Contentment: Love it When Things Come Together

Today as I’ve worked in the house, sipped coffee, fixed breakfast, did some planning, updated the list, paid Mom’s bills, and did my exercising – I’ve noticed a new bright feeling. It’s hard to put a name to it but can best be described as contentment, happiness, and a feeling of “not being so behind” and more of a feeling of accomplishment or getting closer to doing what I’ve intended.

Let me describe what I think is causing the feeling:

• Getting most of my list(s) accomplished for the year. Looking back and seeing there’s not much left, and I’m so close to being able to do what I said. I won’t finish it all but it’s amazing to see what we did get done.
• Gratefulness. Just being grateful for what we have and what we can do. A warm house, plenty of food and a surplus of storage, our beloved pets, a savior that forgives us in our feeble ways and daily shortcomings, and helps us, the changing of the seasons to make us appreciate the warm cozy insides.
• The rain, the cooler weather that gives us a pep in our step and hope for the new season ahead with soups, stews, and all our favorite meals and holidays.
• A big of change up in our schedules, times with friends, and time with family.
• New technology and software, also a blessing, and also partially funded by YouTube efforts. Even though I’m still in the red when you look at YTcosts vs YT income for the year – especially this year when all the technology needed upgrading, it’s certainly better to have something to offset this hobby of mine. Technology (new Mac with more memory), camera, camera accessories, computer, software, copyright free music, digital planners to keep my head straight, extra storage in the cloud, backup drives – yeah, it gets pricey. So I’m either going to have to dive into it further to support the cause or back out completely and I’ve decided to dive in further in 2026. More on that in future blog entries.
• The peaceful new devo I’ve started in recent days. The first two days have been great – just explaining that God is in control of time and of course I already knew that but it’s giving me a new perspective on “time” and we all know I need THAT.

By nature, I’m more of a laid back, introverted, melancholy type always in prep mode for something bad to happen (because sometimes it did) and I’m way too aware and have my guards up that when you are the most happy the next shoe will fall. (Where does that saying coming from? Did I just make that up? I’m picturing a shoe falling from the sky lift down into the valley below and hopefully it doesn’t hit anyone in the head on the way down, not to mention the poor foot it fell off of.)

I’m way more sentimental than I allow myself to be – that part of me is stuffed away and a tough facade is in front of it – mainly from so many hurts over the years, and life’s changes and confusions – so much of it traumatic to my tender heart – that I have stuffed it all away. The blog and vlog have been my main source of venting and still then doesn’t always go as deep into my heart as I feel like I can go on a public platform. So this naturally puts a somewhat clouded day over my environment every day, but I like a good cloudy day so it’s fine. It’s cloudy today with showers in vicinity. And I’m loving it. So it’s rare when I feel a FULL ON contentment feeling anymore and it’s a really good day when I allow myself to feel happy in my soul.

I love today. And I’m embracing it because we never know what tomorrow or even this afternoon for that matter, will bring.

Ok, on the with day. I have my winter scarves washing/drying in two different loads. I have George’s sheets in the dryer. I have a load of whites that I need to fold. I am going to eat a bit of lunch, go through a few things from the basement that I need to go through (doing at least 10 documents per day). I want to work on the summer puzzle that I need to finish so I can start the Christmas one soon – ha. I have a couple of mini household chores to do today – polishing the stainless steel appliances and dusting the desk in my office as it’s so dry and needs some uplifting. If I get those things done, I can dive into working on the Christmas Vlogmas intro and outro, so that will be done.

I’m not vlogging today either and that gives me a little more time in my day and gives me a make-up free day to work with, which I love.

Ok over and out. That’s all. How’s your day shaping up? I hope you are feeling content too.