2025 Life Logs, Day 271: A Day Just for Me, Not
Date: Sunday, September 28, 2025
Weather: Partly Sunny, Rain Overnight; High Temp 75, Low 61 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA

Well, that didn’t work. I got up, walked Archie and Shadow, got out the book for the Friday class I am taking, and settled in for what I had planned to be a relaxing day of reading and working on some personal projects. I was taking an idea from a friend who doesn’t do any volunteer work after 5 pm. I thought I would start the same idea by doing no volunteer work on Sundays. I was going to make Sunday a day just for me to do what I want to do. I only got as far as reading my email. I needed to reply to an email from a woman from the Adams National Historical Park tour division. None of the dates I had requested for an October tour were available and I needed to pick a day immediately and deal with other details. Evidently she works on Sundays. The next email was similar. Someone else was working on Sunday and needed things from me by tomorrow. And on and on. I certainly got a lot accomplished, but I didn’t get to read my class assignment, and I certainly had zero to time to work on personal projects. I simply worked all day, only taking breaks to do little mini-walks with Shadow. The good news is HE IS BETTER!!! He could get onto the back seat of the car today without help and he is back to being his rascally self. For that I am most grateful. I’ll try the ‘no volunteer work on Sunday’ again next week. In my defense, the requests made of me today really were all time sensitive and all needed to be done by tomorrow. And I really did want to do all of these things, just not today.