Vacation - Day 5

"According to my reading of the astrological omens, the next 12 months will be a time when you will have more power than usual to turn your dreams into realities. You'll have extra skill at translating your ideals into practical action. To help make sure you capitalize on this potential, I suggest you adopt this Latin phrase as your motto: a posse ad esse. It means "from being possible to being actual." So why not simply make your motto "from being possible to being actual"? Why bother with the Latin version? Because I think your motto should be exotic and mysterious -- a kind of magical incantation."

"Take your pleasures where you find them and don't worry that some of those you live and work with don't seem able to get much joy out of life. You can't change their outlook for them - only they can do that."

Thank god for the library!  Checking email, watching "The Batchelorette" episode from Monday night online, collecting my thoughts as I head into "vacation part 2".  Have company coming up from NC tomorrow.  That will make me set the bar a bit higher than reading another book as my daily activity.  I have read Wharton, finished a Hemingway, and am half way through a Cather.  Have 10 more days...hope I have enough books. Going to my friend's for dinner again tonight.  She came down for a "cocktail" on the dock last night before she headed up to make dinner for her husband.  I am glad he likes me.  I am thinking that his wife's routine is a bit different with me here.  They had me up for dinner on Sunday, we went to a local restaurant's $5 Hamburger night on Monday; dinner invite for tonight...they are both probably happy I have company coming.  I am trying to figure out how to approach the next 4 days.  Stick around the cottage, road trips, ?.  NASCAR race up this way will make life interesting on the highways and by-ways.

Not working feels so foreign.  I know I have gone on vacation before, but my memory bank on that approach to life is empty.  I probably "overplayed" by going from no vacation for two years at least to trying to pull off two weeks.  But I know there is no coincidence in my life - so I will go with that thought.

My swimmers' ear is taking up a lot of my thinking.  Wonder if I will ever be able to put my head under water again?  Vinegar is my wonder drug for that ailment.  Things seem to be staying unclogged, but I don't want to chance it while on vacation and it is probably not a bad approach to take at the town pool with the lively bacteria count I am thinking is in there...

Also thinking about not getting a paycheck for a bit.  Not back on any one's payroll until August 1 and not on two payrolls until August 19.  Going from a full time and two part times to -0-.  Again my sense of balance is a bit off - sort of an understatement.  Just like vacation plan, my work plan made lots of sense in my mind when it was in the formulation stage.  Now that it is in the reality stage - I am pushing my limits a bit.  But what else is new.

Plans are being made for my mother's memorial service at the end of the month.  I have separated myself from that.  Not out of character for me, but still a reality check for me.

Well, by the church bells at the church across the street from the library it is between 11 bells and 12 bells.  The rain is stopping, but not sure how clear it will be today.  It is probably good news that it has not been hot and sunny.  I am already looking like the over-tanned lady as it is.

Have a good Wednesday.  (Very lucky to be able to identify the day of the week...)