Taking the day slowly-- more busy stuff on the horizon

Monday. No big plans. Amen.

I'm tired from all the busy-ness, but it's all been a good thing. Yesterday's reading/open mic event at the Frost Place was so good-- we had a small crowd (but hooray! people came!)-- and hearing Syd Lea read from new work and some older poems was lovely. I've missed these events, and apparently, so have other people as well. Next Sunday is Kerrin McCadden's turn to take the stage--I hope we have the same success. 

But today, I am going to try to take things a little slow. There's always stuff to do, but today's the first day I have not had to get up and go-- and I'm hanging in my jammies for a while longer. I have some projects to get into: I want to sort and type out my notes from the APSI, and I will do a quick mopping of floors (hope they dry-- it's super humid).

I have some posters to put up around the area, so maybe I'll do that after lunch. 

Other than that, I hope for a relatively quiet day. It started with a huge downpour early, which I was able to roll back over and sleep through. =) It's supposed to rain off and on all day, so picking raspberries and the like will just have to wait. I'm okay with that. 

I hope you have a quiet day, too.

C




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