Thursday, June 05, 2008

• I work at a dry cleaners.  It is very hot at a dry cleaners in June in Alabama.  We do not have air conditioning at work.   Once again I realize how very much I love air conditioning. 

  It isn't too bad...just different.    That is irony, or understatement, or... something.  It is vastly different from the past 22 years of mothering, teaching and wife-ing.  I enjoy it.  And of course, I still have plenty of opportunity to mother and teach and wife.

  I truly am not whining (because I hate whining) but I have felt rotten the past couple of days.  I spent a while today thinking of things that made me feel good.  Just odd things.  (Truly!)  In no particular order here are a few of them:

  • Playing games with my family.  We were *almost* all here this past weekend.  We cooked shrimp and grits and played Apples to Apples, Quiddler, and Taboo.  Much fun.

   

  • The music playlist on my oldest son's myspace page.  Van Morrison, John Prine, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie plus Todd Agnew and other Christian artists.  The old guys make me smile because I used to put those records on and dance with him when he was a little one.  Now he loves that music, too.

   

  • The old BBC tv show "Keeping Up Appearances".  Told you there would be odd things here. 

   

  • Praying out loud in the shower in the morning before work.

   

  • Ice water.  It is truly amazing.

   

  • Riding the lawn mower.  I know it is insane to work in the heat and then come home and get on the mower, but it really is relaxing...go figure.  I still like to do laundry, too.

   

  • Knowing that no matter how I feel 'underneath are the everlasting arms.'

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