83 - and so it continues...

This week was the same as the previous week with lunches, happy hours, a trip to Martin's in La Manzanilla, a sunset cruise - this time we saw whales - a cookie cutter week including luncheon at Dick Eddy's, filled with fun and laughter, margaritas and white wine.   If you've been following my blog  the past couple of weeks you could probably write this week's happening yourself.  

It was never my intention to write this blog as a "Deqr Diary" but that seemed to be the way it was becoming.   For this reason, I'm not writing it that way this week.   Just let me say that my life, like my health (and probably because of it) cannot be better, and I continue to have the time of my life!  

My circle of friends keeps widening although remembering their names is a struggle.  I recognize faces but names not so much.  I'm not concerned that this is caused by dementia.  It's simply that my brain's AI program is not kicking in as it should. 

Just as my Spanish lessons are not sticking as they should.  But I think the reason for that is that I got somewhat bored so stopped studying daily.  I'm putting that down as a phase that will pass, so I paid the annual fee when it came up last week.  I give Duo credit for his humourous nagging me to study which makes me giggle and know his daily persistence will win and I will soon give in.

I am painting again.  My client, Maureen, didn't like the dark background I'd painted on her grandson's portrait. That has been changed to a pale, complementary colour to make him "pop".  A couple of minor adjustments to his nose and mouth have made the painting a realistic likeness.  One more small adjustment and. fingers crossed, she will love it.

Painting every Tuesday with Lynda and Tina starts next week.  This will be the motivation needed to keep picking up the brush.

Pool exercises have become part of my routine again. And for the first time in several years I'm actually enjoying reading a book, "Nightingale" in quiet hours on my patio.  

The enjoyment I'm experiencing from painting, reading and pool exercises will, I believe, continue and, after being missing from my life for many months, these hobbies will again be an important part of my life.   I seem to be coming out of a lazy phase I think I needed for a time and my life is richer for it.