Some Normality?

I've made arrangements to go for lunch with the Art Girls next week.  I feel very proud of this!  It's an achievement after so long staying away from people and going nowhere.  Not only that, I'm actually picking one of the girls up and giving her a lift in the car!  It's been a long time coming and although I'm a little bit nervous about it, I think I'll enjoy it.

I'm also about to book myself onto a fused glass class.  I've wanted to do it for ages but obviously couldn't due to the restrictions but the classes are starting up again with social distancing in place so I feel I can do this now.  It's all very exciting!  The class is actually just an all day, one day course and you return the next day to collect your item after it's been fired in the kiln.  There is a small part of me hopes I don't absolutely love it because it's not what you'd call a cheap hobby!

Talking of hobbies I think I'm going to get rid of some of my craft stuff!  I've got loads of dies that I don't use.  I never really got a lot of use out of dies, I couldn't be bothered fiddling with them to get the desired finish.  I may try to sell some of them but I'm not sure how desirable they are any longer.  I'm also considering giving up making my own cards (again!).   I always leave it till the very last minute to make them, especially at this time of year when I'm outside more than in.  I had always planned to make a selection to have to hand but never quite got round to that.  I know it saves money to make my own when I have all the stuff already anyway and I'll probably still make one or two but I can see me making less and less not to mention, people don't seem to do cards anymore.  I got a few text messages on my birthday and I have to say its not nearly as nice as getting a nice card.  It's a bit hard to put a text on the mantlepiece too!

I was at the hospital this past week getting a biopsy done on a lump on my leg.  It was a very small raised area which got bigger last year and I was given cream to hopefully clear it up.  It cleared it a bit but not completely so now they want to see how deep the damage is so most of it has now been effectively cut out!  They said they'd not cut the whole thing out as the bottom of the leg is a hard area to heal so I'm not entirely sure what happens to the rest of it now!  Perhaps once one part heals they cut the other part out?  I'll hopefully find out soon, but not too soon, it can take 4 to 6 weeks to get the results!!  I've got one stitch which will be removed by the nurse next week.  

Although the covid restrictions are still in place it does feel as though a bit of normality is returning.  The question is, how much of normality do we want to return to??