Spring Break Idleness

Day 1 of spring break and all I want to do is lay around and watch tv.

I've used up so much physical and mental energy this semester that I just want this one week to be lazy and do nothing. Although, at the same time I want to do so many other things. I've got four film projects lined up that I need to get moving on, I want to continue painting, I've got to attack the house with full spring cleaning force, and I really want to start up the Reaching Higher Consciousness Book Club with Sarah and Arthur, beginning with Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth.

The weekend leading up to spring break was quite eventful on so many levels:

First, my dad had an appointment scheduled on Friday 3/21 to have cardiac catheterization and angiography performed on his heart. His doctor came to the conclusion that my dad needed to undergo a procedure to see if anything was wrong with his heart. After waiting at the hospital with Steph for six hours, it turns out that he had two major blockages on the left side of his heart. The doctor working on him put in three stents to open up the arteries, which hopefully added several years to my dad's life. If we had waited any longer, my dad might have had to undergo open-heart surgery. This was stressful enough, I don't know how I would have handled that. Daddy had to spend three days and two nights at the hospital. He's home now and doing well and didn't feel any pain throughout and afterwards. Bless his health.

I have to confess that throughout this difficult time, I couldn't help but imagine what would happen if something went wrong. Questions and scenarios kept bombarding my mind, like how do I organize a funeral? How do I contact everyone that knew my father? I have to put school on hold. I have to get Jeff back home from England. The most threatening and painful question was how am I supposed to live without my dad? I had to go through it once when my mother died. I was only twelve. He is the most important person in my life. I hate thinking that way. Thank you God for letting him stay in my life longer. That sounds so selfish. I also hope this event will help my father to enjoy life and experience more while he still can.

Second, my cousin Maryanne and her fiance Ryan had their engagement party that same night. We all thought we were there celebrating their official union, but they had another surprise for us: a baby due in September! Our family is so desperate for little ones running around that no one expressed concern that this child will be born out of wedlock. Who cares these days? We obviously don't. Anyway, they've been together for about five years and Ryan's proven that he's a good guy. Their baby will be added to the extensive list of September birthdays in our family, including the baby's mother and her two sisters.

We'll see how the rest of spring break goes. If I have my way, by the end of break I'll have one finished painting, watched the ice melt into waterfalls at Starved Rock, taken my scooter out for a spin, and have a neat and tidy house.