��
|
"In this tempestuous, havoc-ridden world of ours, all real communication comes from the heart." | ||
- Etty Hillesum |
|||
June 22, 2006 |
|||
Luck be a table. |
|||
The lack of motivation is driving me nuts. I wrote half a journal entry yesterday and it was going to take too much energy to finish so I didn�t. I keep looking out the window at my pool, thinking, �It�d be nice to go for a swim.� Then I think, �Aaah, then I�d have to go get a towel, then I�d have to move the pool sweeper out of the pool, then afterwards I�d have to dry my hair again �� Seriously. That�s the lack of motivation. I�m too de-motivated to go sit by the pool. Sad! Our old kitchen table and chairs had seen about enough. It was still functional, but it was old (it was second-hand when I got it) and it was getting ugly. We had been talking about retiring it for a while. We have a spare kitchen table and chairs, from when we both were living in separate apartments before we got married. We had moved those to Blue�s office since we didn�t need them at home. We finally decided to make the swap � get rid of the old and bring over the other old (but slightly nicer). I put a notice on a local �stuff recycling� board, saying that anyone who wanted it could come get it. I had FIFTEEN responses in about ten minutes. (I accurately described the table and chairs as old and getting ugly � so I was surprised that so many people wanted them!) The first person who responded was a nice woman who said she could come get it the following afternoon � so I gave her the address and told her it was hers. She showed up and she was delighted with the table and chairs. �Now we won�t have to eat off of the kitchen counters!� She said in an excited voice to her little boy. Then she leaned over and whispered to me, �I lost almost everything in the divorce, and am just now starting to piece things back together.� Whoa. I forget. I forget that there are people who are eating off of their kitchen counters because they can�t afford to buy a table and chairs. I feel like a schmuck because I forget these things. That a lot of people don�t have the money to scrape together secondhand furniture. �Well, this is a good luck table for you, then.� I told her. �I got it from my sister after MY divorce when I lost custody of a lot of my stuff, and it has brought nothing but good luck. I�m glad you�re taking it.� �We can use some luck,� she said, as she began loading the chairs into her old, beat-up SUV. I wish I could�ve given her more. She was such a nice woman � and I am glad that she took the table and chairs. I wish it were nicer for her. I hope they really are good luck charms for her. Did I mention that the Milk of Magnesia worked? Did I mention that it worked too well, and all week I�ve been having the opposite problem? Figures, right? I suppose I�m glad that it�s at the one extreme as opposed to the other. I think. I mean, it�s a lot more convenient to be constipated � but a lot more comfortable when you�re not.
|
|||
� | |||
� |
Last Few Entries |
||
� |
Back? - November 10, 2007 |
||
� | |||
� More about Etty Hillesum, the woman in the photo.� |
|||
� | |||
|