Home again, home again, jiggedy-jig
Sunday, June 7th, 2009 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joyfinderheroArrived home (New Jersey) Friday night about 11. That makes 16 hours travel on Friday plus 6 on Thursday. A good dinner and a comfortably plain hotel room didn't make the trip better, just less exhausting.
Since coming home I have:
Given Reiki to two new clients
Held a first meeting with folks who want to craft a custom ritual.
Unpacked everything except my multi-pocket travel vest, which still holds passports, money in two currencies, my Guatemala cellphone.
Washed two loads of laundry (one to go).
Cleaned up the kitchen, which had a backlog of stuff not yet put away.
Attended the first-ever block party on our street.
Opened a box of books ordered from Powell's last time I was home, including several for my granddaughters.
Read Dr. Seuss's book, You're Only Old Once. (If you have personal knowledge of the truth that old age ain't fer sissies, you may LOVE this book.)
Put the finishing touches on the parts of the Student Handbook that I have control over, and framed my questions for the parts I don't.
Cleaned out my shelves in the mudroom, and thrown away candy, cough drops, and chewing gum with date codes from 2004.
Opened all my mail from the past three weeks away.
Changed my outgoing voicemail message on two systems.
Checked in with the Hospice coordinator to say I'm available.
I have not yet:
Taken action on the three pieces of mail that require it.
Spoken a single word of Spanish since I got on the first plane Friday morning.
Pulled the loom out of its corner and out from under its dust-cover.
Phoned the five or six people I would most like to see or talk to this week.
Received a reply to several e-mails to grandchildren.
Eaten a meal with my housemates.
Tomorrow I must:
Take my car to the body shop for an estimate after I lent it to someone who misjudged the location of the garage door.
Phone my dentist to apologize for missing an appointment last week that I thought I had changed.
Phone my optometrist to see about updating my glasses as the quick replacement pair I got the day I left in March are just a little bit off.
Finish the Student Handbook and get it posted.
My energy waxes and wanes, but so far it feels like I'm more or less on schedule.
Since coming home I have:
Given Reiki to two new clients
Held a first meeting with folks who want to craft a custom ritual.
Unpacked everything except my multi-pocket travel vest, which still holds passports, money in two currencies, my Guatemala cellphone.
Washed two loads of laundry (one to go).
Cleaned up the kitchen, which had a backlog of stuff not yet put away.
Attended the first-ever block party on our street.
Opened a box of books ordered from Powell's last time I was home, including several for my granddaughters.
Read Dr. Seuss's book, You're Only Old Once. (If you have personal knowledge of the truth that old age ain't fer sissies, you may LOVE this book.)
Put the finishing touches on the parts of the Student Handbook that I have control over, and framed my questions for the parts I don't.
Cleaned out my shelves in the mudroom, and thrown away candy, cough drops, and chewing gum with date codes from 2004.
Opened all my mail from the past three weeks away.
Changed my outgoing voicemail message on two systems.
Checked in with the Hospice coordinator to say I'm available.
I have not yet:
Taken action on the three pieces of mail that require it.
Spoken a single word of Spanish since I got on the first plane Friday morning.
Pulled the loom out of its corner and out from under its dust-cover.
Phoned the five or six people I would most like to see or talk to this week.
Received a reply to several e-mails to grandchildren.
Eaten a meal with my housemates.
Tomorrow I must:
Take my car to the body shop for an estimate after I lent it to someone who misjudged the location of the garage door.
Phone my dentist to apologize for missing an appointment last week that I thought I had changed.
Phone my optometrist to see about updating my glasses as the quick replacement pair I got the day I left in March are just a little bit off.
Finish the Student Handbook and get it posted.
My energy waxes and wanes, but so far it feels like I'm more or less on schedule.