Small Successes.....

     I've had some successes recently including spending a day fasting and consequently starting to lose weight again.  So, I've decided to fast every other day until I get the weight off that I want because it was not that difficult and helps me lose weight pretty quickly.  I realized that fasting helped with the weight loss when I got my cataract surgery several weeks ago.  I don't really remember if I talked about my eye surgery, but I am so relieved to be able to see.  I got a lens that allows me to see close up and distance, and it is such a blessing after having used magnifiers over the past twenty years.  Now I can see without the magnifiers even though only one eye works well.  I will be receiving my next lens in my left eye at the end of the month, so I'm looking forward to having both eyes actively engaged in seeing well for the first time in several years.  Every part of our body is terribly essential.  You begin to realize that when one little part starts to go wrong and it's not so easy to work around some of these problems.  I'm amazed at those who can overcome huge afflictions.  It takes hard work and commitment and certainly diminishes my small successes, but I remain proud of myself for everything I continue to accomplish.  The other thing I did was I started selling on eBay and cleared out a ton of stuff in the process.  It's a bunch of fun because what you can do is find things out in the world and then put them up for sale.  Even if you make fifteen dollars a day on items that cost you a dollar, it's worth it.  So, Steve and I will start doing this as a side activity.  We've begun looking for items of value at thrift stores and estate sales, and we're going to start putting them up and see how it goes.  We'll do this until we can get sick of it.  We'll even continue doing it when we're in Hawaii, although we'll probably have to hoard everything and then put them up when we return to Washington because shipping from Hawaii will be much too expensive.  In any case, I'm enjoying being able to see well again as I engage in my new selling activity while continuing to slowly lose weight.  So, here's to small successes that add up over time.