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June 2, 2011 at 5:30 am · Filed under birds, books, chores, coffee, early morning, fruit juice, holidays, imagination, milk, sleep, television, thrillers, vitamins
It’s early in the morning and the first birds are already singing even though it is not even dawn yet. It does sound very cheerful and promising and gives me lots of hope for the rest of the day. It’s not that I’m really ready to start the day yet. It is my plan to go back to bed for a while and sleep some more. It’s way too early for me to stay up and get the show on the road. I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. I would walk around here like a lost waif.
I could do the dishes and change the bed and do the laundry, but I can do those things later in the day too, they don’t need to get done first thing in the morning. Especially not on a holiday. It is Ascension Day today, so it’s officially a day off. I plan to spend it mostly lazily with the odd chore thrown in. I do have to have something to show for my day. Besides, I’ve run out of soup bowls (I’ve only got five) so I do have to do the dishes. And the domestic help is going to be here tomorrow, so the kitchen needs to be cleaned up.
If I don’t get side tracked watching tennis at Roland Garros, it is my intention to sit in my armchair and read my thriller. I don’t make enough time for that now as it is. Getting around to reading seems to be the last thing I do. Every day it is my intention to do that, but every day it is something that falls by the wayside. It is not as if I have such a busy schedule, but the days seem to go by very quickly and are over before I know it.
Last night I watched an episode of Midsommer Murders and it was most amusing. Before it was on, I watched unimportant television that absolutely didn’t matter and was of a low entertainment value. I watched it just because it was on. That’s how lazy I was. If I don’t watch out, I’m going to turn into a vegetable. That’s why it is so important that I read and use some of my own imagination. It seems like that is too much of an effort.
It has been suggested that I reread a novel that I enjoyed a lot to get back into the habit of enjoying a good read. I may resort to that if all else fails. I have just the novel for it. That would be The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry. I did enjoy that one very much and wouldn’t mind reading it again. I may give that a try.
It is dawn now and the streetlights have gone off. The day has really officially started. I’m thinking about staying up for a while and taking my medicines and sitting in my armchair to read until I get tired. I’ve had two cups of coffee, but I’m all done with that and it’s time to switch to milk. Oh yes, I have to drink some orange juice too for the vitamins. It doesn’t agree with my stomach very much, but I’ll just drink a small glass of it. I do need to get my vitamin C.
I hope you’ll all have a good day with the kind of weather you want. I think we’re going to have a nice day. There should be lots of sunshine.
Ciao,
Nora
May 29, 2011 at 2:43 am · Filed under blessings, books, chores, coffee, happiness, health, love, milk, sleep, Sunday, the dog, wealth, wild nights
I’m sitting here with a truly bad cup of coffee because I haven’t yet taken the time to make a fresh pot. I heated up what was left over in a cup in the microwave and it tastes like it too. You just can’t expect much from it except that it has caffeine in it. I will be good and make a proper pot of coffee next because it will be done in no time and it will taste a heck of a lot better than this stuff. Why didn’t I do that in the first place, right?
I haven’t slept much yet, but I was ready to get up. My warm and comfortable bed could not seduce me to stay in it longer. I was ready for some action. Gosh, that makes it sound like I’m going to have a wild night, while I’m not going to have anything of the sort. I’m just going to sit here and type this post and wait to get sleepy again. I’m not planning on having a wild party or anything. This will be no night of debauchery. I’m already yawning.
I very seldom (read never) have nights of debauchery. I’m much too well behaved. I probably don’t move in the right (wrong) social circles. I probably wouldn’t feel all that comfortable letting everything hang loose for one night and getting somewhat in my cups and acting with abandon. I would probably not feel very good about it the next day. I have a very well developed sense of propriety. It disallows foolishness. I don’t know if that’s wrong or right. It’s just something I don’t do. I like to keep my head on straight.
That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to live in wealth and decadence. I think I could be most happy with that. I would truly like to be filthy rich and completely indulge myself. As long as I had someone to love who loved me equally well in return. It would be awfully lonely to be rich on my own. You need someone to be decadent with.
I’ve made my fresh pot of coffee and lovely it tastes too. At least I have that pleasure. I do have some small enjoyments in life, little as they are. But then it is said that you have to find your happiness in the little things. Well, I certainly get lots of opportunities for that. Excuse me if I sound like a little bit of a cynic now, but you get that way when you constantly have to figure out how to count your blessings.
Come to think of it, though. If I had to choose between a long and healthy life and 10,000 Euros a month for the rest of my life, I suppose I would choose the former. I thought I would go for the money, but that’s no good if you get sick and have a short and painful life.
