So Much To Do

As the title of this post suggests, I have a few things on my To Do list. We have been away, visiting with family all week and I have tried to get some work done here and there. Of course I have failed miserably to finish more revisions on the History Project, but I keep trying. When we get back to our regular lives, I will have so much to do that I think I want to curl up in a ball and cover my head with blankets and NEVER come out again. Or, I may have to tackle those To Dos.

I have not been able to figure out when or how things went off the organizational rails, but I am definitely careening down a rather steep hill of work. When it gets like this (and it always does), I have a tendency to run from my responsibilities or at the very least say a few prayers as I magically wait for it all to work out. It does, not because of magic, but because I actually knuckled-down under the pressure and attended to my work. Then, I make the usual promises that Next Time, I will be more responsible. I will be attentive to my duties, work steadily and diligently, and not get in this type of mess, again.

Or am I just overwhelmed with too much to do? Either way, there is little else to do at the moment besides work.

Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving. It has to be my all-time-favorite holiday. Anyone can love Christmas (which I do). Really smart people (who are Christians) like Easter. I think Easter gets overlooked and becomes an excuse to eat chocolate and ham, which are good things in and of themselves, but I am not always as committed to celebrating Easter as it should be observed. But Thanksgiving...I really like this holiday. First, it is in November, probably hands down my favorite month. Lots of exceptional things have happened to me in November. (I could tell you what those things are, but where is the mystery in that?) Furthermore, it is really Fall, but has the potential of being Winter. Because of this, you may get snow, but you will also get lovely Fallish days. And I love a good Fallish day. But Thanksgiving is special because it is all about celebrating all the good things in our lives and being grateful for them. (We are often so negative.) It is about being with people you love and eating really good food. It is about spending time together, working together, cleaning together, just being, you got it, together. And there are no gifts involved. I think it is one of the few holidays that does not involve gift-giving. Now, I like gifts. I like giving them; I like getting them. I like giving out candy at Halloween. I like hiding chocolate filled plastic eggs for people to find. I like wrapping silly little stocking stuffers for Christmas. I like it all. But, Thanksgiving does not have that. And, I feel the need to defend Thanksgiving. It gets squished with the onslaught of Christmas. I think it is important to pause to be thankful. So often I am not. I am crabby, cranky, thoughtless, short-tempered, over anxious, and all those negative things which makes me challenging to be around. So, bring on the turkey! Bring on the stuffing, squash, potatoes, cranberries, the all important Green Bean Casserole, and the pies! Fruit and chocolate alike. Lets celebrate the heck out of it all!

Really Not Very Good at This

I am failing at National Blog Month, regardless of country of origin.

Missed a Day

I missed yesterday. Maybe I need to make a list or leave myself a note as to my purposes here.

The week has quickly come to an end. I am expecting family for the weekend and I am rather pleased about that. All my family lives somewhere else and I wish I could see them more often. Thanksgiving is coming up (one of my favorite holidays) and I glad we will be off to see more of them. I wish I could say that the trips will be relaxing, a time to refresh, and all those good things, but it won't be. It will be busy, hectic, and I will return more tired than when I left. But, it is always worth it.

We are here in this place and it is fine, but we miss that other place where there is family and friends and familiarity. This place is still not familiar in that intimate way where you know every inch of it. We are still outsiders, the new people, adjusting to our new surroundings. Will we ever be "at home?"

A Challenge

I read this morning over at Life, Smudged that it is National Blog Posting Month. OK, so, first, I did not know such a thing existed, but not surprised. Since the author of this blog is in England and I am in the U S of A, it might not really apply to us here at the Perfection of Prudence. Second, the author plans to post once a day in honor of said month. I feel I have been challenged.

Now the trick of this is that I have not had the brain power or mental energy to think about anything within the context of this blog. And, (I am loathe to say this to you one or two people who actually read the blog) that I have been contemplating why we continue. That said, a challenge is a challenge (even one where the person doing the challenging does not have a clue to our existence)!

I am afraid this will truly be a challenge. I am in the midst of a chaotic life at the moment. Not bad chaotic, just there are more things to do than I have time in the day to do. I started a new position in September but one of the two old ones was/is still active and I have been doing two full-time jobs (which are technically supposed to be part time. Liar, Liar, pants on fire.) As a result of this current state of affairs, I have not had a chance to think too fondly of work and more often than not I wish to take a nap on the couch with a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on the TV in the background. Or a soap opera. Or Lifetime Movie. Does not particularly matter, just as long as I do not have to focus. Unfortunately, I cannot do such things and it has lead to me being cranky more than I would like (because of tiredness, not necessarily because of the lack of Made for TV movies in my life). Yet, many people work all the time and are very tired, but seem to not inflict crankiness on those around them. How do they do it?

I guess I should figure it out soon before everyone I know ditches me.