This weekend I received a gift. It was the gift of time. What a simple but wonderful pleasure!

I had time to do some things on my two laptops that I normally just skip doing because the tasks are too time consuming……like setting up a  backup program to be sure I save all my data on my two hard drives (not too sexy but so important); synchronizing my iPod to iTunes  and downloading some new music I heard on the “Oprah” Show by Lady Antebellum; and finally, updating Norton Antivirus software.  Some of these tasks are insurance against having to spend future weekends trying to rescue my computers from disaster, and some were for pure pleasure; the simple pleasure of listening to good music on my iPod (which I am doing right now as I write this blog post!)

I also had time to go for a two-hour snowshoe trek through the beautiful Maine woods with my yellow lab “Carrie” (her full name is Carrabassett, which is the town where we live), and my friend Delinda with her two golden retrievers “Abram” and “Crocker.” I also had time to go watch my son Jamie in a ski race and cheer him and his teammates on. My older son Craig was the forerunner which was also great to watch.

I also started reading Seth Godin’s book, “Lynchpin” which I will surely blog about soon, when I’ve read a bit more of it.

Time is indeed a gift when you don’t have enough of it. Normally I am on screech and I don’t have spare minutes for anything extra,  so having the time to do simple things….normal things…..seems like such a luxury.

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