In the quest to keep up with things, I have done better at keeping the house chores done about every two weeks or so. Not perfect, but not awful.
I am still not good at doing the things I want to do. By the time I get home from work, make and eat some dinner, and do my chores, there's not a lot of time left. A perfect example of this happened last night: I got home, (on time!) we ate dinner, (Joe made it,) Joe went to work at the radio station, and I started my chores. I cleaned the bathroom and put all the laundry away, all the while thinking that I could do "my" stuff after one more thing. So I made our lunches, emptied the washing machine of water, (it broke last week,) put dishes away, made coffee for this morning, and took all the recycling out to the garage. And then I was ready to sit down and check my email. At 10:35 or so. To be fair, I did sit on my bed and watch a half hour of "Bones" after putting the laundry away, so I did get a little rest in there. So at 10:35 I made myself some herbal tea and checked my email, Facebook, etc. I went to bed at midnight. That's too late for a week night. Suffice to say I'm still working out the kinks of the system.
And I have not blogged twice a week, or even once a week. But this post will be just a little over a month since the last one, and it was seven months between the last one and the one before that, so I'm making progress. I find that I have trouble knowing what to write about. I could write about what I'm doing, thinking, etc., but won't people be bored reading about the mundane details of my life? Of course, I read lots of blogs and am very rarely bored, so that may be flawed logic. And then I start thinking that I only need to write about deep, sometimes emotional, sometimes not, thoughts, like Jack Handy only not funny. But that also seems likely to lose readers. As I've thought about it, I think the best blogs are the ones that are a combination of both, that are just an honest commentary on life. Life isn't always mundane, but it isn't always exciting or "deep," either. It's just life.
4 comments:
Your chores take too long! I think my system only works if you clean like I do. I suspect you're more thorough. (shoot, I suspect everyone is more thorough).
Well, it is easier to not take as long when you do them every week or so, I'm learning. I just feel there are too many "oughts" and I let them supercede the "wants."
You must be more thorough with you chores than me too. I'm also happy you're blogging more, even if it's only once a month. ;)
Part of the problem is the summer I cleaned apartments in Manhattan. I don't think things are clean unless they're clean like I was taught that summer.
Sorry we missed you guys when you were here. :( Maybe next time?
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