I’m glad I got that settled.
The night is moving along slowly and it seems that the hands on the clock are crawling across the face. Normally time moves quicker. I must be stuck in a time warp. Everything has slowed down. I’ll have to stop drinking coffee, otherwise the night will really last long and I’ll never make it back to bed. It is my intention to sleep for a good long while yet because it is Sunday after all.
It will be a day of complete laziness and I hopefully won’t get out of bed until the late morning. All I have to do are my regular chores and walk the dog. I will undoubtedly find ways to amuse myself because I always do. I don’t as a rule get bored. There’s always the book I’m reading if I can find enough patience to pay attention to the plot. I must say that my mind is easily distracted nowadays from reading material. It only seems to want to clasp on to things for little periods of time. I have a 21st century mind.
I’m drinking a glass of milk now. That’s in preparation to going back to bed. Milk has a tendency to settle me down. It’s my magic elixir. I don’t know what I’d find harder to do without, coffee or milk. I think in the end I would prefer milk. Once I got off the caffeine.
I hope you’re all having a good night and that you’ll all have a good Sunday.
Ciao,
Nora
May 26, 2011 at 2:56 pm · Filed under books, chores, dishes, end of the day, finances, laundry, nervous breakdown, paperwork, sports, stress, television, the dog, walks, weather, writing
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I’ve done my chores and the washing machine is churning away so I don’t have to feel bad about sitting here and taking the time to write this. I’ve even done my administration and ordered new food for the dog on line. Yes, I have done my duties and didn’t have a nervous breakdown.
I only was in danger of having one for half a minute and then I dared it to. I faced it head on and decided it wasn’t going to get to me. That I was stronger than it and that I was not in need of a tranquilizer simply because I had a number of stressful activities to take care of.
I proved to be right. Opening the mail and facing possible bad news was not half as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was what it was, unpleasant. They wanted my money. I dislike that intensely, but it doesn’t help if I have a breakdown over it.
In my spare moments I watched tennis at Roland Garros. There were some Dutch people playing and they needed my attention, not that it helped. We don’t do all that great, not when faced with formidable opponents like Kim Klijsters and Marty Fish. It was fun to watch anyway and they were nice moments to have a cup of coffee and a cigarette.
I couldn’t finish watching any of the matches, so I don’t know how they ended. I had to do my chores and walk the dog in the windy day. There are rain clouds, but no rain has fallen out of them yet.
The dog had been stealing the potholders off their hook in the kitchen and playing with them. They had drool all over them and they’re in the washing machine now. He has also been stealing the magnetic little animals off the refrigerator and I found them throughout the apartment. I put them up high, but he still got to them.
It’s a completely new activity for him that he’s just discovered. Stealing things from the kitchen. I suppose that up till now, it was just a place to go eat and he hadn’t really explored it properly. I guess next will be the dishtowels. I’ve got to go to the pet shop and buy him some new indestructible toys. He wrecked his rubber rabbit to the point that I had to toss it out.
He really enjoyed tearing that rabbit apart and it took him a long time. It was worth the price I paid for it. I may get one like it again. It was the best toy we’ve had so far.
I’ve got to put away the dishes and hang up the clean laundry. I’m glad the day is almost over. I have to walk the dog one more time and then I’m going to put on clean pajamas and vegetate in front of the television. I may even read my book. It will be an evening spent leisurely with the minimum amount of activity.
You wouldn’t have thought that officially this was my day off. I had no appointments today and nobody coming over.
I hope you’re all having a good day with the kind of weather you most want.
Ciao,
Nora
April 2, 2011 at 3:11 am · Filed under books, clothes, craving, dishes, domestic help, food, laundry, middle of the night, Saturday, the Exfactor, tobacco shop, weather
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It’s in the middle of the night and I have slept enough for now. I don’t want to waste anymore time doing it until the morning when it will be Saturday and I will have more than enough time for it. I’m not expecting any people to come over or packages to be delivered like there were yesterday. The domestic help and the Exfactor were here and the package of books that I ordered arrived, causing dents in my otherwise peaceful day. I didn’t have the long, languid days that I had on Wednesday and Thursday, when there was nobody here and I could do as I pleased and I got more accomplished in the end.
