How much do I love My Gentle Readers? I didn’t get enough sleep last night and now I’m fighting to stay awake. Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance is beckoning me on Netflix. But I can’t sleep or get immersed in Dark Crystal until I blog.
Right after I wrote that sentence I fell asleep. Sometimes the body gets its own way.
Yesterday I spent another day at Allison and Joe’s filing their CDs. This was my third day and I finished. God took six to create the world, I win. This acted like therapy for me. It isn’t mindless but it is done on autopilot. I could talk and think while doing it. I spend most of my time alone so It felt good to spend time with friends even though they were working the whole time I was there. Allison was running her business, Experience Sicily: Tours of Sicily and Customized Sicily Travel . As part of her service she helps people with their genealogy and gives them tours of their family history. She subcontracted the genealogy to Joe, her husband. I had a lot of fun just listening to them discuss it and sometimes chiming in with what I thought might be helpful or some comic relief. I also did some math. I have to have some friends that would be interested in a tour like that. Strangely I wouldn’t. It’s sort of fun finding out some things about my family history but I have no interest in going to the shtetls or discovering long lost relatives. Of course as we are Jewish and the holocaust happens, those that were left in the old country are gone.
For lunch Joe and I went to Bennies a middle eastern restaurant in their neighborhood. I had pistachio encrusted chicken. That was right up my alley. I tried something new from Starbucks cold brew iced coffee with cold foam. I had no idea what it would be like. It was great. I highly recommend it.
Today I had therapy. The excitement was also coffee related. I earned a free beverage from Dunkin’ Donuts. I have the app. I tried something new, an iced signature latte with Cocoa Mocha and whipped cream. That was amazing. You get to customize how much ice you get so I chose less, which gave me more latte.
They changed the train schedule by just a few minutes but that means that I just make the train coming home rather than just missing it. Today my bus was late so I thought I’d miss the train, but the train was even latter. This change in schedule means I get home a half an hour faster.
I spent a lot more time talking to friends this past week than I usually do. That’s very good for my mental health. I’m prone to loneliness. This week I didn’t have to fight it. Instead I got to appreciate my time alone as I need that too. Even though I was sleep deprived I got more reading it. I lost many elements of my life that last seven years, it’s great to get one back. I’ve always self-identified as a reader. I went years when I had vision problems and no home without reading, movies, live sports, and even TV. I’m now engaging in all of them regularly. I have a regular radio gig on Folk Music Notebook. I have great friends. It’s important to remind myself of these things. Now I have to report back to my therapist that I said that.
Now to make dinner and start watching Dark Crystal. Perhaps it’ a good thing I have no plans this weekend. That’s a much better outlook than feeling bad about spending the holiday weekend alone.
Wise Madness 