In the past 24 hours, the following has happened:
my reiki therapist used four Tibetan bowls to do some seriously nifty harmonizing of the olde energy; I have cooked at high speed, and quite deftly, too, a Shabbat dinner for 6 new students at my program; stayed up till 2:30am discussing the issue of why, exactly, it would be a bad idea to hook up with one of my best friends here; slept till 1pm; read Middlesex; finished a Newsboy Cap from SNBN; and contemplated doing a facemask but haven't quite worked up the energy to move off the couch.
Thank the Good Lord for Shabbat, that's all I have to say. It's wonderful, blissful, to get a day off every week where you really, really, can't do any work. (You also can't do some stuff that you might consider fun and relaxing during the other six days, but then I challenge anyone to turn off their computers for one 24-hour period a week. If you can't do it, you might want to think why not.) Normally, I'd either host a lunch or eat with friends, but I was so looking forward to not doing anything that today was truly a high point. I mean, I'm still in my pajamas. Really. I brushed my teeth around 2pm, put my hair in pigtails and heated up some challah to eat with butter and jam, but that's kind of the extent of it all. Given that I won't have this kind of leisure time again for another two weeks, I'm determined to make the most out of it. Therefore, the rest of the evening's plans revolve around working on the FLS (which has been put away for the better part of a week to work on the Newsboy hat and the other hat, which did, by the way, end up becoming potholders) and watching Season 2 of Lost on iTunes. And maybe a nice mud mask. If I ever get off the couch.
Oh, I so love the super lazy day. The only problem, I find, is that rather than being restoring, they just whet my appetite for more laziness, making it all the more difficult to return to a regular demanding life.
Posted by: Rachel | September 15, 2006 at 05:32 PM