A Simple Moment

Tuesday morning.  8:24 a.m.  Jay is already off to work and the girls are still sleeping upstairs.

It is snowing lightly outside and I wonder absent-mindedly how much we are going to get this time. There are already five inches still sitting on the ground from last week. It is very unusual for us to have this much snow before Christmas. But it is beautiful and quiet outside, with that kind of hush that you only get with a quiet snowfall.  I check Yahoo Weather. They say 1-4 inches accumulation by mid-afternoon.

The only sound indoors is the clacking of my keyboard as I type up this moment. I realize it is a little chilly. Time to get up and adjust the thermostat.  Yes, indeed, the inside temp had dropped to 67. I keep it at 68 during the day, still too cold for my preference, but it is the compromise reached with the miser who can withstand extremes of heat and cold that most people can’t.  Once the girls are up, they will be running the fireplace in the family room most of the day.

I’ve been fighting off a head cold for the last few days. It has been cutting into my sleep and my ability to concentrate and get anything accomplished. So I’m very grateful that cards and packages have all been mailed, Christmas shopping is done and 90% of the gifts are wrapped. Haven’t finished decorating the tree, but that’s a small thing in the overall scheme of things. Cards are starting to trickle in with the mail.  Three new ones yesterday! I’m grateful and enjoy each one. Although it is clear that if I didn’t have blog friends, we wouldn’t be getting many cards at all this year. Which reminds me, I’ve also got lots of catching up to do with my blog posts. Time to move on. 

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It is just before 2:00 p.m. and I'm sitting in my office at work, desperately in need of a nap.  I've just hit a brick wall.  My eyes hurt from the glare of fluorescent lights, my brain is buzzing from information overload.  I'm so distracted by all of the tasks ahead of me that I am not even aware of any of the sounds or smells around me.  It is so hard to be in the moment here.  And it is for this very reason that I have such a love/hate relationship with office days.

I hate the commute.  An hour each way in heavy traffic and turnpike construction.  Today I stopped for gas.  $3.65 a gallon.  Up ten cents from two days ago, up thirty cents from last week.  Sheesh.

I love the people I work with.  Good-hearted, hard-working, goal-oriented folks, who also know how to laugh and have fun while being productive.

I hate the morning rush, the disruption to my normal routine, the lack of time for journaling or meditation.

I love the collaboration.  I feel useful, grown-up, maybe even necessary when I'm here.

I hate the meeting, break, meeting, lunch, meeting pace of the day.  It is simply exhausting.  So much so that by the end of the last meeting I'm fried.  2:00 p.m. has come and gone.  It's time to power down the computer and head home.  I can finish my work day there.  

I have three office days this week.  I hope I survive.

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I can't believe it has been eleven days since my last post! I am so far behind in EVERYTHING!

I find that when the girls are all home my time is not my own. We had a lot of great family time over Thanksgiving week.  Time where I let go of all of my routines - logging food, meditation, commenting on blogs, writing blog posts, attention to scrapbooking (like gratitude pages) and online classes - all went by the wayside in favor of spending time with my girls. I don't regret it for a second, but I do miss the routine. So now I'm back and desperately trying to catch up with myself.

First up - I finally managed to record a Simple Moment for November:

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I'm joining in with Alexa's new monthly challenge - Simply a Moment. Here's September: