This is working for me! in A New Beginning

I am glad I started writing here again. I am finding that putting words on here is waking my brain back up, so that I have been coming up with more interesting tales to tell on FB also. I had really gotten into a slump and just couldn’t seem to put two sentences together hardly.
I have also become somewhat selfish with my time here. Guinness, just like a child, wants my attention ALL the time, but I CAN insist on taking enough time to write a darn journal post!
Heck, I gave our kids tons of attention when they were growing up, but I honestly don’t think I let them take up ALL of my time the way I often let Guinness. I am assuming that’s a product of my age. I’m what....more patient?! I’m certainly more willing to let things and people be as they are nowadays. Have you ever heard anyone use the phrase “It is what it is”? A former co-worker and friend, Naomi, was always saying that, and I used to hate it. To me, it seemed like such a defeatist attitude.
But within the last few years, I’ve GOTTEN it! It’s not necessarily defeatist. It’s just a FACT that we cannot always arrange life to suit our personal preferences or needs. Sometimes fighting is worth the time and effort it takes, but a lot of the time it isn’t, and it even goes against what the Universe has in store for you! Whatever “IS” could well be there, not for you to change it, but for you to learn how to work with it! ;o)
Anyhow....how’d I get off on that tangent I wonder?! I just am kinda proud of myself for coming on here before I do FB this afternoon, because I think it is a good thing for me to be here.
This afternoon I called our daughter Carrie. She is having a horrible week! They bought a new house (a mansion, by our standards) last Fall, but still haven’t sold their old house yet. The two houses are around 30 miles apart, and the old house is vacant, while they (very slowly, it seems) do work on it to make it ready for sale. Well, they received a notice that there’s a problem with the gas line on their old street, and someone has to be “home” while the gas company is there working on it. So Carrie has had to spend HOURS of the past two days there. She works from home, so she’s been having to do her work at the old house. BUT, there is no furniture at the old house, so she’s been having to sit on the floor to work (on her laptop and phone). The heat at the old house is gas, so it is shut off and there’s no heat! And this is in Michigan, so it is VERY cold! And of course, to top it all off, she had a horrible cold since even before this stuff happened! She sounds terrible! I gave her a heap o’sympathy, because it IS pretty darn bad. I hope this will be the last day the gas company has to be there. As we talked on the phone, her husband (Al) was on his way over there from his workplace, to relieve her so she could go home.
I also called my Sister Carol. We three sisters are planning on going out on Saturday. It’ll probably just be to the Dover Mall and then to a pizza place for lunch, because it’s going to be very cold. I would not mind going hiking at a park or someplace in the cold, but they are both in their seventies and don’t like to. I just enjoy spending time with them, so I don’t mind what we do. I feel very blessed to have them both living so close to me!
Tomorrow after work, Joe and I need to go up to Dover AFB and do a huuuuuge grocery shopping! Last payday I didn’t buy much because We were going to be at Carrie’s for a week…so now our fridge, freezer and cupboards are just about as bare as they can get! If I were a woman who cleans things, I might take advantage of their bareness and clean them....HA! But I’m not! :o)
I hope you have a nice relaxing evening. I am. And I am sooooo glad that tomorrow is FRIDAY, because this has been a darn hard workweek!