Life Goes On

Enjoy the blast from the past photo of my daughter Lia in our woods in October 2013.

Yesterday evening went OK. I made a nice dinner of fishsticks, tuna-mac salad, & beets, and we watched an epi of Outer Banks. I had time to listen to music. I played some Candy Crush Saga. I got all my chores done.

Today I was tired still when I woke up. I am still being plagued with sleeping problems, not terrible, but enough to affect how I feel in the early mornings. The ground was icy, which is not my favorite. I didn't even stay facing backwards the whole walk back to home because I was worried about slipping. I did slightly slip yesterday, and that has me nervous. Likely I will eventually fall. I hope that it is not on a muddy day, and that that gets me over my fear of falling while walking backwards.

Tuesdays and Thursdays feel like my hard days. I might have to switch up my schedule/routine those days to be OK. Not yet though. I don't think that I have really given my current Tuesday/Thursday plan a fair shot.

Next week my grandkids are visiting. I have plans to get ice cream and to play outside. I hope the weather cooperates! I also might get them to help with some yard work, like trimming the path through the wood! March always feels like such a holding place in the year, here, where we live in northern upstate NY. There is the depression from the lingering winter and muddy, brown spring. There is the longing, that all-hearts-turn-to-love feeling too, sort of competing and sometimes completing the depression. Yeah, it can be a tough time. I am trying to give myself and those I come into contact with grace this season!

Top of the nonfiction pile: Paleofantasy by Marlene Zuk

Current novel: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Very good!)

Recipe I'm hoping to make soon: Healthy Maple Gingerbread Loaf

Song in my head this morning: Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet by Fall Out Boy

Extra chores I'm planning to do today: NONE!