I am so perplexed that I don’t yet have a title for this page.  I pick my titles as a reminder to what I lived that day,  Well this day had been perplexing.  Computers can be our friends, right?  Well, some days they can become the enemy.  The enemy, only in the sense that it has devoured this day, and yesterday, and the day before.  Living in the present to plan for the future.  I am trying to stay in Airbnb facilities across Canada as I make my way home. Airbnb allows me to go online and rent private rooms in homes from a list of those who have been background checked. The towns are so small that when I google a town up pops the ones in about a 50 mile radius and sometimes a bit further. Then I look on the map, try to figure out just how far, finally find one that might work and the date is already booked that I need.  Sometimes the picking is meager unless you want to pay a lot (which I don’t).  I can usually find really nice places from about$45 to $80 per night.  The owners of the homes always seem so friendly and so helpful.

I have reservations to stay two night on Vancouver Island close to Butchart Gardens.  It was recommended that I stay at the gardens after dark because the park and flowers are then lit with beautiful colored lighting and water features.  The place I will be staying is very close to the gardens and I will not need to drive a long distance at night.  The ferry stops running after the evening is over and it takes almost two hours on ship to get across from the mainland of Vancouver BC.  I would rather take that trip during the daylight hours.  I have many days before I get there but the Airbnb places available are becoming fewer and fewer and I knew I needed to get the scheduling completed.  I have plans scheduled through my stay in Coeur d’Alene Idaho.  After that I have no other places booked.  I’m still thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go.  Any suggestions out there?  Send them in.  I leave Idaho on June 23rd (our 42nd anniversary) or June 24th.  I plan to be home by July 1, Lord willing.

I’m still doing the marathon of the “Outlander Series”.  So…between walking all over the neighborhood, working on the computer, watching Outlander this has been a lost day.  Ahh…I now have the title for today’s blog.  I suppose not really a lost day because I did get a lot accomplished.  It is just not one of my favorite things to do…having my nose in the computer all day.  And, I do enjoy visiting with Joyce off and on between my computer nose and Joyce hosting online spades tournaments as well as playing the tournaments herself.  So we haven’t had too much time today but the day was and still is enjoyable.

My computer episode went until about midnight last night.  At 12:30 a.m. I realized I had not written the poem I choose to write everyday.  So I wrote a poem.  I will copy it below.  Just a little look at how my brain works past midnight.  At least there was still something up there.

I HOPE I’M AWAKE

Kathleen Martens

May 27, 2015

Oh man, it’s past my time,

Bed would be so sublime.

But many plans I had to make

I just hope I was really awake.

It would be awful to do these works

Only to find just in dreams they lurk

Are those few place I have booked,

And many places I’ve yet to look.

When tomorrow comes I shall pursue

All the plans that are new.

For all I decided with half a brain

I hope my decisions are surely sane.

As you can read.  I wrote the poem with half a brain too.

Good night! And guess what?  It is only 5:35 p.m.  Sorry I have no excitement to report!  Just being so full of peace and joy is excitement enough for me.  I’m alive!!  And God is good!!