Drowsing in the Afternoon...

I still have not shaken this virus from hell. Yesterday I got some antibiotics, so everyone cross your fingers that they do the trick and shake this thing loose! I would not wish my last week on my worst enemy, I swear.

So anyway...that's how come this next part is happening...I am lying here on my couch, in the middle of the day, and I have slowly become aware of the wonderful quiet drowsy feeling I used to have in the middle of a sick afternoon as a kid. You know the one...there's no one talking, the TV isn't on, and there aren't any cars flying by. All I can hear is my ears buzzing a little bit, and (right now, anyway), the click of my laptop keyboard. Every once in awhile a two-seater drones overhead, bound for the local municipal airport, just like they did when I was young. There's nothing but this...peace, settling all around me like a warm blanket drawn up by my mother's cool hand. If I close my eyes, I can smell the yellow forsythia blooming outside my bedroom window...

I realize how very rare this quiet is for me. I live in a busy city, riding the rattling screeching bus every day to work. More often than not, when cars do roll by, the passenger is blaring his megawatt SuperGhettoBlaster stereo system. (I must admit, they're all very quiet right now though!) The little boy upstairs is running and jumping and DROPPING things above me. The maintenance crew is out blowing that one last stubborn leaf of this past fall all over the parking lot...

Oops, sorry - I didn't mean to disturb all this drowsy and comforting peace...Now all I need is a warm kitty curled up next to me...last I heard from her, she was gently snoring by the front door!