I go, I come back.
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Nice to have you back. Hope all is well.
Please come back!
I’m here, I promise. All is well. Ish. I’m not in the best of health but it’s all a little icky and dreary and faintly embarrassing and this is a blog about the state of my mind, not the state of my organs (thought I am beginning to prove there IS no way to separate the two, damn it all). I’m writing something-or-other in bursts between doing the laundry and dismantling the sofa.
(Who are these people who can just sit down and stay at it until they’ve written something all the way through? Are they normal? Are they on drugs? Can I have some?)
Isn’t it awful that the laundry never goes away, no matter how bad we’re feeling? I hope you’re OK.
Didn’t Robert Louis Stevenson write Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in one night, throw it in the fire, then write the entire thing again the next night? I have a suspicion he didn’t have to spend 1 hour each day on laundry, as I do.
Take care!!
I have it on good authority that RLStevenson was on drugs, specifically cocaine.
Isn’t it great that there is always laundry, no matter what happens, to keep us grounded in reality when we are feeling down? I have a different sort of relationship with laundry now, since I have become such a success at my massage therapy business. Every time I do two massages, I have a load of laundry to do. There was a day when I was tearing my hair out in frustration at the constant procession of sheets etc. from my massage room through my washer and dryer and back to the room. I stopped for a moment. Reflected. Laundry means that people want my services. Laundry represents income. I have chosen to do my own laundry rather than subscribe to a linen service. Anyway, it was a good reality check for me, and helps keep me on a more even keel.
Our organs are very much connected to our emotions, being as how they produce hormones and other chemicals that affect us profoundly. Hope you feel much better soon, Reed.