“I just can’t turn off work like I used too. Seems like I can’t get nothing much done these days.”
Tipper
Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia
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There are days when I accomplish a lot, and days when I feel like I’m going in circles. Then there are days when I feel like my get up and go got up and left!
I sure know how that is Tipper. You have to stop every now in then to smell the Roses as they say.⚘
Can Surely relate….. but sometimes , it’ll be one of those got a bit done days , which does feel good . ….but , … along about this time of icy bare branched cold , then to warmer ,then to cold days , I begin to feel like part of the song ”It Might As Well Be Spring” in the movie ”State Fair” where the last verse says… ” I’m as busy as a spider spinning daydreams…I’m as giddy as a baby on a swing,….I haven’t seen a crocus, or a rosebud or a robin on the wing…..But I feel so gay in a melancholy way ,that it might as well be Spring …. That it might as well be spring .”….. my daughter already has Easter flowers blooming, and we heard the frogs…at least the other warmer day they were croaking away……..the birds have been singing bright and early on the warmer mornings ….but this icy blast dawn, I didn’t hear them quite as rambunctious … The frogs may have dug back down in the mud a bit….. But I still have Spring Fever :).. ( Have spent many watching and singing old musicals granddaughter days…) ,like ”Seven Brides For Seven Brothers” one of our favorites still… 🙂
I hadn’t heard that phrase before, but I sure do feel it these days!
Well,, if by “turn off” is meant “turn out” I resemble that. I just can’t do now what I did 30 years ago. Reckon why that is? I used to could work 12 hour days, then 10, then 8 dropping to 6 and now 4 of real work does me in. Don’t get me wrong, I’m blessed to do that and grateful. But I miss the man I was.
I’m not the only one, then!
I’m not getting much done these days. With the crazy weather and my health I seem to spend most days in my recliner. I have been able to read a lot more though. Maybe that’s an accomplishment.
I enjoy those snippets as they make me wonder under what kind of situation they were taken from.
Well, yes. That has been my mood for about 2 months now! I’m hoping for a turn around, soon.
Oh, I sure know that feeling!