The One at the Middle of the End in Daily Dish

I imagine they are making funeral arrangements for OD.

Things have been crazy lately. I swear I have enough time to get everything done but when it comes down to it, I don’t. I worked for three hours last night and got three presents wrapped & three tags made. Seriously? I still have so much to do! And I have less than a week to get it done. I have to stay home more this weekend. The last two weekends have been full of activities. I just can’t stand it anymore. Normally I would take a day off to stay home and get stuff done, but that is not an option because every time I take a day off there is someone home with me and I get NOTHING done.

I have been spending a lot of time at working thinking that I need to start thinking about changes in the New Year and how I want to do things differently. I think my last blog post on my “official” blog was in October. So much for having a plan! The problem is, I think about making changes, I never actually make the changes or put them on paper because something else always comes up.

Today & tomorrow are total shit show days at work. We have a ribbon ceremony today (there goes 4 hours at least) and tomorrow is the last board of directors meeting of the year (super long) and there is always a lot of stuff that needs done right away. I will relish the quiet time when the meeting begins. I am thinking Friday is going to be super quiet as will the next two weeks. I am taking the day after Christmas off. I thought about taking Friday as well, but it is not very often the entire office is gone and I can get so much done. Or so much goofing off. Either way, it is a win.

I am hoping that I can carve out an hour over the weekend to do my nails. Just polish, nothing fancy. I just want to have them done.

This is going to sound horrible, but at least I am being honest. I have a thing about funerals on Saturdays. I don’t like them. I think it ruins a weekend. Better to take a few hours during the week to have one than on the weekend. Needless to say, there is a funeral on Saturday that I should attend, but as luck would have it, I already have plans. It’s not that I don’t want to pay my respects or that I am not saddened. If it was family or a super close friend, it would be different, but this is a person who I have only had a passing hi relationship with the last several years. It is a tragic thing that he passed away and I feel for his wife and children. I know how hard it is to lose a father.

I wonder why people wait until the end of the year to make plans for the new year? I am not different. As I sit typing this, I am jotting down notes about things I need to evaluate and change. Some of those things: • Following/Favorites/Bookmarks o I need to evaluate my “subscriptions” if you will.  YouTube  Blogs  PB/OD (which is dead)  Instagram  Tumblr  Twitter – this really needs to be wittled down. I would rather see the tweets of a few people I LOVE than a ton of people I don’t.

I am making my goals. I seem to do good until something breaks my routine, like vacation. Nothing like a vacay to ruin all the hard work I put in. This year it happened in April and I just never did get back on track. I hope to live and learn because I was so proud of all that I had accomplished & this year I have a really concrete goal. It is the first goal towards my ultimate milestone birthday goal. I have a few years until a milestone birthday and there is something I really want to accomplish. Something for me that I can be proud of. I feel like I am at that place where I can really put my focus and resolve into accomplishing it.