MIA

Hmm ...

I have no idea where I've been, but I'm pretty sure it's been within a five mile radius of my house. Either at the grocery store, the craft store, the store next door or the kids school. Or somewhere in between.

I didn't get a job either, but I did attend a birth in a volunteer capacity, and it was lovely. More on doula-ish-ness later.

I've been at the library, checking out some new books, and loving it. I really think people overlook their library as a forgotten jewel of the community. I've always been a library person, I remember my Dad taking me there once a week when I was a kid (the building is still there, but now it's for the village). My Dad still goes to his local library on a regular basis, and I try to take my kids every other week, and that mostly works. We occasionally hit an overdue book or two, but that's okay. I don't mind. Mostly.

I've been at the craft store. I buy ingredients for projects I don't finish. I have the best of intentions, but I always seem to find something else, even though I make pacts with myself that I won't start anything new until something old is finished. For Halloween it was a spider web. Who knows what it will be for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The grocery store. Do you realize how much money you spend on food? It's crazy. Absolutely crazy. I feel a freezer and pantry challenge coming on, with lots of crazy meals involved.

I've also been canning. Lots of cranberries, with a lot of applesauce on the horizon. I got two bushels of apples last weekend, and once I did the math, I realized that it may equal somewhere in the neighborhood of sixty pints of sauce. I don't have that many shelves. Or jars. Oops.

It's also been windy. Windy enough to knock down thirty feet of fencing. We are paying the neighbor to fix it - he has the skills and the tools, and seeing as he is unemployed, he needs the money. We'd rather pay him than somebody else. In fact, I think I can hear him out there now banging around.

Do you see how I have absolutely no pattern of thought here? Just bouncing from here to there. That's how my brain is working these days. I am completely wiped, and I think my body is letting me know. I sent The Husband and The Kids to a birthday party for a friend today, and I stayed home. I need to kick whatever this is and be done with it. I don't want to be sick on Halloween, seeing as I have two Enemies of the Galaxy (aka Darth Vader) to escort tomorrow night.

Maybe I have developed Adult Onset ADD. Is this even a real something, or did i make it up? You'll notice there is no H in my made up self diagnosis. Hyperactivity. Hah. There are some days that I don't have enough energy to make it through the day without the aid of a half a pot of coffee. Which, by the way, I now completely understand why my Mom drank coffee all day long. I get it. Yeah, I could be ADD, but definitely no H.