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Date: 10 July 2007 09:27:24
The alarm went off as usual at almost silly o'clock and there was the normal string of expletives thrown in my direction when I suggested that if a certain butt weren't moved that it would miss the bus. There was also the regular discussion on why a certain stick insect couldn't have the lunch I thought she could because in the style of the very hungry catipillar she had eaten everything she liked in the cupboard last night. However, unlike almost every day I can remember for the last x number of months there was an almost chilled atmosphere about it today.
The reason? I'm on leave for a couple of weeks and so I was able to kind of let it all drift over me knowing that it was really just her who would be late (and somehow she never normally is). I wouldn't be forced into doing my demented chicken walk to the station, propelled by the sounds of the Ramones, by either her hormonal appitites and rantings or my mid-life memory loss.
I am enjoying the chance to breathe. Actually what I'm being able to do is all the stuff I haven't been able to previously or have been forced into doing at times of the evening when it isn't practical. I have finally, just a couple of weeks before the deadline managed to get my Tax Credits renewed (31st July is the deadline if anybody else still has it in the pending pile), and that type of mundane but v. important thing. I have been able to sit and play, make corrections to and generally improve that document which is not to be mentioned and I have got to the library to pick up some junk reading. I am, as you can tell, generally pottering rather than rushing around.
Having read the blurb but not the book I think what I am discovering is what Rt Revd Stephen Cottrell is on about in Do Nothing to Change Your Life : Discovering what happens when you stop. I think that at some point over the summer I may try to get hold of the book to see if I am correct and more importantly how I might incorporate some of the ideas within it into my "normal" life.