Friday July 24 2015  A DAY NOT YET DONE  2

6:34 p.m. and my day is looking longer by the minutes.  Self-expectations!  Oh how I am thankful for a computer smarter than me.  It shows me I have too many spaces between a word and when I should hyphenate a word.  It shouts at me relentlessly with a red squiggly line should I misspell a word.  And sometimes it just corrects the word I misspell without me fixing it.  And sometimes I make an error so wrong the computer doesn’t pick it up and neither do I.  I find those later myself after the blog has been read by the public.

So tonight I decided to write earlier in hopes of not making so many mistakes.  Bear with me if I do.  It has been a long week and a long day with many short nights.  I NEED ANOTHER TRIP!  I realized today that the reason I had so much energy and go power on the trip I took, is that there were no expectations on me by anyone.  I had no deadlines to meet that were crucial, I didn’t have to do household laundry, nor did I need to cook unless someone allowed me to use their kitchen and then it was always a joy to do so.  But…there were no expectations.  A word of advice:  Everyone needs to take a trip like that.  No clocks to punch, no boss to report to.  All I had to do was to arrive at the destination I set out for.  The timing of the day was usually open ended.  Again, no stress, no expectations.  All I had to do was obey the signs of the road so I would not get a ticket.  I took that very seriously and only went the speed limits posted in each state.  All varied and some with no sense at all.  THAT WOULD BE TEXAS!  While I was in Texas I decided to start traveling all the back roads I could find.  I think that made my trip so much more enjoyable.  I always listened to the suggestions that hosts would give me and then find my own route if I didn’t want to take the Interstate system.  Again, no expectations.  I didn’t even have to drive the maximum speed limit because in a lot of places there was no one following, or coming for that matter.  I remember one stretch of the road in Montana (for miles and miles)  I had only two or three vehicles come up and go around me and only passed one or two coming toward me.  Then I found out why.  Up ahead the road turned to gravel due to construction.  I saw absolutely no one working on any part of the road for hours but it was all gravel.  That was interesting to say the least.  But, oh so worth it.  So, so beautiful.  Magnificent colors in the landscape and ringed by distant mountains.  The sky was so big, so beautiful, so, close.  I went about 30-35 miles an hour the whole way.  It took me a little extra time to get where I was going.  And by the way, I didn’t even get stopped by a police officer!  But…I flagged one down in Austin Texas who was on a motorcycle and asked him if I could take a picture of him for my bog!  He said yes. So I did.  And we had a good chat.

But now I am home and life is moving in the fast lane due to the season.  FOOD!  Yes, Paulette, I said FOOD!

My day started out with the cleaning lady (I don’t usually have a cleaning lady so I felt very uppity saying that).  I don’t like feeling, being, acting like, or being thought of as UPPITY.  But it did feel kind of nice to have “A” cleaning lady for 4 hours.  I worked right along with her for the entire four hours.  She could be here 24 hours and not get everything done.  She was wonderful!  She was worth her weight in gold.  It helped me so much to reclaim control of the upper level.  EVERYTHING is dusted.  I did a lot of that.  All four rooms that are carpeted are cleaned.  My craft room carpet was not invaded.  All the hardwood floors (2) were cleaned.  AND MY ENTIRE TILED AREA WAS SWEPT, VACUMED, MOPPED AND SOME PARTS RINSED WITH CLEAR WATER!  That was magnificent.  It takes me at least two to three hours to do those floors by myself.  I usually do them in stages.  So you can imagine how good it felt to have them all done at the same time.  (Maybe it made me feel a little bit uppity).  Please SMILE, as I am teasing!  Oh, by the way, it took “Jill” about 90 minutes to do the floors.  I swept over half the area myself as she was doing other things.  So I think that is why she finished so quickly.  I’m just glad they are done.

Left to go to the Doctor for a final blood test before my surgery on Monday.  Then I had my hair cut.  Then I went to the gym and now I am home and my day is gone, but not yet done.  I have FOOD that must be processed TODAY!  I’ll tell you tomorrow how much I accomplish.  I decided to write my blog first because I was concerned that if I waited until the end it might be two or three in the morning and I don’t think my smart computer could handle all my mistakes.

Overall it has been a very pleasant, tiring day.  And I am getting more tired as I sit here.  I always produce more when I don’t’ stop to rest.  I don’t get tired until I sit down.  So I better get up.

Dave is working in spurts and putting far too many expectations on himself.  He is resting now.  We decided to get rid of a lounge chair from out dressing room because a mechanism was broken and it was time for it to retire too.  He spent some time today disassembling the recliner and found it very exhausting.  Now it will fit in the trash container and he can recycle the metal.  Dave is a #1 recycler.  And he makes certain I tow the line.

WHAT DID YOU DO WITH TODAY?

By Kathleen Martens

July 24, 2015

A day is lived but once.

How is it you will spend?

Do you start with a prayer,

Recognizing God is there?

What in your day, do you do

That will glorify the Lord?

Do you take time to give to others

Or your moments do you hoard?

There is so much to do in time

Hours squandered or frittered away.

So really take a look at yours.

What did you do with your day?

P.S.  to poem:

Take some time every day to create a few moments of a Sabbath rest by doing something you enjoy doing.  That is what gave me the impetus to write a poem each day.  I started this several years ago.  So every day when I write my poem, to me it is a “SABBATH MOMENT” to give back to the Lord the gift He blessed me with.  That is my joy-offering to my God.  I hope the words I write will bless you and others.

This is my goodnight as I must go into the kitchen and start peeling onions.  It is 7:18 and this must yet be published.

Even though my day is not yet done I say GOODNIGHT!