I broke my rule
Over the past 4+ months, I have been in the process of turning my bred room into a sanctuary of calm with my interior designer and friend, Daria. To that end, I made a new bedroom rule. The rule: no use of my cellphone or other electronic devices in the room except to listen to music or to watch and do a fitness video. I discovered some great free fitness videos on interval training on the 8Fit app. Well, today I broke the rule and spent the morning watching YouTube in bed. Why? Because as I wrote in my journal “I feel like emotional crap. I feel beaten up by life.” This is my Dysthymia (chronic low-grade depression) rearing its ugly head. This can happen every so often where no matter my taking antidepressants every day, my “condition” gets the better of me for several hours to a full day. Do I worry? No, because I know it will pass and I will be the better for it because it helps me grow and be stronger going through these episodes. And as long as I don’t do retail therapy, I won’t have regrets the next day. Now, that the episode is winding down, I will get dressed and begin tackling my family history project. One of the redwell files full of family history fell last year, spilling the contents, and now needs to be reorganized. I am the keeper of the family history and all the family documents that were given to me, I inherited or bought off of Ebay. And in one case were bought off Ebay by my ex-husband. Thanks to him, I have an employee “ID” pin from the American Finishing Company, a textile finishing factory owned by maternal grandfather and his two brothers. It is the prize possession of my collection along with the blanket my maternal grandmother made me from material from he finishing company. I napped under it as a kid and so did Sylvie, and hopefully one day, so will my grandchildren (Sylvie says she plans to adopt three kids). Spring cleaning comes early this year at my house!
My best guess us that the number on the pin was used to check-in and out employees from the factory everyday.