Come on boots!

While this is not a resolution because I detest the superficial pick one day of the year to start a good habit that you should have started months and maybe years ago, this is a challenge to myself: see if you can keep writing every day to let the beast out of the tips of the fingers and express yourself. It's reestablishing a habit I have held off and on since grade 3--and one I am denying myself. How silly and wasteful!!
This writing was interrupted by the mailman who brought me two packages with reading materials from friends. THANKS Richard! THANKS Kay! Wow. Thank you so much for thinking of me and sharing. I have more reading material next to me and as all bookworms know...there is no such thing as too much! And I certainly should mention also in the same mail pile was my AARP membership renewal and one for AAA Travel Insurance. Love being this age! I was hoping for the "skin" to cover and protect my Kindle, but not yet. Soon, I hope. I feel like I am carrying a heist of gold in my purse unprotected. I am so careful and want to not worry about it. But if this is my only worry, I honestly have none.
Looking out the upper door window where I get my first glances of the new day..It's filled completely with gray skies like a miserable about it wet blanket from sky to ground. It's freezing out and random whirls of sleet just accent the outdoor misery. But I will be walking out in it today. I told myself it will be for at least one full block. It might be more. I must keep moving. I do housework, chores, run errands for the family and ourselves and then sit. I hate to sit. There must be an alternative to sitting but its a stretch when you are a bookworm. Happiness is a fascinating book, a comfortable place to read and quiet. But I will be walking today.
Yesterday couldn't have been a larger waste of time, if I had designed it myself. I had to set up files with the student financial people; wired them money on Monday to expedite the setting up of the files; I called Tuesday to give the confirmation number--was given the backhanded brush off by a woman in a hurry who didn't bother to write down said numbers to move the paperwork along. Called four times Friday and restated to three staff what I told the off handed woman on Tuesday.
In addition to that portion of my Friday, I spent two parts of the day with my lovely Russian "case worker" who is helping me with other parts of the school finances. Lots of redoing of the obvious, in the end she had in her hand the same identical information that I gave her at 830 in the morning-but she had accomplished it herself. I adore her happy demeanor and just plan on her acute Adult Attention Disorder to be in charge; she punches keys, scurries from one document to another and she does it all in the name of being of service. There is nothing I can say except Thank Her for her heart. She is making my life so much better so there is nothing else to say.
Today, it will be a cooking of a small turkey and taking a walk. Nothing else on this agenda.
EXCEPT: Oh Richard! Look at Books du jour! I accepted your challenge and they are updated!
Daughter is telling me to start reblonding my hair. I am seriously reconsidering it! Will let you know.
Until then...to my oldest daughter who is making Ikea shelves with her Xmas electric drill...I am in awe!
TTFN