day 189 - just another Saturday

 Today is the 7th day of the 27th week, the 8th day of the 7th month, the 189th day of 2023, and:

• Be a Kid Again Day
• Carver Day
• Coca Cola Day - the actual date when the soft drink was invented isn't known, so the birthday of the inventor [John Stith Pemberton] is celebrated instead
• Grange Day
• International Skinny Dip Day
• Math 2.0 Day
• National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day
• National Freezer Pop Day
• National Ice Cream Sundae Day - I really miss the Friendly's that used to be nearby!
• National Raspberry Day
• National Video Game Day
• SCUD Day
• and Voyager 1 is 22h 07m 58s of light travel time from Earth

Quote of the day:

Simone Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist  who lived from 1909 - 1943, who treated attention as a central ethical concept.

Where we spend our time mentally shapes us in ways that we ourselves are seldom aware of.  Even while I am in the midst of chores, my mind is seldom on what I am doing, and I suspect that is true of many people.  I used to sing while doing routine tasks [especially housework, of which I have never been fond], but even then, my mind would be elsewhere, usually putting myself into the different books that I had read.  I ran with Tarzan in the jungles and got quite good at swinging on vines [altho I never did master 'the yell'], explored the oceans with Captain Nemo, danced with fairies and elves and leprechauns, walked on other planets, and rode Flame.  Oddly enough, I never got rid of the glasses or the freckles in these adventures, but I was always lithe with very long tresses - bright red of course. 

These days I'm not singing as I don't have the breath, and I listen to audio books and music while doing stuff, even if it is helping my friend with tasks online.   But as I have often shared, I do have a full 2nd life both in world and in game and in imagination.

And, yeah, today has been a very prosaic day of chores.  I've done laundry, even folding it and putting it away.  I've gone thru a week's worth of mail and deliveries, and cleared up afterwards.  I put the stoppers in both bathroom sinks since maintenance doesn't feel obliged to do so. 

It hasn't been very relaxing.  I guess it would be very fair to say that my mind has been wandering pretty freely, and not all the thoughts have been pleasant

Seems a waste of a weekend to devote a whole day to what needs must be done!