True, my apartment is very clean and I’m all set for the weekend, except for a load of laundry that needs to be hung up to dry and some more dishes that need to get done, as always. That’s a never ending battle because I do eat and dirty them. I keep an eagle’s eye on the growing amount of them so they don’t get out of hand and become an overwhelming stack. It’s like the laundry, the minute there’s a full load, I have to wash it so I always stay on top of things. There’s a full load quickly when I change the bed. My sheets are getting worn out from washing them and I will soon have to invest in new ones.
The books that got here have found their place on the bookcase ready to be read when I finish the one I’m reading. They take up a bit of space because one of them is a big, fat paperback. It will take me some time to get through that one. It’s with some amount of trepidation that I look at it. The others are more normal sized and less intimidating. I also have small books on my bookcase that I could read in a short amount of time, but I’ve not been interested in them yet. I guess I’m still looking for a bit of a challenge, but I may want to read them as a break from the bigger ones. I may give that a try. I have a bunch of those by Edna O’Brien, but they are a completely different genre than what I’m reading now. I have to give that some thought.
There’s not much else on the program today. The Exfactor went to the tobacco shop for me yesterday, saving me the trip over there today. I did miss out on a chocolate bar, but I have chocolate pudding. I’ve been having cravings for meatballs and pork chops and bacon at night before I go to bed and look through the cupboards and the refrigerator to no avail to find something that will take care of my craving instead. I must be in need of protein and have to find a way to get more of it in my diet. It’s very hard to be on an all vegetarian diet and I know I’m not getting all the nutrients I should. I think my body is telling me something.
It’s going to be 24C (75F) today. It’s a fluke because tomorrow it’s going to be a lot cooler again. We’ll just happen to be in a high pressure system today. I won’t know how to dress. It’s been a long time since it’s been so warm. I won’t worry about it just now, though. I’m going back to bed to sleep some more. When I wake up later in the morning, I’ll see how warm it is outside and I’ll know which clothes to put on.
Have a great day.
Ciao,
Nora
March 30, 2011 at 1:06 am · Filed under bookcase, books, finances, summer time, the dog, thrillers, walks, wildflowers
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It was another lovely yesterday. The dog and I went for a walk in the afternoon and dawdled. We just hung out by bushes and trees and took our time. I noticed all sorts of plants popping out of the ground, some of them with small flowers on them. I don’t know what all of them are, but I’m glad to see them. It makes dawdling more interesting. Suddenly I don’t feel that I’m in a rush.
We went home in a roundabout way and the dog got to explore some seldom visited territory. He climbed into the shrubbery by the edge of the road and I let him. He no doubt thought there were very interesting things in there. I expected him to come out with all sorts of horrible finds, but luckily, he didn’t.
The sun was shining in my face and it felt good. I wasn’t wearing my sunglasses and had to squint. Doubtlessly I’ll get wrinkles by my eyes now. I must remember to wear my sunglasses if I want to preserve my relative youth. Ahum…
It’s supposed to rain tonight and the next day, which is a darn shame. A person gets used to this sunshine and the long bright days since we set the clocks ahead one hour. That’s agreeing with me very well. I feel like I’m finally on a normal schedule again. We should do like the Russians decided to do and always stick to summer time. I wonder to whom I have to address the petition that no doubt everyone will sign. I probably have to address it to the prime minister who I’m not too fond of. I would hate to beg something off him.
Regardless of the fact that the bookcase is becoming pretty full, and that I have a bunch of unread novels on there, I couldn’t resist an offer of bol.com for three English language books for one low price and no shipping charges. I picked out three thrillers that I really wanted and should get them in a few days. In the meantime, I have to finish the one I’m reading, so I can start on the new ones when they get here. One of them is a Henning Mankel and I think I will try that one first. I do like Scandinavian thrillers. They are so stark and sober and I like the fact that they take place in another country foreign to me.
Like I said, the bookcase is getting full, but I can make room on it by removing some older books that aren’t so great in appearance. They are just filling up space. Sooner or later I will have to get another bookcase, but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it. I’ve already picked out the one that I want at Ikea. It is a standard one that they always carry and I think I have a place for it, though I haven’t taken the measurements yet.
I will give a party on the day that I really fill up my bookcase. Maybe I can make it coincide with my birthday. I’ll have to hurry up and order more books. No, realistically speaking, I’m not going to make that. I’ll have to postpone that moment or I’ll break the bank. I do have to consider my budget. Every book will be hard come by.
Have a great day!
