January 15th....‘DAILY RAMBLINGS’
Day One
Since the blog is called ‘ramblings’ I am going to ramble for the next few days or so. The topic can be just about anything. Today I’m going to ‘ramble’ about how a daily plan is great to have or a daily to do list, but what can occur. The smallest thing can change your plans for the day. I’m trying to work off of a ‘to do list’ this year. I’ve done it before and I throughly found it helpful to me. Of course there is always a reason things need to be put on hold or rescheduled. As I looked out my window at seven thirty yesterday I noticed it was foggy. The sun should have been up and shining. As I took my first sip of coffee I realized it was going to be a depressing day if it stayed overcast or at least for me. Well maybe not depressing but a day I’d have no ambition. At first I did not want to go out and tackle my ‘to do list’ for the day; but knew I must as errands needed to be done whether it being a foggy day or sunny. I did my morning routine of reading emails and answered any that needed to be done; sent my good morning texts; posted to my social media page and posted my blog. I then received a message on messenger plus two Facebook notifications. One notification was a friend’s birthday reminder that is auto sent; the other from an individual. All this before an hour ended and my first cup of coffee unfinished. The messenger message was pleasant and I looked forward to connecting with the individual later in the day. I already had plans to be where they would be that afternoon. The birthday was no problem as I sent a greeting to the friend and wished her a happy day. The other notification was about the passing of the spouse of someone in the family and that the person whose spouse died is recovering from surgery. I knew what needed to be done. I had no get well or condolence cards at home. It was get motivated to finish my morning routine, shower and hit a store for cards. Over the years I’d have a stock pile of all occasion cards, but in the past (true so true) five years my supply became depleted. As the person in an organization which both my husband and I belonged one duty we held as a officers was to send out sympathy cards and get well cards to individuals when the occasion deemed. Of we would send out same type of cards within our family and to friends when necessary. It appeared my large stock was no longer. Odd how just doing a simple thing such as reading my messages set the tone for my day. I ended up rearranging my Tuesday tasks till today; I’ll get both Tuesday and Wednesday hopefully done in the same day now. As for stock piling all occasion cards, it appears I should do so again. Before hitting stores for them I’m going to try what I had done years ago; thrift stores. Believe it not, I’ve found really nice unused cards at thrift stores. I was amazed the price was well worth it also. One year I picked up an eight package of cute cards for Valentine’s Day for a quarter. They were still in the original package and the original store price tag still showing. A few weeks later I found a plastic storage bag of thinking of you cards which were perfect. Sure enough that began my stock pile. Today what I’m saying is that you never know what each day will bring. Plans and lists are great (I have them) but once in a while something will happen to change them. I’m sure this has happened to you. Making of lists is wonderful but there are times I feel I need to chuck them and just go with the flow. Yesterday was one of those days.
Until tomorrow....think about how just one little message can change or rearrange your day. As of right now, I’m still on track with today’s plans.
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