John and I had a busy week last week. This week ahead will be busy enough, too. I caught myself wasting time while I was at home this past week simply because I was weary from all the activity we had in our week. This week I'm hoping that I can better balance my time and get a bit more done at home.
Saturday: John and I were both awake in the wee hours of early morning. While he got up and went to the living room, I rolled over, turned on a video I've been trying to watch for three days and went right back to sleep. I dragged myself out of a dream and glanced at the clock. 9:30. Wow! Considering I'd awakened at 4:30 with him, I figured that was a pretty good sleep in. I can honestly say I felt a heap better today than I'd felt the past three days, too. Not yet well, but not sick compared to what I had been.
Friday: I had Millie for a little while this morning. We had a great time. I got out in the yard with her and planted the garlic bulbs. They were just starting to sprout, so I'm glad those are in the ground. It's supposed to rain this weekend, so perhaps that will help them settle in.
John asked for breakfast for supper tonight. I've felt just bad enough that the idea of cooking didn't suit me in the least, but a breakfast meal was easy enough to handle. Glad I made the pancakes he requested because Caleb and Katie came in. He ate pancakes, she ate bacon and we were all quite happy with our meal.
Well...Here we are in February and I'm behind already in more ways than one. But let me just say that January was the most ON/OFF sort of month! Make plans and they went off. Then they are on again and then they are off and then...I hope that February, known for fickle weather, will be more settled where planning is concerned! I've learned over the past few years to sort of roll with the flow of the ON/OFF sort of things without complaining too long and too loud. I hope that whatever lesson I've been meant to learn from this has been learned and we can now move on...
I am a wee bit late; I admit it. I simply did not feel good towards the end of last week, having given in and gotten a cold. I'm feeling much better this weekend thankfully and now that I've had my usual Sunday afternoon nap, I am ready to think about this month we've gotten started and figure out what my goals for the month might be.
To be honest, I've not even really stopped to consider February, nor what I want to accomplish. I was so busy in January with an up/down, on/off sort of month that I kind of lost track of myself. This is not at all unusual for me in February. I think I start out on such a gung ho, let's go! sort of mood in January and then I start to lose steam, especially if I find my plans are changed too frequently, which happened last month for sure. This month should be more or less stable. We'll see...I know too much now to trust that time is truly my own!
Saturday: John had made up his mind to do something 'special' today. We've been talking about our tendency to get stuck in a rut. We do it all of the time. We got to the same three places to eat, and we order pretty much the same things when we go. We drive one way home when there are dozens of routes we might take, etc.
John had it in mind to try a brand-new restaurant today, but I looked online at the menu (and prices) and suggested we save that for 'an occasion' rather than a routine date. We talked a bit and came up with another place we've visited and enjoyed but hadn't been to in a really long time. It was a Vietnamese restaurant known for it's Pho. John nor I are big Pho people, but we knew they had other entrees that were delicious.
Friday: A great deal of what we do to save money in our home involves repetition. It reminds me of the old shampoo bottle instructions: Wash, Rinse, Repeat. I always contemplated how often we were to do the 'repeat' part of the process. When it comes to saving pennies, it's often necessary to repeat ad nauseum. BUT it works!
Today we washed two loads of clothes and hung a portion of both loads to dry. Were it up to me, I'd probably hang everything to dry, but John does laundry and our rules are that unless you want to do the task, hush and let the person attending to it do it their way. I'm keeping quiet!