Better Days
Jul. 13th, 2009 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteI am home from game once more. And while I usually come home and find myself physically fine but mentally and emotionally frail and drained, somehow I've wound up in the opposite situation this time. And all things considered, I actually like this much more.
I'm feeling kind of crummy, but I've at least got the day off today to recover - the clinic I was supposed to work at today emailed me a few weeks ago and asked if I'd mind canceling, since one of their associates wound up free to cover the shift, and I figured that a free day post-con wouldn't be a bad thing.
I'm at least feeling well enough to go for a short walk - and there's another blessing, right in the middle of all this. It's July, and it's warm and sunny enough for me to go for a walk to the library in a sundress and sandals, and feel the air and the sunshine without overheating or choking on the humidity. The library had the new Kelley Armstrong hardcover waiting for me, and my better half and I stopped at the ice cream parlor on the way home to get a double-thick vanilla milkshake to share.
(Yet more blessings - living in a neighborhood where the library and the ice cream parlor are a ten-minute walk from our front door.)
And best of all, in the three days that we were gone, our garden has suddenly transformed from a bunch of immature leaves into a source of food. This morning I picked enough green beans to make a side dish for dinner, plus a handful of sugar snap peas. Our blueberries are maybe a day or two from ripening, there are green tomatoes on all of the plants, and the broccoli finally have tiny heads growing in the center of the giant leafy stalks. Once again we're having minor problems with the zucchini, and not having enough bees to cross-pollinate them, but having lived through this last year, it'll be easy enough to fix tomorrow morning.
Please, whoever's in charge, let the sun stay. Let my garden keep growing. Let me continue to feel as bright and safe and happy as I do now....
I'm feeling kind of crummy, but I've at least got the day off today to recover - the clinic I was supposed to work at today emailed me a few weeks ago and asked if I'd mind canceling, since one of their associates wound up free to cover the shift, and I figured that a free day post-con wouldn't be a bad thing.
I'm at least feeling well enough to go for a short walk - and there's another blessing, right in the middle of all this. It's July, and it's warm and sunny enough for me to go for a walk to the library in a sundress and sandals, and feel the air and the sunshine without overheating or choking on the humidity. The library had the new Kelley Armstrong hardcover waiting for me, and my better half and I stopped at the ice cream parlor on the way home to get a double-thick vanilla milkshake to share.
(Yet more blessings - living in a neighborhood where the library and the ice cream parlor are a ten-minute walk from our front door.)
And best of all, in the three days that we were gone, our garden has suddenly transformed from a bunch of immature leaves into a source of food. This morning I picked enough green beans to make a side dish for dinner, plus a handful of sugar snap peas. Our blueberries are maybe a day or two from ripening, there are green tomatoes on all of the plants, and the broccoli finally have tiny heads growing in the center of the giant leafy stalks. Once again we're having minor problems with the zucchini, and not having enough bees to cross-pollinate them, but having lived through this last year, it'll be easy enough to fix tomorrow morning.
Please, whoever's in charge, let the sun stay. Let my garden keep growing. Let me continue to feel as bright and safe and happy as I do now....
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Date: 2009-07-14 04:01 am (UTC)That's a good day
Date: 2009-07-14 05:58 am (UTC)"May your days be happy and bright. And may all your summer days be green."
-- as sung by Bing Cherry
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Date: 2009-07-14 11:19 pm (UTC)