A #Storm + Conversations, Organization, And Other Aspects Of My Week

We had a terrific thunderstorm on Tuesday.  It lasted a couple of hours, and the peels ofthunder were impressive.  Unfortunately,since I was trying to finish up on the cooking call during the start of  the storm, and then eating dinner (we made enchiladas on the call this past week) and feedingthe petkids during most of the rest, I didn’t give getting a video a thoughtuntil afterwards.

 

Yes, my dogs are calm enough during storms that I could geton and feed them even while an impressive storm was going on.  I don’t know if it’s the fact I enjoy the storms,or the fact my singing apparently has a soothing effect on dogs (to the pointwhere my Mam has called me for me to sing to her dogs over the phone to calmthem in the past).  But I used to sing tothem during storms when they were scared as tiny puppies, and they learned notto be afraid of storms.  I used the sametechnique to teach them not to be so afraid of fireworks, and it’s only superloud ones that suddenly happen very close that they take notice of (and eventhen it’s just to bark a little before settling down again).

 

Anyway, besides the storm, it’s been a week of conversationsand organization.  At least, that’s whatit seems like; it definitely feels like conversations and organization has beenthe main theme of the past week.

 

Conversations, because I’ve been involved with at least oneZoom call every day, not to mention phone calls and messages I’ve been dealingwith.  Nothing urgent.  Just one of those weeks where it seems themoment you sit down to have some quiet time the phone rings, or you rememberyou needed to talk to so-and-so about such-and-such and don’t want to forgetagain so figure you better send the message now – while you’re thinking aboutit.

 

Organization, because I de-cluttered and organized somestuff in the kitchen, needed to set up some Tweets to make sure they’ll go upon time for the ACB Crafters’ Twitter account, and some of those messages Ineeded to deal with were about needing to arrange and re-arrange some stuff forthe schedule for the upcoming episodes of the cooking call I do with Herbie viathe ACB.

 

To be honest, since there wasn’t much to deal with in thekitchen (just removing a few things I’d been given I knew I wouldn’t use, sowanted to box up to send somewhere where someone else could potentially usethem, and re-organizing a few things once the spaces those things had taken upwere empty) I feel like I’ve spent an awful lot of the past week glued to myphone or computer.

 

I mean, there were other aspects to my week: housework andother day to day chores, playtime and snuggles with Lilie and Logan, playtimewith Artemis, some reading time (though not as much as I’d hoped to have, and alot of it was done by making use of the option to enjoy an audiobook whiledoing housework – I did finish one book, and start two others though, one ofwhich was the book for the 18th and 19th century bookclub) and working on some crochet (my blanket managed to gain another round).  I even managed to sneak in abit of time to watch the first episode of “Wednesday” on Netflix with Kelly,which I’m enjoying so far, but will give you a proper opinion of once I’ve seenmore than one episode of it.  But I definitelyfeel like I spent more time doing the things on my phone and computer thananything else combined, and am hoping the coming week involves a bit lesscomputer and phone time, and a little more crafting, reading, and TV show watching.  Perhaps even some writing time? Though that might be too much to hope for when I'm still dealing with trying to tackle the organizing and de-cluttering project.  I can hope though, right?

So, how about you? How was your week?