1st Sunday

A month has come and gone. I'm now on my first of three Sundays which followed three Saturdays. That's how I like to think about time off from work that isn't really a vacation -- a few days attached to a holiday weekend to make it feel that I really did schedule myself some down time. So, I worked until Wednesday, which became my Friday, which made Thursday my first Saturday, followed by two more (Friday and actual Saturday), and now, I'm enjoying Sunday, but because I won't work Monday or Tuesday (the 4th, my birthday), I'll get two more Sundays--three in all. Three Saturdays & three Sundays. A six-day weekend. 

 I'm even kicking around a fourth Sunday on Wednesday. After all, it's the anniversary of Ma's passing. I haven't been to visit her & Dad at all this year. Not on her birthday, not on Mother's Day (or Father's Day). July holds three more opportunities: the 5th, her passing; the 15th, their anniversary; and the 26th, the anniversary of Dad's passing.

George teases me because I have these days off, and I feel -- I don't know. Is it guilty? -- that I should be doing something. Things I don't have energy to do when I'm spending 40+ hours working. Working in the garden. Decluttering & cleaning the bedroom. Fixing the bathroom light switch. Getting up the nerve to fix the kitchen sink drip. I'm the "adventuresome" one when it comes to certain things. George would prefer to call someone who actually knows what they're doing, but who can afford to do that in this economy? Sure, I've had a couple of raises, but so have plumbers and electricians.

Aside from a bit of "redding up," I've done nothing today. It's finally started raining, straight down and hard. I don't hear any thunder yet. The air is sticky, and the humidity amplifies the dragon's blood I sprayed a little too liberally on my body. I can smell it over the agarwood and sage flower incense I'm burning. Interesting: agarwood is the result of a mold infection in the heartwood of the aquilaria tree. The resin it produces to fight the infection is the same resin used in agarwood incense. Will it protect my heartwood, too?