Well...taking a vacation during a break is kind of an odd experience. It was still vacationee, but without needing the first 3 days to relax and the last 2 days to push back into a work psyche!
I kept momentum with some things: journaling and reading -
* Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (cried 3 times); *Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott (laugh out loud funny and thoughtful); *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & through the Looking Glass (who knew that Lewis Carrol was probably a pedophile, given the naked photos who took of little girls!); finished *The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Copper (I was Hawkeye in another life); started *Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson "My Shadow" and "Block City" are two favorite poems of his).
And I lost momentum with the diet (all five pounds came back!), long walks and not watching TV on Mondays, Weds and Thursdays.
But! I did do a puzzle, which is one of my mostest favoritest things to do when on vacation! Unfortunately, I received no help, so I had to bring it home and finish it while watching the MDA Telethon (isn't Jerry Lewis amazing!). It was then that it occurred to me that I could start a business: Puzzle Packers! It takes some talent (if I do say so myself) to pack a puzzle up so that the part you finished (3/4ths) travels 275 miles without disintegrating! I picked a picture of the desert, in memory of Phoenix!
And then there was sunrise over the beach! Say no more....
2 comments:
Just wanted to update you on a book related to your walk in the cemetery - I just finished "sex Wars" by Marge Piercy (who used to be my most favorite author, but I think she's fallen a bit). At any rate, this book is a really interesting novelization of the intertwined lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull and that repressed and repressive Anthony Comstock, who was responsible for all those horrible anti-women, anti-sexuality, anti-birthcontrol laws in New York City. What made me think you might be interested was your reference to Reverend Beecher buried in that cemetery, who apparently was quite the man about town.
On another note - I hate to tell you this, but there's already a "puzzle packer" of sorts. Michael and Yani got this flat flexible thing that you work the puzzle on, and when you're done for the time being, you roll it up and all the pieces stay in place until you unroll it when you're ready to work on it again. Oh well, another million down the tubes...
T.
Ah....but I'm talking about puzzle packing by hand...personal touch...and individual who cares about your puzzle and will hand deliver it and set it up for you...this service is for those who don't want high-tech or fancy schmancy stuff!
Please, God! I thought it was a great career move for me - there must be a market for this service somewhere!
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