Paperwork Statistics

Sandy needed motivation for her paperwork, so decided to weigh it as she went.

Empty Bookshelves

Today is the first Wednesday of the month, which means I tidy the family room prior to the monthly guild meeting. I like hosting the meeting — it means at least one room gets cleaned every month.
You’d expect me to have of books, on many bookshelves. But I don’t.
A year ago, we began to renovate [...]

Honest Shopping Bags

I am an honest person, and I don’t like to make sales staff nervous.
Ever since I was a teenager, reading about how you can’t trust teenagers in stores, I’ve been very careful to make it easy for the staff. I keep bags behind me or zipped. I stand well back from the shelf and keep [...]

Lent Recap

Jane said that Lent doesn’t have to be about giving something up; it’s about discipline and submission to God.
FlyLady suggested that for Lent we give up whining, procrastination, stinking thinking, and all those other bad things that prevent us from Flying.
Normally, I wait for the third shoe to drop before hearing a message. I forget [...]

State of the Week

Friday may work better for blogging that Monday. That may be the wrong way around. Things other than blogging may work better on Monday.
I’ve found a voice I want to try emulating for a while. She has real content and themes, I have meandering reports on my life, but it’s an exercise in tone, not [...]

Resolutions, Take One

I guess it’s that time of year again. Time to look at what we hope to accomplish and set our sights on the stars.
This is a long and possibly uninteresting post, but here it is.
Primary Goal: Use my time more productively, which may include dropping some of these resolutions.
Also:Have more patience with the kids. Be [...]

My Ravelry Invitation Just Arrived

Today I counted $1500 in coins for the school. $1000 from pizza, at 1.25, and, $500 from 3.50 subs. I never want to see another quarter. (Anyone know of a brand of coin trays that’s accurate? Mine fails half the time, but not consistently enough that I know to just add one more coin.) The [...]

I hate insomnia

Seriously. I hate it. When husband snores for 30 minutes before I nod off, then I wake up at 2:30 and stay awake for an hour, and the kids turn on the TV (and laughter) at 7:30.
Now for yet another day of bad decisions, bad mood, and bad planning.

Just When I was Feeling Productive

I was finally no longer feeling behind after taking October off for the video game. Husband pointed out that if I always start with the routine stuff, I’ll never get the irregular stuff done. He’s right. So, since I’ve done all the weeklies at least once in the last two weeks, I resolved to tackle [...]

Something Positive

Re-reading the last few entries, it looks like I’m in a negative trend. Part of my philosophy that low phases will end backfires, in that I see positive things ending as well. It’s not helped by my sense of humour and the feeling that I shouldn’t appear to have a perfect life.
Positive things have been [...]