The Experiment: Day 181 ~ Where In The World Did The Day Go?

Gracious me the day has flown by! Wednesdays are the only day I leave the house most weeks because I have therapy at 2 and since I’m out I do all of the other errands I need to do afterwards. Today I had a slew of them! I left the house at 1:30 for therapy and didn’t get home until almost 6:30! This is an especially long day out but I had a lot of errands. When I got home the pugs were positively frantic! I almost never leave them and am rarely out this long when I do go out. They were practically weeping with relief when I got in.

It took an hour to get them out, feed them, get all the groceries in and put away, get trash and recycling out and do all the I-just-got-home-from-doing-a-million-things-and-now-I-have-to-put-it-all-away things here. I have not eaten dinner yet, my back is aching so badly I am leaning up against my heating pad propped on a pillow with a shawl wrapped around me and a quilt over my lap, and I have an online meeting in a little over 20 minutes that will go until 10 SO I don’t have time for much of a blog post tonight but by golly I wasn’t going to miss getting one up!!! Tomorrow is the half way mark in this 365 day journey, I can’t believe it. There’s no stopping me now!

I took my sketchbook and planner with all the Ladies that have been popping up to show Helene at my therapy session and she was just delighted that they were back. She has seen a lot of them and read their stories and has always thought they were very special and loves them. She is cheering me on and wants to see me keep going with them this time. We talked a lot about that. I got to therapy a few minutes early and drew another Lady in my planner. They are making me so happy.

I will do a longer post tomorrow, I have some new things I am doing that I want to share with you but I must get this post up and get ready for my meeting. I hope you have all had a lovely day. I’d love to know what you are all up to. Leave me a note in the comments and I will answer you in the morning over coffee!

I am sending so much love to each of you, and a gentle warm hug. And Lordy, this heating pad feels good. I might just melt right into this chair…

The Experiment ~A 365 Day Search For Truth, Beauty &
Happiness: Day 1 ~ Introduction To The Project
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Yoda

Comments

  1. I’ve been enjoying having our house to myself since early Monday morning and look forward to the next three days before my spouse returns. There’s so much space in a house alone … and my thoughts and awareness seem clearer.

    Doing, though? I limit myself to three hours of researching and writing on weekdays so my shoulders and hands don’t seize up. Otherwise I’m mostly “be”-ing, if you don’t count some cooking I felt like doing: tomato salsa sauce; granola bars.

    I really relate to coming home exhausted from a trip to town. I try to go once a week at the most, and then do everything on that day. I live six miles from town so this is one way of taking responsibility for my contribution to poor air quality and the overuse of gasoline.

    -Kate

    • Kate,

      It sounds like you have had a very productive day indeed! And yes Lordy I am so glad to have today behind me but it feels really good to have gotten it all done, and have a well-stocked kitchen and fridge again. and know that now I don’t have to go out again for a week and can just settle in here.

      Thank you for sharing your day with me, I loved reading it. What are you researching and writing? I’d love to know. 🙂

      Hugs to you sweetie…

      Maitri

  2. curious about the on-line meeting. maybe you’ll tell us about it.

    your stamina is pretty inspiring, dear woman.

    tom and i just got back from a wonderful dose of cajun/zydeco music and dancing inside a funky art gallery, with some louisiana musicians. golly gee, it felt fabulous to shake it all out, whoopee — and will sleep well tonight

    hope you do too!

    • Hello Darling Ka…

      I am in SARK’s “Succulent Wild World” group and she has 2 live calls a month. And this one was especially exciting because Marc Allen, her publisher from New World Library, was on the call and the whole thing was about writing and publishing. I learned a lot and got a lot of ideas.

      And stamina, ha ha ha, tell that to me achin’ back! I JUST had a little bite of dinner and am about to get the pugs out and get ready for bed. It’s been a long day but a good one. I love going to bed knowing that all of my errands are done, the house is well stocked in groceries, all the trash and recycling are out, and other important errands that were looming are taken care of.

      And oh it sounds like you and Tom had a FUN night. I love cajun/zydeco music! I know you had a ball!

      Big love to you sweet sister. Sweet dreams…

      M. xoxox

  3. I, too, like that feeling of accomplishment. I feel that with doing laundry and washing dishes. I’ve never had a dishwasher and will likely never have one, doing them by hand is the only way. I used to scrub out my sink, add hottish soapy water with a touch of bleach. and go to town! Despite wearing an apron, I would always have white patches on my clothes where the bleach went through. I now don’t fill my sink, I just wash them with hot running water and a soapy sponge and rinse off. I can’t bear to leave dirty dishes in the sink overnight. Then I feel so happy to not have them done!

    • Ah Marge you are absolutely on track with having the dishes done and waking up to a sparkling clean kitchen. I love that, alas I am not as good as you. Since it’s just me and once I’ve had a good kitchen cleanup which I usually will once or twice a week I then leave my dishes for a day or two because there are so few. Your way is definitely better. But yes when the dishes and laundry are all done up it’s a good feeling indeed!

      I hope it’s a lovely day where you are, it’s really pretty here. It’s spring! May these beautiful days brighten all of our worlds… 🙂

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