Speed

My life has been moving at such a rapid speed lately that I do not like what I have let it done to me. Normally, I'm totally on the ball about birthday's...in the last 4 weeks, I have missed or delayed or forgotten several birthday's of some really important people! I was reminded today what it means to be a good friend and I really hope that I can slow down enough to be able to be the kind of friend I use to be and really want to be. Sometimes it is hard for me to express with vocal words how deeply I am grateful for the things people do for us. I really am so very lucky to be blessed with such amazing people/friends/family. I just really hope that people know that I really am grateful.

I think I have a slight addiction problem. I think I'm addicted to hanging out with my friends! Whenever I'm at my friends' house, I don't want to leave even though I have piles of laundry that need to get done and bathrooms that need to be cleaned. I would rather fold other people's laundry and clean their bathrooms and clean their kitchen's than go home and do mine. I did finally get caught up on laundry this week. You know it's bad when your 7 year old asks if you're doing laundry because he has no more socks to wear and you haven't even noticed. My plate runneth over at times. I just need to focus on my responsibilities and just do it!

I'm getting excited more and more every time I go over to the house so that helps me to get motivated to do what I need to at home.

I was reading this week about the upcoming Royal wedding and I thought about how lucky I really am to not have to worry what the world thinks of me or how I dress, or what I eat etc etc. It's so nice to have a normal, non-invasive life. Obviously there are certain people who are born and meant for royalty or celebrity but I'm glad I wasn't one of those. I'm glad that I can go out in my P.J.s and sweat shirt to the local grocery store and not have the paparazzi all over me and taking my photo. Some people like being dressed up and dolled up for even going to the gas station and if that suits their fancy, well good for them. But I don't always like to be gussied up. If I want to hang out in my comfy clothes and eat KFC without being criticized for how I eat it, then I can. We all have role models and maybe some of those role models are perfectly preened and use proper etiquette, but to me, that feels really fake and contrived. If you are a good example, then you're probably a good role model. But I don't think you have to be perfectly dressed all the time, or use proper etiquette in order to be a good example. I do think that there's a line...obviously we wouldn't take the President of the U.S.A. too seriously if he always showed up everywhere in his p.j's but I think it's your actions AND attitude that speak louder than what you say. There is a time and a place for all things and I'm just glad that my life is pretty dull and normal.

Sorry for rambling on. I just was thinking about that and wanted to get it off my mind.

Well, I guess that's all for now folks. So until later this week (with hopefully more house pictures...because the shingles and siding are there and will probably be up this week!!!!).