Sunday, January 17, 2010
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Another nice tea day with my sister in extraordinarily pleasant places in Tarrytown that have delicious food, nice atmospheres and are cool with people hanging around for a long time (well, except the last one which always makes us feel adolescently amused that our our job seems to be that we annoy them), beginning at Silver Tips Tea Room and moving on to Coffee Labs Roasters around the corner and ending at Lefteris; how lovely to share current thoughts and events in our lives as well as recent and hoped-for achievements, questions, concerns, etc. while downing Earl Grey and jasmine tea along with salmon sandwiches and scones, following it up with cappuchino and topping it all off with red wine, humus and eggplant dip.
What a perfect day! I'm almost jealous.
ReplyDeleteWhy only almost?!
ReplyDeleteTo be over serious about it, it's just to do with a kind of super acceptance of my lot in life that I can't even lightly challenge. I'm just happy that you had a perfect day. [Hope I'm not coming across as sanctimonious.]
ReplyDeleteI hear nothing sanctimonious but I am quite curious now. Please expound further.
ReplyDeleteAh, I shouldn't have said that, I mean many people my age are dead! It's just that I quit school on my fifteenth birthday to go to work on the farm, next year that will be sixty years ago and I still have to work, house renovations, which is fine, it keeps me going and I'm lucky I'm able to, it would be nice though to have more time for some other things I would like to do, which is why I found the account of your day with your sister to be so pleasant, like reading a perfect poem.
ReplyDeletePS. Of course there are my two cute, lovely, smart grand daughters which more than makes up for anything else I might be missing.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I wish we could have a long long conversation about this - oh, I guess that's what we're doing! Anyway, I'm still not quite at your point but much closer than I'd like to be (or admit) and I don't see stopping working either because of decisions I made and career choices I sidestepped partly because of sadly low self-attitude (improving all the time) and partly because of being a financial dolt. Maybe *needing* to be busy and work keeps us (a) young and (b) alive (or vice versa)? And, listen, you do need to stop and smell those freaking roses now and then, you know - a/k/a tea dates with a sibling.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not contradicting myself, I'm actually quite proud of still being a productive worker, my work is interesting, I get to know new people and it's an interesting relationship when you're actually in people's homes, on a big job you almost become part of the family. It's being self-employed that tends to take over your life a bit, not sure there's an answer to that, you're always aware that there's no safety net, no unemployment pay if you run out of work, no holiday pay, no sick pay, so you keep going!
ReplyDeleteI do take little breaks, last Sat afternoon I took the two girls for a walk in the ravine for a couple of hours and to the playground there, will send you a couple of pics, nothing special but they're so cute it's impossible not to get decent pics!