It’s all about Scarcity
You might look at the title and think that this has something to do with money, or food—something tangible. But no, it is once again about my my most precious commodity- Time.
The more time I have, the more time I waste.
Why is it that when I see a day with no commitments committed to —I think, I can do EVERYTHING!. I’ll do this and this and this. and then I’ll look up from the first this and somehow it’s time to make dinner. It doesn’t seem fair.
I am committed to co-host a monthly Tea Cafe for a local ladies’ club. Last Saturday was to be our first one of the season. I literally knew about this for months and I had all last week, with I think nothing that I had to do. I didn’t decide upon a recipe for a salable baked good until 5pm on Friday. It was a yeasted recipe- yet I thought that I wouldn’t start until Saturday morning (?). This is poor planning all around. I realized midway through that there was not a prayer of a chance of getting done and so I started throwing together a coffee cake at 8AM. I needed to be at the event at 9, and I still had to gather all the tea stuff- the table cloths, the tea, the sugar, the water boiler, bla bla bla. I had to make Iced tea.
It finished baking, I got there only a bit late, and the event went off without a hitch. But for crying out loud, what was the point of putting myself through all that.
There are only so many minutes in an hour and only so many hours in a day, regardless if I’m doing something fun or something tedious.
It’s the tedious hours that fool us. They take SO LONG, that there are too many of them in our days and weeks, we forget how long an hour really is. I spend what seems like a lifetime getting a spreadsheet to work the way I want it to, and then I’m under the impression that I can put together a quilt in a couple of days. Here’s a thought- if life is so precious and I love the time so much, and if doing the stuff that I love makes time fly by, should I not do it? am I squandering my precious life by enjoying it? What a dilemma.
Sunday, being Mother’s Day, we went down to Dublin to visit with next generation and listen to Rhuna sing with her choir- so very lovely. Una looks lovely in the new duds, which makes me smile thinking about it.
Euan wants more true play cloths - for climbing rocks and fishing. I expect that I’ll get on that.
His birthday is quickly approaching - 3 already. It seems that time is flying by for him as well. I had an idea to make him (and the family) a reusable birthday banner with some leftover bits and bobs. I’m tickled with it. Instead of attaching the individual pennants to a ribbon, I made casings in the back of them, so that the letters could be rearranged. “Happy Day”, “Pay Day”, “Hardy Happy Bit”, lol. I also made them letters to cover their names. All 4 of their names, only use 7 letters (!)
I enjoyed making these and would enjoy making them again- so, I am adding them to the Etsy Shop - Get some if you like!