I’m not afraid to admit it: I take shortcuts to housecleaning. I do deep cleanings about every six to eight weeks, but frankly I don't have the time and energy to keep up with it at that intensity. Who has time to scrub down the house all the time, especially when you work? Clorox wipes and feather dusters make life a lot easier, and help you ‘fake it’ with cleaning. But I haven’t found a shortcut to the floors yet. That could be a winless battle.
I’m bad about washing my car, too. I hate car washes. They’re terrifying. I’d just as soon walk through the basement of a funeral home and take my chances on what I might stumble upon than go through a car wash. When it must be done, I go to great lengths to find ones that don’t have those awful tracks that you have to line up your tires with, because they’re neigh on impossible when you have a wide track car, like I do (I drive a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix, if you remember Pontiac). Garages are a pretty good cheat for this, because they keep your car covered most of the time. But still, you have to go out – that’s why you have a car – and so it gets dirty. Blah.
I’m not always good about taking my vitamins, and my doctor busted me on that one when I had my physical on Tuesday. Turns out, I really do need extra Vitamin D, and I don’t get outside enough. Well, no wonder I had so many aches and got sore easy. She gave me a booster, and I started feeling better within 24 hours. I suppose I’ll be working on that one. Not that I’m likely to forget again. If I hurt, I forgot it. Easy enough.
No, I haven’t been on the treadmill lately. I’ve been taking my walks outside during lunch hours and breaks at work, because we have a walking path in my office complex. Then I got a sinus infection from the excessive pollen. What the crap? So I have a Vitamin D deficiency from not getting out enough, and a sinus infection from getting out too much in the pollen? Now you see why I’m crazy.
I’m not a morning person. The alarm clock is actually set for 15 minutes before I really need to get up, and I use those 15 minutes almost every day. My life would be a lot easier if I were, or at least less of a struggle. Changing my work schedule 30 minutes later has helped tremendously. I have to deal with 5:00 traffic, but it’s made my mornings so much easier that I must admit the benefits of the trade off.
I gave Ollie’s toys to Chloe. Most of them were suitable for small to medium birds, and Chloe needed more toys, so she racked up. She loves them, too. But I wasn’t playing favorites. Zack has a lot of toys, and he’s so destructive that we have to get him medium/large bird toys if we want them to last more than 36 hours. So yes, we recycle bird toys. I also finally learned what kind of toys Chloe likes, so that will make shopping for her a lot easier. They really do have unique preferences and their own personality. Don’t ever let people tell you that animals don’t have character. They do.
I read that book The Secret this week. It’s a quick read, so I was able to squeeze it in with my own writing activities. I read it because Rick streamed the video version of this earlier this week. I have to tell you, it’s quite impressive. And it’s not really a secret, either. People have been trying to tell me this stuff for years. It’s been coming at me abundantly; especially in the past 4-5 years. Even pastors and therapists have told me this, and encouraged me to embrace it. I don’t know why it was so hard for it to sink in. Changing your thinking is difficult, but not impossible, and I don’t know why I was so hard headed about accepting a simple truth. But this book made it so easy to understand, and it finally clicked. It is true that “as a man thinks in his heart, so he is” (Proverbs 23:7). So congratulations, universe. I finally get it!
See, I’m not afraid to admit to my own idiosyncrasy and faults. I have them, just like everybody else, and I don’t fear them. I am what I am, and I don’t fear them. Plus, knowing is half the battle. It’s a lot easier to work with things when you realize they’re there.
That’s all today. Have a Happy Friday and a great weekend.
Bye!
I’m bad about washing my car, too. I hate car washes. They’re terrifying. I’d just as soon walk through the basement of a funeral home and take my chances on what I might stumble upon than go through a car wash. When it must be done, I go to great lengths to find ones that don’t have those awful tracks that you have to line up your tires with, because they’re neigh on impossible when you have a wide track car, like I do (I drive a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix, if you remember Pontiac). Garages are a pretty good cheat for this, because they keep your car covered most of the time. But still, you have to go out – that’s why you have a car – and so it gets dirty. Blah.
I’m not always good about taking my vitamins, and my doctor busted me on that one when I had my physical on Tuesday. Turns out, I really do need extra Vitamin D, and I don’t get outside enough. Well, no wonder I had so many aches and got sore easy. She gave me a booster, and I started feeling better within 24 hours. I suppose I’ll be working on that one. Not that I’m likely to forget again. If I hurt, I forgot it. Easy enough.
No, I haven’t been on the treadmill lately. I’ve been taking my walks outside during lunch hours and breaks at work, because we have a walking path in my office complex. Then I got a sinus infection from the excessive pollen. What the crap? So I have a Vitamin D deficiency from not getting out enough, and a sinus infection from getting out too much in the pollen? Now you see why I’m crazy.
I’m not a morning person. The alarm clock is actually set for 15 minutes before I really need to get up, and I use those 15 minutes almost every day. My life would be a lot easier if I were, or at least less of a struggle. Changing my work schedule 30 minutes later has helped tremendously. I have to deal with 5:00 traffic, but it’s made my mornings so much easier that I must admit the benefits of the trade off.
I gave Ollie’s toys to Chloe. Most of them were suitable for small to medium birds, and Chloe needed more toys, so she racked up. She loves them, too. But I wasn’t playing favorites. Zack has a lot of toys, and he’s so destructive that we have to get him medium/large bird toys if we want them to last more than 36 hours. So yes, we recycle bird toys. I also finally learned what kind of toys Chloe likes, so that will make shopping for her a lot easier. They really do have unique preferences and their own personality. Don’t ever let people tell you that animals don’t have character. They do.
I read that book The Secret this week. It’s a quick read, so I was able to squeeze it in with my own writing activities. I read it because Rick streamed the video version of this earlier this week. I have to tell you, it’s quite impressive. And it’s not really a secret, either. People have been trying to tell me this stuff for years. It’s been coming at me abundantly; especially in the past 4-5 years. Even pastors and therapists have told me this, and encouraged me to embrace it. I don’t know why it was so hard for it to sink in. Changing your thinking is difficult, but not impossible, and I don’t know why I was so hard headed about accepting a simple truth. But this book made it so easy to understand, and it finally clicked. It is true that “as a man thinks in his heart, so he is” (Proverbs 23:7). So congratulations, universe. I finally get it!
See, I’m not afraid to admit to my own idiosyncrasy and faults. I have them, just like everybody else, and I don’t fear them. I am what I am, and I don’t fear them. Plus, knowing is half the battle. It’s a lot easier to work with things when you realize they’re there.
That’s all today. Have a Happy Friday and a great weekend.
Bye!
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