Mosey: to move in a leisurely manner.
My husband and I decided this past weekend was to be
designated rest and relaxation, and furthermore, we planned it to be a
three-day weekend for us. We both needed it and Dan had been giving me the, ‘you’re
doing too much and need to pull back on the work schedule’, lecture. He’s
right, not that I wanted to admit it to him, lol!
My schedule has been incredibly brutal the past few
months. I've had to put in several six-day workweeks, which left me worn out
and cranky. Everything, including things I normally enjoy doing, became an
effort. I realized my husband was correct when I finished up my workweek on the
fourth so tired I cried. So, I took off a week to indulge in moseying mode. Most
of last week was sleep and rest approach to it. Once I felt relatively rested
and human again, I hauled out my list of spring chores and broke them down into
small projects and leisurely made my way through the top of the list. I’m not
going to angst over page two onward. Just doing it in a steady manner and have
accomplished quite a bit without exhausting myself.
I designate each nice morning to sitting in the sunshine
and watch nature at work and it’s perfect for contemplating life, hearing my
thoughts. I spend some afternoons lying in the warm sun getting in touch with
the peace of nature and watching the clouds. Sunshine is great accompaniment
coffee drinking and reading. It puts my life into perspective.
I want to start walking a half a mile a day in the
early mornings. I need the regular exercise to get those endorphins going in my
system after a winter of sedentary life. It gives you energy to tackle the rest
of life with a measure of enjoyment. Relaxing allows for my creativity to
revive. I actually felt like writing and have done several poems—my favorite
therapy, let me tell you, that felt pretty good. Been feeling like an
amputee lately because I had no energy or desire to write.
Friday we headed down to my sister’s and spent the day.
We had a blast. Afterward, Dan took me out to dinner. We had a nice leisurely
dinner involving wine, good conversation, lots of laughter, just unwinding, and
making plans. It was a good day.
Saturday and Sunday I moseyed up to the kitchen table to
enjoy breakfast prepared by my extraordinary breakfast cook, aka, my husband
Dan. I did a lot of moseying around the homestead this weekend. I puttered in
the garden areas, clearing dead stuff out, raking the protective covering of
leaves away, while listening to the birds and the wind in the trees. We were
able to get a few projects done inside. Sunday was mowing the lawn before this
week’s rains come in. We had some spot work to do on the roof where a limb had
broken off the tree in the back brushed the back of the house during heavy
winds. Dan and my son Jake took care of that while I did other things.
One of the good things about having the time to hear my
thoughts and be reflective is I've determined I need less stress in my life and
in work. So, I’m looking at training in another skill that’s much less
intensive so I do have time to let my creativity out to play. I don’t do well
when I’m on the New York minute and I’m out of balance.
This has been a nice mosey along week. I’m enjoying it.
- How about you? Have you had time to mosey? Or are you on the New York time clock?
