At sixes and sevens

To be "at sixes and sevens" is an English phrase and idiom, common in the United Kingdom. It is used to describe a state of confusion or disarray. The similar phrase "to set the world on six and seven", used by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Troilus and Criseyde, dated about the mid 1380's, seems, from its context, to mean "to hazard the world" or "to risk one's life".^[1] In Act 2, scene 1 of Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar", Portia, in confronting Brutus about his state of anxiety says: "Why you are heavy, and what men tonight / Have had resort to you; for here have been / Some six or seven who did hide their faces / Even from darkness."
- (Excerpt from Wikipedia.)


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Here it is, my "Sunday". A gorgeous, brisk, sunny autumn day. I have a wonderful book I'm smack dab in the middle of, but I don't want to read. I would mow the lawns, but it rained like the dickens last night. I should color my hair and get some shopping done, but I don't feel like it. It's nearly noon and all I've done is watch an old movie and play with my cell phone. The more I feel I shouldn't waste this day, the faster it slips by.

Perhaps it's the fact that my grandmother went back into the hospital with a heart attack day before yesterday. She's better, may be going home today, but all the harouche going on so far away where I can't help anyone has me jittery. Perhaps it's the fact that I've just come off of a more than ten day spree of intestinal illness, and I have grown used to lethargy. Perhaps I'm just a kook.