Thursday, September 5
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Beautiful weather.
A fairly uncomplicated day emotionally. Far too many days seem simple on the outside to the "observer", but inside it's just boiling away with feelings. Today at least, I was more or less just experiencing the day as it unfolded.
I knew my husband was leaving work a little early today (for some reason he often does on Thursday) so I suggested that we try to go kayaking on the lake down the road when he got home. He said he'd try to get through the errands (picking up mail, mostly) to get home in time.
I did some little chores, like the dishes and taking out the compost and putting the accumulated recycling from the kitchen out to the big bin outside.
I had a brief phone conversation with Mom, where it really felt like she wasn't even trying to listen to me. That happened last time too. I'm trying not to take it personally, as Mom is 94 years old and not very "with it" anymore, but I feel like it's getting harder to have any kind of conversation with her. She used to listen and comment about what you said in a way that sounded like she understood (though I knew that even one minute later she wouldn't recall that I had even called her), but lately she's just sort of saying "yes" or saying some unrelated thing and I don't think she's taking in what I'm saying. Oh well. I know it's not personal, she can't help it.
I went outside and did normal chores, and turned the water on for the garden (it is SO DRY here) after picking more cucumbers and more of the hybrid zucchini. Then I started pulling weeds out of the mulched area beside the house.
When my Sweetie got home, he did some organizing for tomorrow (he is leaving for the weekend to do his big annual MS bike ride) and got the stuff we needed for kayaking ready.
Then, with his help we finished pulling weeds on the East side of the house.
We pulled up at the boat launch area in the park, and there were some people there having a nice family gathering, and a sweet little girl kept coming up to say "hi" and giggle at us. When her Mom came to get her, I recognized her as someone I used to ride with at the previous riding barn. This woman and several others left that barn about the same time I did, for all the same reasons (mostly the dangerously bad hay, the horrible over crowded, muddy pens, and the terrible attitude of the barn owner).
I knew she had kids now as I see her posts on Facebook, though we don't really interact that much online. I haven't seen her in person since I left that barn about four years ago.
It was great catching up with her, she still has the horse she was riding before and he's doing well. She still rides with people I knew, they are at a new place together, so I told her to say "hi" to everyone for me.
Small world.
We also saw an older guy and his very nice yellow lab. We've seen them there before, I think he's out there a lot with his dog.
We had a nice time out on the water. I use my kayak, and my husband uses a canoe. We could just use the canoe, I guess, but somehow we've gotten into the habit of us each using our own vessel.
It was perfect weather for it, and not much wind, and though the water is low right now, it's still nice to get out.
We came home and watched an episode of "The Pacific".
Beautiful weather.
A fairly uncomplicated day emotionally. Far too many days seem simple on the outside to the "observer", but inside it's just boiling away with feelings. Today at least, I was more or less just experiencing the day as it unfolded.
I knew my husband was leaving work a little early today (for some reason he often does on Thursday) so I suggested that we try to go kayaking on the lake down the road when he got home. He said he'd try to get through the errands (picking up mail, mostly) to get home in time.
I did some little chores, like the dishes and taking out the compost and putting the accumulated recycling from the kitchen out to the big bin outside.
I had a brief phone conversation with Mom, where it really felt like she wasn't even trying to listen to me. That happened last time too. I'm trying not to take it personally, as Mom is 94 years old and not very "with it" anymore, but I feel like it's getting harder to have any kind of conversation with her. She used to listen and comment about what you said in a way that sounded like she understood (though I knew that even one minute later she wouldn't recall that I had even called her), but lately she's just sort of saying "yes" or saying some unrelated thing and I don't think she's taking in what I'm saying. Oh well. I know it's not personal, she can't help it.
I went outside and did normal chores, and turned the water on for the garden (it is SO DRY here) after picking more cucumbers and more of the hybrid zucchini. Then I started pulling weeds out of the mulched area beside the house.
When my Sweetie got home, he did some organizing for tomorrow (he is leaving for the weekend to do his big annual MS bike ride) and got the stuff we needed for kayaking ready.
Then, with his help we finished pulling weeds on the East side of the house.
We pulled up at the boat launch area in the park, and there were some people there having a nice family gathering, and a sweet little girl kept coming up to say "hi" and giggle at us. When her Mom came to get her, I recognized her as someone I used to ride with at the previous riding barn. This woman and several others left that barn about the same time I did, for all the same reasons (mostly the dangerously bad hay, the horrible over crowded, muddy pens, and the terrible attitude of the barn owner).
I knew she had kids now as I see her posts on Facebook, though we don't really interact that much online. I haven't seen her in person since I left that barn about four years ago.
It was great catching up with her, she still has the horse she was riding before and he's doing well. She still rides with people I knew, they are at a new place together, so I told her to say "hi" to everyone for me.
Small world.
We also saw an older guy and his very nice yellow lab. We've seen them there before, I think he's out there a lot with his dog.
We had a nice time out on the water. I use my kayak, and my husband uses a canoe. We could just use the canoe, I guess, but somehow we've gotten into the habit of us each using our own vessel.
It was perfect weather for it, and not much wind, and though the water is low right now, it's still nice to get out.
We came home and watched an episode of "The Pacific".
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Date: 2024-09-06 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-07 04:35 am (UTC)I like movies too, but I like doing stuff, sometimes outdoorsy stuff, but also "artsy" stuff like going to plays or museums, all kinds of fun experiences.
My Sweetie even came with me to the opera a few times, back when I was in college in Wyoming and our class went to a few as field trips. He bought his own ticket and came along.
A lot of men hardly seem to do anything besides watch tv, play video games, or go to hockey games. They're boring.
He probably thinks a lot of other woman are boring.
We're both "interesting" people.
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Date: 2024-09-08 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-08 04:17 am (UTC)A lot of people just get through life in a mundane way. One of my sisters just seemed to spend her entire life either at work (she had her own business and was very invested in it succeeding, so she spent a lot of probably unnecessary hours at work) or sitting on the couch. She pretty much has no hobbies, and didn't spend much time outside unless it was in her own back yard.
I think lots of my adult nieces and nephews aren't doing much more than living in the most mundane way possible too. It's strange, when they are young and reasonably healthy.
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Date: 2024-09-08 05:34 am (UTC)