I am having problems painting again.  Having trouble speaking sometimes.  I will try to speak but the words come out with hesitations. It is laborus  pulling the words to come forth. I am reading about 10 pages a day from a novel.  I programed my phone with another phone number for quick dial;  mercy it took me 30 minutes just to get the number programed; and then i found that it was already programed in the phone.  I was so frustrated.  I have been waiting for her to call me because i could not get the number dialed correctly or fast enough before the phone would turn off.  The number is long distances so there are lots of numbers to dial.  I am latching a rug.  Took me a bit to figure out how to make the hook work.  I know it should not be that hard but it was so weird trying to understand how to make the hook work and not being able to.  Then when i did start latching the yarn into the canvas I keep thinking this does not feel right.  I thought about going to youtube and seeing if there was a video; but i figured out that i was latching the yarn in backwards.  I experimented and realized that the yarn has to be warped on the hook first and then latched; so much easier; the yarn just slips in place.  I am feeling much better but friends still do not understand that I can not go shopping all day much less half a day.  I am good for about an hour or less.  A friend wanted to go to another town and check out the junk shops. I would love to go but i just can not hold up.  I figured she would just go without me but she suggested we go just to Goodwill and then for coffee.  I can do that.  I am in pretty good spirits; my colon is fussy again but  notnealy as bad as it has been this past two years.  I ate some roasted soy nuts and that seems to have set it off to a revolt.  Had to take meds. sighs.   I appreciate you guys so much.  Thanks for all the love, hugs and super friendships.