Learning Lessons

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And so, he was gone.
Gone with the morning breeze
Gone with the singing of the birds
Gone with the first sip of my coffee.

Where?
I do not know.
I didn’t see him leave.
I don’t even know the direction.

The space where he was
Is filled with the things that rushed into
the empty void.
It’s full now.
The void is no longer.

Lessons remain
That’s all.
A lesson of love,
A lesson of trust.

The universe does not allow a vacuum.
Where one thing leaves,
Another comes.
The endless cycles of life.

What Did the Day Bring?

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I don’t know. What did the day bring today?

I watered all my flowers and veggies before I left the house. It was high 80’s today, nice and warm, but not bone drenchingly hot. Lovely. I drove to work. I worked my ass off… Training someone to do my job. So hard for me to actually think and explain my way through it. Because I work alone, I have no boss other than the owner of the company, and he gives me pretty loose rein because the work always gets done on time. Customers are happy. But now I have to think about every single step and explain and I think I’m doing an ok job at it, but it’s exhausting. 9 hours with only a lunch break. We don’t stop all day.

I can’t check my phone much while I’m training. I miss that. I can’t get on here unless I go to the bathroom, lol. I try to find time to respond to comments, but forgive me if I’ve missed your stuff. Just so busy.

So, I’m tired tonight. I made dinner, I made a sandwich out of the chicken apple bacon meatloaf I had leftover, grilled an onion roll and added a piece of cheese. It was yummy. And quick.

I filled out the forms for my mothers estate. I have my son’s social security number memorized, I was surprised. LOL.

I emailed my sisters about our family reunion and memorial to my mom. Looking very forward to hanging out with my family for a few days. Just, it’s the best thing ever. Love them so much.

I paid the guy who mows my lawn in Florida.

I read a few poems my guy friend sent me. He’s raw and hard driving, but also has a tender side that surprised me. I sent him a couple of mine.

I read some blogs. Not enough time to keep up on them all.

And now I just sat down to write, I closed my eyes with a finger on “i” and typed about 20 lines of “I”. Geezus.

So….I guess that I moved ahead in some way today. But the thing that was the best about today was, I was happy. Almost all day. My boss asked me how the new girl is doing when she left today He said, “I think you guys are having too much fun! I keep hearing you laughing.” He was teasing, he wasn’t mad. He liked that she was enjoying her training. Even though she’s incredibly overwhelmed. I told him I like her professional attitude. She asks good questions, she’s smart, and she gets how they run the business better than some of the people who have been there a few years.

But I did a little work on a lot of stuff today. Small steps but moving forward. Someone said to me today, “Even if you have a bad limp, eventually you can move forward.” LOL. True true.

Love and light all.

Waking Up Happy

 

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I am so looking forward to today.  It’s going to be summer.  Hot, 90°.  I LOVE hot.  Hot summer days.  My son is off today, he’s so lucky.  Into my summer clothes, finally.  I have ventured into flip-flops at work, but that’s it.  Today, capris, summer shirt….

I’m dropping the price on the house again.  I hate to do it, but I can’t stand sitting in limbo waiting.  My decision is made, to move, to move on, to move away.  I just need it to happen.  We’re going to have an open house when I get back from VA.  The second weekend of June.  I’m going to paint the deck this weekend.

I hate painting.  Especially, when it’s instead of going to the beach.  Too many of the Beach Whores couldn’t go to the beach Saturday, so we may all end up at a friend’s pool on Sunday.  But I’m glad the beach didn’t work out, because I hadn’t realized that I HAVE to do the deck this weekend.  I won’t be home the next weekend to do it.  So if I want to have the open house, I need to do it this weekend.  I’m not happy about it, lol, but I’ll get it done.  I got a price on someone else doing it…it was about $500.  Nope.  Not spending it.  At least I’ll be outside.

And the good thing is it’s a 3 day weekend.  So….I will still have 2 days off.

Life is moving forward.  It’s a good thing, a happy thing.  Just plug away, one day at a time.  Before you know it, I’ll be writing the blog from Florida.

Love and light.

And On Into Tuesday…

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Oh my.  I had to shut down and reboot my fairly new (6 months old) Toshiba laptop 4 times this morning to get it to function.  I hope that’s not foretelling of things to come.  The touchpad wouldn’t work, then when I got it to work, it wouldn’t fully load the internet.  I let it take it’s time, while I did my meditation.  Finally, I am here, late.  But here.  Let’s hope whatever it was unwound itself.  Because writing blogs on my phone is not my idea of fun.

I am so surprised at how well I’ve been sleeping.  Historically I am not a good sleeper.  But for maybe the last week, I have slept like a baby for 6 to 7 hours a night which is such a blessing!  I’m not really sure why, except that I think I may have come to terms with a lot of my stressors.  Maybe because I was  blogging like a madwoman, on the weekend particularly.  My stomach issue seems also to be improving in small increments each day, for which I’m grateful.

My sister set me up with someone to mow my yard in Florida before she left.  They come about once a month.  Then they send me before and after pics of the yard, and a bill for $25.  It’s a teeny yard, lol.  But I got my second bill last night, and the pics and it gave me SO much happiness to see my cute little house there, in it’s tropical Florida colors and the palm tree on the corner!  The yard looked nice too, lol.  But it certainly did make me anxious to get this house sold.  I think I’m going to drop the price again, I need to get this thing done.  I’m accepting that I’m going to lose money on the house, so I just need to get it done, and get moved.  Just ready to go, that’s all.

It’s raining here today, but a kind of summer rain, not cold and dank.  Then it’s going to turn into summer tomorrow, the 80’s are on their way!  The Beach Whores are going to reconvene at some beach this weekend, lol.   For the uninitiated, there are a bunch of us here, who call ourselves the Beach Whores, Any Beach, Any Time.  It all started when it was discovered one of our group who moved here from Kansas had never been to the beach.  A Beach Virgin she called herself.  I told her I was a beach whore, any beach any time.  And another friend said, yes…you are surrounded by beach whores.  We are still considering getting the t-shirt.  It looks like Saturday is the day.  It will be almost 90.  Which leaves the deck to be painted Sunday or Monday.

It’s all good.  Life is singing lately, happy songs.  “Singing in the Rain” or something, LOL.  No time to look one up to post, I spent too much time shutting down and rebooting.  But I’ll be back, lol.

Love and light!