It's funny how much can happen in a week. Monday was busy, Tuesday I had to go to the office and then had a rage when I got home. Wednesday was book club and the evening was filled with laughter and good food. Thursday was a crazy day for work and Friday, there wasn't much to do. Saturday, we did our first run to Costco. And, yesterday, I spent too much time in the kitchen and not enough at the sewing machine. So many things happened. And, it happens every week. I just don't always appreciate it like I did this week.
It was a taste of the good old times. Like October 2024. Before the orange nightmare began.
I enjoyed looking through my pics from last week this morning. It was a little adventure. My favorite was this walk with the dogs. Dottie is 1 year old and Bella is 16 so they don't spend a lot of time walking side by side.
And, this highly suspicious picture of me at the office. I don't take a lot of pictures of myself. Never really got into the selfie habit, but once in a while...
The Forsythia and white flag iris are the first flowers of spring here, so it's official.
The first violets bloomed, too.
And slowly, my garden is coming back to life. I'm enjoying the constancy of that.
And, Saturday night's dinner was pretty spectacular. I've found the healthy option at a Mexican restaurant.
One evening, I picked up the fox toy and laid it so it was looking up and then I watched Dottie stare longingly into its eyes for at least 5 minutes while I got ready for bed.
It was a lot of little moments that got me through.
I think that's what I'm going to need. Because apparently there won't be social security or medicare or medicaid or health insurance or health care or life saving vaccinations or science or weather monitoring or privacy or elections or credit or shopping or eggs to fill my time anymore, so I'm going to need little things to keep me busy.
And, someone had to say that because
Everybody have a great week. Find something small to celebrate. Make that something small into something big, just for you, even if no one else even knows it happened.
Lane
8 comments:
No spring here yet in Massachusetts, though our ice and snow have melted from our yard! Most ponds still have ice in their shady parts, despite temps reaching above-freezing each day now. We had a very cold stretch that started right before Christmas and lasted through February! But what I really came here to say is this -- while I'd taken a decades-long break from cursing, I'm back at it in full force now!
I have to agree with Suzanne about the cursing. Lane I enjoy all that you write about, but these pictures and quotes do give me a chuckle lately. Thanks for all that you share.
I love your blog. You are so real. I have never commented. I don't quilt, that's my sister's work . But I have to say I adored the meme you posted with the "new comma." That describes my husband these days. I wake up hearing commotion from the den. Its my husband watching the morning news and "commenting." Turn off the news, Lane. You will live longer.
Using it like an Oxford comma. ;) I have veered away from the news and it has helped. I have a friend who carefully curates the news she shares so I am up to date on other news. Friends who work for the federal government are really being abused.
Thanks for your blog thoughts. I look forward to seeing your quilt progress, as well as your life stories. We all have our stories, don't we. :-) Now something to celebrate... the daffodils here in MD (at my office) are blooming like crazy. I love it. The ones at home (just 10 miles north of work) are still just a notion of the greens sticking up about 6" now.
Hang in there Lane. Only 46 more months to go.
Megan
Sydney, Australia
I think you have it right, Lane—it’s the little things that are going to get us through. I so appreciated your photos, especially of the violets. Every spring, my dad and I would pick violets in the vacant lots near our house and bring them home for my mom. It’s one of my sweetest childhood memories.
As for our political situation, people are protesting, the courts are mostly siding with the law, and Republican Congress people are hiding from their constituents. I have hope for the midterms.
Great post. Thanks for sharing. Mary
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