Laundry in a Day!

I managed to get the laundry done from gathering the stray dirty clothes to getting the clean clothes folded and in the right rooms. It might seem like not that much to most people but I am a laundry procrastinator and tend to forget that I have laundry in the washer and dryer until much later in the day. I also got under both couches clean because Caroline lost her current favorite rubber ball under one of the couches and after clean under one, well I had to get the other one too. I went to the PTA meeting and then to bowling where I shot over my average helping my team take points.

I also watched the end of the Saints vs. the Vikings game. Wow! That was pretty impressive for both sides. The Saints have nothing to hang their heads about considering what they did in the 3rd and 4th quarters. And then the Vikings just take it away from them. Honestly it was the penalties that killed the Saints more than anything else well that and the four turnovers.

What is missing from that picture? (No, it’s not Waldo) Remember how I was going to work on a craft every day? Not so much. But I plan to pick up and start again today with one of two ideas. One is a set of Scary Godmother Puppets that has been kicking around in my head. The other is a Death of Rats marionette from Discworld that has been nibbling on my brain for a while. I also want to make some new tombstones for the Halloween display that I put up every year.

However tomorrow is paper recycling and there is a lot of it around here that needs to go out the front door. So I guess I’ll break my day into easily digestible chunks of time.

Peter will be web logging the debate tonight at www.peterdavid.net. I am hoping to score or create Bingo Cards for both McCain and Obama so Ariel can play one candidate and I can play the other.

I am grateful for more that two computers in the house.

LJ Idol 5.3 A Moment of Bliss

Bliss (noun)-Supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment. (Archaic. A cause of great joy or happiness).

Right now as I am typing this, my 5 year old daughter is asleep on the couch with a slight smile on her face. She is relaxed and looks very blissful. Above her on the top of the couch and on the window sill are two of our four cats who are curled up with each other. One of them just sighed a very contented kitty sigh. Next to me is the old man of the kitty parade who is asleep with one paw on my leg. He is asleep but purring slightly. I can hear the birds and crickets outside the house as the afternoon winds into the evening. My house is in a state of bliss right now.

This state can be interrupted so easily. A stray car horn or loud truck lumbering by will break the stillness that is in the moment. A barking dog or people arguing while they pass the house will do the same. Bliss is such a delicate state and must be treasured when it is found for it is soon interrupted and the state is past never to be regained the same way twice.

But bliss does not have to be quiet. Some of the most blissful moments in my life had lots of various noises accompanying the feeling of utter joy I felt. When I got engaged at the Adventurer's Club at Disney World, when I got married to Peter, the first time I held Caroline in my arms and the world just went away for a moment and it was only her and me, when I graduated from the Yale School of Drama, when I won my first fencing match, when a show went totally right and the audience loved us, when I held in my hands a copy of the book that I was published in.

Then there is that moment of bliss that I get when I get something creative to its finish point. When I have completed a puppet or a doll, when I get a costume done and up on stage, when I send a paper doll or an ATC (artist trading card) or an ATD (artist trading card doll) onto its new owner, when I finish writing something and know that I have said what I wanted to say.

I have been blessed with many small and big moments of bliss in my life. And I sincerely appreciate each and every one of them.

This was written for the 5th season of the LJ Idol. The bliss of the house was broken by a doorbell and a campaigner for one of the local politicians. Caroline is still asleep but the cats are now milling about expecting dinner in their food dish.