8:30 a.m.
Work - just arrived.
Today is going to be one of "those" days. I have to leave work at 1:00 p.m. to make a doctor's appointment, one in a series of three to take place from now to next Tuesday.
I am the type of person that likes to stay put once arriving at their destination. I very much dislike leaving work to do errands, appointments, or even shop for office supplies. Consequently, these next few appointments totally disrupt my daily routine.
I am not sure what kind of entry will appear tonight. I have a suspicion that what you see right now is what you are going to get. Instead of working on the listserve last night I slept. Foolishly, I ate my supper early (8:00 p.m., we usually eat around 9:00 p.m.) and then lay down on my bed to read the administrator's instructions (for the listserve). It couldn't have been more than 15 minutes and I was gone to night-night land.
I have, since childhood, been terribly frustrated with the limitations placed upon my Spirit by being human. As much as I love to sleep, I find it to be a terrible waste of time. Eating--though I love it, also causes wasted time. It precipitates the biological function of waste elimination. As a child, I desperately hated to take the time to use the "little girl's" room. It was usually a rude interruption to whatever "important" task that was at hand. No, I was not 15 by the time I was potty trained! I just spent many a minute in the privacy of the "privy" thinking how wasteful and inefficient the human body was.
As I have grown older, I still tend to amass more things to do in one day than can be accomplished. Old habits are hard to break, I guess. And being "delicate" in physical health now, due to the Fibromyalgia and all the other associated irritations my body has visited upon me, I find that I have more "down" time then up. Why couldn't God have created a 30 hour day and the human being capable of running for 28 of those hours! I could easily get all the food, hygiene and sleep I need in those two hours and have the rest for activities I enjoy.
I don't know what started the above tirade about human functioning but, I just re-read it and thought: "I can't believe I am talking about potty habits. This journal is becoming much more warped as time goes along."
Of course the whole idea of the journal was to share the "me" that I am--so the "warped" entry stays!
My dearest husband has called me 4 times in the last 10 minutes. You see, he has finally decided he want to learn HTML editing. Guess who is "teaching" him.
The one good thing about this situation is that I will impart the knowledge I have acquired over the recent past, and he will then advance far beyond anything that I would have dreamed of doing. I tend to learn just enough to allow me to perform the task at hand and any additional knowledge tends to then be acquired haphazardly and slowly from there. Keith, on the other hand is a sponge. Once he starts to learn something, he will be an expert by the time he is done.
The payoff for tutoring him is great. Look for wild and wonderful things to happen to this site in the future. After Keith is up and running, I will be learning techniques I never even imagined. For instance, his big goal is to learn how to incorporate video and movies into a web page. Who knows? You may tune in one night to read an entry and find "CNN News" playing in a small window at the top of the screen. Maybe the Weather Channel? Who knows. It will be fun to see what happens.
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