Post #3313: A rainy day

This photo is proof that we have not had a frost at our place yet this winter. Even weirder than a hydrangea with colour on it in January, is the fact that the old potato patch has sent up their green tops where we missed digging out a couple of potatoes. To say it’s been a warm winter thus far would be an understatement. It’s been wet as hell, but it has not dipped below zero once where I live.

Of course, being still winter, that could change sooner rather than later. Last year we had a similar pattern, only for 2 feet of snow to show up after the turn of the year. It’s not unusual to get a long autumn-wet pattern, with a very short actual winter here.

I’ve returned to work after a 2 week break, and it occurs to me that when I’m not working for money – I spend almost no time at all in front of a computer monitor. I definitely use my phone (too much) and occasionally break out the laptop to write – but this sitting at a machine 8 hours a day is entirely unnatural to how I spend my time when not forced to sit in once place all day long. I am restless and unsatisfied. I want to take my laptop to the coffeeshop and work there instead. Or even better, get back to the books I started reading over the holidays that are beckoning to me now. Finish sewing the pants I started last summer? Tidy up my studio? Clean out the hallway closet? All of these things seem like a better use of my time than the spreadsheet in front of me.

I feel like these next ten months is going to be a continual comparison of what I could be doing instead of working, of what I will be doing when I finally finish working this desk job for good. I’m not a very good example of living in the present that way, and I’ll need to get more focused if I’m going to get everything achieved that I want to before I’m done.