For the first New Member Sunday, the church council president got the donuts from an upscale donut place in Bristol. For the second one, we stopped at Dunkin Donuts between Johnson City and Bristol. Yesterday I went to Donut Stop in Arden, NC, a few minutes from my house. They were actually open at 5 a.m., just as they said they were in various sites. They had a huge variety of donuts--and they were delicious.
I didn't feel wiped out when we got home, as I sometimes do. We took care of some paperwork tasks left over from the week before. We watched the sermons of other churches, as we often do. We cooked the salmon that we never got around to cooking on Saturday. We watched some of the home remodel shows, one of our go-to genres that we both like to watch, as long as we don't get derailed into talking about our own home improvement plans.
We watched the Property Brothers restore 2 multi-million dollar mansions, which was a bit surreal. The next show was set in Las Vegas, 2 flippers taking deeply run down properties and renovating them with constantly changing budgets that made no sense. I realized how deeply tired I was.
It was only 6:45. I told myself I was going to read in bed for a bit. Maybe I could make it to 8:00, a bedtime that is barely respectable for adults: toddlers get later bedtimes. But I was asleep by 7:10. I drifted off thinking about how the light outside was so similar to October early evening light.
Do I feel rested today? Sort of. But I am still facing a week full of tasks that can be exhausting.
Still, today and tomorrow are the last two days of my in-person classes meeting, which will free up a lot of time. I will do what I always do: make lists, get through the tasks on them, cross them off--and look forward to the time when I have less on the to-do list.
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