I love those days of "absolutely nothing of any import", too Jerry. Sometimes, on those days, I stop in my tracks and think,"Wooh! isn't this great ?" and I hang on to the feeling as much as I can. It's very tempting sometimes to wish your life away, waiting for some big and wonderful event to happen, when, in reality, This Is It, right now. The "saying of the day" on my desk calendar today says:
"Anyone who can say every day 'Today, I lived' is truly happy."

Today (now, actually, yesterday) we had to be up early, tidying up a bit for the first visit of my daughter's Physics tutor - she is doing her A level course by herself, because it didn't fit in to her college timetable. He turned out to be a thoroughly friendly and helpful fellow, who I'm sure wouldn't have minded a bit if the place *had* been untidy, and I think they will get along fine.

My working life is spent in an ever-changing mixture of several part-time jobs, teaching drama and languages and doing translations, and I had a call yesterday offering me a new job, starting in January, which will replace a contract one elsewhere which is coming to an end in December - so great news.

LilyFestre: I envy you your snow ! We certainly had a lot of frost here in the UK, though, and it was lovely going into town with all the festive lights in the trees and that lovely, damp, smokey smell in the air that only seems to happen on November evenings.

From the start of the evening on, my day was decidedly less than "normal". In the space of two hours, I was an operating theatre assistant, decked out in surgical green garb, gloves, hat and mask, closely followed by being a bored audience member, grabbing my coat as a left my seat, then with just enough time to kit myself out as a Goth - black lipstick, scarey hairstyle, heavy black eyelids,.... I have walk-on parts in a play, "Bums on Seats". Great luxury of not having any lines to remember, just being in the right place at the right time (and not bumping into the furniture, hopefully) and all the fun of the costume changes and the back-stage cameraderie. It's not an everyday occurrence for me - but oh, how I wish it was, and I relish every opportunity.

Very glad this thread is still going. It's so interesting to see how varied our days are.

- jeanie