Today we celebrated our harvest — both of us having jobs in a time when we’ve seen many released from their jobs, both of us getting new (and good!) jobs on top of that (good fortune). I harvested the first lemon from my lemon plant & used the zest in the spiced dried fruit pie tonight (good agriculture). We have good friends, good kids. Increasingly we get to do things we enjoy rather than living moment to moment and paycheck to paycheck. I get to do gyrokinesis which I adore.
M2 has discovered the glitter — our house is covered in it, just in time for the magical holiday season. My kids are so sweet. They’re kids, so they get annoying like all kids, but they’re sweet good kids when it matters.
No work this week so I ah… I got sick, lost my voice, my car got backed into while it was getting its oil changed (with an OOF-y estimate, but that’s why we have insurance), and I’m kinda recovering now from being sick, sorta, except my voice seems reluctant to return, and I get tired fast. This is the kind of vacation I hate because it went sideways on me. But even though it went sideways, I’m still so thankful for all the really good things in my life that… so it went sideways. We’ll try this vacation thing again in a few weeks around Xmas. Of course, I’ll be carless probably during that time because that’s probably when I’ll take my car in for fixies, but… Maybe I should get my car fixed before then and figure out how the whole rental car thing works. Decisions for another day. There’s so much that I have to be thankful for and that I’m lucky to have that it seems ungracious to complain about the little stuff.
Also, there’s been pie this week. That’s right. PIE.
