Well Christmas has come and gone! I do hope you enjoyed family and friends… and the food. Oh my! For me it was from the lips to the hips and I’m still craving homemade candy and chocolate almond toffee. To start the New Year right, I have to lose at least 10 pounds. I shall start tomorrow!
And now we are left to kick-start a brand new year. The children are back to school and people are back to work or, in the case of those retired, are getting back into the normal routine of things again. Generally I am an optimistic person and I do love mornings – which often grates on the nerves of those who don’t. But this morning did not start off quite right. I should have seen the signs. My sister texted to learn the latest update on the ferry crossing. They missed it. I ran out of coffee filters. The laundry got stuck in the shoot. The light bulb broke. I dropped my ipad – AGAIN! Perhaps I got out of bed on the wrong side.
The early morning was spent chipping away at some ice in the driveway. It was windy and freezing outside. Why in the world would our ancestors have settled in this place? Did they not realize it would be so cold in the winter? Did they not experience the snow storms and the long, drawn out months before spring showed itself?
What were they thinking?
After 20 minutes I was still only partly finished. The shovel took to wing and blew up over the snow bank and across the garden. Off I went, slipping and dancing like I was first class figure skater, landing, not so graciously, on my pride. Feeling a bit discouraged I took out the snowblower to do some clean up. On a positive note – thank heavens I have a snowblower! After a slow, sputtering, start it revved into action and then promptly ran out of gas. Did I mention how cold and windy it was? Well, I bravely filled the darned thing spilling a good part of it over my brand new mitts. Enough! I went to visit my Aunt for an hour or so and then back home for lunch.
It was then that I got the phone call
This is Mary calling from Statistic Canada. Your household has been selected to participate in our Canadian Community Health Survey
Actually, it was rather pleasant speaking with Mary and I kept thinking
I kind of like this survey. Exciting way to start my week – a Stats Can survey.
Beulah, you really need to get a life!
Forty-five minutes later after completing the endless ream of questions, Mary and I chatted for a minute or so – about the weather; about how she’d just completed the survey with a 90 year old woman; about how she loved her job. I was thinking we could probably be good friends.
All jokes aside, I was feeling pretty darned good about my life. No coffee filters, a broken light bulb, stuck laundry, spilled gas – minor things really. Answering those questions made me realize I’m really very lucky … to be in good health, to have a warm home, to have food for the table – without having to make choices one against the other.
Thank you, Mary!
I have so many reasons to continue to be optimistic!
I have so many reasons to continue to be a morning person!
I shall start tomorrow!
