Sigh! I am a bit distracted lately. I have this Special Nia Event that I am promoting and it has me thinking about it a lot. So today I found myself grateful for a fly. Ewwww. I hate flies. They gross me out. Especially those ones that BUZZ loudly. They just fly around making all types of racket! I have a habit of leaving the door open when I go outside. I usually am going to “just be a moment”, but then it turns into longer. Or even when it really is just a moment, a fly always seems to come right in. Argh! Today after my Nia class I had a meeting about another Nia workshop and then I went to the store. When I drove into the garage I was thinking about the meeting, happy and confident it went well. I felt as if we had an idea of where we were going. That felt good. Then I opened the door and walked into the kitchen. The kitchen was a mess so the workshop was swooshed out of my brain and I immediately (after turning of the alarm) began to clean the kitchen. In an effort to clear some of the clutter I had all over the place, I decided to take something out into the garage. Here is when I encountered the fly for which I am grateful.
I stepped out of the kitchen with items in hand. As I began to put them on the shelf I heard that awful buzz of a fly. I turned quickly to shut the screen door which I had left open because that is my habit – I was just going to put something on a shelf – really fast. After I found room to put the items down I thought, “What if I open the garage door? Would the fly go out? Could I herd him outside?” So I opened the door. I spotted the fly and moved toward him at which point I lost sight of him but I was hoping I would kind of swish him out anyway and then I felt him on my hand. EWWWWWWW! I hate that! Icky! I touched the fly. I managed not to do the ewww-I-touched-a-bug-crazy-dance but I still was grossed out. But I also felt that he did go outside.
So I turned around to go back into the house. As I was walking towards the door I noticed an empty spot on the floor and I thought, “Huh we are out of that. Good thing I just went to the store and bought some.” Ahhhh. I had forgotten my groceries in the car. I had forgotten the groceries entirely! I completely forgot about them. I was focused on the progress I felt we made at my meeting, when I pulled into the garage. I wasn’t thinking about groceries. Then the kitchen mess sucked me in. It didn’t ever occur to me I had just gone shopping and had groceries. Geez!
So I turned around to get the groceries out of the car. I found myself grateful for that icky fly. Then I found myself rolling my eyes because I NEVER in a MILLION YEARS would have thought that I would have ever thought, “Oh, I am grateful for a fly.” But I was grateful for that fly. If I wouldn’t have stopped to get him out of the garage I would have left my groceries in my trunk and they would have gotten icky. I didn’t have any meat or dairy, but my veggies would have gotten wilted.
Ha, so there you have my day. And the my story about being grateful for a fly. (Ewww!) Who would have thought?
Please tell me you forget things, too. What have you forgotten lately? What are you grateful for?
