I was surprised when I looked at the clock. I thought it was getting close to bedtime and it is only 5:30. I woke up early today so this has been a long day.
We had a thunderstorm during the night. Not sure how much rain we got but I had a big puddle beside the sidewalk. It usually takes over an inch that comes down hard to make that puddle. Lots of lightning and thunder during the night. I love the sound of thunder and appreciated the rain. We are in a drought and every drop of rain we get helps.
This has been mostly a stay-at-home day. I did run to Strong City to put some books in the little free library. I had two sacks full but only one sack would fit. I will take the other sack to the Friends of the Library in Emporia next time I am downtown. I went to Jacalita for a late lunch/early dinner.
I hand mopped the dining room today. I moved everything off the floor except the big pieces and cleaned it good. Found lots and lots of dirt. Can’t remember the last time I had done that. Guess I need to do it more often.
I moved all the clutter out of the living room. Now my porch looks cluttered but I don’t see it all the time. It will all go away sooner or later. Have some cardboard to take to the recycling bin. It is nice to have my living room clutter free again.
I had put on a long sleeve shirt today as the house felt cool after the rain. I spilled some of my breakfast on it and had to change shirts. While I was eating my late lunch I spilled sauce on the clean shirt. I decided it was not going to be a three-shirt day but it probably should have been. I’m not going anywhere and no one is coming over so decided to live with a sauce drip on my second shirt of the day. One of those days I guess…..
Kathy decided not to go to the alumni banquet. She had planned on going but was having a hard day. I do the same thing – going somewhere sounds fun until it is time to leave the house and then I can’t/won’t go. I offered to go with her but she knew I really didn’t want to go and she decided to stay home.
Didn’t feel up to attempting to fix my Apple Watch problem. It is telling me to enter the password to my apple account. When I do that apple tells me it is the wrong password. I go in circles trying to change the password. I have to be in the right mood for all that nonsense. Today was not the day!
No plans for tomorrow. I hope to get some more of the cleaning done. I am well over half way done. Sure feels nice to have a couple of clean rooms. Still have a bit more to do in the dining room and bedroom and then those two rooms will be done. Just have the kitchen and living room to do after that. Sure enjoy having a small house when it comes time to clean.
Monday I have a family reunion to go to if I can make myself go. I enjoy it when I go although I am not good at small talk and sometimes there isn’t anyone there that I can get into a deep conversation with. Not the time and space for that anyways but I really do not like shallow, small talk. I will come home exhausted if I go.
Tuesday I want to see if the shelter house at Swope Park is available June 29. I would like to host a Celebration of Life for Max (Gene). I will have to find another date if it isn’t available that day.
Kathy and I are going to KC Wednesday but other than that I don’t have any plans next week. It has been nice to have this empty space. My soul has needed extra breathing space lately. I have limited how much news I am reading and allowing the silence to surround me. It feels familiar and comforting to me right now. So much hardship and chaos is going on in the world right now. My soul can’t handle it right now and I have needed to retreat for a bit. My job is to fill my soul with light and keep it full and overflowing. That takes most of my energy these days.
Grateful the living room is clean again, grateful for the thunder and rain overnight, and grateful for a washer and dryer that makes days like this easy.