Last night I watched “One Night with the King” which “chronicled the life of the young Jewish girl, Hadassah, who went on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, and saved the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its arch enemy while winning the heart of the fiercely handsome King Xerxes.” I really enjoyed it.
And while I was putzing around looking at movie stuff, I discovered there are Ruth Rendell mystery DVD’s. So I’ll be checking those out when I get back from Madrona. As Barbara pointed out when she first ever told me about her, she used a metal double point needle as the murder weapon in "A Needle for the Devil,” a short story which I read some years ago when Barbara first mentioned it. "The Veiled One" has considerable knitting content; the murder weapon is a knitting needle. I haven’t read this but it may be the one where she used a circular needle as a garrote. Meantime, Bill is watching “Get Smart” episodes.
I never mentioned that the fellow who was to meet us for Bill’s birthday thought he was to meet us on Tuesday night, not Monday. Oh well…. And Bill took the car back to the dealer again today after the check light came on and stayed on. According to the code it had something to do with the federally mandated emissions system. There was a small leak which they fixed. They also fixed the thing to do with the acceleration pedal that has been the focus of a recent recall. My sister should rest happy now – as soon as I tell her. Of course, she doesn’t know about my fall yet.
Since Madrona is fast approaching, I decided to go ahead and knit on my eight homework swatches for the “Seaming without Sewing” class. That is my first class so it needed to be done before I head out for the retreat. I have six done. I also have most of another hat knit, and I finished listening to my audiobook “Ghost at Work” by Carolyn Hart – another ghostly whodunit.
Debi called today to check on me. I told her I wouldn’t be coming tomorrow and she wasn’t surprised to hear that. I don’t know what I was thinking at the time I told Larry P I’d probably come and play on Sunday. The leg looked better when I got up this morning as far as the swelling was concerned although it swells again during the day. If I sit with it elevated all the time it gets uncomfortable so then I put it down for awhile. I’ve continued icing off and on during the day although perhaps I should have done more. The bruised area seems to be larger than yesterday. Not a pretty sight… And I learned tonight that Terry’s feeding tube came out and he was off to the hospital again to get that taken care of. I don’t know why he has so much trouble with his tube.
I got the sequel to “The Note” from the library today and the last two episodes of Season 2 of “News Tricks” from Netflix. Decisions, decisions about what to watch but I’m off watch one of them, and ice the knee another time or two before bedtime.
When you feel unlovable, unworthy and unclean, when you think that no one can heal you:
Remember, Friend,
God Can.
When you think that you are unforgivable for your guilt and your shame:
Remember, Friend,
God Can.
When you think that all is hidden and no one can see within:
Remember, Friend,
God Can.
And when you have reached the bottom and you think that no one can hear:
Remember, my dear Friend,
God Can.
And when you think that no one can love the real person deep inside of you:
Remember, my dear Friend,
God Does.
- Unknown