Crash

Have you ever had one of those days where your computer just didn't function properly?
A day when it was sluggish,
was filled with small glitches,
nothing seemed to load correctly,
and then it just seemed to crash and shut down?

Well today was one of those days for me.
Except it wasn't my mac and it wasn't my Dell either.

It was my mind that crashed.

I had one of those days where I just couldn't seem to function properly.
It started early this morning when I first got up and continued throughout the day steadily getting worse.

My mind was just sluggish and I couldn't focus on much of anything.

It glitched on me a number of times and I only noticed it when startled by a phone ringing or someone calling my name.
Nothing seemed to register or load properly and I limped through the day until finally finding my way home. I tried to reset things and make it to an evening meeting I was expected to attend, but restart wasn't working.

That is when I crashed. My mind went to black.

I slept for nearly an hour and a half only to wake up and find a setting sun in the west.

So here I am at the end of a long cumbersome day with some hope that things are up and running a little quicker, a little more smoothly, and this was just some sort of weird electrical interference that is now gone and that tomorrow will be a better day.

From Weekend to Work mode...

We seem to be packing more and more into our weekends as we settle deeper into our lives in this place we now call home.
It has been nearly 3 years since the kids and I made our way out to the west coast. Our first summer here was quiet, relaxing, perhaps even boring. There weren't friends to have over for dinner, there were no soccer games, no tennis matches, not even any end of the school year activities. The phone never rang and there was seldom an interruption.
But life is quite different now. And for the most part, I am thankful for that.

It's Sunday night and things are shifting gears. We've had a good weekend filled with armloads of activities. There are a number of activities left unfinished and some we never even started and will have to wait for another 6 or 7 days.
The family is now transitioning from the casual weekend mood towards the formal work/school week mode. The washer and dryer are in high demand evidenced by the line of laundry baskets awaiting the next open wash cycle.
The shower is busy with bodies in and bodies out. Half the family generally showers at night while the other half showers in the morning. This method seems to work well for our large family allowing for more hot water and more bathroom time at both ends of the day.

A large part of me looks back on the summer of 2006 and longs for the quite uninterrupted family time we had when we first moved here.
But I haven't entirely forgotten the boredom and loneliness that accompanied the quiet.

Regardless, I am at the end of a good weekend facing another work week and already looking ahead to next Saturday and more armloads of family activities.