everyday life stuff
Felt I should check in with the world for a moment. I can hardly believe how busy I've been lately. Wish I could just take a day off from everything, but if I had a day off, I'd feel compelled to jampack it full of all the things that need to be done.
My house wants cleaning, garden wants tending, lawn wants trimming, washing machine wants fixing. I've promised my kid a swingset which needs to materialize A-SAP now that we've gone headlong into this warm weather.
Our dragging winter this year really slowed me down and somehow created the impression that I had loads of time to accomplish the great many things which now must be immediately dealt with.
D's got to be registered for school which means (since I've recently realized that private school's just not in the cards this year) that I've got to figure out which of the local public grade schools I should register her for (our district allows parents to choose on a first come first serve basis.)
I had this fantasy that I would run out tonight, gather a bunch of cheap gardening supplies and get most of my yard sorted out this evening (it's getting embarrassing since most of my neighbors fixed theirs up last weekend.) I am quickly coming to the realization that with the amount of time and $$ at my disposal, this is total madness. I feel terrible that I'm so rarely at home. I really like being at home.
I had hoped to have a lot more time in my life to putter about gardening and cleaning and drinking iced tea on my porch. As it is I get home around 6:30 feed the kid, she plays or watches cartoons for an hour and it's time for bath and bed. Saturday is entirely spent catching up on a week's worth of cleaning and Sunday I feel obliged to keep us out and about so that D will later in life remember having spent some quality time with her frantic mother that didn't involve eating stuff in front of the TV.
I am tired. But I still want to work on my yard tonight. I also want to check my credit card balances and see if by any miracle there is enough left on one of them to get D's swingset. That would make me happy.
My house wants cleaning, garden wants tending, lawn wants trimming, washing machine wants fixing. I've promised my kid a swingset which needs to materialize A-SAP now that we've gone headlong into this warm weather.
Our dragging winter this year really slowed me down and somehow created the impression that I had loads of time to accomplish the great many things which now must be immediately dealt with.
D's got to be registered for school which means (since I've recently realized that private school's just not in the cards this year) that I've got to figure out which of the local public grade schools I should register her for (our district allows parents to choose on a first come first serve basis.)
I had this fantasy that I would run out tonight, gather a bunch of cheap gardening supplies and get most of my yard sorted out this evening (it's getting embarrassing since most of my neighbors fixed theirs up last weekend.) I am quickly coming to the realization that with the amount of time and $$ at my disposal, this is total madness. I feel terrible that I'm so rarely at home. I really like being at home.
I had hoped to have a lot more time in my life to putter about gardening and cleaning and drinking iced tea on my porch. As it is I get home around 6:30 feed the kid, she plays or watches cartoons for an hour and it's time for bath and bed. Saturday is entirely spent catching up on a week's worth of cleaning and Sunday I feel obliged to keep us out and about so that D will later in life remember having spent some quality time with her frantic mother that didn't involve eating stuff in front of the TV.
I am tired. But I still want to work on my yard tonight. I also want to check my credit card balances and see if by any miracle there is enough left on one of them to get D's swingset. That would make me happy.