Is There an Ideal Week?

Describe your ideal week.

I thought about this all day long today, and I had plenty of time to think as I worked in the actual Dell Technologies offices today. The scenery didn’t distract me, even though I had a window view.

I’m sure there’s some Golden Perfect week that involves riding horses on the beach, bathing in a spring-fed pond, working on the Great Sunarian Novel, knitting in a hammock on a porch with bird feeders nearby, and eating nothing but oysters, fish, fresh veggies and ripe fruit…but that’s not realistic.

Realistically, I think I’ve got all the ingredients it takes to make for a perfect week, right here in scenic Milam County, Texas. Here are the components of my perfect week, which might not all occur in any one week:

• Meaningful work. I’m glad I have a job I like to bring in money and challenge me.
• Writing. I’ll have to write every day, line I do now.
• Reading. I read constantly when not knitting, writing, or horsing.
• Horses. Every day I want quality time with horses, to make up for the years I didn’t have any. I will keep riding and learning.
• Other pets. I have to be with the doggies and chickens to remind myself there are so many ways to live and love.
• Volunteer work. I like my Master Naturalist work and want to do it as much as I can squeeze in.
• Swimming. I never used to like it, but I enjoy it all year now.
• Meditation. As I wrote about earlier, it’s part of any ideal week.
• Travel. Not every week, but often, I want to go camping, or to a condo in a new place.
• Friends. I love that I have scheduled times to see friends in person and Zoom every week.
• Family. Time just talking and laughing with Lee hard to happen regularly. I’m hoping tune with the rest of the family will become regular soon.
• Hanging out in nature. It’s a must or I get all irritated and irritating. I need to feel like I’m a small part of the big picture.

Wow. I just kept going there. The good news is that I usually have most of these things every week, so my life is now ideal. Yay, I made it to where I hoped I’d be when I was younger!

Note: in any ideal week the temperature will NOT be over 100°F nor will there be a polar vortex. But, thanks, humanity, you’ve guaranteed extremes for the rest of my life. That’s not ideal, is it?