Today in the car, driving to pick up the cleaners and deposit them at my father's I had a revelation about certain resentments I had been harbouring. I realise that I have tunnel vision and when I'm feeling badly used, I forget or choose to ignore all the nice things those same people did for me.
Anyway, today I woke up in time to take the dogs for a walk (or in the case of Sylvie and Stella, a run). So got some morning exercise, the dogs got some morning exercise...and I was in time to pick up Rose and Jane for once (rather than keeping them waiting; once I kept them waiting so long that Jane got a migraine).
So this year, I look at my bookshelf and despair. I have bought so many books because they were "good" and at some point I wanted to read them...this year I think I'll set myself targets for what to read during a particular month.
In the month of January for instance, I plan to read Joan Didion's White Album (I'm halfway through now), Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams, E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful, Milan Kundera's Art of the Novel, the biography of Flaubert (I have three biographies on hand - one on Flaubert, one on EF Schumacher and one on Charlotte Bronte - I do so want to know if she tried to have an affair with her French professor). I realise that my whole list consists of non-fiction. And I love fiction. Let's see...Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find. So there, that's my list. And as I complete them, I will write about the books here. And anything else I want to accomplish this year.
The kittens are creating a racket - they're hyper in the morning because I am here to watch them. I think they perform "naughty kitties" for my benefit. I need to clean up their litter. This morning I was careless, and Elliott ate their food up.
I need to give Elliott a bath, and spray the other two with Frontline. We are waging a war against ticks. They seem to have broken out with a glory suited for better things.
I posted off four letters today. Because yesterday was quite a productive day; four letters written, cancelled my Maxis broadband (I had upgraded to Maxis fibre months ago, and continued to pay for both because I was too lazy to cancel my broadband - but I will get one last bill from them), bought a box of mineral water (yippee! I feel rich when I have lots of drinking water on-site), made address tags for my letters (finally!), bought some pens (of course), some broccoli (I am feeding the dogs vegetables along with their meat these days; which reminds me, I have to take their food out of the freezer to defrost).
So you can see...it's off to a busy start.
I am glad that Rose and Jane are coming to clean this place today. It is in sore need of it.
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