Apr. 20, 2009 - Spring Fever
I have Spring Fever. How do I know this? Let me describe yesterday afternoon....
It started with me deciding to walk home from church. The sun was warm, the sky was blue, and the temperature was warmer than it had been, so we were all fooled into thinking it was a beautiful day. Well, it was a beautiful day, just not as beautiful as it appeared.
So I walked home. To walk home I go right by the lake. It is a big lake. Big lakes tend to have wind blowing onto their shores. For some reason wind rips into my ears, causing pain. So I walked, trying to enjoy the lovely spring day, trying to ignore the pain in my ears. When I got home I was warm from walking, yet cold from the wind. The warmth from the walking fooled me into believing it was actually a warm day. My husband, with a completely different thermostat from mine, put shorts on to go onto the deck to barbeque. I put spring clothes on and joined him on the deck. I soon retreated into the house, cold from the wind. Soon after that I put warmer clothes on, including slippers to warm my cold toes. I sighed. It isn’t spring yet.
After lunch I had planned to do some scrapbooking. I even had a specific page in mind, which is often half the battle when first sitting down. Yet even with that, I stared at my computer and just didn’t “feel” like it. I was cold, so I went upstairs to warm up under the warm blanket on my bed. I didn’t feel like watching tv, and I didn’t feel like staying in that room, which is warm but somewhat dark. I returned to the main floor and decided to sit in the living room, which by now had the sun warming it through the bay window. I curled up in the recliner with my laptop and opened photoshop. I chose the photos for the page I’d planned to work on, and some papers, but when I tried to put a paper onto my background my computer told me I did not have enough room on my hard drive to do such a task.
I sighed again. No scrapbooking for me today, after all. I decided it was time to move some of my data onto our newly acquired Network Attached Storage (NAS) box. I started the task and set my laptop aside when I saw how long it was going to take! I guess I’ll read, I thought. But what?
I’m not in the middle of a novel, so I didn’t have a book to automatically go to. I looked at the shelf where I have my old novels. I like to read one of these during the summer holidays, but thought this might be a good time to start one. I looked at the titles. Nothing struck me. I looked at Winston Churchill’s book that I’ve been reading. No, I wasn’t really in the mood for that today. How about a humourous book that I started a few weeks ago? No…not that either.
How does one describe a mood like this where nothing quite seems to fit? I call it Spring Fever. I wanted to sit outside with a book, but it just wasn’t warm enough. And anyway, I really couldn’t seem to find a book that afternoon. I did finally pull a couple of references off my shelf that I had forgotten about. I spent an hour or two pouring through a book of Old Testament Charts. That was about where my brain was at. I couldn’t have concentrated on a plot, but charts – that I could handle! And they were very interesting. I have been reading about the earliest history had some questions in my mind about a few things, so I pulled a couple more reference books off the shelf and did some mini research. I had the added distraction of having to keep an eye on the girls who were outside playing with the neighbour boys.
Then my oldest daughter called – the cadets had returned from their weekend sports competition and she would be ready to be picked up in 20 minutes. I volunteered to make the trip to the base to pick her up. Volunteered to go out? How out of character for me! Yet it was something else, something different, something to distract me from my disquiet.
Sigh. Spring will come. Not this week, by looking at the forecast, but it will come. Of course, by then it will be time for summer…
