It's another beautiful, sunny, hot day here as usual. I'm am totally wiped out again. I really am tired of feeling like this. There doesn't seem to be an end in sight for it though, so I'm told. I've tried to get used to it. I really have. I want to escape again. It's been quite a while since I have. Used to be I could. My agreement was to escape every 3 months. That's not happening and hasn't been and won't now. Thank you Mr. President and the economy!
Do you ever just want to go to sleep and sleep for a really long time? Thing is I can't and don't sleep. Mostly because of pain but also because my body refuses to do so, especially at night. I can sleep during the day for brief periods of time but come night time my body just doesn't like it. I really don't know why. I've never known why. I have put many a thought into this to see if there was a reason, if there was something that ever occurred at night that would have a subconscious cause. Nope! Nada.
Right now I think I'd settle for a night away in a really good hot tub to soak in though. The aches I have are screaming for that. I would get in and never get out. I know, I know you can't do that because it's unhealthy but damn, it sure sounds good doesn't it?
Ok so let's go on a little adventure in our minds shall we? Since I can't escape my next best thing is planning or thinking about an escape. This is what I do all the time. I will go through searching and thinking about where to go, as if I really am planning an getaway. I will gather information about hotels, visiting website after website. Whether it's tourism sites, direct hotel websites, large outlet gathering (like Travelocity) sites and scour through their information. Looking at tons of pictures dreaming about it. Looking at prices trying to get the best and most for the money with some arbitrary amount. I'll look at plane flights (time and types - I don't like little puddle jumper planes at all!). Then I'll look at activities available. Finally restaurants. You know a woman's gotta eat too! I'll think about what I may want to eat, what kind of atmosphere it will be and where. Sometimes it prompts springboarding.
What is springboarding? Springboarding is leaping to other ideas. In this case it usually leads to "Oh I like that. Maybe I want to have that and make that." So I will look for a recipe if I don't already know how to make it. Or I will add it to the weekly grocery list. I can't tell you how many times I've springboarded when surfing the web, even if not planning an escape.
I think I've always been a happy wanderer though. For as long as I can remember since I was a child. Perhaps it started because of my Grandparents and the pretty traditional Sunday afternoon drive after church to nowhere. Then it was the Summer travels. I was always the one to up and leave on an adventure with them. My sister would always stay home because she would get homesick and not want to do anything. I never lost that feeling. As I grew I still loved to travel and my instinct as a teen was to follow that love and seek a career in it. I attended school and became certified for the travel industry so that I could become a travel agent. Funny thing though, that didn't happen. Not because Ididn't try. I just kept hitting brick walls at the time. Cath 22's. Everyone wanted experience and no one willing to give it.
Jump ahead to these times. Now no one really goes much to travel agents. I mean they are around and some use it. But with the internet many can just make these arrangements themselves. Over the years, however, I did make travel arrangements for friends and family members. Planning cruises was what I did the most. Ah, now there is my love. Cruising. If I had my choice of escapes, that is my number 1 choice. What is yours? Share with me won't you? Share with me your travels.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Sunday Routine and Musings
It's another Sunday morning. My Sundays usually consist of getting up, no sleeping in with kids since they don't understand that concept! Then it's bringing in the Sunday paper and reading through it, clipping coupons. Every other Sunday it is library day because one of them enjoys the book club. Usually I will do some grocery shopping during that time while everyone else is at the library reading books, picking out new books, or the one enjoying the book club. When it's not library week it's still grocery shopping day. Today is an exception to that. I won't have to do it for this week.
It's funny because all to often I will end up picking something out for dinner that is an involved process. Yet when it comes to dinner time I will be exhausted and not up to a big ordeal to get through it. Why do I do this all the time? I think it's a habit actually. I am so pre-programmed to a big Sunday dinner. That all changed when I moved down to NC. My whole way of life changed in so many ways. Drastically and mostly for the better. I admit I do miss some aspects of life like it used to be. The safety of the known versus the unknown, which I guess is very normal. I mean I spent 20 years there. Perhaps in time I will get comfortable here but for now I'm just getting used to it. Enjoying the good things I can and trying to find ways around those things I'm not comfortable with and getting a workable solution.
What do you do with your Sundays? Do you have any routines? Do you find comfort in routine? I'm realizing that I do a lot of things routinely for a couple of reasons. First because my kids need structure and routine. I make sure I provide that. Second, I do it because it just has become habit to do some things in this manner. And finally, I do believe that it is also ingrained in my subconcious from childhood in a way. Sundays, for example, used to be go to church, come home and have a nice lunch (usually deli meats and sandwiches) then a drive somewhere (often with my Grandparents because I adored them so), and then back home for a nice big Sunday dinner. Of course as a kid it was then bath and pjs and off to bed (just like my kids now on school nights).
In times when families are so torn apart and you don't often hear of these things I continue to try very hard to keep with some traditional ideas and things. I admit it has become increasingly harder for some.
