Why is it that I always think of things to do when I don't have the time to do them? Prime example: I'm driving home from work and when I stop at a red light, I notice that my nail polish is chipping. And then I'll realize that this is the 3rd time this week that I've thought about it... so what's stopping me from taking care of it? This goes on all week long... just substitute "removing chipped nail polish" for "mailing birthday cards" or "reading book club book" or "cleaning off desk." Oh yeah... add "posting new blog" to that list.
All of these little things start to pile up, and before I know it, I'm overwhelmed by all the stuff that needs to get done. So I decided to take a good hard look at how I choose to spend my free time.
Most of the time it's the computer. Specifically, the internet. More specifically, Facebook. It's not even that interesting, but for some reason it sucks up my time like you wouldn't believe. Sometimes it's TV. There are very few shows that I watch regularly ("Community," "Big Bang Theory," and of course, Flyers games), but I've been known to get sucked into a marathon of "Law & Order: SVU" or an afternoon of cooking on The Food Network. It happens to the best of us.
Sometimes the week flies by, and before I know it, it's Friday. This was one of those weeks. In addition to work, I found myself with things to do every night this week until today: Monday was grocery shopping and an impromptu trip to the casino/bar (gotta carpe my diem once in awhile!), Tuesday was CCD, Wednesday was (as always) dinner with my parents. And that brings us to Thursday. I was DETERMINED to get shit done today. I came home, took out meat for dinner, sorted laundry, started my first load of laundry, and then walked 3 miles while the meat defrosted and the laundry ran. I watered my windowsill herb garden. I salvaged a few mums from a bouquet that I got a week ago. Then I cooked and ate dinner and washed dishes. Right now I'm watching a Flyers game while my second load of laundry is in the wash, and I managed to remove my chipped nail polish and apply a fresh coat.
AND I'm blogging.
I feel so accomplished.
I just need to remember to do this more often. If I use one day each week to catch up on this stuff, then it won't be so overwhelming. Even better... what if I take 30 minutes every night to whittle away at these little things? Takes a little bit of discipline on my part, but I think it's do-able.
Oh, and as an added bonus, I took pics of my herb garden and flowers in the late afternoon sunlight. Taking care of the little things certainly does pay off! ;-)
So this is the 'great minds think' post? You're right, it was a synergy moment in the fabric of space time. Excellent pics of the herbs, I hope they are being put to good use. For this spring, I've got a ton of gardening (a lot of maintenance on the pebble design and some planting) to do and will be posting neat updates, hopefully this weekend I'll get some done and do a lot of forward posts (eg. All of it done over the weekend, then broken up into segments for the rest of the week).
ReplyDeleteHappy Gardening and maybe in the next few weeks I will spend a night star gazing. I have that neat phone star chart, so maybe you, me and Dupree (or Sam, or anyone not bored by astronomy) can head out and do some observing.. let me know, I am certain that the Kushner's might want their children to see stars..lol