Thought and Poem

Thought – August 9, 2014

Have you ever had one of those days, where you just know that by the end of the day you are not going to be normal anymore? You know one of those days where you have so much to do you don’t know where to start or how you are going to get everything done. It seems like we never learn from our mistakes…even when we know what our days will be like, we get out of bed anyway!

If you are like me, when you go to bed at night, after you say your prayers of course, you start detailing a “Things to Do” list for tomorrow in your head and you start planning how you are going to accomplish all that has to be done. Thirty-six hours of work to be done in the given twenty-four hours I have. But I know it can be done. I have been doing it for years. Women have been doing it since the very beginning of human existence. Then if you are fortunate, you might be able to relax a bit after your imaginary list is done and you have worked out your schedule, to get some sleep.

I have come to understand, that for me to accomplish all that I have to in one given day, a person would have to be crazy. Simply put! A regular person couldn’t even come close to accomplishing what I can do in one day. It takes the endorphins from stress related crazymanic problems and deadlines I face to build up the feelings needed to pump up the “rah, rah, rah,” that give me the energy I need to get through a “normal” day.

So if you come to my house unexpectedly, without an appointment or calling first and I look as if I had been in a cat fight and yet I am smiling….FYI, keep your thoughts to yourself! You might leave uninjured and live a longer life!

What about you? How do you classify your days and how do they leave you feeling? Share your thought with us…Jeanne Claire Probst

Poem: Normal?

There is absolutely nothing normal about my life as far as I can see,

As it can be a drag-by-slow speed life or a life that is busy, busy, busy.

How the days go by doesn’t really matter to me for most days;

Often I don’t know who I am anyway.

There are days I can be so stressed,

I run in circles and my life feels like a mumble jumbled mess.

On these days I really can’t tell you if I am coming or going,

I just know that I have a list a mile long of things I should be doing.

Every day, I have the laundry to do, the house to clean,

I have the yard to mow and the garden to glean.

When I have done these chores, there more things I have to do,

Like shopping, doctor’s appointments, running around doing last minute things and then making meals too.

Add to these the unending,

Forever on-going,

Everyday trials and woes,

Such as car problems, family problems, marital problems, and all the other problems that make me crazymanic and has my head spinning so fast it wants to blow.

But, hey, I am a pro at maintaining my daily routine.

So seriously,

If I get everything done that needs to be done and still know my name,

I find that this is normal for me and I am going to be a winner in playing my life’s game!

Jeanne Claire Probst