Monday, December 2, 2002

long ago at Christmas...I can't imagine what presents we are getting here...my we look young (and thin)

"Time is very dangerous without a rigid routine. If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival."

Flannery O'Connor

I really want to keep sleeping this morning. But finally I get up and around and go to the gym, pick up some Lammes candy to mail to my uncle because he wants to give them as gifts, pick up a black ink cartridge for the Epson I started using over the weekend.

I make a thank you card for my cousin and his wife who had the Thanksgiving event, fix some pictures for frame ornaments for my niece and get the labels made for Christmas cards. Then, for some reason, I decide to do the item on my list that says 'wine glasses.' I want to clean up all the cheap wine glasses, install rubber mats in the shelves and store them upside down so that they don't need washing when they come out of the cabinet. This task takes way longer than I thought it would. I only bust two glasses and manage not to cut myself. It is evening before this is done. I have eaten here and there, cleaned stuff up, washed some clothes. I make some tuna salad for later and settle in with FFP to watch Boston Public, Third Watch and Crossing Jordan. I'm not enamoured of any of these after watching them.

SuRu and I take off at 10pm for a late night spin around the neighborhood.

Where did my day go? Sure, I checked a few things off the list but it sure seems like there is a time thief on the loose. Oh, well. Tomorrow is also a day as a friend of mine says.

I'm still loving retirement, actually. Sometimes I feel like a fresh kid with my whole life ahead of me because of all the possibilities. Other times I feel old, of course.

I find myself very selfish about my time these days. When I worked and people wasted my time, I hated it, of course. But now, I really squirm. I am never bored either, well almost never. I have the freedom to choose what interests me.

JUST TYPING
You have to choose.
Each minute.
There is no master.
No jailer.
No schedule.
You.
Have to choose.