Pots...

When did I get to the age where big blue pots for the house make things exciting??? Tacoma Boys had their 2 for 1 sale last weekend so I picked up these two, I've been eyeballing them for a while. They will go on the front porch on either side of the stairs.



They threw the dog in for free =)

New posts...

I've been traveling for work the last week and a half and I've been in lots of all day meetings which means time to blog! Unfortunately I don't usually have access to the web then so you get them now...

What drives you?

I was talking to LW today and we were both discussing how we are so busy, and complain about being busy, but always find something else to do in order to keep that little bit of stress in our lives... There’s work, school, spending time with LW, working on the house, hiking, family, search and rescue, church… the list goes on. Things haven’t changes but I think my priorities have a little.

I’ve always considered myself a driven person – I want to be successful, and be good at what I do, and I’m lucky to be able to have a job I really like. BUT – sitting at the airport on a Monday night after spending all last week on the road, and watching the workaholics around me try to fit one more call in before their flight, makes me really rethink my priorities. I’ve always thought I’d like to “work to live” instead of “living just to work” but have I really? Maybe it’s the veil of new love but I really don’t know if this work/school/busy all the time thing is really the best way to go… Or at least being so busy that you can’t fit in spontaneous fun…

I already work from home half time but maybe that’s not enough – I can work less than 40 hours a week if I want, but that starts to cut into the finances… I’m blessed with a flexible schedule – and a job I can do from anywhere, at any pace I select – I guess I just need to decide what I want to do.

It’s too damn hot…

Working in Florida this week which sucks – who wants to live someplace that always smells like it’s rotting? Mississippi, Lousiana, and Atlanata are all the same… Anyplace that causes my deodorant to melt in the car in October is not an acceptable place to live.

Unless my feet are in the sand, a beer is in my hand, and there’s water to swim in leave me out…

Too busy…

I think I could probably write a blog about this on a daily basis… There’s something about me that makes me constantly fill my plate with more stuff to do when my plate is already full. I’ve heard this called eustress before, or positive stress – this is the good kind of stress that makes me wait until the last minute to start on an assignment. I seem the thrive on this and the problem is this usually works out well and I can pull off really good quality work in a short time-frame which reinforces this “bad” habit.

The problem now is I’m so busy I don’t ever seem to have time to have any fun or be spontaneous – I’d like to be able to say yes if people want to go out and grab a beer on a Wednesday night or go camping on the weekend.

I keep telling myself I’ll get better at managing my time and do more but it never seems to happen. The reality of the situation is until school is done in a year I guess I’m just going to be too busy – what will I find to keep me busy then???