The next holiday for us to celebrate is Easter - a sure sign of spring, rebirth.
I have already purchased Easter cards, chocolate bunnies, Cadbury eggs and peeps for the boys and yesterday I took the time to decorate each room in the house with bunnies and chicks. To me the decorations will state that winter is over and that we will enjoy the days getting warmer.
Here it is the last day of March and I still have not seen once crocus or daffodil on any lawn or front yard. This just goes to show how bad this winter has been that these hardy and early blooming flowers are staying underground.
Hopefully with some days this coming week to record temperatures in the 60's there will be a balance to the Earth. Come on spring - think like the little train, I think I can, I think I can.
I always turn my mattress twice a year when I do my spring and fall cleaning; but, this time I did something different - I also turned the box spring!!!
Can I tell you what a difference it has made - I have been able to sleep through the night without having to get up and go to the bathroom; okay maybe that has nothing to do with the box spring. But, certainly sleeping a little over 7 hours last night must be due to the box spring.
The mattress and box
spring are almost 10 years old - since it is only me who sleeps on them regularly there is no abuse of it; and, even when Callum comes over he does not jump on the bed.
I honestly thought I was going to have to buy a new mattress and I am so glad that a small fix such as turning the box spring could make such a difference in my sleep.
Today I will be doing some of the things I enjoy the most, seeing a Broadway show, having Alaskan King Crab legs for dinner and doing it all with one of my very best friends.
I enjoy seeing a Broadway show - my childhood aspiration was to be a Broadway star and to sing and dance on the stage - well we all know that never transpired. So therefore I have a healthy admiration and love of Broadway.
Cinderella when it came out on television in the 1960's was one of my favorite shows - I loved the music and I understand that the scenery and costumes in this production are phenomenal.
Afterwards my friend, Catherine and I will go to City Lobster & Steak and enjoy their Alaskan King Crab legs with a glass of wine for dinner. This is not something we do very often; but, every 6 months or so we go into the city and enjoy a show and a nice dinner.
This is a treat - like I said something I don't do very often; but, a luxury for me despite getting the tickets at a discounted price.
Yesterday I completed the final arrangements for vacation.
I will be going away during spring break with Gerard, Ryan and Callum. This will be a vacation that focuses on Callum so we will be at Disneyworld for a day then on Disney's Magic as we cruise to the Bahamas and then upon coming back one more day at Disneyworld before heading home.
This was a difficult one to put together between flights, resorts to stay at, park tickets and ensuring that everything was synced to the new Disney Magic Bands - I was on the telephone with the Disney Vacation Club several times.
I have been on the website ensuring that I have everyone listed, that I have registered the boys for the children's club and now to determine whether we should do Fast Pass for any of the rides.
I am looking forward to this - the warmth, the ability to have someone pick up after me and to simply relax after dealing with some difficult personal issues.
I have always been very proud of my hands - they are extremely young looking EXCEPT I am now showing a very tell tale sign of getting older.
My right pointer finger is showing signs of arthritis at the top knuckle - this is extremely upsetting to me as my hands are the youngest looking part of my body. Thankfully it is at this point only that one finger and maybe someone might consider that it may have been broken at some point in my lifetime.
Is it awful to realize that our age shows in various parts of our body - we should embrace it and understand that it tells the story of our life, its trials and tribulations.
I have my new iPhone 5s and I really enjoy it; but, I am haphazardly receiving calls on it and the rest are going directly to voicemail.
For the second time I have been on the phone with Verizon Wireless advising them that I am missing phone calls from my boss, my team, business colleagues and friends. The phone is sitting right next to me and it doesn't ring - it is when I go to do something on it that I notice that I have missed several phone calls.
In my last call with Verizon it appears that my cell phone is losing connectivity with the network - I have never heard of anything like this. It is now 4 days since we figured out that this is the issue and it was given to their Technical team to investigate and resolve and I still have not heard anything.
I am hoping that since I am receiving sporadic phone calls that they are getting closer to the root cause; or am I being Pollyanna again??!!
I spent this morning looking at my calendar for the next month.
I will be on PTO for a little bit of time in April and it requires me to move some meetings around, looking at other folk's calendars and sending meeting updates.
Do you realize how much is on your calendar on a daily basis? From a personal and professional level it is quite a bit and each one of them requires you to touch it, delete it, re-schedule it and to provide reasons and responses.
When did it become so complicated to take some time off?
The ability for people to schedule your time has been tantamount to your day no longer being your own. Thankfully we have the ability to "accept, tentatively accept or decline".
