this week, i love that hurricane dean decided to go elsewhere. i love that i can track tropical storm movements over the internet with up-to-the-second updates, and that each season the layperson has greater access to weather info than in years past.
i love that i don’t much care for specific dates – this bothers other people and can make scheduling with me a pain, but it also means that i can write this column on thursday instead of tuesday and feel okay about it.
i love how my life always seems to be following a specific course which i can never quite clearly discern. i love not feeling regretful about the past.
other than that, i haven’t really been feeling the love this week. ben is back, which is great, but it also reminds me that i will be moving soon which makes me sad. my next housemates will be hard pressed to live up to ben’s easy going and generous standards.
on an unrelated note, both my grandparents have been in the hospital this week – my grandmother with knee surgery and my grandfather in the icu. people are gettting old, their bodies are wearing out. i am doing my best to accept it all.
my new work is okay – the people are great, the job is occasionally interesting although there are also long days in warehouses with no a.c. – however, having lived through the entire summer with no a.c. at home, i am well suited to doing my job with no problems, just a fair amount of sweat.
at night, i admit though, i am tired and that’s killing my ability to do much in the evenings – a few more weeks on schedule though and i’ll have adapted to the routine and figured out some strategies for keeping up with all the things i’d like to do after the day is over.
now is the time to be patient, to accept what comes next, to act when i must, and to rest when i can.
quote of the day, “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
I love that sometimes life throws a brick at your stomach and then tries to make it better, just a little. Much like those sour patch kids commercials “first they’re sour, then they’re sweet”.
I love listening to music that perfectly captures my emotions at that moment and helps me to express them ten-fold.
I love watching a funny commercial that makes me feel better because it makes me laugh out loud.
I love Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.
I love the new Beatles “Love” album, a remix and mixup of Beatles tunes by the master himself, George Martin, infinitely talented producer of all the Beatles albums.
I am with Dave 100% on the above comment. I love that it’s RICK!’s birthday on Monday. I love that Mom has been freezing every slice of hospital cake that Papa has been too weak to eat and that when he gets home she is planning a cake eating party. So far, there are seven slices in the freezer!!