Status Report: March
Monday, March 7, 2011 at 9:18AM 
Copying…Lisa
Sitting…at my dining room table, looking out the window at the bright March morning sunshine, watching the vapour rise as the sun touches the frost on the car parked in front of the house. It’s enough of a plume to make it look like the car is running, but it’s not.
Eating…a bowl of Brown Sugar Mini-Wheats, my new favorite breakfast cereal. I just finished my morning coffee, black.
Realizing…that it’s already March 7 and I haven’t done a March status report. I should have done this last week, but maybe it’s a good thing I didn’t because the tone would have been much darker way back then.
Cleaning…nothing at the moment, but wanting to start the spring cleaning of my bedroom. Question: Do you think dustballs are a result of the fall? I need to know whether to stop hating them or not.
Thinking…that I’m way past due on a blogroll update. It’s so hard to write frequent posts and maintain a blog at the same time.
Loving…the sunshine. The longer daylight hours. The new blinds in the living room.
Reading…Nancy Pearcey’s Saving Leonardo. Yes, still. And considering which other books from the unread ones I’ve collected to read now, too.
Enjoying…my daughter’s puppy, Trapper. He’s half the size of the big pup and has to work really hard to keep up, but he loves every minute of it. He’s a great little dog, with all the right instincts except one: He got in an actual dog-fight last week. Since he usually gets along with the other dogs he meets, the problem may have been with the other dog more than Trapper. Nevertheless, it’s a good thing he’ll be getting neutered on Thursday.
Welcoming…daughter home from Costa Rica late this afternoon. She went there because one of her good friends had a “destination wedding” and she was in the wedding party. Her verdict on Costa Rica as a travel destination? Big waste of her money! Very touristy and very expensive to do anything. If she wanted a spot on the beach, she had to claim it by 6:30 AM. (Not that anyone in this family is big on beach sitting anyway.) So she spent much of her time there in her hotel feeling bored and restless.
Still waiting…for spring.
Reader Comments (3)
I think dust balls are definitely a result of the fall. Part of the dust in our bedrooms comes from dead skin cells, and death is a result of the fall. Makes sense to me, anyway :)
@ Kim: Dead skin cells? Ewwww!
I'm still enjoying my puppy also, when she's being enjoyable that is. ;-) To her credit, she is generally an easy going, fairly docile puppy. However...she has her moments where she goes insane (for lack of a better word!). She barks and growls AT US; I really think its an attempt to play but nothing we've attempted to teach her to behave otherwise has worked. It's crazy! Here's hoping it's merely a strange puppy stage...
Happy March, Rebecca! Hope you enjoy many more sunny days and an early arrival of spring!
The barking is probably either an invitation to play or talking back about some boundary you've set. The growling? I don't know. Our big pup David sometimes growls when we start to take his space....but we just go on taking his space anyway and so he stops growling and gives it up.