Life in General

Andy got a new job.  It wasn’t in the way we intended, but none the less, it worked out for the best.  It’s going to mean a lot of changes around here, as he is going to be working at home most of the time.  One of the biggest things is the idea that we can have cooked meals for lunch and dinner, and even on days when I have to grab the kid from school, we’ll all be home by 5pm.  This is taking a lot of the “rush to get something on the table” panic mode out of cooking for me.  We’ve also talked around the idea of really cracking down on what we eat and how we cook.  There are a lot of healthy options out there, and I’m hoping to document the changes we’re making so we can help other people see that it’s not that expensive, or difficult to eat well balanced fresh food every day.

The blog has stalled here for some time, and I am completely at fault.  I think one of my problems here is that it’s always been a catch all place for whatever I’m thinking about.  Part of my goal for the new year, is not only a redesign of the site, but a restructuring of the content to narrow down the focus and to provide more informative articles, rather than just rambling about what my kid put up his nose when he was 6.  Having someone here during the day is going to free me up a bit to go out and do a bit more of the things I like to do, mainly because I won’t have pet owner guilt about crating my furry kids so I can be out and about.

I still plan to rattle about the family a bit, as it does break up the seriousness around me, and I’m hoping to do a bit more as far as my knitting and spinning as well.  I’m slowly working through a backlog of half finished projects and have cleaned out the stash.  We’re watching money a bit more so I’m making an effort to find projects to pull from existing yarn and I have a few things in mind that I would like to knock out while I’m in a completion drive.

There’s a lot less stress and a lot more free time to work on projects of all kinds here.  The new year is looking rather good, even before it arrives.

I used to laugh at my dad about getting up early in the morning, but it looks like I’m on a roll this week for doing the same thing.  I’m at my parents’ house for the weekend.  Dad had surgery last week, and my brother came over to stay for a few days.  Everything went fine, and he’s up and about.  I think the only problem is that he’s feeling better than he should.

It’s been a running joke with my husband for years, that as soon as we get here, I start falling asleep on the couch.  I think part of it is being somewhere where you don’t have to worry about anything.  That and the fact that the couch is really comfortable for sleeping.

I’ll be heading back home Sunday.  Next week I’m going to start trying to get some organizing done in my computer room.  Throwing around ideas about working out of the house did make me realize how cluttered things are, so something is definitely going to get done about it this week.

The weekend was busy and crazy on top of that due to the con, but all in all, it was a fun time.  Part of my problem is that I was buzzing from being in a huge crowd most of the weekend and lack of sleep fueled some insane ideas.  Not that the idea wasn’t good, it’s just that I didn’t really start thinking things through until now, and it ended up being a lot bigger than I wanted to deal with.

I still think the overall business is a good idea, but the time, effort and money to get it rolling just are not here at the moment.  I really don’t want to do something half way and then realize that I didn’t plan for things.  So now, it’s back burner and I’ll wait until I get everything in perspective.