Relative Something

Some days it seems easy, some days it’s as if everything is in front of my brain declaring a need for attention all at the same time. My computer and iPad at home, and my computer at the day-job all have searches and files saved with research, manuals and instructions, …buying information. Maintenance recommendations for the water softener. A log splitter. Air compressors. The Wisconsin Department of Forestry. We should have a different vehicle. I want a Jeep, but we could sure use the hauling ability of a pickup truck. Too bad I really could use a high mileage vehicle right now. It’s got my head spinning. So much for my list of items sorted by priority.

One trick I use to counter the spin is creating images like this one. It’s a different kind of spin. One that works for me.

I haven’t had a chance yet to tell our friends who visited us recently, and who exhausted every option troubleshooting an outdoor light that wasn’t working for us, that I found the switch that controls it. I had researched the cost of buying a replacement fixture and was moments short of contacting the folks who sold us this property, to confirm I wasn’t missing something, when I decided to make one more effort to look for a switch. I don’t know why we missed it that other night. Maybe it was a little farther from the side of the door than we expected it would be. But when I stepped up and peeked behind the dresser that we had placed beside the door, I immediately saw the switch, right in the middle of the back of it.

The whole time Ryan was trying to discover why it wouldn’t light, it was the simple reason of the switch behind my dresser being in the ‘off’ position.

No wonder I find my head spinning sometimes.