An At Ease Saturday

I had not planned to clean house today, as I usually do on Saturday, because I thought I would spend my day with Texas Tech basketball, men's and women's.  Well, I realized that the women's game was not until Sunday afternoon.  But, I got wound up in the book I was reading, so except for doing the grocery shopping and a couple other brief errands this morning, I have spent the better part of my day reading.   It was pretty out, and I sat in the sun for a while. And put out food for Sake several times, but did not get it right until I last can of food I opened. 

Sake likes me to sit in the living room, and tells me so. Sometimes she sits near me on the sofa, sometimes she sits away from me on the sofa. And sometimes she sits elsewhere in the living room.  But she prefers that to my being in the computer room. And she did that today. 

I have had the radio and TV on for various specific shows today, but have not even had music on. The quiet is good for my ears.  And my ease.

Resting

I spent the better part of the last two days doing some serious housework.  Yesterday was not too strenuous, but long.  I had some good rests, but did not get as much done as I had hoped.  I worked hard today, but decided I needed to take a midday break and run some errands. I was determined to finish everything I had in mind, but it required some determination at the end.  I was hurting really, really badly by the end of the list of chores that I wanted to do.  I still have a few chores to complete, but I was determined to rest for a while. I stumbled upon the airing of The Sound of Music http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/  http://www.sound-of-music.com/
so that is providing me the opportunity to rest.

Earlier today, when I sat down to rest Haiku climbed onto my lap.  I had planned to rest for just a few minutes, but the rest extended into an hour.  It was a blessing. When I re-started my chores, I was not hurting at all. I know if I had rested just a few minutes, I would have been hurting when I started back to work. 

This is a good lesson to for me to learn.  I tend to push myself.  But if extra rest will help, it is worth it.  I need to plan for the extra rest in my self-determined schedule.