Today’s the Day!
2 weeks ago if someone asks me if I can live two weeks without my little girl Rebecca, I would say “why not?” Well, today is two weeks later, and I can tell you right now, it was hard. Those were the longest 2 weeks I have every experienced. So, let me summarize - two weeks ago Doug and Rebecca left for Singapore to celebrate Chinese New Year with friends and family. Yours truly here didn’t go because of work, and also, the dogs. It was Rebecca’s first Chinese New Year and I know that our relatives would love for her to be present to share the joyous celebrations. So I said “go, go, I’ll be ok by myself.”
I was ok, physically. Thank God nothing major happened (did someone say burst pipe?), and I spent most of the time working, skating, cooking, shopping, and taking the dogs out for walks. The hours of the day seemed so long, but it wasn’t so much about how much time I had, it was the motivation to spend it. I was planning to go to yoga class, but I didn’t, I was planning to do a lot of tidying around the house, but I didn’t, I was planning to read up on a new web framework (Ruby on Rails), but I didn’t. I was distracted, aimless. The only thing I pushed myself to really do was skating. I had resolved to learn the skill and improve in these two weeks, and lucky for that, or I wouldn’t have anything to show for.
So that brings us back to today. Doug and Rebecca will be arriving this evening and I’m just trying to find stuff to do to keep myself busy. Working helps, and blogging about it helps too. I need to keep my mind off it. The minutes are ticking by so slowly …