After Scott was laid off from Nortel Networks, he got hired by another company and took a $35,000 cut in pay. This kind of hurt our budget, to say the least. I started looking for ways to save money and I came across the idea of making cloth pantiliners. I got a pattern from some lady who was making them. I didn’t like the way she put them together, so I took her pattern and made it do what I wanted it to do. I took pictures of each step and have the link posted at the bottom of this blog. Taking the pictures made this one take a little longer than the 20 minutes it usually takes to put them together. I’ve made a bunch for myself and have started making them for my girls. I also started making cotton hankies, but they aren’t interesting enough to take pictures of each step, so I won’t bore you with that.
I’m doing better with the thyroid medicine. I quit caffeine a little over a week ago and that has been another adjustment in my life. I am used to feeling all this pressure to get things done and now I don’t have that. I am going to have to learn how to keep myself going without a drug! It is nice not feeling stressed and jittery, so I tell myself that every time I want a caffeinated drink.
I’ll be heading to Florida on Monday. My mom is having knee surgery and I’m going down to be a help for that. It will be nice to see her and Ray again.
A hurricane (Earl) is heading to North Carolina but it seems like it is going to keep to the coast, so we should be okay here in Raleigh. We could use some rain from the outskirts of it though.
My eczema is doing better. Last week it about tripled in size, so I got fed up with it and called the dermatologist. She gave me a prescription cream that wasn’t as strong because the other bothered me so badly. It is working nicely. I no longer have raw skin everywhere, but it is all purple now and hopefully that will go away soon. If you’ve never had severe itching, you don’t know what you are missing. I don’t recommend trying it though!
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