I have the pleasure of being invited to quite a lot of wonderful events. There are also many invitations that I have declined.

Usually the reason why I decline is because I want to write in my novel. Either that or my house needs to be cleaned. Then there is the garden which needs to be weeded. Or my guest rooms in the upper floor of my home need to be deep cleaned. OMG the pantry is such a blooming mess I can not find the bullion cubes I need to make gravy. The list is endless. There is always some excuse but lately I have realized that the excuses don’t hold up.

Case in point. Last week I had a challenging week at work. It was not a bad week, nor was it unduly stressful but it was a long week with several very long days. My house did not look good at the end of the week.

Saturday morning a wonderful friend came over to help me garden and I enjoyed spending the morning and the afternoon with him. It was quite fun skipping out to garden and then back in to cook meals for us. That was fun and energizing but then I had to clean up the mess in the kitchen. UGH!

Plus there was the wash to do and by Saturday evening I had not gotten all of my cleaning done. Frustrating to say the least, because I like to have that done by the start of the Sabbath.

Sunday morning rolls around and I was still exhausted but I needed to set up an appointment for my I pad because the last update made it ill. I hate going to the Apple store and that is usually how I set up the appointment for going back to actually have the work done. Silly buggers want me to remember my id and password to set up an appointment over the phone. Like Really? Do they have any idea just how many id’s and passwords I need to remember on a daily basis? Pllleeeaaassseee

So because I hate this whole Apple store mess I decided to try to lasso a friend into lunch near the Apple store. She said she was having lunch with her Mom but she invited me over to visit in the afternoon. Well, that was NOT going to get my vacuum sweeping done and my carpet looked like it had been trampled by a herd of swine. I debated a little bit but I realized that my carpet had no intention of running away if I did not vacuum it that day. Being that my friend is a very busy and successful woman, who does a lot of traveling, I had to catch her when I could.

I completely ignored the whole Ipad illness thing and did not even stop by the Apple store. I love my I pad but I also have a MAC and between the two of them they have me going to the Apple store for repairs more than I go to the bathroom. I just didn’t feel like I wanted to ruin the day with stress or dirty carpets or disorganized pantries.

So I didn’t, I had fun. I went to my friends house and then came home and went for a walk in the beautiful autumn breeze.

I didn’t get the vacuuming done until the next evening after I got home from Bible study but I am beginning to realize that in the balance of life, friends should weigh a lot heavier on the scale of priorities than a dirty carpet.