Ciao,
Nora
March 27, 2011 at 4:43 am · Filed under armchair, books, early morning, summer time, Sunday, the dog, the weekend, thriller
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It’s early in the morning, although because of the start of Summer Tine, it’s an hour later than it feels and already I am running behind schedule. I should just about be getting ready to go back to bed, but since it’s Sunday today, I won’t worry about it too much. I can pretty much sleep as late as I want and I’m sure I’ll take advantage of that, providing the dog lets me and he usually does. He’s a patient animal as a rule.
I am yawning and don’t know how much longer I am for this world and I will have to type quickly. In just a minute, I’m going to take my medicines and they are only going to make me sleepier. They always do in the morning and give me the best amount of sleep. Of course, I’ve been up all night and that helps too.
I just picked out the book I’m going to start reading today and it’s a thriller by Elizabeth George. It’s an Inspector Linley novel and I didn’t even know I had one that was still unread. I was in search of one and ran into it almost immediately. I just started looking at the top of the bookcase and there it was, staring me right in the face. I will keep going through my bookcase this way, starting from the top right and working my way through the rows of books all the way down to the bottom. I will read what ever is unread and hope for the best. This book I have now is called, ‘In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner.’
I want to make the most of the day because it’s the last day of the weekend. Yesterday went by quickly. It was gone in the blink of an eye. I have to get more out of today. I want to savor the day and each moment in it. It’s almost a shame to go to bed in a while and spend the time sleeping. I’d rather stay up and read my book. Sometimes it’s hard to decide what’s the most sensible thing to do, as opposed to what’s the most desirable thing to do when you try to get the most out of your day. I’m getting my second wind now and have stopped yawning. I’m drinking a tall glass of milk and it is perking me right up. Milk always does. It’s like an ice cold wake up call.
Of course, the dog is going to think that it’s an hour earlier. He won’t be ready to go for a walk yet if I stay up. The sun is coming up later and he won’t want to go out for another two hours. That gives me some leisurely time to sit and read.
I think I will make a new pot of coffee and go sit in my armchair with a blanket wrapped around me. I’ve just turned up the heater and it should be nice and warm in here in no time.
Have yourself a nice Sunday.
Ciao,
Nora
February 16, 2011 at 3:59 pm · Filed under books, chores, clothes, daydreaming, domestic help, Gandhi, hobbies, house plants, imagination, journey, leather jacket, medicines, nap, sofa, time, Tyke, weather
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The day is passing by very slowly for some reason. It seems the hands on the clock don’t move at the speed that they normally do. Every other day goes rushing by in no time at all, but not today. It is crawling by at a snail’s pace and I have to use my imagination to fill up the hours. I’ve already taken a nap to fill up one hour. Of course, that didn’t take much imagination at all.
I wasn’t very tired, so the nap didn’t last very long. I also had to share the sofa with Gandhi and Tyke, so I wasn’t very comfortable. Then the delivery person came with the package I ordered from the on line store and, of course, I had to try on what was in it right away. It fit and that meant I had to put some clothes away in the closet and that was the complete end to my nap. I had no hopes of going back to sleep.
I folded and put away the dry laundry and made the bed and cleaned up the always messy kitchen. Gandhi’s paw prints are always all over the counter, no matter how often I wipe it. It’s the place where she hangs out, because it’s out of reach of Tyke. There’s no way he can get to her there. His legs are too little.
I was ruthless the other day and threw out all my dying plants. There was no sense in hanging on to them. There was no hope that they were going to make it back to health. The domestic help cleaned all the pots and arranged them nicely throughout the living room and told me where I could get fake plants for a good price. All I have to do now is go there.
I have two little pots and four large ones to buy plants for. All the pots are lime green. I had bought them at different times without realizing that it was my preferred color. I wasn’t paying attention to such things then. I would be much more alert to them now that I’m not in a medicinal stupor anymore. A lot went past me when I was.
The book I started reading is lying unread in a cubbyhole of the bookcase. I can’t get myself to sit down and pay attention to it. I have a blockage in my head. My eyes see a book and glaze over. Areas in my brain shut down and refuse to pick up the book to read it. Suddenly that seems like an awfully complicated task to do. Maybe I see the activity as too passive, but then again, I do sit in my armchair and daydream. I haven’t quite got my mind around it yet.
Sometimes I think I have a fear of books, just like I seem to have a repulsion for creative activity. I probably associate it with another time when I was not at all doing well. Maybe I link it to me when I was another person and much more insecure and needy. I need to establish the habits and hobbies of the new me. I need to give shape to myself the way I am now or the way I am shortly going to be. I’m almost the end product of the three year long journey.
