For Peace of Mind

Lake Champlain & Adirondack Mountains
Upstate New York
at Fort Saint Frederic
Crown Point

The View Looking East from
Addison Vermont 4 Corners

Along Route 17 West
Addison Vermont

Chilly at 53°F with a steady breeze, sunshine and puffy clouds today. I needed a Nature moment. 
Driving was rough because I wanted to turn around and go home. Pushing on, I had no major anxiety surge until I decided to stop at the grocery store. Turning around in the parking lot was as far as I got with that plan before going home. 

I wore my favorite flannel shirt (front now covered with potato dust). A small bag of chips, a homemade brownie and 1 liter of ice tea was $8.01 US dollars. Ugh. 

How is your day?

Posting Pause


 Posting on this blog is 
on pause
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Later in the week…


The crow was making a lot of noise, cawing and a crackling kind of sound.
It then would swoop down over the parking lot, first over my vehicle. The next fly around over other vehicles. The last swoop he went out of sight.

Pause is going well. The dreads are lifting. I read online that mornings, body chemical wise, can feel heavier, depression wise. 
So if you wake up on too many mornings feeling defeated and less valued, then give yourself a break, get outdoors, eat well, embrace positive things, rise above negativity.
 

Same Old Is Still There

This is the time of year when folks put effort into starting to shop for the December holidays. 

Today I bought coffee sticks, cookies and tub cleaner. On an aisle’s end display, I saw Christmas tree ornaments. I slowly walked by them like they’re a sleeping cat. 

After a long drive to Williston to the UPS Store to return a raincoat to Amazon, I was exhausted. But, I had to stop and shop for bug spray (spiders like to come indoors season) because I saw a wolf spider last night so big you could sadle it and ride out of town. (I forgot to buy bug spray.)

About Amazon returns: The order arrived via the USPS. For Amazon returns, they have a deal with UPS. Note, You Must Have the Code (square scan thing) for the UPS Store to accept the return. 
I reset my Amazon password to get into my email to find the square scan code thing. In less than 5 minutes, I had my drop off receipt and was out the door. 

I Google map before I left in order to figure out where the UPS Store is located. From the old days living in the area, I took the route I know best. There is a shorter route that I did not want to deal with because it normally has heavy traffic and I was aftaid things changed so much, I’d miss the turn I need to take.
On the way back home, I went by the shorter route. 

Overall, the two hours of driving is exhausting dealing with traffic. It is also a boost to my confidence that I got the task done.