Oh yea baby, oh yea, and don’t come close to me before I’ve finished it. You’ll be able to tell because my 1″ hair will be standing straight up, my eyebrows will be singed, my eyes will be the size of dinner plates and kind of rolling around in my head, and, at the same time, a peace and calm will come over me which makes me able to face one more day. I live from latte to latte. We all have our stuff.
Thursday Morning Notes While Having A Latte The Size of Texas! Just wanted to touch base…
Oh yea baby, oh yea, and don’t come close to me before I’ve finished it. You’ll be able to tell because my 1″ hair will be standing straight up, my eyebrows will be singed, my eyes will be the size of dinner plates and kind of rolling around in my head, and, at the same time, a peace and calm will come over me which makes me able to face one more day. I live from latte to latte. We all have our stuff.
You seem kind of frazzled by how hectic it gets but it sounds like fun to me, having all your doggies running around like that. Lately I’ve been thinking if I can get my license I’d love to get an RV and some dogs and just travel around the country–a dream for when the kids are out on their own, I guess. One of the dogs in my imaginary pack is a PUG named Winston!
Sorry to hear you have such a hard time having people coming into the house, hopefully the work will be done soon so things can get back to normal.
I’m not sure how I found your blog, but here I am and glad for it. For TWO HOURS after I get up, I don’t speak, move, or do more than drink my latte..and have 5 cigarettes. I’m retired from the fire department and it’s hard to give up smoke in any form. lol But your ‘relaxing’ mornings put me in the grave! During a severe bout of depression during a dark winter, I wrote a 98,000 word manuscript, but in today’s world, I can’t find an agent who has even asked to see it.
So, the one constant is my morning latte.
I spend a large portion of my day taking care of our mini zoo of 7 cats, 1 dog, 3 turtles and a large flock of ducks. I wish I had your wonderful sense of humor and writing skills to tell about it. I LOVE my coffee too. I had planned to give up coffee, but I don’t smoke or drink so…maybe not 🙂 Have a wonderful week
Thank you all for writing, you are very dear, and I’m sorry for my late response..
Ruth, frazzled? Well, I am not frazzled by my life here, the care of the animals, the garden, my work, my sweet family when they come, etc, but when the outside world encroaches, not just for normal things but when they are to come in for 2 days and it’s 2 months and all kinds of problems therein, my extreme sensitivity to things in the outside world comes in here and makes everything feel as though it’s falling out from under me. For my own life I need to follow a sense of fairly rigid routine to feel safe and manage (and I’m not an autistic savant as was “Rainman,” but you saw how extreme his need for his schedule was in his being okay and it can be very like that for those of us with certain disorders.). But life goes on and so do I. I write about these things because I want others who suffer and have no voice to feel that they are not alone, and to feel as though they are heard, and that despite it all we can go through these things and get through. At least that’s what I try, I hope, to do. You are so kind to write in and I thank you very much.
Blessings,
Maitri
Lotta Joy,
It’s good that you have found a way that eases you into your day and helps you along, whatever that might be, and it is different for each of us (But OH that latte, eh? 🙂
As to your book there are great venues for self-publishing these days or maybe you just needed, as I, as so many writers have had, some projects that we just wrote to get out, as catharsis. Perhaps it was a first step to a next book. Only you will know.
I’m about to go make my latte so I raise my cup to you. Good morning!
Maitri
Thanks Michelle,and it sounds like you have quite a lively crew there too!
I’ve just finished taking care of all 9 animals and am sitting here with wee tiny blind Penny pug snuggled in my lap hence typing here one handed, watching the wild birds at the feeders outside my studio windows, and am about to get my coffee. I need a sit down first!
I hope you have a wonderful week too and thank you so much for writing.
Blessings,
Maitri