Blahs

I have a severe case of the blahs this week and decided to take myself in hand.  This morning I weeded the back garden - long leggy weeds on the bank have been goading me for weeks.  Sitting sipping my morning coffee in the sunshine I decided they would taunt me no longer.  Armed with small clippers I climbed the ornamental rocks and balancing precariously chopped at small trees and dinosaur weeds that tenaciously fought me back with thorns and branches.  I achieved some degree of success and then gave up.  It felt good to have achieved that much.  Later I baked chocolate chip cookies that stuck to the pan, so emerged as chocolate chip fragments.  I must buy some new cookie sheets if this is to be a regular event.  The mixing part was fun but scraping the fragments from the pan was disappointing.
  So, no high point yet today.
 Mike and Keisha skyped us and that was fun - it was good to see them after so many weeks.  The wedding seems like a very far-off event now.

Friendship and happiness

I have missed a few days of happiness inventory.  Some days are easier to find joy in than others.  I have been feeling very sleepy - or even lazy since my return from the July trips - I suppose I am happy to be able to sleep and catch up on mindless TV, both of which seem to wrap my brain in cotton wool - so counter productive too.
Yesterday was punctuated with social events which brought great happiness.  A coffee hour with my friend Tessa from my old writing group was pure pleasure.  It was good to hear all her stories about her family and to just feel her warm and gentle personality.  She does the heart good - an upbeat and purely natural person full of love.
I went to my friend Flo's after that, to return the baby equipment that she loaned us for Sophie's visit.  She is one of my oldest friends and also a gem of a person.  I am so happy to have such wonderful people in my life.  Even though I had asked her not to she had prepared a delicious lunch which was enough food for the whole day.  She is such a generous person and also full of quiet love.  Hugs to both of you and thanks for being my friends!