These last couple of weeks have been a bit odd. Strange events with strange results. I have tried to think these things into an organized order, but I don't think I can. Mostly because there is no order. Shoot, they don't even have a common denominator, except that they are events in my life.
First off, not working was difficult to get used to. Let me begin by saying I like order and schedules. There, I put it out there. I am not like my middle sister, who lives as the winds blow. Nor am I like my older sister who labors through emotions with physical labor. I, however, need to do something and have to find it to do it.
I was able to accomplish all my desires after quitting my job. My kitchen is very organized, I have taken over the kitchen, again. The fridge is clean, as is behind it. That started with a bad smell in the freezer and bad tasting ice. After spending an entire day clearing and cleaning, the smell would not go away. I spoke to the appliance repair vendor I knew and he told me it was the filter. I turned off he ice maker, and the smell began to wane, a bit. I can't change the filter, it was installed 20 years ago when we bought the fridge, by The Husband. So he didn't believe the problem was the filter, still believing the smell was from some food that went into the vent of the freezer and needs to just dry up and get over the smell. After my cleaning, and whining, he finally went and got a new filter and Whala!! The smell was gone and the ice tastes good again. But the fridge is really, really clean now.
I took the opportunity to revert to a former life style where I menu meals and shop accordingly. You see, I have had a terrible time with meals since the Girl started college. Our eating times changed dramatically and cooking became a stressful thing. We all adapted to a weird eating style. When the Husband worked in the evenings, it was easy to eat light at night with fridge grazing. When he changed his schedule, it was a stressful event to plan dinner. I wouldn't really know what I had and really had nothing to go with "that" anyway, so much of the time I would drop by the store and pick up stuff to make. The fridge just became filled with old things and it just wasn't getting cleaned out as often as it should. I hated it. Now, it's clean so menu shopping is in order. It is so much easier to see a menu for the week, shop for it and know I have all I need and when the week is over, the fridge is easy to clean. It's been a pleasure to again see the kitchen in order, as well as lessening my stress.
The fig tree is gone, it made me sad. It was the last piece of my valley childhood. I will not replace it. I spent way too much time watering it, talking nice to it, talking not nice to it, and now it is just gone. I did shed a few tears when the trash man came and dumped it in the back of the truck.
One of the things I wanted to do with my new time was read. It has been a while since I sat down for any amount of time to read a book. I began a new book and poured myself into it and then I was done and had the worst time with eye strain. It was time to get my eyes checked. Our eye doc had just called and told us they were closing the local office and we were being transferred to a new office up the road about 30 mins away. Nah, don't think I want to go that far, so I looked for one more local, like 5 mins. I found one and made the appointment. I have spent so much time cleaning my glasses that it drove me nuts!I never was able to see print well, and it was actually double vision. I finally pulled out my older pair of glasses an wore them. While the prescription wasn't correct, I could actually see better!
By the time I got to the new dr. office, I could see that my other pair had film on them, that I specifically asked to NOT have, and that sort of made me mad. I sent them back 3 times because I couldn't see out of them. I finally gave up after the third time. Stupid me! So I took them with me to the new dr. office and they found the lenses to be defective as well as the film. I now have new glasses I can read with. I am struggling with the previous dr. office and the staff. Trying to decide how I want to handle this. But I can read!
And reading is my next weird thing. I heard that a particular Big Red Book ministry head stepped down, again, for sexual misconduct. I read the first article and then another, followed by many more. It was just depressing. It was like a train wreck, can't look away, don't want to look at more, can't stop reading, reading. Of course, this lead to Vision Forum. Not being in the homeschool circle any longer, I was blindsided by the closing of this ministry. I never purchased anything from them, I just didn't believe that they and the Big Red Book ministries had the right Biblical theology, and quite honestly, was glad that they wouldn't continue with leading others down the guilt path, it is hard to see such big men fall within the homeschool community, that we have all been aligned with by association of being a homeschooling family, and the affects to non-christian homeschool families. Just a division that is difficult to hurdle. Hopefully, there are lots of grace filled families ready to help those who were so steeped in the philosophy of Doug Phillips and Bill Gothard. I can't think of one family that hasn't been affected by this in my homeschool days. Some, like me, didn't go past the first seminar, but some were so attached to ATI that their personal label was "ATI family Joe Schmo " preceded their entrance where ever they went.
I will need to start a part 2 to "Catching up" when my fingers are more rested. You see, there is more...always more.
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