Well this is enough for now, for a Sunday morning. I think I might have more to unload later. We'll see.
Jo
It's funny because all to often I will end up picking something out for dinner that is an involved process. Yet when it comes to dinner time I will be exhausted and not up to a big ordeal to get through it. Why do I do this all the time? I think it's a habit actually. I am so pre-programmed to a big Sunday dinner. That all changed when I moved down to NC. My whole way of life changed in so many ways. Drastically and mostly for the better. I admit I do miss some aspects of life like it used to be. The safety of the known versus the unknown, which I guess is very normal. I mean I spent 20 years there. Perhaps in time I will get comfortable here but for now I'm just getting used to it. Enjoying the good things I can and trying to find ways around those things I'm not comfortable with and getting a workable solution.
What do you do with your Sundays? Do you have any routines? Do you find comfort in routine? I'm realizing that I do a lot of things routinely for a couple of reasons. First because my kids need structure and routine. I make sure I provide that. Second, I do it because it just has become habit to do some things in this manner. And finally, I do believe that it is also ingrained in my subconcious from childhood in a way. Sundays, for example, used to be go to church, come home and have a nice lunch (usually deli meats and sandwiches) then a drive somewhere (often with my Grandparents because I adored them so), and then back home for a nice big Sunday dinner. Of course as a kid it was then bath and pjs and off to bed (just like my kids now on school nights).
In times when families are so torn apart and you don't often hear of these things I continue to try very hard to keep with some traditional ideas and things. I admit it has become increasingly harder for some.
Well this is enough for now, for a Sunday morning. I think I might have more to unload later. We'll see.
Jo
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Welcome and Introduce Yourself!
Hello and welcome to my little space in the big wide world. Now I feel like I've kind of left a footprint. Although I'm hoping I've left a footprint already in so many ways, this one is just on a much larger scale.
I have done many things in my life and perhaps in time to come you will learn of some of them and I will learn about you as well. This is one of my hopes with this blog. I enjoy meeting people and getting to know about them and what makes them tick. Sometimes I'm observing you in ways you can't even imagine. It's a quirk of mine. Oh, but don't worry. I'm not a stalker. I'm not talking in ways like that at all. I just have learned to read people, even if it's online through words. Imagine that!
I am, if nothing else, pretty random sometimes. Others I'm rather predictable to. Like I won't be late for anything if I can help it and will tend to be 15 minutes early. Ok, maybe not so much since having kids. They tend to have a mind of their own sometimes and find some way to hold you up last minute. I try to allow for this and prepare extra early but sometimes, it just doesn't happen. So there, now you've learned something more about me. I have kids. Do you?
I can't promise you what kind of content or direction this will take. Just like in the title, it's going to be random. Some may find they like it and some may not. Some days you will and others you won't. I can tell you my intent is never to offend anyone so if you ever find something offensive I apologize from the start. This is my blog and it is a release for me that I desperately need at this time in life. I have fairly warned you. (and this you may already find offensive)
So for now, this is all I have. I'm sure I really do have tons more as I am never short on words or writing but I want this post to be to the point. A welcome and an invitation to introduce yourself to me so we might get to know one another. Perhaps you may already have some questions. Go ahead and post them and I will work from there.
Hope you're having a great weekend and if not, remember, time does pass quickly and there'll be another day around the corner and it will end quickly.
Jo
I have done many things in my life and perhaps in time to come you will learn of some of them and I will learn about you as well. This is one of my hopes with this blog. I enjoy meeting people and getting to know about them and what makes them tick. Sometimes I'm observing you in ways you can't even imagine. It's a quirk of mine. Oh, but don't worry. I'm not a stalker. I'm not talking in ways like that at all. I just have learned to read people, even if it's online through words. Imagine that!
I am, if nothing else, pretty random sometimes. Others I'm rather predictable to. Like I won't be late for anything if I can help it and will tend to be 15 minutes early. Ok, maybe not so much since having kids. They tend to have a mind of their own sometimes and find some way to hold you up last minute. I try to allow for this and prepare extra early but sometimes, it just doesn't happen. So there, now you've learned something more about me. I have kids. Do you?
I can't promise you what kind of content or direction this will take. Just like in the title, it's going to be random. Some may find they like it and some may not. Some days you will and others you won't. I can tell you my intent is never to offend anyone so if you ever find something offensive I apologize from the start. This is my blog and it is a release for me that I desperately need at this time in life. I have fairly warned you. (and this you may already find offensive)
So for now, this is all I have. I'm sure I really do have tons more as I am never short on words or writing but I want this post to be to the point. A welcome and an invitation to introduce yourself to me so we might get to know one another. Perhaps you may already have some questions. Go ahead and post them and I will work from there.
Hope you're having a great weekend and if not, remember, time does pass quickly and there'll be another day around the corner and it will end quickly.
Jo
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