What I'm Reading This Week #27
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you've got the day off to enjoy. I would really appreciate the weather dialing it back from Satan's taint to dryish heat please. I'm not even asking for much. Like 83 degrees would make me happy at this point but there's no end in sight to the 90's. The Mr and I have both been plagued with migraines this week. He had a two day event and I had an ocular migraine which is just so crappy to deal with since you can't read or do anything until your vision isn't screwed up. I got to wait on hold for an hour Tuesday with the state tax department so I decided to sand and prime the newel post while listening to hold music designed to make you hang up. To quote Bugs Bunny "he don't know me vewy well, do he?" I got that squared away and later went out between pop up storms to deadhead some zinnias which you may have seen in Wednesday's post. Speaking of Wednesday, it was a busy day in the ga...
I had trouble getting to sleep last night actually and it made me think about a time when I was going to start school after summer one year and I was having the hardest time getting to sleep. My dad must have heard me up and I told him I was having a hard time and he said just to close my eyes and rest and that would be enough even if I couldn't fall asleep. Of course I ended up falling asleep after doing what he said and to this day that sticks with me. It still doesn't always make me fall asleep completely but I can calm myself just by knowing that even just rest is enough if that is all you can muster.
ReplyDeleteMy husband’s mother, one valuable thing she said when we were building our house, was to put in deep drawers, not cupboards. (It might be the only valuable thing she ever said.) It was certainly true, and I am thankful I heard it. I just have a couple specialty cupboards (vertical storage for trays/cookie sheets/cutting boards and another horizontal one with lots of shelves for things like 9x13’s). The rest are drawers, love it.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom always says there us someone worse off then you are. Helps put my woes in perspective
ReplyDeleteI have an aunt who told me within the past ten years or so: "Don't live backwards." It stuck with me and helped me to begin the way I view what I can't change, what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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