Joint pain, locking and new bedding | December 4, 2025

Hello! How are you?

Have you heard that students who read about the body themselves tend to develop health anxiety? I think it happened to me. Suddenly I pay attention to how the heart flutters, how it really feels with sciatica and various pains in the body. The knees and muscles ache and the hair definitely looks a little thin at the hairline. I think it has something to do with the hormones, probably pre-menopause. I may be focusing too much on that.

Or I’m really sick.

Studying at home is actually not a good idea. You’ll notice I’m writing here now instead of reading Cognitive Neuroscience and doing study questions! But today it happened that sometimes I get such problems before I get ready and leave that I get angry and sad instead of even getting dressed. It felt like the least bad option to stay.

The positive thing is that I get to see my house and the things I have scattered here in daylight. For example. I bought this pink yarn at the city mission last time. Could it be a cute and fun hat?

Also bought a bouclé yarn in alpaca. Nice with double thread plus a matching wool yarn. I thought one of the kids might get a hat in it, this is more their color than mine. Misty walnut.

Do you know what this is? I had been looking for such a copy for several years and now it was here, also in one piece.

It’s for making applesauce! I’m not a homebody, but applesauce is what I can reach because my husband’s parents have a lot of apple trees. You can, of course, make puree by cooking peeled apples, but it actually tastes better if you cook the apples, cut into roughly quarters with the core and skin on. Then you scoop the concoction into the cradle and pass the puree with the rolling pin.

An advantage is that if the skin of the apples is red, the puree becomes extra beautifully pigmented with this method.

Theme: brown. Hard to resist a beautiful, coarse linen fabric. This is probably a runner, but I thought if you cut it into decent sized pieces with edges it could become placemats.

We separated the children’s sleeping places and they got their own room. Very nice actually. I found this rack for my daughter at an antique store and there wasn’t much to think about, so I bought it. Fits perfectly! Only one meter wide, just right. It’s starting to look like a real room now.

Last one then! I’ve found that doing more of most interior design things works really well. So bigger carpets, more colour, larger batches of textiles.

The bed got a twist with orange checked bedding. The jacket, bottom sheet, duvet cover and pillowcase have exactly the same pattern. I also bought a headboard cover in the box, but I still need to adjust that a bit before it can be put up. I want to have a bit of a summer house feeling from around ’82 at home, and this fabric also feels a bit like that.

Study now. Hug