Yes, bored. I would love to spend my time outside, sitting at a coffee shop reading a newspaper, magazine or a good book or hanging out by water somewhere. But I am stuck at work and bored.
It is a beautiful early autumn day outside and I have to be at work. The skies are clear, the air is crisp and everything is still green and I have to be at work. I have to listen to the whir of the conveyors and the honk of the horns on the equipment instead of the birds and the sound of the breeze. I have to sit at a desk or pack pallets instead of lounging outside in the back yard on my hammock or walking in the woods with my dog. I have to wear steel-toed shoes and socks instead of running around in my sandals or barefooted. I have to stare at a computer screen instead of peering at life through the lens of my camera.
You see, there are many things that I would rather be doing than work. However, my work ethic keeps me coming to work every day at 6:30 am and staying until at least 3:30 pm. I think I got that from my parents and working on the farm. The cows don’t take days off, so we couldn’t either and my father was and is a firm believer in the old adage “Make hay while the sun shines”. So if the sun was out and there was hay to harvest, that’s what we were doing. I also have a mortgage to pay and I need a new car, so I will continue to work. But it will not keep me from longing to be out in the crisp autumn days of west-central Illinois and will not quench the desire to be out on my bike in the middle of no where, dodging the wooly worms on the road, with the wind at my back.
*Sigh!*
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Yikes! Glad you got it all worked out but even more glad that the cat surfaced!!!
p.s. I would have had an absolute meltdown and probably cried a lot
p.s.s. it's me steph - can't remember my username and password lol
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