Right here and now

So what do you say?

The long week is over. I've gone to the store, the bank, gassed up my car, and made it home to get the laundry and dinner started. I say let's jump start this three day weekend! Time to en---joy the time laid out before me. Let me get in a few miles running, a few words put down on documents, a little this and that. What do I say?

No time like the gift we have right now...ahhh, the present.
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Stop, start

I'm feeling a little rushed. It's a hurry up and wait sort of situation. Too much going on here, not enough going on there. It's a stop, start, go, pause, hold, now, later sort of feeling.

It will straighten itself out.
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Hearts and Flowers

It's the day of hearts and flowers, chocolates and wine. It's a Tuesday and pretty normal all around, except we are getting all that rain that has been in the forecast. It helped me sleep all the way up until my alarm buzzed and woke me to get ready for work. 

Yesterday, Jay called me while at the grocery store and said they had all kinds of dipped strawberries, and lobsters and such. He then realized it was almost Valentine's Day. He usually cooks on his days off so I thought I was being clever by asking him what he was planning on making for dinner on that day. He answered, "Hamburger Steak."

Oh, good choice. I'm so clever. 

It's a rainy Tuesday. I'm heading to work but I will have dinner made for me. I didn't have to shop and can just sit and enjoy the evening. I even have some wine if I so choose to open it up. I'm pretty sure it will go with steak.

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Everyday weekend

It was a good weekend. There was nothing out of the ordinary or any great plans that were arranged and completed. It flowed rather well. There was some really good weather and somehow it was a couple of days where everything fell into line in the proper order.

I finished that throw I crocheted out of all the leftover balls of yarn I had lying around. It was a good use of yarn and my time. It's an odd mix of colors that almost looks like it came from Peru but it's done. There was some time used for cleaning up. I even got out there and ran a few miles each morning and even started getting the backyard flower bed cleaned out.

Production started.
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Avoiding the void

I will get out of work an hour early today and get at least that much time to jump start my weekend. I've been trying to figure out the best use of that time so it doesn't go down the great void that can turn into my free afternoon. It's a shame I have to view it that way but the reality and chances of it being gobbled up into a waste of free time is all too recurring.

Did you get all that? I have a tendency to waste a lot of extra free time. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't' subsequently turn around and complain about the lack of time. Aha! Another reality! I'm the culprit, the one to blame, the complainer of all things time related, at least lately.😜

So no complaints this time. I don't need another recap full of time-related themes. I'm not sure how this won't qualify but it's the road I've chosen for today. I have all morning to plot and plan the activities of this afternoon to avoid any voids, to power through any lack of activities, to make a difference in the free hour I have to begin this weekend. Let me check the list I already started in case of this such an emergency. I can work from there.

You know things are getting tough when a free hour has to be plotted.

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Time to recap

I had to go back and recap since the end of January. After reading all my recent posts since that time I can sum them up fairly quickly. Here are the main thoughts:

• January is over and time moved quickly
• I didn't care for the article I read on stillness techniques to quiet all the bombarding thoughts in my head
• We had some bad weather
• I took a day off
• Time passes quickly again
• More about time

I'm not sure the obsession about time lately but it's a recurring theme that is getting tired and overworked. Give it a break, already.

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Snails and Ants

There have been many hours in this week. For some reason they seemed to have stretched in length. I know it's the same, exact amount as any other week but the feeling is I've managed more in the same stretch of time.

I think it's bizarre when you have less to do, fewer tasks to perform, the week can drag to a snails pace making it seem incredibly long. When my tasks increase and I am focused on a project, no matter how difficult or simple, the time speeds to a trail of worker ants along a sidewalk. There is more done in the same amount of time but it flies by.

That's a good thing.
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Look away, focus forward

Do you see what happens when you look away for just a minute?

BOOM! Days pass by and you get so caught up in the day-to-day you don't realize it's gone until you sit again and take account. Where did the last few days of January happen to go? I did a few things, I moved around, I got myself from here to there, and landed just in time to look up to see where I am.

I think that is how it works. Don't look back, that's not the way you are going. Look ahead, go forward, live it now, and all that stuff is the way they say to keep on.

My early morning co-worker retired yesterday. She handed over her laptop and security badge, she cleaned out her desk and said many goodbyes. She won't be coming into work this morning. I bet she erased her alarm from going off.

It will all happen in good time. Just look away for a few more minutes.
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