Appreciating Today

Like most people, I get cranky when I’m really busy and stressed. I also tend to get a little irritable when I am bored or idle for too long. There seems to be a certain lack of appreciation for living in the moment. I don’t think I’m very good at it. I find that I am either dissecting the past or planning the future. Here and Now is just a bad Luther Vandross song; it isn’t a state of mind.

Today I am dealing with the idle mind. Add to that too much coffee and a trial license of some photo software and you may start to get a picture (ha! I wasn’t even trying on that one) of my day today. I downloaded the trial software for work, actually. Since I had some time on my hands, I decided to have some fun with it.

I have been holding on to some pictures of Cary Grant. I love him. I own a number of his movies, several books, and even a sheet of stamps when they came out a few years ago. He has long been on the back burner of my list of things to do in terms of getting things framed. I have a great headshot of his that my Mom gave me several years ago. Well, I decided to go out to the Internet and see if maybe I could find some other pictures to add to my collage project. I found several to say the least. The new software let me play around with all kinds of effects and layouts too. I’ll just share one of the pictures here.

So after I was done playing around with that nonsense, I moved on to Keane. That didn’t last long since I’m still irritated with them. So then I moved on to friends and family. It’s almost October and I have yet to have my brilliant inspiration for Christmas. Last year’s stamps is this year’s???? What? I got nothin. But, I have been playing around with old pictures and my scanner and this new software, so who knows what I may come up with this year. Probably nothing since I am essentially telling you about it now and I have way too much fun keeping Christmas gifts a surprise. So I would say that some of you should expect to receive fun emails with attachments from me in a relatively short period of time, right Mimi?

So that brings me only to about 2pm. It feels like a full day already, but that could also be due to the fact that the client I am working with next week called me at 6:30, 7:30, 7:40, and 7:55 this morning. The joys of the east and west coast time delays are never ending. I can hardly wait for the next 3 weeks. That’s the time when I am going to wish for time like this. It all circles back to that lack of appreciation thing.

I can hardly wait for today to be over so I can start appreciating it.