monique

Woolgathering
2003-04-29 01:30:01 (UTC)

Another Quiet Day

Today has been another quiet day. The only phone calls
have been telemarketers or I presume that's what they are.
Caller ID identifies them as "Unknown caller, Unknown
number" and I let the answering machine pick those calls up; they
never leave any messages. It's worse in the evening. I've had as
many as four or five in a couple of hours. When I want to go to
sleep early I just take the portable phone out of the bedroom.

I let John sleep later than usual (he worked as 12 hour
graveyard shift yesterday and he's working the same
tonight). I spent the morning doing housework and
little errands. I made a brief trip to the post office
to mail Jessica's birthday card and to the local grocery to
buy lettuce, a green pepper and bananas.

I'm tired but not sleepy this evening so I'll probably so a
bit of quilting and listening to the radio. I don't like
it when John works graveyard --I never have --but that's
the way it.

I may also read a bit before going to sleep. I've read 16
books so far this month which will help to reach my goal of
reading 100 books this year. The total number so far is 34
books in the past four months so I'm on track. Sometimes
what slows me down isn't lack of time but lack of reading
material so I'm trying to keep myself well stocked. I have
a stack of books piled up on my nightstand now including
several novels (Lost Light by Michael Connelly, The Lammas
Feast by Kate Sedley, Death of a Village by M.C. Beaton)
and non-fiction books (The Old Time, Blue-Ribbon Gardener's
Handbook, Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Contemporary
Classics in Plaids and Stripes). There are about two dozen
more books on my "hold" list at the library which aren't in
yet so I should be okay for the next month or two. I feel
rich.





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