Short and simple... or not
As the days get shorter, I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated with what I can get done in one day. The Nordic winters make me drowsy, and although I don't suffer from seasonal depression anymore (because I up my meds and sleep more), just slowing down a little bit makes my normally tight schedule downright stressful.
Yesterday, for instance, I was up before seven a.m. to get the tires on the hubby's car switched. I felt like I was really on a roll as I got my grocery shopping done straight afterwards (Oh, the glory of a grocery store at eight a.m. - no people, no lines, just bliss!), applied for a job, spoke with a recruiter, vacuumed downstairs, and figured out a day care schedule that I think we all can live with on one car. I decided to get the hubby's car washed, since it was a pitiful dusty brown and he doesn't seem to understand the concept of going to a carwash, but first I needed a nap.
Only by this time it was after two o'clock and I "just" needed to check the mail, take the dog out and put the wet laundry into the dryer. I ended up taking a fifteen-minute cat-nap and giving the car a quick but inadequate wash before commencing the usual daycare-dinner run. In the evening I wanted to finish up more things and write a blog post, but my brain was too fried from lack of sleep - so fried that I watched tv instead of going to bed. So today I got a late start, no nap, and had to feed the family pizza for dinner (not that they complained). At least when I had a job I didn't have to look at all of my unfinished chores day-in and day-out and had no expectation of getting anything done before the weekend.
Always determined to simplify my life in any way possible, I was thrilled to discover Project 333 today. The basic idea is that you use only 33 items of clothing (including shoes and scarves) for three months. Aside from the economical and environmental benefits, anything that means less laundry and an easier time picking an outfit in the morning is fine by me. Besides, I suspect that we all use the same outfits all the time, we just have so much other high fashion (not!) cluttering up our drawers and closets that we can't find what we need. (And if only the clothes only cluttered closets and drawers - we have clothes in every room, all the time). Now I plan to make use of all the low-ceilinged closets upstairs for everything out of season and give away what we don't ever use and can't sell. I wonder if I can get the girls to settle for 33 toys as well?
Yesterday, for instance, I was up before seven a.m. to get the tires on the hubby's car switched. I felt like I was really on a roll as I got my grocery shopping done straight afterwards (Oh, the glory of a grocery store at eight a.m. - no people, no lines, just bliss!), applied for a job, spoke with a recruiter, vacuumed downstairs, and figured out a day care schedule that I think we all can live with on one car. I decided to get the hubby's car washed, since it was a pitiful dusty brown and he doesn't seem to understand the concept of going to a carwash, but first I needed a nap.
Only by this time it was after two o'clock and I "just" needed to check the mail, take the dog out and put the wet laundry into the dryer. I ended up taking a fifteen-minute cat-nap and giving the car a quick but inadequate wash before commencing the usual daycare-dinner run. In the evening I wanted to finish up more things and write a blog post, but my brain was too fried from lack of sleep - so fried that I watched tv instead of going to bed. So today I got a late start, no nap, and had to feed the family pizza for dinner (not that they complained). At least when I had a job I didn't have to look at all of my unfinished chores day-in and day-out and had no expectation of getting anything done before the weekend.
Always determined to simplify my life in any way possible, I was thrilled to discover Project 333 today. The basic idea is that you use only 33 items of clothing (including shoes and scarves) for three months. Aside from the economical and environmental benefits, anything that means less laundry and an easier time picking an outfit in the morning is fine by me. Besides, I suspect that we all use the same outfits all the time, we just have so much other high fashion (not!) cluttering up our drawers and closets that we can't find what we need. (And if only the clothes only cluttered closets and drawers - we have clothes in every room, all the time). Now I plan to make use of all the low-ceilinged closets upstairs for everything out of season and give away what we don't ever use and can't sell. I wonder if I can get the girls to settle for 33 toys as well?