Archive for June, 2007

The problem with catching up with the Laundry

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

You find out how much clothes you and your kids own and realize you don’t have room for it all.

On a postitive note, had an great dream last night (no sex, but it was awesome!) which has negated the weird one I suffered the other night. I like the full moon until it starts making the kids act like monters.

dreams

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

I just had the most disturbing dream. I can’t even write about it as I don’t want to give it an credit in reality.

I have always had bizarre dreams. Some that even came true. But they have usually been entertaining especially when told to someone else. But this one…it was mixed past and present in a way that could never happen but still…

Best to get on with my day and try to forget about it.

Christmas in July

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I know it’s only June but I have to get ready for next month. Normally, we go to Michigan for a couple or more weeks in July. And it made sense to move Christmas to July so we didn’t have to mail stuff back and forth. (OK, it really started since I was overwhelmed and needed the extra time.) Last year, I gave all the aunts & uncles albums with a layout in there of the boys school and professional portraits. It is my intention to add to that album every year. That is 8 albums I need to make albums for. At least they are small, 8×8 instead of the normal 12×12. So I gathered all the pics and realized I have too many. SInce they started taking spring pics at school and we went to Sadies this month, I am needing to make 2 layouts for each album. Last night, I got one done for U. Steve & A. Liz using the fall pics.

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Today, I got one done for the spring pics.

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Only 14 more to go. ;)

creative person=procrastinator

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

OK, not exactly but I think this really fits in my case. I read Getting Things Done by David Allen and loved this theory;

It’s really the smartest people who have the highest number of undecided things in their lives and on their lists. Why is that? Think of how our bodies respond to the images we hold in our minds. It appears the nervous system can’t tell tell the difference between a well-imagine thought and reality.


…who would procrastinate the most? Of course it would be the most creative, sensitive and intelligent people! Because their sensitivity gives them the capability of producing in their minds the lurid nightmare scenarious about what might be involved in doing the project, and all the negative consequences that might occur if it weren’t done prefectly! They just freak out in an instant and quit!


Who doesn’t procrastinate? Often it’s the insensitive oafs who just take something and start plodding forward, unaware of all the things that could go wrong.

Now I am not saying that procrastinators are creative people. But I know I am creative and this is a good theory why, IMO. And the book has been helpful for me.

Light a Penny Candle

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

I finished reading this book by Maeve Binchy. I love her books but I had forgotten how long they. In my PDA, the book was over 2000 pages but the paperback version only has 608. Still, not a light read. MB is wonderful with detail and dialogue. And the first part always seems to drag since there is so much that needs to be said. Then the last 100 pages go by so quickly that you feel like she got tired of it all and just tried to wrap it up. But she didn’t wrap it up, she left it wide open as to where Aisling and Elizabeth went from there. I’d like to believe they went back to Ireland but what about Elizabeth’s father? I know she would have loved to have left him on his own but she was too responsible to do that. Something she did NOT inherit from either parent.