11:27am Writing Practice 38° Boise
I got up earlier by 45 minutes today but I have some tax work to do when I sat down here and then checked e-mails and then got on Facebook and now I'm just getting to my writing. My morning routine has expanded to include 5 minutes of SuperBrain Yoga and leg lift/twists. I have about an hour of things I do when I first get up before I ever get my coffee and sit down here. And then if anything else intrudes, it puts me that much more behind. But the tax piles are still all over the dining room table and I'm ready to get that all dealt with. I changed my tax appointment to tomorrow at 3:30 and I have my gym date at 2:30 today but I'll bet I can get those receipts all added and logged before the gym today and that will be such a relief! Just getting them all organized into piles was huge and I did that on Sunday. Back in the old days when I was married, I could never set things out like this and then leave them for days on end. I wonder why I can stand it now?
Today is Mark's birthday --- 55 years old. I drive out there yesterday and brought him scratchers and lotto tickets for the drawing later today. How fun it would be if he won something big right now! RubyAnn is leaving for 3 months to go visiting, including flying to London. Mark seems to be pretty happy about that --- he suggested a trip for he and I to Portland to see Kassy and the new baby when she arrives. Then maybe a few days at the Oregon Coast. He wants to fly over and I'll rent a car. Then we'll need a motel near Kassy and then a room at the coast. Hard to say how much a trip like that will cost. I'll have to check into it later but right now, I don't care. If Mark wants to go on a trip with me, I'm going! It might be our last trip together and I wouldn't miss it for the world.
I sure am glad I did that yesterday. I haven't really talked to him in a year. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Gerald's memorial service in Baker and that's the last time I spent any time with Mark at all. I've left him alone all year except for the once a month ASEA delivery to Smokey's.
After seeing Mark, I went to the library downtown and asked for help with my iPad mini. I meet a librarian named Kate and sat with her at her desk area for two hours while we did all sorts of things on my mini. We got it all set up, apps installed and I now know how to access everything I need. This morning I even fixed up this blog page on the mini so that I can write with it when I'm out and about. I came home and got the mini charged and the keyboard all set and now I can use it everywhere I go if I want to. I can take it with me on trips and leave the laptop at home.
The mini has a camera and I installed that Waterlouge app that I've been hankering for and played with that last night while sitting with Kate. I really loved being there with her, playing with our computers, telling stories and sharing resources. What a lovely and personable girl she is. I want to adopt her!
Also, I had another AoK (Art of Kindness) experience yesterday that I shared on my FB wall and so many people jumped in on it and told their stories too, it occurs to me that this is the perfect time for this project to resurface, while we're in the middle of this hateful election year with Trump. What a great way to counteract his energy with the energy of small kindnesses that we all talk about and share daily. It's perfect and I'm so happy to participate in this right now. Plus, even the initials, AOK, mean is like a double thumbs up! I'm feeling pretty good about the whole thing today. Time to dust off the kindness book idea and see if it wants to play now. All these years later, after those experiences changed my life, fundamentally changed who I am, now might be perfect timing to spring it on the world and help others change. I'll continue to study suicide and write memoir but I'm also open to ideas and experiences with strangers and I'm willing to write them down. I may start a blog for the very purpose .... OK, I just created a blogspot for The Art of Kindness and checked into a domain name for artofkindnessbook.com and it's available, but I didn't buy it yet. I'm famous for buying domain names and then not using them. That can wait for right now. I'll get the blog set up and see if it wants to go somewhere.
OK, I'm hungry. Time to get off here and go eat and then add those tax receipts. Tomorrow the tax issue will be taken care of. Yaaaay!
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