TGiving!

7:30 am

                Good news is that I finished the book I was reading, so I can move on from that obsession. I can get back to Under the Volcano, and then to the Yeats poems we are reading for bookclub. I wonder if the others will read any of them?

                Of course today has its own tasks. At 10:30 we head to Mom’s for the big TG Dinner. She is very much looking forward to it and the wonderful part is that I do not have to cook. After all, we already did out family Fakesgiving in October at which I did plenty of cooking. So this is something else. And then tomorrow L and G are planning a big cook off of their own. They have acquired vast amounts of food, from the farm mostly, but also the venison from the road-kill deer a few weeks back, and 2 chickens from a friend’s flock that they all butchered a while ago. I’m not sure what all is planned, or who will be here.  Again – the good news is that I DON’T HAVE TO COOK!!!! Yay. Last night I cooked up some Aloo Gobi with potatoes and cauliflower, since we have a lot of both. It turned out fine which was a relief.

                Soon I will get dressed and feed buns which, these days, of course involves thawing water bottles. Well, not exactly thawing since I do have the second set. I imagine they will no longer be frozen after sitting in the pantryway for the entire day, but they might still have a bit of ice. Anyway, it does mean filling them all and bringing them out, as I’m sure all are frozen out there today. And then I want to spend a good part of whatever time I have knitting. I just started a headband of the boucle. I have 2 small angora squares ready to be shaped into stuffed bunnies. I would also like to make a few pairs of wrist-warmers, all for the fair which is next weekend. I did ok at the hartsbrook, but then when you take into account that it costs $125, well, that is pretty silly. We’ll see how I do next weekend.

                Heard or read somewhere recently some report, no idea what it was ultimately about, that brought up the idea that humans evolved to focus on immediate events, problems close at hand as they arose (escape this danger, find this food). So very true. I focus most of my attention on whatever immediate needs are before me. Really it is society that seems to deal with the longer term. We have institutions that educate, and try to plan and organize things. It is kind of sorry. Those old exercises after college of  - think where you want to be in 10 years, when you are 32… those never worked for me. Too far out. I could only think short term – what was going to work for right now. Same is true of the girls. Not that I or they are into immediate gratification, we are all fine at delaying, at not needing things to be pleasurable or wonderful right NOW, but hard to think too far ahead. Instead I get caught up in getting the laundry sorted, or tidying the kitchen bc it is so messy NOW. And dealing with things in that way is satisfying to me. We have set future things up, like putting money into retirement, but it has to be set and automatic so I don’t have to actually think about it. So maybe I will have to find a way to make some other futuristic things automatic. Make use of my in-my-face tendencies if there are any things that I want to accomplish longer term. Since after all, it does go by fast and how much longer do I have? Is that the nature of regrets? We deal short term, then the long term is suddenly there crashing into us and suddenly we are sorry?

                Hmmm. Time to feed the buns.

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