Unraveled Wednesday | Time.

Huh, how did it get to be almost 3pm already? I guess my unraveled story today is about time.

A late-ish early morning walk with Marc, a quick walk with Holly, a delightful 90 minute FaceTime with Honoré, a most Important waxing appointment, a latté, a pedicure, another quick walk, catching up on a bunch of blog posts and a few minutes with my latest book and knitting and I guess 3pm makes sense! Only the FaceTime and the Important appointment were on my calendar. Sometimes unraveling isn't a bad thing!

The knitting is Colorwash (last seen here) and the book is The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kat's recommendation for "Set in a different country"). She told me it was one of those "you'll need to get your own dinner" books and I have to agree!

I have an hour before I need to shower (yep, "retired" life is good :-) and dress to meet my sister for #negroniweek. I wonder how many pages I can read?

Have you enjoyed any unraveled time lately?

Joining in with Kat and crew today.

girlfriend time.

...so happy I had a week filled with it. and have a few photos* to remember the good times.

the week started with lunch at bistro vg

as usual, sara had the shrimp & scallop salad and I had the pizza, but we had something new for dessert...delicious as always

and then we spent a few days at lake burton with virginia and lynn (and lynn's husband robert - but of course we didn't include him in our "girlfriend" photo!)

mary, virginia, lynn

it was a lovely break, full of knitting, talking, food, wine,

...and fabulous scenery.

robert drove us on a sunset boat ride

*I'm having a hard time lately with my photos - days go by without having any, even important days, like ones where we visit my parents... hoping I get out of that slump soon - too much important stuff is happening this month and I need photos!

time.

thanks to ali edwards (again!) for the formatting idea - and to katie pertiet for the wonderful paper (this was included in the breast cancer awareness kit)

...this marks my fourth year participating in ali edwards' one word project.

my words for the past three years have been journey (2007), gratitude (2008) and experience (2009) - and one big lesson I've learned from all of them - or maybe just life in general these past few years?! - is how fleeting time is. I have some big changes coming up in my life this year (retirement and moving on to teach knitting, sara will graduate from high school and move away for college, katie will move across the country) and TIME is going to be my word. making sure I'm being intentional with how I use it...and making sure I enjoy the moments because they won't be coming back! although I completely LOVE the part in the definition above "seemingly irreversible" - note that not all the definitions I found included it.

and these two quotes really spoke to me when I was thinking about what TIME means to me:

everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life. -brian andreas (this one has been a favorite quote for many years; it was on the blog header back in february 2007 when I started mere-et-filles)

nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. we haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. -georgia o'keefe

feeling like I fizzled a bit on last year's word experience. at least in terms of documentation - but having that definition and ee cummings quote on my blog sidebar all year definitely kept me focused on the word. so I'm taking a similar approach this year and have these two quotes on the sidebar along with the definition.

p.s. when I went to ali's blog to grab the link info for this post, I found a link to christine kane's toolkit for documenting your word. hoping it helps me for time in 2010!

p.p.s. I updated my blogger preferences to use the new editing tool - wow, it's a great improvement! this is the first post I've written in a very long time without having to use the "edit HTML" mode...nope, not even once!