So, this is something that a friend of mine always tells me at work because I'm a psychotic perfectionist and usually things don't have to be perfect, they just need to be good enough. I've decided to apply this concept to the house. Now it's important to note that my house is usually quite messy. :) However, when I go to clean the house, I make a huge production of it and it takes forever. I had visions that I was going to have the baby and have the house perfect and everything in its place, etc. Except that I didn't even do that prior to having a baby so what makes me think that now with having to take care of a baby as well, I was going to make that happen. So I decided that the house doesn't have to be perfect and clean and 100% organized, it just has to be good enough to keep us from going crazy with how messy it is. That being said, I cleaned up the house in about an hour and a half today. It's no longer driving me crazy and I didn't have to dedicate a whole day to it. I made little notes of what I could do in each room to help keep it looking organized and easier to clean for the next round. We'll see if it helps. The idea is that if we can keep the house a basic level of clean during the week, then the weekend we don't have to do anything or we can pick one specific project to work on like organize the hall closet.
With the extra time I had, I put in a super mini garden. So last year I put in a huge garden and it failed miserably. Not because anything died or didn't grow, but because I was too good at growing stuff. The joke became that I was working on a prairie restoration project. So this year I wasn't going to do anything, but I decided to put in 5 plants. 1 tomato, 1 green bell pepper, 1 red bell pepper, 1 jalapeno and 1 habenero. We'll see how it goes. :)
Now I'm off to organize the week so that hopefully my first week back to work won't be too traumatic.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Goals, Goals and More Goals
I thought I would post about some of my goals as I lay here unable to sleep because Eric is out of town. I ultimately decided that having a noisy baby in the room was better than sleeping with the bedroom door unlocked. :) It's amazing that I can sleep alone just fine in hotels throughout the country, but leave me alone at my own house without Eric and I am terrified. And now we have a line of thunderstorms coming through. Perfect!
SI have a lot of goals that I would like to accomplish, like work really hard to be supermodel thin :) However, I don't think it makes sense to tackle all goals at once since it can get overwhelming and ultimately leads to burn out and not accomplishing goals. So I'm picking a top five to work on for this year. If I accomplish some of these prior to the end of the year, I will go ahead and get a headstart on the next round of goals, but I want to give myself a realistic amount of time to accomplish these things. I plan to give a goals update at the end of each month to keep myself in check.
1. Eating more nutritiously. This is a tough one as I really love sweets, but I don't necessarily want to diet, I just want to eat better and get rid of the junk food. I think ultimately, it's the best thing for me and a good example for Indie as he gets older. It's going to take me a while to break my habits, so I might as well start now.
2. Be more active. I really love spending an entire day in front of the TV watching movies or marathoning seasons of TV shows. This is already something that Indie has forced us to break a habit of doing and I think it's a good thing. Once again it's a want to set a good example thing. I also purchased some workout dvds that include babies so I can workout with Indie. I try to take him on walks when it's nice out and want to continue that habit.
3. Doing something outside on nice weekends. I haven't been very good at taking advantage of the nice weather in WI. So I'd like to try to something that is outside once a weekend when it's nice for the summer/fall. This might be just a trip to the farmers market, or a trip to the zoo (which is free in Madison woot woot!) and I'd like to take advantage of our many parks in WI and go on some hikes. We found an awesome backpack for carrying Indie so I'm going to use that as inspiration.
4. Be more organized around the house. I'm really good at organizing my time, but not my space. This one actually has multiple layers because part of this is getting rid of stuff that is clutter and we don't need. I've started with my sewing room. It's truly terrifying in there. The other part is to not bring as much junk into the house. I want everything that I purchase to have a specific plan and place. I definitely don't need 80 t-shirts. Just a few will do. :) I also don't need anymore random sewing/craft supplies.
5. Use up my sewing/craft/knitting supplies before buying more. I imagine I will have some exceptions to this, but I'd really like to always check what I have first before going shopping. A big part of this will be not doing an leisure shopping at Joann's on the weekends. This should be easier to not do with having the baby and wanting to spend time with him.
SI have a lot of goals that I would like to accomplish, like work really hard to be supermodel thin :) However, I don't think it makes sense to tackle all goals at once since it can get overwhelming and ultimately leads to burn out and not accomplishing goals. So I'm picking a top five to work on for this year. If I accomplish some of these prior to the end of the year, I will go ahead and get a headstart on the next round of goals, but I want to give myself a realistic amount of time to accomplish these things. I plan to give a goals update at the end of each month to keep myself in check.
1. Eating more nutritiously. This is a tough one as I really love sweets, but I don't necessarily want to diet, I just want to eat better and get rid of the junk food. I think ultimately, it's the best thing for me and a good example for Indie as he gets older. It's going to take me a while to break my habits, so I might as well start now.
2. Be more active. I really love spending an entire day in front of the TV watching movies or marathoning seasons of TV shows. This is already something that Indie has forced us to break a habit of doing and I think it's a good thing. Once again it's a want to set a good example thing. I also purchased some workout dvds that include babies so I can workout with Indie. I try to take him on walks when it's nice out and want to continue that habit.
3. Doing something outside on nice weekends. I haven't been very good at taking advantage of the nice weather in WI. So I'd like to try to something that is outside once a weekend when it's nice for the summer/fall. This might be just a trip to the farmers market, or a trip to the zoo (which is free in Madison woot woot!) and I'd like to take advantage of our many parks in WI and go on some hikes. We found an awesome backpack for carrying Indie so I'm going to use that as inspiration.
4. Be more organized around the house. I'm really good at organizing my time, but not my space. This one actually has multiple layers because part of this is getting rid of stuff that is clutter and we don't need. I've started with my sewing room. It's truly terrifying in there. The other part is to not bring as much junk into the house. I want everything that I purchase to have a specific plan and place. I definitely don't need 80 t-shirts. Just a few will do. :) I also don't need anymore random sewing/craft supplies.
5. Use up my sewing/craft/knitting supplies before buying more. I imagine I will have some exceptions to this, but I'd really like to always check what I have first before going shopping. A big part of this will be not doing an leisure shopping at Joann's on the weekends. This should be easier to not do with having the baby and wanting to spend time with him.
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