Um

Lets see. Life is very, um, life-like. Repetative. Basic. Simple. No excitment. For example, the biggest thing I did this weekend was walk downtown with DH and buy a used (but new to me) book. I try to get my reading material from the library before purchasing it, but the library doesn't have this one. So a used copy with no shipping costs is fine with me. :-)

What else? I filled in the first part of the census, and gave it to DH to fill in his info. We cooked together. Unpacked/sorted through a few more items. See what I mean? Normal life, just not really worth reporting. This poor blog is stagnanting. What, oh what will I do?

I suppose I shall have to start maufacturing entertainment. :-)

Busy Busy

I have projects coming out my ears. Some can be done at home, others require going out to appointments, stores, etc. Lots of comupter time. Trying to prioritize all this and daily life is hard. I am actually productive most of the time. Even when I procrastinate, I do it by doing something lower priority on my list. Oh well--onward!

Huge Progress

We have a living room! We have even had guests over. Finally! Of course, there are still a lot of boxes in other rooms, but I am more motivated than ever to get through unpacking the ones that are "mine" so I can get on to other projects. Bit by bit, progress is made.

New Blog

I've started a second blog. I will be posting there less frequently, and the posts will tend to be longer and focus on my opinoins about "Issues."

I'm kicking it off today with the written version of a speech I gave at church yesterday in honor of International Women's Day. You can view it here.

Good Will

I just took two car-loads worth of stuff to the GoodWill. DH helped (a little bit of it was his). It felt so good to be finally rid of these things that have been cluttering up my life--some for months, some for years. I tend to really procrastinate on getting stuff out of the house. I have very little trouble putting it in the "out-box," but getting the "out-box" out is an entirely different matter. It always feels good when I do, but then there is the occasional time when I miss something I passed on later, and that can stop me from being confident in my clutter busting.

This time, the key was realizing that I was making room for something new, and hopefully good, to come into my life. It is much easier to feel like there is room in my life for new things when the old things aren't accumulating unecessarily. So out with the old, in with the new. Onward, upward, forward. Whee!

Lost and Remembered

Last night I discovered that I have lost (or possibly just misplaced) a very important (to me) series of questions for potential new health-care providers. I spent hours searching for it and came up with nothing. nada. zip. zero. And then I struck, not exactly gold, but maybe fools gold. I found a spin-off of those questions that I had created several months ago, and it jogged my memory enough that I was able to at least partially re-create the list.

I have one more place to look for the piece of paper, but the really frustrating thing is that I know I have the electronic copy in an e-mail in-box somewhere, but it's buried deep enough that it wouldn't be feasible to look one e-mail at a time, and the search function on that in-box only turns up e-mails from the past 3 months or so! This e-mail is at least 2-3 years old! Ugh. Free e-mail is nice, but the customer support stinks.

P.S. I finally looked in that last place, and guess what? I found it. Whew! Huge relief. But I think I'll put it where I originally expected to find it now.

Cozy Day

It's raining again. Which is good. We need the rain. And I like rainy days. They are perfect for curling up on the couch with mending and movie. Which is just what I planned on doing today, anyway. Lucky me.