Posted in Everyday on April 30, 2012| 2 Comments »
One call is all it takes
to disrupt a schedule that doesn’t even exist
From spending time in that sterile room
to an endless night filled with spreadsheets
to divert attention from worry
I move to having the inability
to complete the things that never existed
on my weekend agenda
Posted in Everyday, tagged American Woman, Stranglehold, Ted Nugent, The Guess Who, video on April 27, 2012| 4 Comments »
The weekend is upon us once again and I have the feeling it’s going to be a good one. Husby and I got a message from God when we heard American Woman and Stranglehold within ten minutes of each other on the radio. I took it as a sign that this is the weekend to cut loose and act crazy. Throw responsibilities to the wind, just for a couple of days, and feel like you did when you were young and free.
Rock on, my friends.
Click the pic and crank the volume
Posted in Everyday, tagged exercise, tennis on April 26, 2012| 2 Comments »
Charlotte and I are at it again ~ Tennis Tuesday is back in action for 2012. Except we’re doing it on Wednesdays this year, which makes it Wennis Wednesday.
We’re not competitive ~ we don’t play actual games or keep score in any way. We just volley the ball back and forth over the net. I know you’re thinking what’s the point? Why play a game if you aren’t going to keep score? I’ll tell you why. Because moving is good for us. We do plenty of that, even if it’s just to fetch the balls we were too decrepit lazy to return during the volley.
Another point of our trotting off to the courts once a week is to get in a little gab. OK, a lot of gab. Wennis Wednesday is about being social as well as being fit.
I’m certainly not one who exercises for the high, but the endorphins I felt after our tennis session were astonishing. It made me glad we could begin our weekly tennis/social hour a little early this year, allowing more weeks in the season for us to chat and get high (on endorphins) together. Apparently this kind of session is better for your body than chatting and getting high over cocktails.
So, yay for me and Charlotte! What are you doing to get your body moving?
Posted in Everyday, Food, tagged hamburger, lunch on April 20, 2012| 4 Comments »
Yeah, lunch is good. Except don’t go where I did the other day. I don’t want to mention any names, but I couldn’t get past this “food” without having to take a few pictures and wonder out loud in front of the internets how this can pass as acceptable.
A small hamburger, with a little cheese. That’s all I wanted. I hadn’t had a small hamburger with cheese at this place in a long time so I thought I’d give it a try. This is what I got:
It’s a wrinkled bun. The only thing hamburger about this is that it’s a hamburger bun. A wrinkled one.
There is so little meat in this thing they had to press it to the thickness of paper. And even then it didn’t even cover the surface of the bun.
It wasn’t bad tasting, but it certainly wasn’t a hamburger. It was more of a burger-flavored wrinkled bun. It gave me an appreciation for marketing people and the photographers who can make burger-flavored wrinkled buns look like actual food in ads and commercials.
I’m going to be doing some photography this weekend too. I need to get some updated pictures of my products for my Etsy shop and wholesale catalog, as well as get some new tabs on this site filled with the fun things you can buy from Auntie B’s Wax. I’m not anywhere near as good a photographer as those who shoot the wrinkled buns, but I also don’t need to make my products look better than they actually are for the sake of luring people in. You’ll get no wrinkled buns from me!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Posted in Everyday, tagged organization on April 16, 2012| 12 Comments »
Mary Poppins says, “once begun is half done.” So true. Half done. The killer is in the completion. In addition to my To Do list I also have a Finish list. Seriously. Something goes on my To Do list, I do it halfway, then I put that same project on my Finish list. There’s something terribly wrong with this.
I pour a batch of candles but neglect to shrink-wrap and label them. I print out magnet images but don’t cut them out. I don’t really consider this procrastination because I actually start the project. I just put off finishing it. I guess that’s procrastination after all.
When I start and finish a task in one chunk of time I feel like an actual grown-up. Like today, I was cleaning my bathroom and was so tempted to just do the countertops and sink and leave the tub, toilet and floor for another day. Why does my brain think that way? It’s counter-productive! What makes it worse is I know a half-finished task nagging at me drives me out of my mind. And yet I continue to do it.
Be assured I cleaned my entire bathroom all at once. I was so proud. I also did loads of laundry and folded everything, but they remain in the basket. I made dinner and washed dishes afterwards, but the dishes remain “air drying” in the sink.
There has to be a name for this disorder. Some may call it the too-much-on-your-plate syndrome. I don’t want to call it that because I dislike the phrase too-much-on-your-plate. Others may call it disorganization disorder. That’s more to my liking, but makes me feel really badly about myself. I’ve vowed to become more organized on many occasions; I start to get myself more organized but then don’t finish the plan.
Maybe I’m being too hard on myself. The past few weeks have been muddled with the decline and demise of Husby’s dad ~ that’s a pretty good excuse isn’t it? Maybe now our lives will slowly regain some normalcy and I’ll get back on track and see tasks and projects through to their completion. I can only hope. If I have a household and business filled with unfinished projects I’ll absolutely lose my mind.
What do you do to keep yourself on track? Are you able to start a project and finish it to completion all in one sitting…on a consistent basis? Do the tasks you don’t have time to start and/or finish drive you crazy, just sitting there begging you to do them?
One good thing: I finished this blog post. Yay me!
PS ~ I always finish everything eventually. Except for putting photographs in an album. I’m pretty sure I’ll never, ever finish that project.
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