Routines

I do better on a routine. When I don't have a routine I tend to do a lot of nothing. Not because I'm lazy, but because I procrastinate. If I don't have a time schedule, I find myself wasting a lot of time, instead of using it to get things done and then I slip into a pity party or worse, I get angry. I work best when I am in a time crunch. Now that may sound crazy scary to someone who has their daily-weekly-monthly schedule all neatly written out in their planners. Give me 45 minutes before a party and I'm doing my best work, wrapping and designing something unique and special. If I have 4 days - nothing. Give me 15 minutes before we have to leave and I'm pickin my best outfit and creating a new hairdo - 5 days - nothing.

When I have a routine like during the school year, that works great for me. I know what I'm doing from 6:30-8:30 am and again from 2:30-3:30 pm. I know that between those times I have to get certain things done. Things that I can't do when kids are around. I know what my time periods are. I know what to expect. I love summer, but it's too much free time for me. I need routine to survive.

Today's another day..

Don't let me scare you, I don't always feel the way I stated on the right. But that day I did and that's okay. Now today is another day and I feel much better. Some days are like that, dark and gloomy, sad and distant. Usually those are the gray and rainy days that appear often in the winter and spring. Summer and fall bring my favorite kind of days, particularly the days when the mornings are crisp and the sun slowly warms up to a delightful temperature by 10 a.m. Or the days when there is a warm breeze blowing softly. I could stand outside for hours.

I really should live in the tropics or even southern California. I'm sure I was born to live beneath eternally blue skies, swim in caribbean blue waters and lay on sparkly, satin sand.


But somehow the stork got the bundles mixed up and I ended up far away from where intended.