Sunday, January 21, 2007
The Greatest Gift
Hubby bought us (me) the greatest gift yesterday. He got us (me) something I’ve been wanting for years but never had the guts to get myself.
A filing cabinet.
It’s a beautiful black two drawer cabinet with a lock. A lock! Not that we will ever use it, but we could lock the cabinet and no one else could open it!
I spent all of yesterday afternoon happily filing, organizing and making labels. We also purchased file folders and hanging files. We got the multi-colored ones and I had a great time mix and matching all the colors.
Hubby said he had never seen me so excited before. He said that, had he known how happy the filing cabinet would make me, he would have purchased it long ago.
After I was finished, I sat and happily stared at the files in the drawers.
It’s so nice to know where everything is.
Monday, January 08, 2007
The Resolutionaries are coming!
That’s what Hubby calls them. The people who pack the gym in January and February, just to give up in March. The cranky people who decide to give up smoking and/or caffeine and take it out on the rest of us. Those that suddenly can’t eat anything but salads and tell you the evils of the cookie you’re about to eat because you haven’t forced yourself on some silly diet that won’t last the month.
I love resolutionaries. They are so much fun to torment.
In other news…the cats are getting along beautifully! We let them spend their first day together on Friday. We found no traces of blood, no clumps of hair, no over turned plants of any kind when we got home. This weekend showed more progress, I actually had both cats curled up on either side of me at the same time! No growling, no kissing, just comfy warmness!
Hubby and I went out for groceries and when we got back I saw the girls were curled up together! It’s so exciting to see them coming together so quickly. It’s better than I could have expected.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
What Happened?
I’m torn between worlds at the moment. Torn between the reality I live in the and the imaginary world I want to live in. It kind of stinks. The real world has all kinds of people in it, people who want to talk to me and see me and discuss what’s happening in their lives and the lives of the people they know. Gossip usually ensues. The imaginary world is full of people doing all kinds of things that I can’t seem to get down on paper. The two worlds have been colliding on a regular basis with reality winning out.
I hate when that happens.
Work has been the main focus of my reality lately. I keep freaking out because I have the strange feeling that work has become too important to me. I keep wanting to do well, wanting to get things right, help people. In wanting to do the right thing, I focus on my job and start to let it take over.
If I loved my job this might be a good thing.
But there is no love. I focus on the job when I want to not think about other parts of my life, like writing. I know I will never get the novel written if I don’t sit down and write. It’s so much easier to get caught up in work, to write procedure documents, train people, teach people, and help support people. To forget about my passion, my writing.
Then I get angry and lash out, I don’t want to do my job, I hate where I work, the people are stupid and uncreative. The job is uncreative. I end up in the mess I find myself in today.
Sitting in the café, attempting to write about characters I’ve let slip through my fingers.
So the cycle continues…
Monday, January 01, 2007
Big Announcement!
After months of deliberation Hubby and I decided to take the plunge…
…and get a new kitty.
Her name is Jager. She is three months old and oh so adorable.
Hubby and I picked her up on Saturday and have been dealing with the ensuing kitty drama ever since. Cleo has been very upset with the new addition. Things have been a lot smoother than they could have been, and we’re fairly confident that the kitty drama will be settled in a couple of weeks.
As you wake in the morning
What do you feel?
Does a rush of happiness
wash over you when,
Suddenly, you realize you are alive?
