there's a lot going on in my world.
- I am finally trying to make heads or tails of my "hometown" quilt guild website.
- I am helping out some friends with some print materials for their respective jobs/events.
- I am picking up the slack at work b/c my coworker just opened her own wedding invitation business and is using some of her work time to take care of some details here and there (or just gets easily distracted by searching for new paper stock and invitation ideas on the web).
- I have three jobs.
- I am trying to cook more complete meals at home rather than throwing something together at the last minute (read: hamburger helper).
- I am helping to plan a bachelorette party.
- I am preparing for a wedding shower.
- I am the newly-elected vice president of my local soccer league... thusly I am in charge of retaining the old (and obtaining new) sponsorship plus plan three weekends worth of preseason clinics.
- I need to finish cleaning our office so I can have space for all of the information regarding the above tasks.
then there's the stuff that I just want to do...
- finish the flannel pillowcases for my friends' children before it gets too late for flannel pillowcases
- spend some time knitting
- wear more makeup
- upload more photos to shutterfly (of our wedding, for example, and of ireland)
- do yoga
- take walks (with and without bowser)
- spend time with das
- read more books (including "unstuck", even though I don't feel stuck anymore)
- watch movies I haven't seen, and some that I have seen
- take a cooking class
I realize that the first list is, well, really a bunch of stuff that could probably fall under "wants" as well. no one ever said that I had to have three jobs. I could deal without the other two. but I like bartending. no one forced me to do the website for quilt guild. but I wanted to help bring our ladies into the technology age. my friends didn't say I had to help them. but they're my friends, so why wouldn't I offer? I wasn't forced into leadership in soccer. but I wanted to be a part of that which organizes and supports our league.
the short answer is... that there is no short answer. some say that life is too short to go to bed early and sit on the couch. some say that if you want to do it, then your time will come. some say that you have to worry about yourself and make YOU happy.
I say as crazy and hectic as my life is right now... I'm ok with it. because I know... my time won't come... it's already here. really... life's too short to think otherwise.
what do you think?
AAAAAGH!! it was a giant praying mantis. now I haven't seen one other than in zoos or whatever so I was very surprised to see it. das and I were big babies and we went in the back door instead. :) when I got in there... I said, "it smells kind of funny." but I brought my stuff into the office and went to check my email. then das turns on the living room light... and says, "um. kt. you might want to come here." one of our cats (we assume it was gabe) had, well, done his business in a variety of forms across all three cushions on our couch. :( AAAAAGH again!! we promptly cleaned everything up and lit some incense. we realized that maybe it was a bit too soon to shut the basement door and allow the kitties to make their way to the cat box via the cat door. but at that point, it was so late from bowling then cleaning up that I didn't want to bring up my quilting to continue cutting (not to mention I couldn't sit on the couch so didn't really have any place to do said cutting anyway)... so we just sat for a little bit watching some tv before bed. when das woke me up this morning on his way out... he said that the cat (again, probably gabe) had again done his business on the couch... even after we left the door open to the basement to ensure that access was unblocked. alas... our poor couch. hopefully it is clean when I get home...
