I am sitting out on Jim’s back deck writing this. It is a perfect spring day – temperature hit 81 here today. The sun is starting to go down and the temperature is slowly starting to drop. There is no wind and everything is extra green due to the rain we got last night. Hard to find a more perfect day than this one was.
I worked on my Crisis Text Hot Line homework this morning. I have tests I have to take daily. The one I had today I did three times and would get almost finished and it would kick me off the site and I would have to start over. Frustrating to say the least. I finally decided I wasn’t meant to take it today and walked away. This afternoon I went back and printed out pages of the training material that I feel will be helpful when I start taking calls. Mainly for examples of how to word responses. I need to get them put into a notebook with labels so I can find the section I need quickly. I am over halfway done with my training and still have ten days before my due date. I may try the test once more tonight or I might wait and do it in the morning and trust that the system will work like it is supposed to then.
Jim went to the grocery store this afternoon. He had to go to two different stores to get what he wanted. He came home drained. We talked about how I felt after the Camino and how jarring it was for me then to go to the store after being isolated for two months. I think he understands that now. It is stressful to go to the store now – you have to remember to not touch your face, wear your mask, and be cautious of the people around you. I’m grateful I don’t have to go.
I did some housecleaning this afternoon but not much else. It was a good day to sit outside and enjoy the beauty of the day. I texted both grandkids today and two different friends and wrote one letter. The day seemed to go by quickly.
We grilled steaks for dinner tonight. I had the grill too high and almost burned them but we were able to salvage them enough to be able to eat them. To tell the truth I would prefer a hamburger over a steak any day of the week. Jim got a roasting chicken today so I will fix that in the crock pot for dinner tomorrow night.
As usual we don’t have anything planned for tomorrow or the weekend or next week for that matter. When the mood strikes we do some work on the house but if not we sit and enjoy the beauty of spring in Oklahoma.
The ribbon for the face masks still hasn’t come in. I may be out of the mood to make them by the time it gets here. Amazon is really slow these days, Guessing a lot of people are ordering through them and they are back logged. What seems to be taking the most time is the shipping part though. Not sure why that has slowed down so much unless they are overwhelmed and under staffed too.
I am in a calm and relaxed place this evening. I realize now that it has been a bit since I have felt this calm. Not sure where it came from but I am grateful it found me. Back into my valley of life. I can’t get here by choice – it seems I have to wait for it to allow me to enter. I usually find it after a period of growth. Maybe I took another step up my ladder of life.
Grateful for beautiful spring days, grateful I didn’t have to go to the grocery store today, and grateful for the peaceful valley I find myself in this evening.