My friend, Lori, posted today about spending time with herself. As an adult, I've spent a lot of time by myself. My husband used to run a "mom-pop" retail store and was there the majority of the time. I was in college and then I started working...and we had opposite hours. I was up and out by 7, he didn't open until 10. I was in bed by 10 or 11, he didn't get home until after 9. As we did not have kids, I spent a lot of time on my own. I still do....I'm off for the summer and he is now working. We do see each other more and we try to have day dates when we can, but I still spend a lot of time alone. I'm okay with that. I like my company. I even go to the movies by myself (oh the horror!)
Yesterday I decided to walk to the library for Knit Night. I am car-less, at the moment. It was damaged in a storm a couple Saturdays ago. It'll be at the body shop for 5 days. So I'm not only alone, I'm stuck at home....no biggie, plenty of projects to work on (which doesn't seem to include cleaning, can't seem to get motivated for that!)
But last night I decided to head to the library, as it's not a long walk. The Hubs picked me up at the end, as he had gotten home about 7.
It was a nice walk...
Lots of kids and families at the park.
Down the hill...
The library is down on the left. When I was a kid, we lived about 15 minutes walk away and I used to walk to the library almost every day. I once spent an entire day researching all The Little Rascals (just for fun)...back before the Internet! So in actual books!
I used to walk everywhere....
Only one other person showed up for Knit Night, but that was fine, we just sat and chatted....
And I continued my socks....look! I have toes on my first ever toe-up, two-at-a-time socks!
I took this picture earlier in the day when I was sitting on my porch swing....they are a bit further on
Today....it is going to be humid and we are going to have rain and thunderstorms....I may be holed up the a/c room most of the day....How about you?
And to leave you with Lori's title for the day...but the version I know...
I relish my "alone" time because I spend so much of my time with Little Man. I shouldn't complain about my lack of "alone" time but sometimes, I wish I could have more of it or that we knew someone around here so I could have more of it (i.e., I miss having one of my really good friends around that adores my kid and is willing to take him for an entire day so I can do random things like sleep and knit...er, clean toilets).
Ahhh alone time . . . bliss. I start to crave it when I don't have it and Mondays are my time to do what I want, how I want for as long as I want. Being alone is a good skill to develop.
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I relish my "alone" time because I spend so much of my time with Little Man. I shouldn't complain about my lack of "alone" time but sometimes, I wish I could have more of it or that we knew someone around here so I could have more of it (i.e., I miss having one of my really good friends around that adores my kid and is willing to take him for an entire day so I can do random things like sleep and knit...er, clean toilets).
Perhaps once we get a little more settled here...
Ahhh alone time . . . bliss. I start to crave it when I don't have it and Mondays are my time to do what I want, how I want for as long as I want. Being alone is a good skill to develop.
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