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Okay, so apparently I’m the only one worried that we’ve already seen the best and brightest the year has to offer. I suppose we can’t all share my every neurosis.
I’m feeling suddenly full of energy ambition, either because
1) it’s January, and everybody else has brilliant New Year’s Resolutions and I think I should follow suit;
2) the holidays are over, along with the attendant busy-ness;
3) Sadie’s just come out of one of those interminable stretches where if she was awake, she wanted to be in-arms (and now she doesn’t! so I have arms! free arms!);
or 4) I’ve drunk too much caffeine, inspired by my sweet new teapot and teacups.
I just haven’t decided what to do with my ambition. Write up a schedule of projects I want to tackle? Try harder to knit? Or to use up my stash of sewing fabric? Organize something? Clean something?
Part of me is afraid to commit to any course of action, lest my ambition disappear.
Maybe I’ll just start with doing the dinner dishes and see where we go from there.
What are you up to?
Lot that tea set!
We spent 3 hours yesterday going through every file of paper in the house, to purge and sort. Our paper shredder is getting paid time and a half…
I’ve been just keeping my head above water after the influx of toys and gifts from x-mas. I’m working on thinning the number of toys in the house and then hopefully I can get started on taking down the x-mas decorations. I have a four mo. old and she is going through one of those stages you mentioned where she wants to be in-arms all the time! not to mention she’s been grunting and feeding a lot more at night waking me up 20+ times. OK maybe not that much. I’m still waiting for a burst of energy to get those toys organized, I used up my last burst on piles of holiday laundry:)Thanks for the chance to vent a little!
Anjali, I totally need to do that. I don’t know when I actually will.
Laura, you’re always welcome to vent! Four months old is a hard age– just search ask moxie for “four month old”! Oh my.
My holiday laundry is still waiting in piles, and I keep finding more Christmas tree ornaments under the couch, behind the kids’ bedroom door, and in sock drawers. Sigh.
Apart from getting up on my roof on January 3rd to replace the blown-off shingles, so far this year I’ve had a tendency to put off whatever should be done and do something else instead. Doesn’t matter what – just Anything Else. Until we’re down to the last clean glass, underpants, whatever. Then I find myself doing the dishes or laundry at 5:30 am, before I head out to work. But it seems to be working! Just don’t ask me what my Christmas tree is still doing up…
Annie, I am familiar with the “wait till there’s no more left” strategy, but I never manage the catch-up part of it. Which may be why the dishwasher is running for the second time this morning, but there are still lunch dishes on the table. Hmmm…
I’m making lots of lists. Then misplacing them. Then making more lists. I like to cross things off when I’m done. Which requires actually doing things and having the list handy when I do, which obviously doesn’t happen often. But I’m very energetic about the whole circus.
I’m afraid I’ll make a really thorough list and then run out of ambition (never mind energy, I already have none). And then I’ll have a list of Things I Haven’t Done to taunt me.
I got my sewing machine out of the garage rafters and will attempt to transform Isa’s favorite blanket (our cal king duvet cover) into several smaller sized pieces. I made need some rescuing if I butcher it. I haven’t sewn anything since high school!
I’m sure it will turn out great! If you get stuck, give me a call. Or an email, whatever.
[...] last two were long and should count for 1.5 each, right? No? Oh, here’s something: I’m using my burst of ambition to come up with goals for the year. I don’t know what they are yet, but I’m thinking about it. [...]
Right now? Right now, I’m catching up on my blog reading!