A Little Break ...
Poetry Friday: Happy Arbor Day!

The Morning Post

Lightdawns

Hello my friends, how are you all?

Me? Well, I'm doing well - physically and emotionally speaking. But technologically? Not so hot.

I'm still having lots of trouble with the computer. I can get online (obviously), but navigating anywhere is painfully slow. Too slow, really. Not that I'm impatient (well, maybe a little), but I just don't have the time to be online for so long! Ordinarily I park my laptop on the kitchen island and keep it open and connected all day. This makes it very easy (perhaps too easy) to quickly pop on and off now and then - to check this or that, send an email, work on a post. But it's way too sluggish now to do any of that very easily. Not and still have, oh say, educated children, balanced meals and clean floors.

And did I mention my answering machine has been eating messages? Hmmm ... perhaps we're meant to be hermits after all. :)

So I'm just popping in to say hello before I turn this baby off for another rest period. I also wanted to show you the lovely woodland sunrise this morning. Miraculously, I was able to upload this picture in only ten minutes.

With my non-computing time I am catching up with my "hodgepodge" journal (which has seen very little hodge or podge lately) and I'm taking a good long look at my household routines. I was reading an article yesterday in which the author spoke about how "busy" lives can quickly become disorganized without the structure and benefit of routines. Her first tip was to de-clutter one's schedule:

"The first step toward simplifying your life is to figure out the things you want to keep doing and what you are willing to let go. Most of us are only awake about fourteen hours each day. To make the most of this time, first write down all you do from when you wake up until you go to sleep. What is taking up most of your energy? Can you delegate some of your duties to someone else?"

So this is something I'm working on today - a master list of every little thing that I do all day long - necessary and, ahem, not so necessary. I hope to tweak that into a more workable routine - one which includes time for things like lessons, balanced meals, clean floors - and a little blogging.  ;)

Have a great day, everyone, both online and off!

Comments