1) This entry was going to start with acknowledging how grateful I am for all the good things and people in my life, but really be a complaint about my occasional housekeeper showing up an hour late after she herself had suggested an earlier-than-typical arrival time, for which I made ample preparation because the only reason I’d indulge in that kind of housekeeping is because of a weekend houseguest. Instead, I’m just going to be grateful that I have a house of my own to clean and a weekend houseguest for whom to clean it. Coffee will carry me through.
1a) Mother, the sweetest person most people ever met in their lives, told me how she once blessed out a tardy housekeeper - and herself felt terrible about it later. Like me, Mother planned her days around scheduled appointments (unlike me, she was often late) and had made arrangements on this particular day to be someplace at a particular time. One of the housekeepers appeared promptly, but the other (perhaps her daughter?) was well over an hour late. And Mother did not appreciate that, and basically ripped her a new one. That kind of behavior was just out of character for Mother!
2) So many people are following the impeachment proceedings intently right now, and I have to confess that I must pull back for my own health and well-being. There’s so much wickedness taking place it’s enough for me to get caught up in the morning. I simply can’t follow it all day and all night.
2a) Phone your senators!
3) On a lighter note, it seems every time I wear my winter white overcoat with enormous white scarf and dark gray fedora, a total stranger feels it necessary to tell me that I’m lookin’ sharp. It happened again this morning as I was returning from errands, some guy in a car calling to me as he drove by. I confess, I love it!
3a) And whenever I wear that coat out I hear Fats Waller’s “Spreadin’ Rhythm Around.”