Balance – my Libra took my balance with her
I’ve got to admit to working my ass off lately – only I’m not losing my ass, matter of fact, I’m gaining around my middle by hunching over my desk and allowing everything but work to fall apart. My lower back is so arthritic, I’ve been getting up from the desk chair like I’m 80. I’ve got a twitch in my right eye. Now I pulled a muscle in my neck just coming upstairs. To top it all off, I decided to start running again to address the expansion of my waist and now my left piriformis is in a knot. Let’s not get me started about the hot flashes that make sleeping all but impossible. Basically, what we got going on here is a complete life imbalance. And I don’t need a life coach to tell me all work and no play makes Rachel a tight wad of stress.
So I need T to come home and balance me out. Tonight it is T minus 4 days and I’m reaching my lethal limit of her absence. And my imbalance has veered so far to the right that I’m on tilt.
To combat this issue, when I got home from Pilates this evening, I saw Roy lounging for the lord on one of his plastic chairs on the bayou and then I saw Andree up on their porch – I offered both a nice ice cold Tecate and brought some slices of Manchego cheese and rosemary crackers (dregs from the pantry I haven’t replenished).
The weather went from oppressive to wonderful and Andree said the humidity was down at 46% and a lovely dry breeze was gently blowing.
Jerri waved from her porch and came hobbling out on her sprained ankle to join us and we lingered into the twilight when suddenly fire trucks appeared across the bayou and R&A speculated whether one of the trucks was Moon’s – our captain – next thing you know Moon pulled up his big red truck on the bayou – he said a wire had fallen off the side of a house and was sparking. Then he told us he had just finished a delicious meal of paneed beef with mashed potatoes and gravy. Roy poked on Moon’s round belly and said, “Well.”
Balance – it’s what I’m seeking – I know how to find it – but I have a penchant for trying to get it all in at once – like if I could get all my work done while T is gone then I can play with her when she returns but that isn’t the way life works – tomorrow seems to find new work, and play seems to get pushed further out, and so sometimes you got to take matters into your own hands and strike a balance all by yourself. And that is what I did.