Today I volunteered to drive and get lunch in the pouring rain. Pulling into the driveway of the sub shop, I could either park right in front of the store or park in a quieter part of the parking lot and get wetter. I chose the quieter part of the parking lot. That is when the topic of this blog came to me but I really have no idea where it is going.
I find myself taking the path of least resistance as I get older. Someone cut me off today and I just let them do it. I wasn't even really angry, I just figured they needed to be somewhere sooner than I did. On Waltham Street tonight, a moron stopped IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET and put her blinkers on. I did not even honk at her. What was she thinking? The guy in back of me pulled around me and the pulled around her and then honked at her. At least I hope he was honking at her. It did not even occur to me to honk at her.
Maybe it is time to move to Vermont. When we are up there I have to consciously drive slower and not be so impatient. There are a lot of reasons in the news lately to move to our retreat in Vermont and get away from the chaos. Is that the path of least resistance? No that is the path to sanity I think.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Weekend by myself
Rod has spent this past weekend at Coniston with his men's group so I spent the time by myself. Actually, I had a birthday breakfast with some friends, and 6 people were over yesterday afternoon to sew. and today I went to church and stayed for a discussion on the upcoming election, but for me that is a weekend by myself. Also, because my car is still in the shop, I did not even have the ability to leave easily to go very far from my house.
I love to watch myself and what my thought patterns are. After sewing yesterday, I had plans to walk into town for a movie at 6:30. I rarely go to movies solo, but there was a part of me that wanted to keep busy. As the hour neared, when I needed to start walking into town I stayed here. Instead of going to the movie I stayed here, and puttered and surfed the net. One of the women who came to sewing turned me onto some great websites for quilting so I had lots of surfing to do. So my first inclination was to keep myself busy, but instead I stayed put.
Today, I started a quilted jacket that I cut the pieces out for last spring. It is spring colors, but hopefully it will be ready to wear for next spring. I am going to be proactive this fall and winter and get some projects going in both the fabric and yarn arena so that I have something to work on when it is dark outside. It is worth a shot as an antidote to the lack of light. It is so silly that the days have actually been getting shorter since June 21st or 22nd, but I don't start noticing this until August sometime.
I have a feeling that being up in Vermont for the fall will help with my seasonal depression. How can you possibly be depressed in the middle of the fall foliage? We have a screen saver on this computer which cycles though the pictures on the computer. Whenever one of Coniston comes up a tiny grin comes across my face. This was a really good move to buy our house in Vermont. My next weekend up there is the first weekend of October when the "Sisters" gather.
It was a good weekend, but honestly, I would rather have been at Coniston.
I love to watch myself and what my thought patterns are. After sewing yesterday, I had plans to walk into town for a movie at 6:30. I rarely go to movies solo, but there was a part of me that wanted to keep busy. As the hour neared, when I needed to start walking into town I stayed here. Instead of going to the movie I stayed here, and puttered and surfed the net. One of the women who came to sewing turned me onto some great websites for quilting so I had lots of surfing to do. So my first inclination was to keep myself busy, but instead I stayed put.
Today, I started a quilted jacket that I cut the pieces out for last spring. It is spring colors, but hopefully it will be ready to wear for next spring. I am going to be proactive this fall and winter and get some projects going in both the fabric and yarn arena so that I have something to work on when it is dark outside. It is worth a shot as an antidote to the lack of light. It is so silly that the days have actually been getting shorter since June 21st or 22nd, but I don't start noticing this until August sometime.
I have a feeling that being up in Vermont for the fall will help with my seasonal depression. How can you possibly be depressed in the middle of the fall foliage? We have a screen saver on this computer which cycles though the pictures on the computer. Whenever one of Coniston comes up a tiny grin comes across my face. This was a really good move to buy our house in Vermont. My next weekend up there is the first weekend of October when the "Sisters" gather.
It was a good weekend, but honestly, I would rather have been at Coniston.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
It still feels like vacation
As we drove up last night to Coniston, it still feels like we are going on vacation whenever we come up here. The last 2 weeks, have been very busy with the SISTERS visit from England. That is why there have not been any posts. We spent 5 days with them here over Labor day, on vacation. It was great to share with them our new place.
Each time we visit Vermont I practice and try on living here. I know when the time is right we will live here full time. I still like a visitor and we have not really gotten to know the neighbors. It is not like Lexington where we plugged into a community through the school.
Tomorrow we are going to the Burlington Vermont UU church. Beginning of the church year and all, and we hope to plug into that as our community.
While we are on vacation, the Lexington house is suffering from lack of attention on the weekends, and Coniston got a really good cleaning today with a couple of months of accumulated cobs webs. Someone told me that cob webs are the sign of a healthy house. We have a very healthy house up here.
When it stops feeling like vacation, I guess we will be living here full time. Until then, we have a lot more vacation than every before.
Each time we visit Vermont I practice and try on living here. I know when the time is right we will live here full time. I still like a visitor and we have not really gotten to know the neighbors. It is not like Lexington where we plugged into a community through the school.
Tomorrow we are going to the Burlington Vermont UU church. Beginning of the church year and all, and we hope to plug into that as our community.
While we are on vacation, the Lexington house is suffering from lack of attention on the weekends, and Coniston got a really good cleaning today with a couple of months of accumulated cobs webs. Someone told me that cob webs are the sign of a healthy house. We have a very healthy house up here.
When it stops feeling like vacation, I guess we will be living here full time. Until then, we have a lot more vacation than every before.
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