It seems like whenever there are loads of good movies in the theaters, I have no time to go. Christmastime? HA! For many, there may be lots of vacation days and hours of leisure, but for me it just seems to get busier and busier until all I want to see is my couch. Now? Tangled is out, King's Speech isn't here yet, so no movie is budging me tonight.
It's not just movies. The days seem to be busy-busy-busy, but then the long dark hours of evening arrive and the clock slows to a crawl. I really long for the daylight and greenness of spring and summer, this year especially. Getting cable sort of helps, and sort of hurts. TV fills hours, yes, but they're rarely productive hours. And I do hate feeling like my schedule is dictated by when "my shows" come on. Hence all the DVDs around here. Hooray for the pause button.
They just showed sushi on TV. Arrgh, if only I didn't have loads of leftovers! It was pretty fun having steak this morning. Not my usual breakfast, but it was there, and I thought it sounded better for breakfast than the leftover pasta from Mom & Dad's visit last night. Just a tad less garlic.
Then the delight of time. Choice. Sure, sometimes there seems to be an overabundance of choice. But for so long I had no choice. Caretaker stress is some big-time stress. I sometimes think I'm still recovering from those months. So, time to watch a movie, read a book, listen to audiobooks, or just drive around town a bit... I savor it. My mind goes a million miles a minute, and time to just think it all through! Quite the blessing, really. There are years of memories to recall. Times when I realize I'm scrunching up my face and hunching my shoulders, and I just consciously need to relax. Doing that, muscle by muscle, is a serious effort sometimes, but it's so good when I get it to work. Like I'm letting go of junk I don't need. Putting down a burden.
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