Sunday, January 22nd

Behold, my earrings! Before we painted the bathroom, they used to hang in the window (not unlike this); but they got taken down for painting, and when I went to put them back up I thought “wow, that netting is really dusty, I should pop it into the wash.” And that meant taking off all of my earrings, so you know I got right on that. HAHAHAHA. Finally last week Tim was all, “you gonna hang these?” and I explained what was taking me so long (“it is in a small box in the closet in the bathroom and I only think about it when I see it and usually then I am about to get in the shower so yeah”) and he took them all off while watching TV. I popped the netting in my next load of laundry, and… now it’s back up. So. Yeah. That only took seven months.

Sigh.

Anyway. Moving on.

One thing I’m discovering about making a schedule and sticking to it is that I’m stressing a lot less over things not getting done. At the same time, I’m getting a lot more things finished. Does that make sense? For instance, Sunday is OFFICE DAY. And that means that during the week I stress less about there being random piles of paper around that need to be filed, because I know I’m going to get to it on Sunday. And when I do get to it on Sunday, it takes me less time to finish it than I thought (probably because there’s a week of receipts and not seven months worth) and then I feel accomplished, and done with something. Saturday when I loaded up the kiln with greenware, I felt like I finished it and was ready to fire with much less stress than in November or December, even though I worked on it the same amount of hours I would have then — just spread out over two days instead of crammed into one day. CRAZY.