Andrew Underwood

Relaxing day

Today, Sunday, the sole day I get off from work, was spent cleaning and relaxing. I cleaned up one corner of my basement, and did some ‘cleaning’ of my computer. I cleared my desktop of icons except for just a few, sorted, deleted, and re-arranged. In a way it seems to clear the mind. For breakfast I had bacon and potato cakes, a fried meal. To have something like that is rare, in the morning I usually don’t have time for such time frivolous activities. The frying pan got used again for lunch when I made a stirfry with beef, bean sprouts, cauliflower, yellow peppers, tomato, and green onion. Unfortunately I didn’t have any sauces for it so I added some Worcestershire sauce, which didn’t quite suit my creation but was satisfying nonetheless. The pan I was using is cast iron and rusts when you leave it in water for too long, it’s so heavy you have to redistribute your weight to pick it up. You also cant pick it up with it’s bare handle after it’s been on the element for a while because the heat is conducted throughout so you need a tea towel to hold it. It’s my only one, and being familiar with modern aluminum Teflon coated pans with plastic handles, I find it quite unwieldy.

Later on I went outside to lay in my backyard in the sun. Lying on a blue sheet, I read an ebook about hypnosis for about 3 hours on my PDA. The book read about relaxation almost the whole time, and being in a very calm relaxing environment I found myself more relaxed than I have been in quite some time. Especially when to ‘turn a page’ I only had to press a button that was in the same place every time. By the end of it, reading off my PDA screen was very natural, it felt like I barely moved the whole time, not even my eyes because they are reading within a relatively small theta. The words flowed uninterrupted and pressing the down button came without even thinking. Before I knew it I was cornered by shade from the fence, and the corner of the yard I chose to lye was graced by the last bit of sunshine.