Today and thoughts of the future

 

Today someone sent two bagels and a cup of coffee to my office via DoorDash, from Brooklyn Bagel. It was addressed to “Cindy B”.

A few problems:

• I didn’t order it.
• I don’t drink coffee.
• My home office, where I work, is 3 hours from our Palm Beach Gardens office where it was delivered.

Post tax season:

I have a massage scheduled tomorrow, plus planning time in a shoe store. I am not normally a big shoe shopper, but my cute shoe ratio is very pathetic right now.

Other things I have planned to look forward to once I have more free time:

1. Book club at local library, reading a new book by Frederik Backman (he wrote A Man Called Ove; new book is My Friends).
2. Sea Shanty singing with a local club at a local VFW. Certain to be a hoot.
3. A board game day with ladies in a local ladies group. I will introduce them slowly to a few easy games. Maybe I will find a couple serious gamers in the group. We shall see.
4. Lakeland Book Crawl, which is a 3-day event exploring 8+ bookstores in the area. I am so excited at the idea of such an event (and living in a place with multiple local bookstores) that I am even volunteering for an event I have never been to. I feel like I might find my people.
5. Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota
6. Bok Gardens in Lake Wales
7. Hanging up art in the house
8. Getting window blinds replaced or repaired
9. More unpacking!
10. More bike riding!
11. Reading Count of Monte Christo in the hammock while it is not yet too hot

Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling

​Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling 

1. Slept in

2. Worked 

3. Enjoyed fresh air and watched the dog play

4. Ate three spoonfuls of chocolate ice cream for lunch

5. Patted my son on the head 

6. Laughed at JD Vance

7. Worked more

8. Ate fried chicken from a legendary local place

9. Went for a hike with daughter and her dog

10. Made it home for sunset & limoncello

11. Played online boardgames 

12. Went to bed early 

Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling

​Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling 

1. Slept in 

2. Worked

3. Worked

4. Ate sushi

5. Bought a lottery ticket

6. Chatted with Barbara 

7. Met a friendly little dog 

8. Worked

9. Worked 

10. Played online games 

11. Went to bed early 

Today recap

​Took 2 hours off tax prep to take son to classes. Then got long-craved-for salmon sushi, even sitting down and eating in a relaxed manner. Then did two quick errands. And wrote out postcards with compliments and love to 5 friends. Now to go pick up the boy and back to the grindstone. 

Chores can wait until tomorrow. 

Think of a good thing about 5 people you know - if you can, tell them

​1. Mattea: creative, loving, fun, healthy, recovering, honest, vulnerable, generous

2. Cathy Reitz: honest, healthy, generous, smart to get off social media 

3. Diane P: brave, principled, smart, well-traveled, progressive, humble, charitable

4. Jessica: honest, loving, keeps things simple, sees the best of people, curious, open minded, adventurous, brave, strong

5. Stef: adventurous, smart, generous, honest, funny, fun, brave, well-traveled 

Dream recap

​I wrote this to Sean: 

I just remembered I had a bad dream last night. That you and Nora and I went somewhere like a museum or theater, and we ended up sitting separately. And I was mad because it happened all the time because I always got lost. And I was mad because you guys never made any effort to come find me, I always had to track you guys down in past. So I decided to not waste my time trying to find you guys and I went and slept somewhere in a secret room in the theater. But then I had to leave and I decided to go to New York and get a really expensive hotel room and make you guys miss me. And I was figuring out on my phone how to disconnect you guys couldn’t track me down.

I don’t think this dream is about you guys. I think I want tax season to be over. 😆

Today recap

I worked for 11 1/2 hours today. I worked to some degree on 18 returns — several of them big messy multi-million dollar returns — getting 7 of them far enough along for review. For most of the day, my brain was laser focused on organizing info, writing notes and emails, and reviewing that numbers matched. 

But the important part is… now I’m baking brownies (Thinking of Kristi Dorney, as always when baking brownies). And finishing up Dungeon Crawler Carl book 3 on audio. Gotta find some pleasure where you can in the last two weeks of tax season. Especially using senses other than my poor tired eyes. ​

Also, when Peter and I dashed to the grocery store between showers this evening, we were treated to a magnificent rainbow. The photos don’t do it justice for how bright and sharp it was. We felt like we could reach out and touch it.