It’s been a beautiful day today. The sun has been shining all day and it has been relatively warm outside. I’ve worn my black leather jacket, which is my springtime jacket. My other leather jacket is too big on me. I’ve walked Tyke a couple of times and it was very pleasant, although Tyke acted like a lamb set free from the barn and was all over the place. He pulled me along at amazing speeds.
I must find something useful to do. I have to fill one hour until the news comes on.
I hope you’ll all have a good rest of the day.
Ciao,
Nora
February 14, 2011 at 12:43 am · Filed under bedtime, books, chores, computer, domestic help, football, knee, late night, nap, personal helper, politics, sisters, Sunday, television, Tyke, walks
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It’s late at night and I’m sitting here slightly drowsy, but not enough to go to sleep. Actually, I may be too agitated to go to sleep and I may want to enjoy the quiet hours of the night more than lying in bed. I have also been known to have a stubborn streak, because I did lie in bed for about an hour and decided to get up again because I was bored and not patient enough to wait for sleep.
There’s nothing worse than lying in bed and staring at the ceiling while you can’t fall asleep. I was not serene enough to keep lying there. I petted Tyke to pass the time, but that was boring after a while too. There’s only so much attention you can give to a dog before you grow tired of it and want to do something else. I decided to get up and pass the time behind the computer until I was good and tired.
I watched some entertaining television and went to bed late thinking that would do the job of putting me to sleep soon. Apparently this did not work. I had my head full of impressions and it would have been better if I had sat quietly in my armchair and had read my book. I must remember that for the next time. Television can be a great agitator and it takes a while to get over it. You really need some peace and quiet after you’ve watched it.
I passed the time very quietly today and did nothing out of the ordinary. I walked Tyke three times and would have walked him more often, but we ran out of time and daylight. I did walk him after dinner when it was already dark, but that’s the latest I take him out and I stick to the most familiar streets. I’m not very brave at night. The later it gets, the less brave I am.
I hardly had any chores to do today and I didn’t really go looking for them. I figured that it was Sunday and that I didn’t really need to do any. I did the little bit that was necessary and called it quits. I spent some time taking a nap that I had not planned on. It took me by surprise as I thought I had gotten enough sleep the night before. I never know when my unpredictable mind needs more of it.
I was supposed to have gone to see my sister today, but I never did get around to that, so I had to call and cancel. That’s the first time I’ve done that. I wasn’t really looking forward to riding my bike over there with my bum knee and the nap got in the way. I think I was forgiven. There will be another day to go over there. I was feeling very much like hibernating today and not coming out of my cave too much. That’s typical for a Sunday, especially if it’s a dreary one like it was today.
I do feel like I wasted a large portion of the day doing nothing much of anything, but I’m not going to feel bad about it. I did watch one political program and I do feel that I got better informed because of it, so my mind was fed a little bit. I would watch more of them, but on Sundays it’s mostly sports that are on during the day. I am getting quite informed about them. I can even stand the post-discussions about the various football games, as long as they have intelligent people doing them. I don’t like a lot of hype and excitement.
For a single, middle aged woman, I watch a lot of football. I don’t know if I would watch as much football if I were attached to a man person. I enjoy watching it on my own and providing my own commentary about the different plays and penalties and discussions about schwalbes. I haven’t picked a team that I’m especially a fan of, though I seem to root for the underdog a lot. I also don’t have a favorite player yet. I will be following what the national team is doing closely.
I have to mentally prepare myself for tomorrow when the personal helper and the domestic help will be here. They will help me pass the time of day, so that will be good. They’re good for a diversion. My personal helper is good to talk to and we usually find some subjects to discuss. I do lose a bit of my privacy, but that’s a small price to pay for the company and a clean apartment. The domestic help always stays and talks too. She tells me about her boys and I always have tears of laughter when she tells me about their shenanigans. They are quite a handful.
I will end this post because it’s gotten quite long enough. I can sit here and ramble on all night long, but there comes a time to stop. I’m not quite sleepy enough yet to go to bed, so I’ll have to amuse myself a while longer. No doubt I’ll find a way.
Sleep tight and have a good morning.
Ciao,
Nora
February 6, 2011 at 3:45 am · Filed under bedtime, books, chaos, chores, domestic help, playing with Tyke, politics, psychology, Sunday
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Yesterday I did the chores that I had not been looking forward to and some of which I had been putting off for a while. By putting them off, I had made them much bigger in my head than they actually were, so when I finally got around to doing them, I was finished with them much quicker than I had anticipated. They turned out to be relatively simple and I was well prepared and organized, because I had been agonizing over them long enough.
