The weekend has finally arrived! This is when I re-energize and let a day of rest repair any stress or body aches before the next work week begins. It doesn’t matter if the day is Saturday or Sunday, it’s a day spent in pajamas doing household chores, cooking, enjoying a hobby or two, ignore paperwork (yes, there are piles), and just let the work of the previous week wash away in the laundry with the rest of my cloths. This weekend the pj day is Saturday. My sister and niece are back and in their scurry to clean up from their trip and get some of their shopping done, so I’ll do all my scurrying about tomorrow as I’ve learned if we all do our scurrying on the same day, tempers are tested when our goals clash.
The body feels good, even though I could use a good back massage to work out a few knots. Stayed on plan, and even gave the scale a curious glance, and then a visit. Down 3.6. Not too shabby for 4 days since we last met!
I am still feeling a bit creatively stifled these days, however. And thoughts about a rather ambitious stop-motion animation project I’ve been wanting to do for years has recently resurfaced. My stumbling blocks around it is that it will required uninterrupted space for a long period of time (perhaps months), a LOT of patience, watercolor work, obtaining some music rights, and learning origami. There’s also the camera components, lighting, rigging, software, and all the technical side, but that stuff doesn’t inhibit me. So i came up with a plan: Step 1: Write it all down and treat it like a movie production complete with storyboards, scripts, shot lists, equipment lists, stage construction schematics, list of actors, location possibilities, and the origami animation models. Step 2: order origami paper and start learning how to create the actors. This is when Amazon Prime is the best thing on the planet. I sifted through all the fancy, multi-colored paper options and found a package of 100 white squares. Perfect for practicing. They arrive tomorrow! Now I’m all set in the event I find myself working from home for weeks on end! That’s what I call a successful lazy day in the pjs.
And now, for the haiku:
Quiet days at home,
Restful invigoration,
Resetting the soul.