Anticipation and Annoyance

As the sun peaked into the bedroom this morning, I stirred with excitement and anticipation of the eclipse today. While many are getting tired of the hype it is getting, I'm not. This solar eclipse is another reminder of the power that nature has. Plus, how cool is it that it is going to be dark in the middle of the day.

Eclipse shadows on the sidewalk.

That's the beginning of a post I wrote yesterday. I was very excited with anticipation of the solar eclipse that was going to happen. After that beginning, I was going to develop a theme of how anticipation is sometimes the best part of an event. Yesterday may have been an exception to that as I was totally awed by watching the sun disappear.

However as I sat down to finish this morning, I just got over the whole eclipse thing. It went from being awe inspiring to annoying. What did that for me? When I first started the computer, one of my news feeds reported that Sarah Jessica Parker said that the eclipse was a life changing experience for her. Good for her. She seems to be a nice enough person and that's sounds important for her. But I don't care. That little item took away from my "after the eclipse glow." I guess that it because the reporting had gone away from the actual event to inventing news about how celebrities felt about the event.

So I need an attitude adjustment. I need to be annoyed with the "news" and remember how excited I truly was with yesterday's celestial events.  I viewed the eclipse at home with Ward and Theo and we had no parties or no special refreshments, just solar glasses and clouds that parted enough times to give us several views of the disappearing sun. Although we didn't experience a total eclipse (we had 82% coverage), it was magical all the same.

That's what I need to remember and my ramblings here have helped with that. Thanks for listening.

Note: I guess I'm avoiding the real subject here--the state of the news today. Don't get me started on that anger-inducing subject because I'm smiling about the eclipse again and I don't want to ruin it.