Now is the perfect time!

Have you ever waited for the perfect time to do "x"...and waited...and waited...I've been waiting almost a month for that perfect time to sit here and expound on our oh so ordinary life, that muddles my brain so much each day, that I never have 30 minutes to sit here and expound on anything at all. That's OK, reading a book (I have a dozen waiting patiently) has been waiting since the spring, and worse, practicing has been waiting for this perfect time for over a year now. Actually, instead of blogging, I SHOULD be down in the workshop organizing...the music store is FIN...and I will soon own all the workshop stuff...as soon as I get down there and figure how much I'm paying for it and write the check. Some very trusting people needed me to haul the stuff away quick!

Back to my inability to accomplish. I had to go to the bank today, get gas and hit the grocery store. I was so psyched that I could accomplish all of this in one parking lot. PS I even got bonus points for being able to do my banking out of the car, which was totally unexpected! Once upon a time, I hated all these chores with a passion and tried my best to procrastinate over them until I absolutely needed gas, food, or money. Envision a bedraggled, hungry Lisa, humping it to the Burger King a block away, carrying pocket change I dug out of the couch, in hopes that it would buy me enough french fries to make it to the next meal...;) If I could go back in time, I'd grab PastLisa and shake the crap out of her because getting those three chores accomplished took like 30 seconds back in the day. Naps and feedings aside, it takes FOREVER to get out the door. I get us all fed, then him dressed, me dressed, find my shoes (impossible), find his (more impossible), get my coat, his coat, oh yeah it's cold...get his hat and mittens but skip mine because the car will warm up soon enough; don't forget the diaper bag, one last trip to the bathroom at this point (the other day I had 3 of these before official leaving, it took THAT long), and finally we make it into the car...and I sigh and think to myself, I bet it's going to be time for him to eat in a few minutes and we haven't even left! Given, he has a wack job of an eating schedule right now, but I'm really tired of going through a whole process to do something, only to have to repeat that process before the thing that needed to get done was even accomplished. Phew...there is my vent. I know, I know, welcome to the land of having children...it just seems like everyone else has themselves together, and I feel like at any moment everything here is going to explode! A few of my friends are heading into 2-child land...I can't even imagine!!

So needless to say, accomplishing more of a variety of "stuff" (that is stuff beyond cooking, cleaning, and playing with the baby) is my new years resolution (which I'm ready to break as I could sit here and type entries for the rest of the afternoon!). I even went and added a new hobby to the mix, just because I didn't feel bad enough for not getting everything done for the last year. So now there is knitting...HOWEVER, it can be done late at night, on the couch, in front of the mind-melting television no problem, so this one actually has potential. If you have a cat, and I know you, you'll soon have some knit cat toys from me:) Or a cat-dog, Melissa:)