What a life!

Apr 14, 2009 by Naomi.

The time has come for me to slow down. The best way to do that is to cut off the coffee, at least stop lacing it with chocolate. I have my hands full making a schedule for the Swiss volunteers, Kathrin and Thomas, and am interupted to answer questions or make administrative decisions that somehow no one else dares to make. I had rushed to the airport at 1 to hug Senator Patty Murray at a special reception and went merrily on my way home to rake up stuff for the garbage. I missed a meeting Monday night because I was urged (and gave in) to go to a meeting for Making our “community a better place” when I should have been meeting with other writers to form a local chapter of PNWA. I should retire from there and have peace and tranquility at home. Too many ’shoulds.’

My calendar showed I had a Library Board meeting tonight at 7 pm. Well it was from 5 until 7 and I showed up after it was all over. So now I am back at Little Shiba making a movie of erecting our canvas teepee by the Swiss volunteers. A week ago there wasn’t even a pole up and now it stands in all its glory. Very authentic and without a wrinkle thanks to a friend from Richland Rod and Gun Club. I haven’t made a movie for months and have to learn everything again. Well the movie is not yet up so I haven’t quite learned it all. But it will happen, if I do not fall asleep first. It’s been a long day.

The light comes on before six am. Old Sol has been getting up earlier every day and so the darned star nudges me out of slumber to oatmeal and abolutions and household chores before I go off to the Refuge. By two thirty I am famished and then while my belly full of protein settles I fall asleep in my comfy recliner. Which renews my energy so I stay up to enjoy some TV or read a wonderful mystery. That doesn’t sound too taxing, does it? Certainly not a life on the fast track. But if my date book gets messed, I am going to have to slow down and think about it.

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