Today was a roller coaster ride, ups and downs but fun

Whoa! What a day and it's only half over. I am anxious to see how it ends. With a good night's sleep, I hope. Today has been a roller coaster ride. The ride started out slow. I had a wakeful night. If only I could turn off my brain like I turn off the lights when I go to bed. Every since I went through menopause I have been unable to turn off the constant chatter going on in my head. The chatter spins round and round in my brain like a top. When I first lay my head on the pillow my brain starts a monologue of the day's events fast and furious like a top when it is first released. After the first hour of constant chatter, like the top, the chatter slows down. Unfortunately like the top it does not stop. I may doze for a few minutes but my brain has not fully relaxed so like a toddler fighting to stay awake, my brain starts a full blown argument with itself on how things should or should not have been handled throughout the day. Thus goes my night. This banter goes on for two to three hours until exhaustion finally sits in. So when I got up this morning I was not fully rested and was moving in slow motion.

Good thing I am retired. However even retired people have appointments and responsibilites to take care of. This was trash pick up day. I had cleaned out my refrigerator the night before so the bag was full and heavy. As I tied the bag in a knot I saw something I did not like. "Oh shit!" Something I had discarded from the frig had leaked out of its container. The bag was too full and broke at the seams. I was already late for an appointment with my niece and now I had a sticky stinky mess to clean up. Oh well, it was going to be a great day just the same. I gave the mess a quick tidying up with a mental promise to myself to clean up better tonight.

I was looking forward to seeing what my niece was up to. Mary is quite creative and was molding a likeness of her daughter out of marzipan. Her daughter had recently graduated from high school. The figure will be placed on top of a cake for her graduation party. I was honored to be asked to assist in the molding of the figure. Mary's mother, my twin sister, actually should have been assisting her. Sue is quite good at making the human form in clay. However she lives 200 miles away so Mary was stuck with me. When I first arrived Mary was having problems getting a hand to look right. First the thumb was on the wrong side of the hand. That was easily fixed. Instead of a left hand, it became a right hand. Yet something was still wrong. After careful observation it was found that she had 6 fingers rather than 5. My time was limited so we were unable to finish the figure but when I left the marzipan figurine had a head with eys, nose and mouth. No hair yet but fully clothed with 5 fingers on each hand.

After helping my niece for an hour I was on my way to my next engagement. Off to Maxwell's in Belleville to meet for lunch with a great lady who I used to work with at the bank. Alice is 10 to 15 years older than me but no one would ever guess it. She is ageless. We have been friends for 20 years and she doesn't look a day older than the day we met. We get together every month for lunch and a few laughs. Lunch is usually 2 hours long and today was no different.

I had scheduled my workout around a 2 1/2 hour lunch. Since lunch was 2 hours I had 30 minutes to waste. I decided to browse in a quaint little gift shop I know of. The shop sells handmade objects made by women from third world countries all over the world. While in the shop I overheard two women talking about an event taking place in a field right outside of town. A very special event. This Sunday a group of people are meeting with drums, bells, maracas and any other musical instrument desired to welcome the spring equinox. It sounded like so much fun I had to inquire further. Just imagine, a group of free spirited women singing and dancing around a big open fire to welcome the spring equinox. It sounds like it came straight out of a medival novel. The event is open to all who are interested and free. This little girl is going to be there with my own drums and bells strung around my ankles.

Now I was excited. This was going to be so much fun and I even knew who to ask to go with me. Kathy, my workout partner would love this. I got directions to get to the Spring Equinox party and headed for the gym. I was so preocupied with my plans for the party that I didn't notice the water dripping out of my gym bag until I reached in the bag and pulled out sopping wet clothes. I had been running late this morning. I had filled my water bottle and quickly tossed it in my gym bag along with the workout clothes. In my rush I hadn't gotten the lid screwed on tight. The whole bottle of water had leaked out in the bag. No use in crying over split milk or as in this case, split water. Kathy and I had a good laugh. Since my workout clothes were too wet to wear and my street clothes were too warm for an aerobic class we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather we are having by going for a walk. Kathy and I are kindred spirits. The walk was perfect. It gave us plenty of time to come up with some scathingly brilliant ideas to keep us active. We discussed the Spring Equinox party. Kathy was ready for dancing and singing around a fire but nixed the nudity. We then discussed a name for our Mud Run team. We finally agreed on Gritty Grimey Grannies and friends.

My life is supercalifragilisticexbealidocious! How about yours??