Friday, June 17, 2011

What I did today (a paraphrase of an earlier email)

Woke up late. Ate breakfast. Read Kelly's The Great Mortality. Napped. Woke up. Ate lunch. Texted Abilene Rob to see how his NCLEX went and got encouraging news. Napped again, this time under a pile of cats. Considered doing laundry, cleaning the bathroom, buying a new Weed-Eater (the last one caught fire the last time I used it), or dyeing my eyelashes. Rejected all options as being too labor-intensive. Started Jeffrey Steingarten's It Must Have Been Something I Ate. Let Max in out of the heat. Rubbed his belleh. Went out and picked up a six-pack, and on the way in to the house, picked a tomato off the plant in the front beds. It's now ripening on the windowsill.

What I most emphatically did not do today:

Answer phone calls, frantic or otherwise, from any hospital, clinic, coworker, or doctor. Get tested for anything. Have anything plastic refitted. Slide into any tubes, magnetized or otherwise. Suction, rinse, or wipe snot out of my enlarged oral cavity. Think about what I could or could not eat. Be exposed, therapeutically or not, to radioactivity. Think about having cancer. Take pain medications. Research anything. Worry about whether I'll have enough energy tomorrow or the next day to do what I want to do.

In short, it was a beautiful, ordinary, lazy golden day: the first one I've had since August of last year. Even if things go to shit tomorrow, I'm going to treasure this twenty-four hour period. Thank God for ordinary days.

8 comments:

Silliyak said...

I'm still trying to get the image of landing lights out of my mind.... WV "iniseent"

bobbie said...

Sounds perfect to me ~ ENJOY!!!

Anonymous said...

Good for you,sound like a perfect day and one you well deserve.

birdergirl said...

This kind of day is what I call a "good for the soul" day. Glad you enjoyed your day and hope you have many more!

rebekah said...

One of my favorite sayings is "Normal is good".

Glad you had a normal day!

messymimi said...

May you have many more. With the amount of work you do, you deserve them.

terri c said...

WONDERFUL!!!!!! May many such days follow!

Cartoon Characters said...

and on this ordinary day, you have to look at something a little "extraordinary"!

http://youtu.be/nGeKSiCQkPw

- since you love dogs! :)
This is guaranteed to make you laugh.