The Next Chapter

Good Morning! I hope that this finds you well. Life is going on at a fast pace and I find myself caught somewhere in between. I will always miss my little buddy Alvin and that goes without saying. He played a very important role in my life and me in his. Oh, Alvin I sure wish that you were here laying on the carpet outside the office door as I write my morning posts.

Today is another day at the office and then Thursday at home and Friday at the office. Countdown to being at our new site on Monday. The renovations are not as yet completed so not sure if our time at the site will be short initially. When do renovations ever go according to plan? Anyway, it will happen soon enough.

It seems so dark outside at 6:33 a.m. but by 7:00 it is light already. Perhaps the sky is overcast. I think that our time changes this weekend, we go ahead one hour. Spring forward. I hope that spring is close.

The words usually fall onto the keyboard but not this morning, so this will be short. I am sorry. Life. I guess my brain is just plain tired. Too many things going on to keep me jumping all over the place. Life.

I hope that you have a good day. Take care and be safe, always.

Continuing to live this life with kindness, respect, compassion, patience, love, laughter, understanding, gratitude, focus, possibilities, coffee and forgiveness.

Of all the above, I believe that forgiveness is the most difficult to do.

Always, Carol & Alvin (my forever Angel)

The New YEAR 2022

Good Morning ALL! How are you this Wednesday morning? We are well. Mr. Alvin slept from bedtime until 4:53 a.m. Can you believe it? I can hardly believe it. But oh so happy. We went outside and then he had his Movoflex chew and then his breakfast. We had some more zzz’s on the sofa till time for me to get up and going.

The sky is semi overcast but the sun is shining. It was warm out. I am always amazed by the difference between looking out of my office window to the south and out our bedroom window to the north with only our house in between.

Well yesterday turned out to be a great day. I did have a minor, I would not say meltdown as it was not that but have you ever had multiple things happening all at once and you lose it, temporarily. Well it was near the end of my work day and I was closing programs, my phone was pinging with some incoming messages and Alvin was scratching wanting up onto the sofa. Just a combination of those sounds made me not happy. Anyway, I didn’t save one of my spreadsheets which would have been an update but needless to say I clicked on “don’t save” instead of “save” as I was riled. I looked Alvin in the eye and gave him heck and poor boy was shaking. I was not yelling but I think he definitely felt the elephant in the room. I felt so bad. So have to change things. No more phone nearby. If I can turn off or down the sound so that I don’t have to listen to the pinging, that would be helpful. I am human but feeling like a terrible one. Hard to make up for bad behavior. I have to forgive myself and move on. I feel so bad for Alvin. Thankfully this did not last long. I guess we all have moments.

Last night I mowed the lawn and pulled some weeds from the back flower bed. The plants on the south side of the house are doing okay but the ones out front are doing great. Our overnight temperatures have been on the cool side. The grass in the backyard is lush and green considering the front is barely green. I wished that I would wake up tomorrow morning and look out of the front window and see dark green lush grass out front. A gal can dream.

Well it is time to head downstairs. I have a bit of a headache. Sign that I need to drink more water for sure.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Don’t give up! Keep on going ahead.

Continuing to live this life with kindness, respect, compassion, patience, love, laughter, understanding, gratitude, focus and possibilities.

Always, Carol & Alvin