quiet

yesterday around noon dot and my brother left for a men's retreat. so i ended up with the house to myself this weekend. i am enjoying several things about this:
1) it is deliciously quiet
2) i slept in the middle of the bed, at a diagonal
3) no snory bear (refer back to #1)
4) i can blog without someone reading over my shoulder
5) the only messes i have to clean up are my own, ergo i am not cleaning up any messes!
6) it is deliciously quiet

about number 4... i have noticed that i get irritated when someone tries to read over my shoulder. and i could be reading an ingredients list on a jar of spaghetti but it will still get to me. it's not that i don't want someone to see what i am seeing - the content is not the point, it's the act of intrusion.

there have been several times where i've intended to blog.. even signed in to blogger, but then someone hangs over me watchin' my screen and i just can't do it. and the funny thing about it is that whatever i end up putting out here is open for all eyes to see. i guess the difference is that they aren't viewing it over my shoulder.

this has always bothered me. i wonder how much of this is a valid complaint or if it is just me being a pill. i'm entirely open to the fact that it could just be me.

at any rate, i am here and blogging and the only eyes on the page are my own. it is a satisfying feeling.

[for those of you wondering, no jon is not the perpetrator. i've already broken him of that habit. haha. j/k.]

i'm about to brew a cup of coffee and settle in for some bible study. then run a few errands and possible lunch at le madeleine. their tomato basil soup is fabulous! then i'll probably knit or read until life group tonight.

a leisurely day. no work. in fact, i have forbidden myself from working (which may be another factor contributing to me actually being on blogger than elsewhere). it's hard. i know of several things that need to be done. but... i require the down time. i've been working many evenings and every weekend for several weeks now and i'm feeling it.

alrighty then. i'm coffee bound.