today is a much better day.

i got up, sent the kids off to school and went for a quick run behind the hospital. the first thing i noticed when i stepped outside is that autumn is definitely here. DEFINITELY here. i was wearing a heavy short sleeve shirt, but that was not enough.

i had my ipod, but decided not to play music because i just wanted to take in the autumn of it all. i haven’t been along the hospital path by myself without music for a while, it was time to appreciate my city and world.

it was a great choice. the 5 kilometres flashed past briskly as i watched leaves sliding down embankments, heard other leaves crunch underneath my feet, saw other leaves that just last week were a deep green, now yellowish green or a dull ruddy orange.

and i was concentrating on seasons, and the seasons in my life became apparent. and as joe pointed out, i’ve got my kids, let’s get on with it. so i got on with the running, and got on with my today.

which is a busy one, surprise. i had to dig out and repair costumes for the hallelujah party tonight at church. and i had to find a sharp pair of scissors to help hasten the pizza cutting process for when the hoardes of hungry kids descend upon the pizza table.

i should add that mending the outfits would have taken cinderella, my gran or oh, most people, about 20 minutes but while i have proven to be very good at tasks like pulling wayward bits of snot from my children’s noses, i am not nearly as deft with a needle. so it took me a long time. then i had to find the sparkly shoes. and then i had to deal with jasper’s grief when i informed him that he couldn’t wear sparkly shoes with his astronaut uniform. oh, life is unfair when you are jasper.

and now, because our kitchen bears a startling resemblance to old mother hubbard’s and i admit to looking like her as well, and magnificent would prefer a resemblance to nigella lawson and her kitchen, i am off to park n shop to plunk down a serious amount of money on "soil milk" and other such products.

yesterday was a sad day, but to quote elton john, today the b!tch is back, and the soil on my shoes can prove it. a good day, so far. let’s see how i feel after a kids party.