Hola, my lovely peeps,
Happy Sunday’s end. 😊
I’m sad to see my day off over, and I have a bit of that Sunday-night foreboding that I seem to have every week at the prospect of the coming week’s work 😞 (perhaps it’s more of a discouraged resignation than a foreboding? Perhaps it’s both. It’s hard to find the proper words to describe my current emotional state), but I did make sure my day off today was much more of a day off than other Sundays: I didn’t take many calls. I haven’t done any scheduling for tomorrow. I played with some fire (got rid of the last 10 gallons of nasty gas from the 30 I’d drained out of fuel tanks a few weeks or so ago, and in the process, burned back the weeds in the garden area a bit and over by the “back parking area.” (accidentally burned the lower leaves on a few different trees without realizing it 😬. I thought I’d mostly managed to keep from doing that 😞).
I also went down to my little quiet spot on the Roaring River (irony, I know), and I enjoyed the scenery, the sound of the river, the rocks, the birds, the fish… That was nice and peaceful.
I took my GMC Terrain, since my Honda Civic isn’t registered yet, and since I sold my Accord and didn’t really want to drive my trucks that far. Anyway, it was beautiful over there. The car did fine, and it was worth the drive, even though I was only there a short time. No eagles this time, though. ☹️
What else? I also chatted with a friend of mine who runs a shop up in Cameron, Missouri, talking about our mutual desires to move from auto mechanics and car sales to nonprofit work. It was just sort of preliminary talk, and we’ll talk about it again in the future, I’m sure.
I think, for me, the next step is to keep working on the questionnaire that I started making with the help of some of you readers a few weeks ago. I also want to find someone who has experience with making movies/videos/tv shows, etc, and who also would be interested in joining my “Walk A Mile/A Mile In My Shoes” project (as a volunteer filmmaker). If any of you reading have any suggestions (including volunteering yourselves), I’d appreciate them. I’ve spent too much of my life trying to do things all myself, and I need to get connected with people who can do excellent work, and who are interested in working together with others of like mind to make the difference I think we can make for good in this world.
What else did I do today… I moved my two trucks, emptying out the back parking area and filling up the front one. I scraped the auction paint off the windows of my Civic, and I started and drove all my cars to keep them from sitting too long without moving.
I also started making a list of areas I want to improve upon in my own life. I’ll be adding those in to my daily routines shortly, as it’s time to make more positive changes.
I didn’t get much of anything done that was important on my to-do list, and that’s a bit hard to swallow, given that I have so many very important things that need to be done (and I’m not talking about things like getting a haircut or mowing the lawn (neither of which have been done yet either. Heck… I haven’t even showered in… I don’t know how long. 🙃).
I took a little time to read through my About Me page, since it’s been over a month since my last update, and I made some minor edits/updates to bring it more in line with where I’m at today. As I mentioned, though, I’m ready to make more changes in my life, so today’s updates will (hopefully) be out of date fairly soon as well.
Well, folks, it’s almost midnight, and I want to go to bed now, so that means it’s time for:
#1. I’m grateful for the people who, I rarely, if ever, see, but who pick up the trash on the road and roadside that has ended up there for whatever reason. It’s always a downer for me, especially when out in nature, to see trash. I picked up a couple of empty bags of chips out of the road today, and it got me thinking about how little trash I saw out there today and how some person or people whom I don’t know and didn’t see, took their time to pick it up, making my enjoyment of the outdoors even more enjoyable. Thank you, to you people who pick up trash and leave each place you visit better than you found it.
#2. I’m grateful to have the Terrain to drive now as my non-work vehicle. It did pretty well today. It has a few little issues (some of the buttons stick, likely from having sticky things spilled on them in the past, and the temperature selector is a bit out of it’s mind–changing from AC to heat depending on which notch you put it on while in the all-AC range 🙃. Odd. But I’m grateful to have the vehicle right now. It’s clean. It’s nice.
#3. I’m grateful that it’s been a long time since my health issues in that weird area have gotten bad enough to lay me out for a day or three. I’ve been working hard to try to keep myself sufficiently nourished and hydrated (although I still have massive room for improvement), and I’ve been okay for a while now. On the edge quite a bit, but I haven’t gone over the edge in weeks and weeks and weeks, maybe months, I think.
#4. I’m grateful that it was cooler today.
#5. I’m grateful that for all my playing with fire, I wasn’t burned today. I was a lot less careful than I should have been, and it was super stupid, and I’m grateful I didn’t pay for it with badly burned hands (hands dripping with gasoline while spraying more on fiery weeds. I’ve got to be smarter than I am sometimes. 😬
Well, folks. Thanks, very much, for reading. May you have a beautiful evening and peaceful, happy dreams. And may we all
Lift the World.
~ stephen
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