yesterday and today

although yesterday has completed itself and today is just newly born, they are already feeling much the opposite of each other.  which is a good thing.  yesterday was the kind of day where everything is ten times harder than it needs to be.  the kind of day where, even though everything seems challenging, there is no knowledge gained.  no reason for the challenge.  take, for instance, my helping an older woman connect to her wireless router.  now, before you stop and think that i am a geek squader, i am not.  but this woman is a family friend as well as a client of uj's.  and i am our all-knowing tech support.  (muffled laughter)  so after a lengthy convo with a verizon guy, we got that all sorted out.  but not before i had to go back to work to find a paper i should have taken with me in the first place.  that kind of day.  there did come a point where i thought, ok, we're over this now.  and what i was working on was easy.  until i realized i had done it wrong.  that kind of day.  and it seemed a bit backwards, if you ask me.  which you haven't.  but you might have.  because yesterday i slept in with wild abandon.  i slept in until 9.  which is just straight crazy.  and you'd think that would precede a day of childlike glee.  carefreeness, if you will.  but no.  it was the day of someone who gets up in the darkness of 5am.  drives to work in the worst traffic.  and breaks a heel off of their shoe.  that kind of day.

so far, today is the kind of day wherein i get to work a bit early, have time to jot down the words that are taking up too much room in my brain, and sigh a lot.  it seems a much slower day.

for the past few nights, we have had incredibly clear skies.  after b has fallen asleep i'll go and sit by the window and stargaze.  it's been incredibly romantic.  bits of quiet moments between the stars and me.  sometimes a furry boy will bonk his soft head into my leg.  but there is something serene in staring at orion's belt.  his bow.  that archer of stars.  and from the warmth of our bedroom.  lately i've been looking up a lot.  during the day i hunt down clouds, look at the sky through treetops.  on my drive home, as the sun sets, there are the most beautiful peach hues that contrast the dark tree branches.  leafless sticks of trees against a dreamy sky.  b told me a story once about how he'd called them 'sticks of trees' instead of branches.  i happen to like sticks of trees much better.  paints just the right picture.

so now we venture into the weekend.  slowly, and through the fogginess of whatever today holds.  i am trying to make no plans for the next two days.  just to see what the universe has in store for me.  and us.  i'm hoping it isn't hour after hour sitting gluttonously and lazily on the couch, but if that is our fate this weekend, so be it.  but it better not be...