A Real Entry

I was trying to write an entry a few minutes ago and I accidentally saved it before I had written anything… so then I tried to delete it and very weird things happened!

Anyway, this  is the real entry.!

I am very pleased with myself today. I got up at my usual time and did some solid studying because tomorrow, we have a test on relationship words and on possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns.

Then I went to town and got a six-and-a-half foot artificial tree with lights. I thought since we were having a new tree I would get some new ornaments so I did that. The only bad part of this trip was waiting in line for 45 minutes! However, I got some good karma by letting the young man behind me who had only three small things go in front of my stuffed to the brim cart!

The really good thing about all this is that I made it home, unloaded the car, put stuff away, sat and talked to Fred for a while, and I am not wiped out! When I have finished here, I will go back to studying {which for me means endless writing of what I want to learn.}

Now, what makes me feel so pleased that I still have some energy left is that at one time, I was able to count on an endless supply of energy. I was a single mother who, for a time was doing two jobs. I sometimes got pretty tired but my mantra back then was  "If it needs to be done, it will get done." As I have gotten older, I have been a little taken aback to find that a trip to a store often leaves me wiped out for the day. However, I have been accepting of this and not beating myself up over it. Once or twice, I have even felt as if I needed a nap after class in the morning and I haven’t been beating myself up over that, either. {Fred is a great example here. Ever since I have known him, he has been the King of Power Naps. He can sleep for 15 minutes and be up ready to go!} So, it is nice to feel –however briefly–as I did when I was twenty years younger!

So, I am off to do some studying. This evening, I will watch "Firefly" on my laptop. {We have no television and will have none until Wednesday when Dish Network are sending a tech to sort this out.} I watched four episodes of "Firefly" last night and really enjoyed it. I particularly enjoyed "Out of Gas" where the story is told through a very clever use of flashbacks and color to indicate what time period the flashbacks are in. If I run out of "Firefly" episodes, I also have the movie "Serenity" to watch again. Then, tomorrow I will get up early, do some more studying to make sure I remember all this stuff before I go off to class….

Until later….