Happy Day After Easter, all you UU colleagues who have busted your buttons to get everything done during Holy Week and Easter, trying hard to offer something for everyone in worship without sacrificing your integrity or good judgment. If you're like me, you are savoring a day without deadlines, without an endless to-do list, with the rainy skies keeping me from working to overhaul the weedy flower beds, with time to stop at the coffee shop and get a nice cuppa plus a cinnamon roll.
This is the first truly unbusy day I've had for several weeks. I'm caught up, I even have my sermon ready for preaching at Woodinville next Sunday (it's a rerun, though not for them), I figured out a ploy to keep from hating the cats at 5 a.m., I've mailed off the baby gifts to the latest additions to my extended family plus a return to Amazon (which has nothing to do with the so-called "glitch"), and I have a full day to take it easy in. I've got two rehearsals today, but they're fun, not a task to do.
Last night I decided to try something to change how irritated I feel at 5 a.m. when the soft scratching comes at my bedroom door. So this morning, when the little sound came, I got up, didn't turn on any lights, scraped a little wet cat food into their bowls, put Maxie outside as soon as he'd had enough, and went back to bed, leaving the bedroom door open.
I was pretty sure I wouldn't fall asleep again because I really was rested after seven good solid hours of sleep (because I am almost always in bed by 10), but it felt good to snuggle down into the covers. Lo and behold, Loosy was ecstatic that I had gone back to bed and immediately nosed her way under the covers so she could curl up next to me and purr. Lily was bemused and sat atop the bookcase watching us pretend to sleep but she didn't do anything irritating.
About 5:30, I decided I was ready to get up and I have to say, the change in my attitude is nice. I'm not irritated with them, I got to start my day when I felt like it, not when commanded, and I still made it to the gym in plenty of time to avoid the crowds.
It was a successful strategy and I will use it repeatedly after this, at least on mornings when it's too early to get up.
Aaaaaahhhhhhh!
6 comments:
Isn't it amazing how such a small thing can make such a huge impact. Readjusting ourselves rather then expecting others to change - there is a lesson there.
Yes indeedy! Even with cats!
yay! that's good mews--um, news indeed. I've found that I just have to get up at 6:45 am on weekends, throw a few treats in the kitchen floor, and then go back to bed. That simple gesture buys me some more snuggle time and leaves the whole house in a better mood. And I'm glad you're finding some rest time post-Easter. Always a good thing!
There is something SO satisfying about having gotten everything done, and just sitting back and relaxing. Congrats, Ms. K and other priestly folks, on an Easter Week well done.
And I think you should re-run that sermon a couple of times a year! It was wonderful and really a treat for me. I know that we pagans are supported at WUUC and we have a lot of freedom there, even to have a circle on Sunday mornings, but it was really nice to have someone else, a "official ministerial type" support us and what we do from the pulpit. Thank you.
You are so welcome, VonVonCake! It was fun to see you sitting in the front row smiling!
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