It turned out to be one of those crazy busy weekends when you go from one thing to another with hardly any break in between. From a restless sleep because of restless cats, Saturday morning went from a hearty oatmeal breakfast to the bike trainer where I spent a little over four hours riding 80 miles/129 km. Yes, yes I was tired afterwards. And hungry. Did some cool down stretching then had lunch then spent time looking at my new thesaurus (more on that tomorrow), then did some other stuff that is kind of blurry because I was getting sleepy. So I had some coffee and a scone. Then I tried reading a little but my eyes were still getting droopy and may have closed once or twice. And before I knew it, Bookman was home from work and I think we might have watched a TV show on the computer after dinner and then crawled into bed and read.
Today there were chores and errands and writing holiday cards and playing with red wiggler worms in the worm bin and helping Bookman do organizing things in the kitchen. The day flew by! I was going to spend some time writing about climate change stuff to post about today but here it is after dinner and I have other things to get done before calling it a day.
A whirlwind of a weekend! I am glad these don’t happen very often I don’t think my sanity would stay around long without some time to do not much of anything.
Oh, and in case you are wondering about that essay site I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I am working on it and hope to launch it in January, a New Year’s endeavor. So if you have an essay or are thinking of writing one and are interested in sharing on the essay site, perhaps the holidays will afford you some time to write or provide some great essay material.
I hope you all had a good weekend!
Your weekend sound like mine…over before it began. Funny I was thinking of writing something on Climate Change just couple of hours ago. Glad to know the essay thing will be up in Jan….I am mulling over some ideas…lets see what I can make of it.
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Climate change giving us a bit of a stuffing this weekend with Storm Desmond (we’ve adopted the US custom of naming these things) bringing a lot of flooding with Cumbria quite devastated. It does not look a whole lot better this week although things might quieten a little later on. I am glad that the essay idea is still very much alive and am looking forward to it.
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Oh Ian, sorry to hear about the big storm and all the damage. It is an unfortunate fact of climate change that these things will become more common. What they used to call 100 year storms seems to happen every few years now. I hope the weather improves soon and people get the help they need to get their lives back together. Also, I am glad to know someone is still looking forward to the essay site!
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cirtnecce, I like your new little avatar 🙂 What a coincidence you were thinking of writing something about climate change too! Great minds? I’m glad someone is still interested in the essay site!
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Holidays giving us material for essays makes me think of Johnson’s On Drunkenness. I like the way it took a lot of years to compile the material for that essay.
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Jeanne, I don;t think I have read that particular Johnson essay. Of maybe I have and have just forgotten? I will have to go look it up! Holidays and family seem to be a rich time of year for writing topics for a variety of reasons 😀
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Oops, I mixed up Johnson with Montaigne. There’s a great essay in Montaigne entitled On Drunkenness.
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Glad to hear that because I was starting to worry about my ability to find things on the internet! I have read the Montaigne essay. It’s been a long time so the details have flown. I’ll have to pull the complete essays from my shelf and refresh my memory 🙂
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FOUR hours on a bike?? Crikey, I’d be lucky to last forty minutes. RESPECT, that woman!!
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Litlove, LOL, it is actually quite meditative and I get in that zone where time zooms by 🙂
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Hmm. This is what happens when you (me!) fall behind in blog reading–you miss too much! Essays? I am most intrigued by your new project. When did you write about it–must go back and find out the details. Sounds like a busy weekend–but busy in a good way–I know how that feels. They just fly by sometimes without allowing you to do all the things you want to! And Litlove is right–that is a good chunk of time. Too bad you can’t read while riding.
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Danielle, heh, you missed that huh? I mentioned around thanksgiving I think it was about maybe starting up a site that does essays only that would take contributions so it wasn’t just me. A chance for broader writing horizons 🙂 The time on the bike never really seems that long until I am done and then I realize what time it is and, oh where did the day go?
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I had a busy weekend too! I did a lot of Christmas shopping, and I acquired a tree for my parents and assistant-stage-managed putting the lights onto it, and I did a ton of writing and returned books to the library, and MANY OTHER ERRANDS. But I still feel like I have a thousand things to do.
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Jenny, wow, I’m tired just reading that list and thinking about what else you might have to do! I hope you get some relaxing time in there too!
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