What to do on a really “down” day?

Today was hard. I’m not sure why, except that it was Monday. For a while I just indulged my funk, something I rarely do. Today, though, I needed to acknowledge those unhappy feelings and just wallow in them a bit. I wasn’t productive at work, but I did take an extra long lunch updating my financial records and typed out some new recipes I want to try. I took time for tea via Google Hangouts with some friends. Eventually, I was able to blast through some emails and call it a day. I went for a 4 km walk along a different route, one that took me past McKay Lake. I was amused to notice that we are truly Canadian. The government asks that we stay 6 feet or 2 metres apart? No problem! How about we stay at least 4 metres apart? It has become habit now to move off the walking path, into the bicycle lane or down the middle of the street, cross the street or turn the corner all to avoid any contact beyond saying hello.

I knit more of my mitten while talking to my parents (almost done!), and I finally sorted through my seeds and planted some. I need to get more pots out tomorrow, and now I have more dye projects to develop because it turns out that bag of seed was actually more than half full of woad seed, weld bits, and things like alum.

Am I over my grumps? Maybe, for now. I’ still angry, and frustrated, and not getting enough exercise,  but I was able to accomplish a couple of things.They may not have been the things I “should” have been doing, but they were things that irritated like biting insects under my shirt. Not one project is completely done, but a little forward momentum feels pretty good right now.