Julie Barrett is a freelance writer and photographer based in Plano, TX.

Life Continues Apace

Fresh when it gets here from Julie Barrett
Tuesday, March 12, 2024


My current project is updating the craft room. Sorry, no pictures. At this point it's a cluttered mess. I have some new pegboard and shelves on order. Imagine my surprise when I got a notification saying the delivery was five stops away! Keep in mind that it's 10:00 AM as I write this, and Amazon deliveries at this time of day are rare. Of course, when I opened the app the status showed that it's not even out for delivery. Thank you, Amazon, for getting up my hopes for a productive afternoon! Oh, well. There is still plenty to do in there.

Anxiety dreams continue. I don't know if I've written much about those here. Last night's involved being hired as a PA for a woman running a PR agency. She was a huge diva. Her PAs all follwed her to the coffee shop to pick up an order, and I was standing there wondering if I should buy something to take in or if I'd look like a fool. We stood and watched as she grabbed her order, added other items from displays, and waltzed out the door. Uh, were we supposed to pay? I do know she had a fit and told us we could walk back to the office. No rides for us. 

That one was mild. One I remember the other night was that I was at a conference. I had no idea what the conference was even about, but people seemed to know me. I was then informed I had a presentation in two hours. On what? "Oh, here's your slide deck." I was handed a stack of index cards of various colors. Uh...

Those are still nothing compared to the "puzzle" dreams. I'm trying to solve a problem. I fail. I start over. Lather, rinse, repeat. 

It would be nice to have a dream where something good happens, but even those end up bad. Maybe as I extricate myself from my overload of responsibilities I'll have fewer of these dreams. It's not that I *want* to be irresponsible. It's that I've taken on too much and need to shed some things. 

Ha! Amazon now says my goodies will arrive by 11:30. So perhaps I shall have a productive afternoon after all!

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