Today is Remembrance Day in Canada and the US. I honour the sacrifices of the ancestors and those who this day are protecting and serving. There was a time in my life I felt I would go military but realized soon that my personality would probably not suit that endeavor. I doubt I would survive as a grunt and know that my empathy would have destroyed me. I don’t know how the gentle souls make it through unharmed mentally, how anyone does. And that doesn’t even account for the physical damage. The men and women serving and the families at home coping. It is unimaginable what the human mind and body can deal with, survival sometimes is not the end result, over there or later, back here. So, I say thank you, to the survivors and the generations of family feeling it.
Today was the first time I had to shovel. It didn’t take long as the snow was only mildly damp. It is so peaceful and clean out there. It’s pretty. I do love snow.
I went in to the office while it was closed to get my volunteer book work done. There were only two guys there and I was getting a lot done. First one Peter stopped to drop off paperwork and then he was followed immediately by another Peter, lol. He and I spent a couple hours sorting through the issues with a file and got to a good point where I should be able to go forward. It is important to keep ahead of the need for Funder Requested Reports. I look forward to catching the file up to the point of just maintaining on the regular.
One of the things I introduced another Board to was Doodle.com as it is a good free site for creating polls and I think would work well for voting and discussions, scheduling meetings, etc. In the works of email, zoom etc. It gets complicated following email trails so I hope both of the organizations I am involved with find it useful.
The last couple hours of my day was spent assisting a new volunteer Treasurer with setup and reconciliation of Quickbooks Online. It seems to have become my niche. It was fairly easy with the way you can import bank info.
Once I got home I tossed the chicken breast I’d left to thaw into the Air fryer for 20 minutes and made a delicious salad with it, a little romain, avocado, cucumber, feta and Tsatziki. Delicious, healthy and quick as a wink!
I have been thinking a lot tonight about the minutia of my life and wonder what it is all for. Going through the motions.. are there people out there that are for the most part satisfied with their lives? I suppose there must be genuinely happy people, I think overall two of the ladies at the office are. I, for the most part, am happy. I find joy in the lights in my tree, the softness of the snow, even shoveling. It just feels a little wash, rinse, repeat.
triumphgal 