I must let this be a lesson to me, because it always turns out to be the case that nothing is as bad as it seems and I am always quite capable and in charge. I don’t know where I get the idea that I won’t be able to deal with something. That whatever needs to get done will be too difficult. By pushing it ahead of me, I only make it worse until I give myself a good kick in the pants and get it done.
I have two chores to do today and I know I will get them done, because they are very simple and straight forward and I can envision myself doing them. I can see the beginning and the end of them. They are manageable. They don’t resemble anything remotely chaotic, which I would dislike very much. My home life is actually very orderly and one in which I can function very well.
It is due to the good care of the domestic helps that the apartment is always in such good order. I’m able to keep it that way myself by being very clean and organized. I don’t like it when things get beyond my control as the odd thing sometimes does. I’m not a typical Dutch housewife, though, and if it weren’t for the domestic helps, things would get out of order quickly and I would not be able to set them to rights by myself.
Because I finished the book in my sidebar, I chose a new book to read from my many unread books on the bookcase. It is Melissa Bank’s
The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing. I don’t actually know if I’m at the appropriate age to be reading a book like this, because it seems to be more about the struggles of younger women, but it sounds very interesting and it got good reviews. I’m ready for something completely different and anything that has some psychological depth is welcome. The novel I read before Laurie’s book was completely lacking in it. I think that was
Where the Heart Is by Billy Letts.
I put the new book down on the table beside my armchair along with my reading glasses, but then never got around to reading it, because I got distracted by other things and the day went by quickly. I hope to start reading it today and, as a matter of fact, am going to make a point of it. I will set apart some time to, because my mind wants some other stimulation besides watching television. It’s been engrossed in watching the developing revolution in Egypt and the international politics of my own government and that of the European Community.
Tyke seems to know when it is weekend and I have time to spare and he demands his share of it. That means he wants to play with me and have extra cuddles. He finds all sorts of ways to get my attention and I have to give him points for innovation. You can see him sitting there thinking about it. We play ball a lot and if I ignore him long enough, he does drop it by my feet so I can pick it up and throw it again. We also wrestle over rawhide bones, but I always let him win. He’s a little dog and I’m a big person. I can stand to lose over a rawhide bone.
I think I will go back to bed now and sleep a few more hours. It’s not nearly time to start the day. Besides, it’s Sunday and there’s no rush. The neighborhood will stay quiet for a long time.
Have a nice day today.
Ciao,
Nora
February 5, 2011 at 4:27 am · Filed under books, culture, early morning, gastric band, Laurie Hertzel, optimism, Saturday, storm, vitamins, weather
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If you look at it optimistically, it’s very early in the morning, though that doesn’t mean that it’s anywhere near dawn. Of course, it’s still wintertime so the sun does get up late. If it were summertime, it would be different and the early birds would be twittering now. It is a sound I will welcome and not soon enough. There’s nothing happier than early morning bird song.
I’ve got hours of darkness left while I sit here and drink my coffee and try to amuse myself. I’ve just taken my vitamin pill while I thought of it and I will take my Omega 3 capsule when that huge vitamin pill has passed the narrow opening of my gastric band. The Omega 3 capsule is rather large too and I’m afraid to take both at the same time. I would hate to cause an obstruction while being especially mindful of my health.
It’s with some amount of pleasure that I welcome Saturday. Because it’s a weekend day, I will spend it as I like and have no schedule that looks like anything during the week. I will do some chores and walk the dog, but it will mostly be at my leisure. I will watch cultural programs on television and start reading a new book, because last night I finished reading the book that’s in my sidebar.
I had read half of it and put it aside and never got around to finishing it. I picked it up last night and sat down in my armchair and did and with much pleasure too. I didn’t put it down until I was done with it and even forgot to watch the news. That’s saying something. It may be because I know Laurie Hertzel from her
blog that I was especially interested in this book, but it was just plain good and fun to read.
I have a variety of novels on my bookcase to choose from, but I want to make the right choice, because I’m a picky reader right now and not just any old book is going to grab my attention and make me sit down long enough to finish it. It does have to be especially good and have many redeeming features. I have to have a good look at each one and choose carefully.
It’s still stormy outside and cloudy, but it’s not raining. It’s not going to be especially cold, but the gusts of wind make it feel colder than it is. It will be a good day to mostly stay inside and hunker down. At least we’re not having snow and ice or that terrible snow storm that the people in North America are having. Those are real extremes of weather that we don’t have to deal with.
I hope you’ll all have a nice day!
Ciao,
Nora
Another Splendid Day 