and tired cos I'm not getting everything done. I hope this means I'm getting better.
Sleep is very poor at the moment and the obsession with Janet - my ex-counsellor is bad and ongoing. She is in my head all the time and I don't think anyone understands. She is there all the time and invades my thoughts - good or bad - and my dreams. I might add my poem about obsession sometime. Add the bad dreams about dying and maybe that's why my husband calls me the 'phantom quilt-turner'.

Trying to make Chinese New Year cards to sell. It's impossible to get stickers saying Happy New Year in Chinese and have had to resort to making my own from downloaded .gifs off the Internet.

I got a new Philips juicer for Christmas - it's amazing - so easy to clean and you can dishwash it but you hardly ever need to. Juices so far have mostly been fruit but I did try a pear,apple and broccoli one with a little ginger and it was amazingly tasty. Have booked to go back to Penny Brohn centre later this month to do a one-day cookery course.

And my next CT scan is in February.....