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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Joys and Frustrations

Can you believe another week has passed and we are finished with the 16th week of the year? It has flown and I have not accomplished even half of what I wanted to get done. I suppose if I look at the upside I still have plenty to fill my time for the rest of the year.  Meanwhile I am going to enjoy the rest of April!



Saturday: Son3 sent us a video from their Seder meal late Friday night. All of the kids had put on an impromptu living room play about Moses and Passover.  It began with Moses ( a stuffed animal in a basket) being placed in the river (a white blanket), then rescued by Pharaoh 's daughter. Next you hear a little voice saying "6 years later" followed by another voice saying "No! 60 years later".  (We could hear all the adults off camera laughing) We were able to see a little more up until the "lamb" (small child with a white pillow wrapped around their middle) was about to be sacrificed, and then the video ended. I wish we could have been there in person, but seeing the video was the next best thing. It was a great thing to wake up to!
TheHub went out to do his recreational shopping and came home with a gorgeous purple orchid which he thought was a lily we could plant in the yard. It is ok, I like beautiful house plants! I just don't buy them because I am a horrible plant mamma.
After doing a few chores, we were ready to watch Alabama softball on tv. The rain changed that! Instead of watching they had a protracted rain delay and lost their tv time.We had to listen to it about 5 hours later. Woo hoo they won! After the game ended we watched the last few innings of the Arkansas/Ky game. 

Sunday: We woke and did not go to church even though it was Easter Sunday. Foul weather was predicted so, instead, we watched a live stream of the service. It was  beautiful  and I wish we had gone in person in spite of the rain and thunder while it was happening.
After the service I turned on The History Channel and watched their series on the life of Jesus. TheHub worked in his home office and I did some odds and ins around the house. The skies cleared and the day was gorgeous, but we still stayed at home.
We had Easter phone calls or FaceTime visits with all three sons and their families.   
After we ate dinner we settled in to watch The Passion of The Christ. It was brutal and hard to watch but I try to see it every Easter.

Monday: This was a slightly frustrating day. About a month ago My Beloved Sister and I had taken all of the documents, forms, papers, pints of blood, you name it to Mom's accountant for a final  trust return. .  I hung around the house all day with my phone in my pocket waiting for the accountant to call me to pick up the forms. Somehow or another the documents were mixed at the accountants and we had to run to their office at the midnight hour (ok not really midnight but right as they were closing) because they only did the final trust and never filed our two additional forms. They had to E-file extensions. I am ok with the extension but I have no idea what my tax liability might be. 
And what is a better way to deal with frustration than to have a glass of wine  a chocolate Pay Day! I couldn't help it. I passed CVS on the way home and my car voluntarily pulled into the lot. The next thing I knew instead of gritting my teeth in frustration I was chomping down on chocolaty, sweet, salty, nutty, deliciousness.

Tuesday: What a glorious day! It was truly beautiful. A bit cool and pollen laden but still beautiful. I did routine house stuff, bought veggies at the produce stand (including a basket of the most beautiful strawberries I have ever seen) and read. Since I had de- pollened the deck I could sit out there with my I-pad and read. 

Wednesday: The day started out rather boring and pretty much stayed boring the entire day. The upside was a long conversation with my cousin S. She, her hub, my beloved sister, and I plan on driving to Huntsville in early May. Another cousin (also an S) and her hub will be visiting our uncle then. We plan on meeting them for a visit and lunch.

Thursday: It was another routine day with one major and joyous exception. I did have a wonderful phone visit with Sluggy. It was filled with laughs and shared tales.  
Another small joy was TheHub had a late dinner meeting so I had control of the tv remote all night!

Friday: Son2 and I had decided to go see the new Fantastic Beasts movie in the theater. It was the first time for either of us since December of 2019. Mom was still living and I had severely narrowed places I would be out because flu season was hitting Alabama and I did not want to chance passing it to her. Little did we know Covid was just around the corner and would change the landscape totally. 
Son2 is off on Friday's and we decided the 1;15 movie would hopefully have limited crowds. We sat down in a completely empty theater, but before the movie started another dude walked in. I felt very comfortable with 3 bodies in a  200+  seat place. 
Early evening DIL3 had a showcase from her master's program streaming and we were able to watch her performance. She had the stage solo for about 30 minutes of her original songs. 
After her performance and all the sincere congratulations to her we were able to listen to Alabama softball be trounced by Texas A & M.

