Have you ever procrastinated on a task for days, only to find out that once you get started, the task takes a mere 15 minutes? We humans are not the most logical creatures sometimes, and I have noticed that I vastly overestimate how long a task takes, especially when it’s not a super fun job. […]
Summer is almost over! The sky is falling!
I have right about two weeks left before school starts. (Please insert a very, very large WOMP WOMP here.) The good news is that perhaps this fact will light a large fire under my rear and I will actually get the rest of the stuff on my bucket list done. To help me keep track, […]
The penultimate bucket list update
Every summer I like to make a list of things I want to do before summer “kicks the bucket” so to speak. (This is not a real bucket list, which is a list of things you want to do before YOU kick the bucket.) We’ve got about three weeks left before we start school, […]
Bucket List Check-In
Every summer I like to make a list of things I want to do before summer “kicks the bucket” so to speak. (This is not a real bucket list, which is a list of things you want to do before YOU kick the bucket.) Since summer is halfway over (sob!), I thought it might be […]
The Aldi gift certificate winners, plus a time-diary update
I love that you guys are such big Aldi fans…it was fun to read your comments (all 600+!) about why you love Aldi. Like me, a lot of you adore the fact that shopping at Aldi is so simple and efficient. I just love not having to choose from 45 different kinds of tomato sauce. […]
By popular request….my new schedule/routine
Last week, I shared how I’d gone away for 24 hours all by my lonesome not lonesome self, and that I’d used some of that time to rethink our schedule. A number of you wanted to take a peek at that, so this post is for you! I’ll share my actual schedule in a minute, […]