Back from haircut.
Now -- I can just "chill" until time to go to the nursing home. There's stuff I could be doing more productively, but I think I will (purposely) give myself this block of time for me -- even though I did (not-on-purpose) give myself time earlier, before I vacuumed, and I kinda frittered that away doing a Sudoku puzzle and playing on the phone... Talk about unproductive time... * sheesh * I should REALLY make that a MAJOR focus of my day,
Kathryn.
BTW -- I like your journal, but it seems like almost too much record keeping. I am keeping up with my own checklist, so I can always see what my weaknesses are, re: following my daily routines and goals. I have my morning and bedtime routine tasks on there, plus columns for WHB, focus, paperwork, exercise, etc. It is a very comprehensive plan and it works pretty well -- but as has been said a million times, no PLAN is going to do the WORK for us. There's my biggest shortcoming.
But I am trying to give myself some grace in this struggle for perfection, and I figure if I have spent 30-45 minutes focusing on the house or something else purposeful, (as I have done the past two days!
) then I am making strong strides in the right direction and certainly making an improvement compared to my normal activity level.
So today, my purposeful time has been spent --
vacuuming in guest bath
vacuuming in baby room
going to bank (and post office)
getting a haircut
talking to dmom
talking to ddil
talking to boy who wants to hunt on our land, and denying that request because we have just had too many problems, too many people asking