IT'S MORE THAN A MATTER OF TIME!

Apple does a great job on packaging. I'm sure it wins awards.

My gold watch face with the plum sport band

 I recently joined the ranks (probably millions) of people who own an Apple watch! I had no idea what I've been missing! This watch does way more than tell time. One of the cool new features it has is a Handwashing Timer to help you make sure you wash your hands for at least 20 seconds. And, of course it does tell actual time. You get to choose how you see this time!  I have created five faces for my watch, but the possibilities are endless. I find it funny that they call the choices of what things you can display, "complications." Depending on what face you choose, these "complications" change.

I have taken an ECG, my blood oxygen, and my heart rate. I'm good to go!  And go I do, except now I have a more accurate account of how many calories I'm burning while walking, or dancing, or swimming, or doing a Downward Dog!

One of the most intriguing features is an app I downloaded called SleepWatch. It tells me what I already knew- I sleep crappy! I'm tossing and turning about 7 times a night.

Beyond sleep insights, I also get to set activity goals.  I'm happy to report I have "closed my rings!" This means I met my stand goal, my move goal, and my exercise goal.  I could also use the watch to tell me to breathe, but that was annoying, so I turned that feature off.  Hopefully, I'm breathing ok.

The watch also has a feature called Walkie-Talkie that lets you play the old fashioned game of broken conversation. I'm not sure why you would really want to do this. You have to hold down your finger to talk and then wait for the other person to do the same.  You can just talk to your watch during a regular phone call.  I think I probably won't use the Walkie-Talkie feature. All this technology amazes me. It makes me think of Get Smart and Agent 99.  We've come a long way from the "Shoe Phone!"

I'm sure I have just discovered a small fraction of what this watch can do. I look forward to learning more about it.  In the meantime, I have to go.  But, before I do, I need to start my workout app so I get credit for all my steps.  

What did we do before we tried for 10,000 steps?  What did we do before we could track our blood oxygen?  What did we do before we had an app to help us breathe, or tell us to stand? 

This watch is quite the revolution, and innovation. It really is more than a matter of time!

I use this face when I want to check messages 

I use this face when I want my watch to look more like a typical watch

I pick this face at bedtime so I can wake up to it

I like to choose this face from time to time to remind me how lucky I am

This face rotates through 24 of my favorite photos

Healthy and tracking it!

Sylvia

CREATIVITY THRU COVID!

I had to change my image to add grey hair in need of a haircut!

2020 is going to be remembered for so many things. At the top of the list will be too many deaths!

But, instead of a political rant about effective leadership, today I’m focusing on everything this pandemic touched in my own life. 

I tried to capture my personality in my masks!

From my face, to what I eat, and the air I breathe, nothing remained the same. From the ceiling to the floor, from the walls to drawers, everything was changed. 

You spend a lot of time at home and your eye roams. It finds all the old stuff, and then the fingers click! From website to website purchases got made. Even new fingertip towels came amongst the boxes left at our door.

New fingertip towels

Some could call it "Retail Therapy," but I prefer to call it COVID Creativity! From outside to inside, there were not too many spaces that didn't get some kind of COVID makeover.

From poems to painting, from photo manipulation upon towels and mats, I put my creative side to use.

My own photos put onto hand towels

I love the smiling bread on this towel

New bathroom towels and decal

I chose an Erin Hanson print and had it put onto a tote bag. Too bad it was going to be my water aerobics bag. That class has been cancelled.

Yoga mats I created. The stones are my photo from the Atlantis in the Bahamas.

Tuscan floor mats I bought to replace old ones.

Painter hard at work!

I bought an iron scroll and then a decal to complete my art piece!

My completed and signed Paint by Number

My second and last Paint by Number

Life is beautiful inside and out. I made the outside piece to go above the thermometer

I cut down a dead bush and left enough to make an easel for my art

Staying home led me to join the ranks of sourdough bakers. No, just kidding! But, I did bake more cookies. I also took time to join Home Chef and pick out new food choices. 

I haven't turned into Marie Kondo, but I gave it my best by organizing my jewelry into two new jewelry cases. 

I also took 10 purses and 23 scarves and put them into two hanging organizers. What a difference that made!

                               

By far the most creative stuff I did during this COVID pandemic was write poetry. 

 

 

I  also took poetic license by writing a story and adding it to John Wilhelm's manipulated photos.

As I finish writing this blog,  I'm half listening to the TV report about President Trump who has contracted COVID.  He is now a patient at Walter Reed Hospital.  No words to mince here. I hope he and the First Lady, and all the people who he infected all recover. But, this pandemic should have been under better control by now. Creative avoidance didn't work. It's time to paint a new picture - the truth!

Poetically,

COVID Crazy Sylvia

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going to be remembered  for so many things. At the top of the list will be too many deaths! But, instead of a political rant about effective leadership, today I’m focusing on everything this pandemic touched in my own life. From my face, to what I eat, and the air I breathe, nothing remained the same. From the ceiling, to the floor, from the walls, to drawers, everything was changed. You spend a lot of time at home and your eye roams. It finds all the old stuff, and then the fingers click! From website to website purchases get made. Even new fingertip towels came amongst the boxes left at our door.  

Wedding Tribute to Kellie and Jack!

Due to COVID, I wasn’t able to be at my niece’s wedding today. But, funny thing, I went walking and kept finding stuff to photograph for a wedding tribute!