My Day Off - Busy, Busy, Busy

It's my day off. Sure it is - LOL. I took the load of laundry I did last night and put it into the dryer shortly after 3:00 am, took my shower and scrubbed more walls in the shower stall, started working my way through my emails, and now I'm progressing on to my daily blog. Of course, one of the articles in my email in-basket was how many people make mega-bucks from writing blogs. That's so TOTALLY not me. I write for no other reason that to get my thoughts organized for the day and touch base with friends and readers. No money exchanging hands here, unless it's money leaving my hands to pay for my website and blogspot bytes.

Despite the fact that I rarely buy things for myself, money still
seems to fly away. *sigh*

Today is busy, busy, busy! The clock is ticking down and Sharon arrives next Thursday. I will get her room completed today - it's number one on my priority list. Then I'll dive into working on the guest bathroom and general cleaning and dusting throughout the house. The carpets need a serious vacuuming, the corners of rooms and tops of picture frames could use a good dusting, and let's not forget the other loads of laundry I need to do today as well as the grocery shopping.

They open at 9:00 am, and I plan to be there with my four
boxes of books as soon after opening as I can get there. 

Number one on my away list is getting four boxes of books to Half Price shortly after they open this morning. These are the same four I wanted to drop off last week, but they were too swamped and it would have been a wait of an hour or more. So I brought my boxes back home and told myself that I would be there today shortly after they open.

At least I don't have Physical Therapy until next week. My PT shifted me over to a three-week schedule from the two-week schedule of earlier. It's taking a bit of time to get used to, but I think it will work out well. He insists on that extra day of rest for me during the week, though, thus no gym on Wednesdays. That's still driving me a bit crazy, but it's also nice to not be so rushed at 4:00 am.

What's with all of the surfing books? you might ask. I
live in a land-locked state, and although we have
11,000+ lakes, there's no ocean anywhere nearby.
But I have this story floating in my head, and surfing
plays into it. (I'm also rather amazed by those
who ride down waves this tall.) 

Yesterday I mentioned "Hound of the Sea" by Garret Mcnamara, as a surfing book I really enjoyed. Today I'm busy reading the next one of four surfing books I'm delving into; I'm deeply into "Big Juice: Tales of Big Wave Surfing" by John Long and Sam George. This one is interesting because it is capsule chapters of some of the greats of the sport, along with amazing, wonderful photographs. I wish I had this one as a coffee-table book instead of an e-book. The photos are triggering thoughts of "How could I do that in glass?" Damn - I wish I had some studio time available.

On that note, I'm off and running. Tempus fugit! Have a wonderful Wednesday and I'll be back tomorrow.