In case I haven’t mentioned it on twitter and facebook enough, my birthday is tomorrow. I tweeted something about the holiday season almost being upon us, and that by holiday season I meant my birthday.

I wasn’t exactly kidding.  Early November really is when the “holidays” start for us, but they start with his birthday, which is the 6th.  Then my birthday is the 17th, which is also the day we got married.

And like an old married couple (did I mention it’s our 2nd anniversary?), we’re buying a deep freezer as our anniversary present.  It’s embarrassing how excited I am about this.

Anyway, the holidays coming has helped me find my motivation to finish organizing the house.  I was a little over it last week, plus I wasn’t feeling well, so I only did small projects.  Now, I’m just ready to be finished.

I want to be able to get out our holiday stuff.

I want to have space cleared so I can start working out again.  Now that I can actually use the kitchen and cook healthy meals again, it’s time to start taking better care of myself.

Mostly, I just want a functioning household again.

Speaking of putting things off, I still haven’t filled out that packet I was talking about last week.  You know, the really important one that I have to finish before I can even schedule the doctor appointment.

I know!  It will be done by the end of the evening.  This time I mean it.  I wrote it down and everything.

Which brings me to my next point.  I’ve always been a list-maker but lately it hasn’t been working for me.  Meaning that even though I have all the time in the world now, I still seem to be behind on everything.  Laundry is always piled up, I’m throwing meals together at the last minute, we’re running out of stuff, I’m ignoring my blog (and everyone else’s).  I’ve even gotten behind on my TV shows.  This is serious.

Some of this was due to not feeling well and not having much energy, so I’m not beating myself up too much. But a lot was due to not having a balance between working and playing.  Since I’m not working and we don’t have kids yet, I’m lucky enough to have the luxury of doing things pretty much whenever I please.

I think I just got stumped at the overwhelming amount of freedom.  I can read the newspaper when I have coffee in the morning! I can spend three hours reading blogs! I can stay up as late as I want!

Anyway, I won’t bore you with the details, but I’ve figured out that setting goals, along with some sort of routine and structure work best for me.  This week I’ll be putting in place some things that will hopefully help me catch up on projects I’ve been neglecting and do a better job of keeping up with things that are important to me in the future.

Like blogging, and my site in general.  I’ll admit, I have spent some time over these last few months thinking about why I do it and if I wanted to continue.  In the end, I decided that blogging is still important to me for the same reasons it’s always been important.  I feel better when all the junk in my head is in a post instead of in my head, and I like interacting with other people who think the same way.

Which is why instead of letting my google reader pile up until it scares me, I’m going to go back to actually visiting the blogs I read, and commenting, and even clicking on some ads once in a while.  I like comments and page views, and I’m guessing everyone else does too.

Of course, none of this actually starts until Wednesday.  Today is all about finishing that damn packet and going to the grocery store.  Tomorrow is all about our anniversary and my birthday.

Here’s hoping 36 is a good year.

Tags: Blogging, Laziness

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