Memes

I've been feeling kind of strung out recently. I've decided to cut back on some of the memes I've been participating in. I stopped a few quite a while ago, but it's reached the point where even the few I do are becoming too much.

I really love Think Green Thursday and feel it's an important one, and I won't give up on that one, even though Thursdays sometimes sneak up on me, catching me without any preparation. And I do love Shadow Shot Sunday. Shadows have always fascinated me, and that one is fun - although here again I may not be able to get out and look around for something, particularly as winter closes in. So I hope that I'll keep up with those two. Sky Watch is beautiful. I love viewing as many as possible each week. But there are so many of them! It's impossible to really cover them all, much less comment on as many as I would like to do. I am always amazed at the talent all of those participants exhibit. And Mellow Yellow is fun too. So many possibilities.

There are quite a few other memes out there that look so interesting, and that I would really enjoy participating in. But I don't really enjoy being pinned down to things. Never have. I don't wear a watch, and don't like to follow routine in anything, although as I grow older it does become more necessary to do certain things at the same time every day. (Like eating, even though I'm supposed to take meds with my food. I frequently forget to eat, since I'm never hungry. ) It sometimes annoys me that I am supposed to do a meme on a certain day. I usually get around that by scheduling them ahead of time.

My dislike of routine even extended to how I got to work every day, before my retirement. I lived only about three minutes from work, if I turned left at the end of the driveway, left again at the end of the block, then right a few blocks farther. But I rarely went that way, I would leave early and go up to the bay first, or go around the block to see what was blooming in someone's garden, or just wander through the neighborhood.

I guess I have fallen into some routine recently. When I get up in the morning I generally sit down at the computer and check email first, then move to comments I've received the night before, then do the jigsaw puzzles. Then I eat breakfast - unless I become too distracted by the computer. At times that is the case and I forget to eat for an hour or two.

Anyway, I don't think I will be doing many memes other than the two I mentioned. Of course, if I see a gorgeous sky, or something yellow and unusual that I just can't resist, I'm sure I will drop by another meme once in a while. But for the most part, for a while I am just going to write what I feel like writing, when I feel like writing it.