Happy birthday Mom! Hard to believe you would have turned 89 today. You always lived your life as if you were 20 years younger than you were. I think of you everyday and am so very grateful for the time we spent together and how we became best friends.
This morning I worked on resetting the two guest rooms. My guest that was to come in for the weekend cancelled so I will have the house to myself this weekend again. Good news is I will still get paid for the weekend stay even though she won’t be here. Now that is an easy guest!
I went to Pioneer Bluffs late morning to help do some data entry. Ate my lunch and then attended the Board meeting. Only one more meeting to go! Found myself in the observer role at the meeting today. Interesting to watch the dynamics at play between other board members.
When I got home I found the package of new sheets I had ordered in the yard. One of the two inner packages had been totally opened and the sheets and pillowcases were in the grass. The other inner package was still mostly intact. Two of the pillowcases had holes in them. I treated the sheets with a stain remover and threw them in the washer. I’ll see if I was able to salvage them. Seriously need to teach my dogs some better manners. It is rude of them to open someone else’s packages.
My Colonel (match guy) is on his way out of the country for a work assignment. He had WiFi on board so we have been texting this afternoon. I realized on the way home I had been holding some fear about fitting into his life style. I also realized I will be asking him to make some major life changes to fit into my life style too. That seemed to help me release the fear I was holding. So far I haven’t found much to not like about this guy. He is helping me get outside my comfort level and is helping me find ranges I need to open. I always appreciate that! I am really looking forward to meeting him face to face when he comes to visit me the end of the month.
My Marine won’t be here next week as he is going to AZ for class. It will really be weird not to have him around in the evenings. I don’t even want to think what it will be like when he moves on after the first of the year. I have come to love both him and his wife.
I am going to KC next Thursday to help Nicole. I had forgotten to book off Wednesday and Thursday night so guests wouldn’t book. I had a couple instant book for next Wednesday night. I’ll still be able to go to KC but won’t be able to leave very early unless the guests get out of the house early. I seldom have mid-week guests so didn’t think about blocking the time off. Sometimes I forget I work!
Another quiet weekend by myself. Not sure what I am going to do tomorrow. Have laundry to finish and some cleaning that needs done but other than that nothing on my to-do list.
May need to break down and turn the furnace on this weekend. It is to get down to the mid to upper 20’s both Sunday and Monday nights. What happened to fall temperatures? We went from summer directly to winter! Not ready for cold weather.
Sitting in my peaceful valley tonight. I’m grateful I figured out I was sitting in fear and able to release it. Funny how a little mind shift can help. I have been observing my monkey mind chatter and attempting to quiet it when I play a self-doubting old mind tape. I can spin out of control pretty quickly with my thoughts.
Grateful for my mother and all the ways she cared for me, grateful for figuring out where my fear was coming from and being able to release it, and grateful for knowing the chatter in my mind is no longer my truth.