Jeanne-ology: My Day

Hi There - it’s Thursday and time for Jeanne-ology. Be forewarned…this post has literally nothing to do with pie. And that’s fair because there is a lot of days I have a lot to say, but none of them are about PJP. Enjoy! Rebecca

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Hello Thursday Readers!  Another week has passed and the end of June is near.  As I have mentioned before, the older I get, the quicker time seems to pass.  I bet a lot of you feel the same way.  (Rebecca editing to add: Of all the weird things about living in a pandemic is that all the days seem the same because the world’s routine is thrown off. I spent most of the day working under the assumption today is Wednesday and that incorrect assumption changed nothing about my plans for the day.)

I took the day off from the pie shop and planned to get some tasks done.  The biggest job was to finish putting together a cabinet I had purchased from Wayfair.  It was shipped to our house a day after I broke my rib and has been sitting in the foyer for weeks.  It is a cabinet for our bedroom and will be used to set the TV on.  I hate to admit that it will be replacing an ironing board doing double duty as a TV stand.  Rebecca will, no doubt, cringe that I even mentioned the ironing board. (Rebecca editing to add: She’s not wrong. If you ever want to know the core differences between us, here they are: a). My anxiety would kill me before I took a day off from PJP to build a cabinet, and b) I don’t own an ironing board.)

I had two criteria that had to be met before I purchased a cabinet.  The first criteria was that the finish would match my end tables.  The second criteria was that it had to be a tall height so that my husband and I don’t have to use several pillows to prop up our heads to watch a program.  Rebecca has mentioned  to me several times that we could use our phones to watch any program and why bother with a TV in the bedroom! (Rebecca editing to add: I still standby this. And so does modern culture.)

I unpacked the cabinet from the box over the weekend and made sure all the pieces were accounted per the instruction sheet. That was Day One.   Today was the day I would finish this project and move it into our bedroom.  That was a pipe dream and it is still laying on the foyer floor after the whole afternoon of reading the instructions and trying to determine where I went wrong in the assembly process.  Time flew by and it was dinner time!  The  cabinet will have to wait for the weekend.  Maybe with some time away from the instruction sheet, I will be able to look at the assembly process and pinpoint the problem. (Rebecca editing to add: She will 100% work on it tomorrow instead of coming to PJP because not finishing it will drive her crazy. Bet me.)

My husband said, "Are you going to leave this mess on the floor?"   Why not?  We  never have anyone that comes to visit because we are too reclusive to have any friends.  He nodded in agreement while he poured me a glass of wine before  I started dinner. (Rebecca editing to add: Bonus points for accurate self-reflection.)

I have no doubt that I will be able to finish the assembly.  I refuse to fail.  Rebecca has the same trait as I do.  Once we start something we will see it be accomplished.  PJP is the result of this, she has become so much a part of us that we will never give up on her.  Like the cabinet scattered on my floor, sometimes PJP is overwhelming.  However, we know that staying focused on providing the best we can gives us so much reward and keeps us going. (Rebecca editing to add: She will undoubtedly finish the cabinet. I’ll just hanging around over here waiting for someone to deliver the instruction manual to entrepreneurship.)