Why is it when I'm most stressed and pressed for time, I feel the need to write. I think it helps me clear my head and regain focus. If I get all these things out there that I've got floating around, I can sit down and work on what I need to do.
I read an article about memory today (tweeted it I liked it so much). It talked about people who have incredible recall of their day to day life events. I have a pretty good recall, but not the level these folks do. Part of why I like to scrapbook is that it preserves for me those memories. I use the memorabilia as a tool to jog my memory, along with the photo and hopefully with most trips and events, with some notes I've made. This article reinforced for me why I always feel the pressure to work on events that are about 6 months old. Somehow I can't remember so much from when Eddie and Josie were babies, yet I never got their baby books done. So many parts of their lives that they can't recall have slipped away and I'll never get them back...well except for from this blog :) And all the pictures and all the crap I've saved. But I've not always done a good job of noting the mundane, or the sort of phases. I do, I guess but not in the way I'd like.
Lately I've been telling myself that when I don't have a job anymore I'll have the time to organize my craft area, get my sewing table up and be productive. I'm going at such a high rate of speed these days, that I actually had to sub-contract the ironing. I love to iron. Not the actual act, but that I get to be productive while watching a TV program and I am usually by myself.
So, I agreed to stay on with my boss for another 2-3 months, until around Thanksgiving. Eeekkk! It will be a great experience, but I'm not sure if I'm fully prepared for all the work that it will entail. I'm going to have to become more efficient and do less web surfing. Do more work after the kids are in bed. Grocery shop at another time of day, I don't know. Ugh. I did learn that Sunday night is not a good night to go to the grocery. Everything was picked over. Tuesday and Wednesday meanwhile are supposed to be much better. That is when I will focus in the future. I've done mid-week shopping most of the time, but we were really low...
Today the following things happened in our lives: Eddie comes downstairs in the first pair of long pants he has worn in about 4 months (except for 1 day this summer) and the are floods. Not just the skim above the top of your shoes floods, but FLOODS. They are a good 3-4 inches above his shoes. He doesn't want to take them off. It's time to leave for church. Shamefully I tell him the one thing I KNOW will move him with speed. "Your pants look like capri's, and boys don't normally wear capris." He was changed out of those clothes so fast you could barely blink.
Josie didn't realize she had school tomorrow. Whoops. This is her first school weekend. She was a little sad. She was also crazy tired tonight. I don't understand why. It wasn't an overly taxing weekend. Hopefully getting her to bed around 7:30 will do the trick.
Eddie and Josie earned more money for Walt Disney World today by helping us clean out the garage. Surprisingly, Eddie stuck with it most of the time and was willing to do the work. Course we were paying him $20, but it was a lot of not very fun stuff: carrying stuff out of the garage, washing it off, drying, and then bringing it back to the garage. And there was a lot of stuff. He thinks J should only earn $5 because she did a fraction of the work. He's kind of right.
I made Cookie's rice again tonight. It was a hit again. Eddie is already eating more food than me. He said he was so hungry today and didn't know why. And he was. He was just devouring everything.
Okay, head is more cleared, back to work.
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