Loving the rain

I'm opening this blog post having absolutely no idea what I'm going to blog about.
It's a rainy afternoon that is so nice and desperately needed of rain.  About the only thing I need to leave the house for today is fancy flavored coffee for the machine.  I never thought I would like coffee, but it turns out, anything tastes good if you add enough chocolate.
Yum....

Our house is so quiet.  You can hear the rain on the tin roof and I have all the lamps on so it looks like a nice cozy day.
I have my little desk in one corner of the living room and my husband has his little desk about 20 feet away in the office.
We are both doing our daily computer catch up.  My desk is one that was in my room when I was a child.  I remember at one point my mom had a pink layered ruffle around the desk that went all the way to the floor.  I loved that.  Kinda wish I still had it that way.
After that, my mom used it as a sewing table and then I used it as a sewing table.  I think I am one of those people who loves simple things because they have stories attached to them.  I love the stories.

The other day I was thinking about how I asked my dad if he would put some trim on a door we have as the kitchen door to this house.  He and I talked about what would look good and he took the door to his house to work on it.  He added a piece of wood under the window part of the door and then added little squares under that.  It matched the trim around the built in pantry in the kitchen.  When my dad was done, he hung the door and showed me his work that he was so proud of.  I looked at it and said it looked great but it was too perfect and didn't match the house.  I then picked up a hammer and started beating on the poor piece of trim.  Afterwards, I stepped back and looked at my work and said, "perfect!".  Dad looked at me like I was a nut and then laughed. 
I don't like perfect.  I like things to look like they have a story to tell.
Every time my dad comes to the house for a visit, he remembers something he did on the house and talks about it with pride.
That makes him feel good and makes me feel good. 

Yesterday I went online looking at articles on healthy foods for healing the body.  I am a woman on a mission.
My rheumatologist visit last week sent me home with some scary medication and I haven't decided if I want to take it or not.
So I'm going to let it sit in that little bottle until I make up my mind.  Until then, I'm going to keep trying to feel better naturally.
I'm sure my husbands head is about to explode with all the information I keep reading about and sharing with him while he is trying to keep his eyes open.  "oh....honey...here...put some cinnamon and clove in your coffee because it's good for you and it tastes like Christmas!"  LOL!

Not sure what I will do today.  I feel like I need to find something fun to work on. 
We have the new "Avengers" movie we can watch and we started watching all the old "X-files" on Netflix.
A couple of days ago we watched the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin and Toy Story Halloween specials.
Bruce and I were all excited.  I wish the kids got as excited about it as we do.  Guess it's a generational thing.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. 
Hugs
shannon


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