Today was the perfect day to shake up the inertia. Work-work got done and there was a test run of the “share screen” feature in our conferencing software for my final presentation in the public speaking class at work next Tuesday. This was a relief.
After work, a couple home-work things
got done, partly prompted by a planned visit from Mom and StepDad this coming
weekend. Things have really been allowed to slide around here, and I need to get
it together so Mom doesn’t see that I am really a slob. It's hard to
cling to the illusion that I might have my crap together when
it’s laid out on every horizontal surface of the house.
In addition to the general rule that the best way to get the house cleaned is to have people over, the sunshine and nice air temperature helped get things in motion. The weather inspired the planting of half the pansies into the three-tiered planter on the deck. There are still eight more pansies to be planted, which are now in the front porch. Maybe tomorrow they will be set into the earth. At least I’m no longer constantly relocating them from one end of the kitchen counter to the other.
Instruments of torture. |
While I labored, Winston lounged
in the sun on the deck, and Moose wandered the yard, following the random paths
of mowed grass, which briefly resembled a labrynth. The way the dense greenery
winds through the yard made straight and even rows difficult to impossible, and
the mower was pushed in any direction it could pass though. To any neighbors
observing, it certainly must have looked like a drunk did the mowing. Out of
curiosity, I clipped on the pedometer, and it was 800 steps to mow half the
back yard with the push mower. The next mow should be easier, because clumps of
the yard will not be six to eight inches tall. I hope.
After the mowing and several
glasses of ice water, I happened to catch the beginning of a live tarot reading
on Facebook that I had no idea was happening. It felt like a sign. In the space
of thirty minutes, the intuitive reader did readings for questions submitted by
four viewers. There was a question about career, a mother-in-law, and two about
romance/relationships. One of the questions was mine and the outlook seems very
favorable.
No comments:
Post a Comment