-PROCRASTINATION STATION-

“If you put everything off until you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done”

-Norman V. Peale

Well, well, well. What do you know?  It’s April 15.  That’s 15 days past my self-imposed deadline.  Which means that I have been meandering through the first half of this month without any purpose.  Without direction.  Goal-less!  I’ll blame it on ‘The Loony Bin’-which is where I spend my weekdays between the hours of 8:30am and 4:40pm.  What was once an undemanding Reading Teacher position quickly became a headache inducing 6^th Grade Teacher position when a certain Loony did not come back from Spring Break.  Gone are the days of no planning, no grading and no thinking. I now have responsibilities and frankly, I’m not ok with it.  But that brings me to my top goal for April. 

Keep on Keepin on: until the end of the year.  May 18^th.  Just 29 work days left.  I can do it.  And hopefully the 6^th graders will be able to learn something from my meager math lessons. 

Here's the Loony Bin back in its prime.

Other goals for (the remainder of) April are as follows:

Travel: to NASHVILLE! For my favorite Kentuckian’s bachelorette party.  My boots are already packed and ready for walking and pedaling. In THIS…

 can I getta hell ya?

…and then on to Chicago for Mother’s Day and MaryG’s birthday. Both on the same day this year.  Talk about a double whammy.  Better think of a good gift. (My presence is your present?)

Create: some of these

 

as well as some more blog posts.   Because now that I have my fancy header from this guy, who is married to this girl, I can’t NOT blog on the reg.

Read: My book club assignment- Kitchen CounterCooking School.

Get: A new job. The time has come.

Drink: More water.  Kind of a lame goal, I know.  But I am somewhat of a camel.  I often have zero glasses of water/day.   I’m a bit sick right now.  I think I coughed up approximately 8 lungs yesterday.  But I’ve been hydrating more than usual and my skin feels refreshed. Imma try to keep that up after this congestion is gone. 

-resolutions are corny-

I dislike making resolutions on January 1st. They seem too daunting and my feeble attempt at making them results in a piece of paper covered with more doodles than realistic goals. On the first day of the brand new year, I’m pale and freezing. I can’t make positive life changes during a time of so little sunlight and so much snow. I’m partial to Spring Resolutions. This is when I feel excited. When I feel motivated. When I feel warm. I want to get healthy, I want to travel, I want to eat and drink on patios. So now that I am in a resolution-state-of-mind, I am making my monthly goals. And I am sharing them with you. Not because I think you care, but because if I know that you know, I will be more inclined to follow through. (my goal structures are inspired by the new years resolutions found here and here.)

-goals for march-

create: a blog.

I’ve been talking about doing this for months. My inspiration comes from friends and acquaintances. When I say acquaintances, I mean complete strangers who’s blogs I have stumbled upon and, unbeknownst to them, proceeded to stalk follow. Religiously. These “pals” are all uber-crafty or wildly hilarious or professional photographers in training. I’m not any of these things. [Though I do love to fantasize about—one day—doing a craft. And my dream in life is to be one/twentififth as funny as Tina Fey or Kristin Wiig. And my new in-laws did just give us a pretty snazzy digicam.] I’m also not sure that I can “pull-off” a blog. I feel a bit corny. But I live in Nebraska now, and I think it’s in my best interest to embrace all things corny.

travel[near]: to Lauritzen Gardens...

Hubzinski and I have a membership here because the same day we got married, we turned 80. Our motto for success is: “less daydrinking, more botanical gardens.” I love it. But haven’t been there since October-ish. So it’s time to go back and smell the tree-buds.

...and to DeSoto Bend. It’s a bald eagle refuge and I feel like getting patriotic.

travel[far]: to Chi-Ville and Kentucky.

To my favorite city for this:

With my favorite party people:

And to my home-ville for a little bit of this:

And a lot bit of this:

read: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Crazy Love, and (finish) Bossypants. Thank goodness for the book clubs and Bible studies that keep me literate.

run: 7 miles twice a week.

pray: Each day. And be thankful.