So this week look for your joys. No matter how small, they are always out there!

May all your weeds be wildflowers,
Anne


22 comments:

  1. Your grandloves's Easter play sounds like a panic ... what creativity! The tradition of watching the Passion sounds like something I'd like to adopt. (Remind me?) I agree, it's difficult to watch, but the movies I like best are those which make me FEEL.
    Tom's going to be over the moon to discover there are chocolate PayDays!

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    1. The Passion of the Christ is so hard to watch, but if you can watch it (regardless of any religious beliefs) and feel nothing then you might not be human at all.

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  2. What is it with men and their remotes? And why oh why is mine unable to keep his hand off it as he swaps and changes through the channels.
    Hooray for joy. And chocolate.

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    1. No idea, plus TheHub can be sound asleep (I mean resting his eyes while snoring) and if I try to get it to turn it to something else, he declares he is watching whatever is on. Bah!

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  3. Oh I just love that story about Moses and Passover. I can just picture it in my mind! How sweet! When I first opened your post I wondered who "the old man" was in the still from the video. Of course now I can see it's Art Garfunkel but I guess I got a shock. I guess we all remember them in their heyday right (I mean, it's not like I've aged is it)! But he still has a lovely voice!

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    1. I intentionally put the older Art. If I were not looking for that particular song on YouTube I would never have know there was this older recording. I am pretty sure Paul Simon has aged a little better!

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  4. Going to a movie theater sounds fun. Did you like the new FB movie?

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    1. I did not like the actor(Eddie Redmayne) who played the main character, and I thought it was unnecessarily long. That being said, Dan Fogler when played Jacob Kowalski was fabulous. The story line was good but it moved much too slowly for me.

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  5. I chuckled at your Pay Day chocolate fix. My brother told me that my SIL was so relieved when I was able to help my niece and nephew finish their income tax returns that she pulled out a bottle of wine and chocolate to celebrate. (I wasn't invited but that's okay - I got to spend a few hours with two of my favorite people.)

    I'm sure you're happy that the final return is complete and everything will be settled soon. Fingers cross the tax liability isn't too high.

    The Easter play by the youngsters - what fun!

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  6. One of my joys today is listening to Art Garfunkel sing that song. I didn't know that there were chocolate Paydays. Are they new? I'll have to look for one because I like regular Paydays a lot.

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    1. The chocolate Paydays are just chocolate coated traditional Paydays, but about a thousand times better because of the chocolate!

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  7. Oh, I wish I could have seen that play about Moses and the Passover! :D You did a great job finding all the joys that are there in our daily lives. Sometimes, they are right there in front of us; sometimes, we have to dig a bit deeper. This week, I might have had to dig a bit, since my daughter has returned to her life up north, but, they were there - watching a mother finch feeding her 3 babies (who were almost as big as she!), seeing the flowers blooming in the garden, listening to bird songs, receiving Easter dinner from my neighbor and fresh fruits from a friend, phone calls and video chats and best of all, knowing that my daughter is having fun with friends - I don't know if they planned it, but, they've arranged something to do every evening, either in person or online, so that she has had no time to feel homesick! :)

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    1. She is very lucky to have such good friends, even luckier to have a safe place to light while the world spun out of control.

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  8. happily we have several tv's in the house so hubby goes downstairs at night to watch his movies or shows. no fighting over the remote :-)

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    1. We have more than one also, but we both like being in the den at night. I lose every time .

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  9. It's hard some days to see all the good- like that old Ann Murray song, but it's there. The play sounds so sweet. I remember my girls in the summer church productions. The flowers have to be stunning or getting there.

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    1. Our beautiful spring flowers are gone now. We are just a millisecond until summer weather hits.

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  10. Lol... chocolate makes everything better (at least that's what I tell myself). The Moses/Passover play sounds lovely. I would've loved to see that. I love watching the life of Jesus. I used to watch it (something similar) every Good Friday before moving here. I'm going to see if I can still find it on tv.

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    1. Chocolate is my crutch when I am distressed.
      I loved seeing the kids with their Passover play.

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  11. Yes it is flying by and I haven't accomplished the things I had hoped to get done. I will look for my joys....thank you.

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  12. The Passion Play sounds like something that would be a hit on your blog post. I like little children's interpretations. I love chocolate Payday. Tommy must have the remote! He has to use two different ones to get it set to watch anything, so I am not eager to use the remotes.

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