overdue

Oh no! So, yesterday is the first day in almost 200 days that I totally blew off the blog. Ugh. It feels like something sacred has been lost!

It was a great day yesterday, full of Mary-like important things. People, beauty, God, warm beverages. Quite satisfying. 

First off, I had a great morning with God. Good journaling, insights, thinking, communion. Took some good photos from the coffee shop where I was studying. (No café mocha, though—they were out of decaffeinated coffee; so I tried a chai tea latte. I might have found a new favorite!)

Then my friend showed up for a time of catching up, good conversation, and lunch. I went back to her side of town and finished up the afternoon painting a chest of drawers for another friend. 

But as I went back home for a pork-n-sauerkraut supper that Mr. had made, I realized that I had some very Martha-type deadlines looming. What's worse, as I ate I realized that there was simply no way I was going to get it all done in time.

See, this is what happens when you shirk your responsibilities, my Martha side chided.

I hit the work right after supper. Leaving the dishes for later, I wrote our weekly update, and got right to reading for my on-line class—blowing off the blog all together. I tried and tried to stay awake, but kept nodding off to the point that I couldn't remember the sentence I had just read, and finally gave up.

Up again at 5:30 this morning, I finished up the reading and started the task of trying to formulate a response to the discussion questions. I had until 11:00 to get two responses done. Unfortunately, the first question I took on was about something quite controversial, and I had to wade through many commentaries before I could start to frame an answer. Even then, I couldn't offer anything conclusive (I don't think there is a black & white answer to that particular question) and missed my deadline by about 5 minutes.

Unfortunately, I still had one more question to answer, and Mr. was waiting for some graphics I had promised to do for the Bible school course he's teaching. The next class is tomorrow, and he needed them for that lesson. So, after a quick ham sandwich for lunch, I worked for a few hours on Mr.'s graphics. He was able to import them into his worksheets for tomorrow, and got them copied at about 4:30. 

THEN, back to my on-line class, I finished my second question by about 6—about 7 hours late. I heated up left-over pork-n-sauerkraut for supper, and then we watched a little well-deserved TV.

It wasn't a bad day today, really, except that I was glued to my computer screen for almost all of it, except for the break I took to wash the dishes that had been accumulating since the night before. Doesn't leave you any time to go out looking for beauty. So, here's the deal: I am posting yesterday's photo with today's blog. I will not be so lax again, promise.

That big newsletter is now 2 weeks late, and I have e-mails and various other small details to get caught up on. I am sooo glad to be exercising the Mary part of my personality more, but I am just not sure how to balance that with all the tasks that demand to be done. :-(  Argh!

But for tonight I am just going to give in, play with the kitty (who has been sleeping most of the day) and go to bed early. I still have this cold lingering in the background, waiting to get me down. Can't let that happen!