Friday, April 29, 2005
Waiting patiently for spring
Well, here it is, the second to the last day of April. So today we woke up to a nice wet heavy snowfall. As a resident of the high dry plains, I'm only allowed to complain if I finish up my tirade with the phrase, "Oh, well, we can use the moisture." So consider it said.
I've been feeling grumpy and peeved for a while now, which is partly why I haven't posted to LJ much. Not that I don't think people ought to use LJ to vent, it's just that it's not me. Heck, maybe that's where I'm going wrong, maybe I should try it!
I limped out to some garage sales this morning, and wished I had my camera, because all the tiny leaves and lilac blooms and flowers being weighted down by snow made an excellent visual metaphor for how I've been feeling lately. Something tenatively cheerful starts to come out and WHOMP! Buried in snow without warning.
It's kind of a combination of things, I guess. The more or less continual pain and slowed-down mobility from my knees doesn't help. Mike's had some good days, but also some awful days, and that has the same effect on me, kind of a grinding down, when will it end, will it get worse before it gets better feeling. And I've been happy to see we are holding to a profit of about $1000 a month on the business...except I did a general financial audit recently and figured out that what with one thing and another we really need to be making $1500 to break even. So that's annoying. It's doable, no worries, I just should have figured it out much longer ago.
Oh, well, maybe *I* need the moisture, eh? Because it is true I am the kind of person who can, sooner or later, shake off the snow and get her leaves spreading out again.
Just this morning, at the Methodist Church rummage sale, I got two cute little bikes for $5 each. Caro and I have a plan to acquire enough cheap banger bikes at yard sales so that all the kids and grownups can go biking around together. So we are two bikes closer to the goal! Take that, snow!!
I've been feeling grumpy and peeved for a while now, which is partly why I haven't posted to LJ much. Not that I don't think people ought to use LJ to vent, it's just that it's not me. Heck, maybe that's where I'm going wrong, maybe I should try it!
I limped out to some garage sales this morning, and wished I had my camera, because all the tiny leaves and lilac blooms and flowers being weighted down by snow made an excellent visual metaphor for how I've been feeling lately. Something tenatively cheerful starts to come out and WHOMP! Buried in snow without warning.
It's kind of a combination of things, I guess. The more or less continual pain and slowed-down mobility from my knees doesn't help. Mike's had some good days, but also some awful days, and that has the same effect on me, kind of a grinding down, when will it end, will it get worse before it gets better feeling. And I've been happy to see we are holding to a profit of about $1000 a month on the business...except I did a general financial audit recently and figured out that what with one thing and another we really need to be making $1500 to break even. So that's annoying. It's doable, no worries, I just should have figured it out much longer ago.
Oh, well, maybe *I* need the moisture, eh? Because it is true I am the kind of person who can, sooner or later, shake off the snow and get her leaves spreading out again.
Just this morning, at the Methodist Church rummage sale, I got two cute little bikes for $5 each. Caro and I have a plan to acquire enough cheap banger bikes at yard sales so that all the kids and grownups can go biking around together. So we are two bikes closer to the goal! Take that, snow!!
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