All By Myself

Well, this is going to be an exciting week. My always happy daughter will be spending the week with her Auntie Melissa at the "sockie" and my always calm son will be spending the week with Grama, and I will be spending the week in the lovely city of Woburn!!!

Now, I have known about this week for a while, so I have been making plans on what I am going to do. You know, go to dinner with all friends who I haven't seen since Christmas, go to the meetings I can never seem to get a babysitter for, maybe spend some time lying out in the sun to prevent my tan from fading, and (if I have time) maybe clean the house from top to bottom! Anybody with kids (whether they have 2 or 22) knows that these things will take twice the time with a little one in tow!

Now, I am a very ambious person when I want to be, and I always have the best intentions at heart. But if there is one thing I have learned about myself over the past 31 (ugh!) years, I am a planner, but not always a follow througher!! I will always know what I want to do, but my problem is that I set my sights too high, or want to accomplish too much, so when I have only completed 25% of the tasks at hand, and I know that no human on earth could ever finish the rest by the deadline, I just give up and get pissed at myself!!

This is what I am going to try to avoid this week. I am only going to try to do one of these things a day. Not to try to do all of these things in one day!! But most importantly, if the only thing I can accoplish in the course of the day is to go to work, than thats all I will worry about.

changes

Well, I am writing this post at my sisters house while my hair is prosessing and it is inspired by the fact that my hair will soon be the color it was when I was born..or at least pretty close (I forget what color that is since it has been so long!!). I NEED A CHANGE!!

Now to those who know me, know that I hate change. I am very much a creature of habit. I get up at about the same time every day and with that comes the same routine of getting coffee, showering, getting the kids up, etc. Every now and then, if my alarm clock does not go off, then I am screwed up for the day (I don't take a proverbial wrench in the works very well). I will try my best to just step into the line and go, but it never works. I just end up having a crappy day and being a bitch to those who dare to come into contact with me.

But this is all about to change (no pun intended!!). Starting with my hair, I am going to start to change my life. No more doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results (wait, isn't that the defination of insanity), things are going to be different. There will be no more blonde hair, no more strict routine, and no more of the other things in my life that I know I need to change but just don't have the kahones to do!

I look at it like I look at my hair...if it ends up being that bad and I hate it that much, I can always go back to the way it was!