Step Away From the Cake

 I started a post during testing yesterday about how bored I was. I didn't finish it. I was going to continue it here but it suddenly hit me, I don't want to be bored. Yesterday was actually a pretty good day and I don't want to dwell on the boring part. It was not bad at all. I don't want to think of parts of my life as boring or hectic or hard. I want to face my life as it just is. This is what I've got. Deal with it. I don't want to put emotions into it and bored is an emotion. I can't be bored if I don't allow myself to be. This is my life and I want to experience every second of it - regardless of the emotions.  So, let's reframe this. Yesterday I got some things done on the computer while they tested. Then I had a department meeting that went well. I found out that they will be removing a door in my classroom giving me more wall space, that's exciting. I also got an idea from another teacher about putting whiteboard paper on my cabinet door...

I've said it before and it keeps hitting home with me. I think I do better when I blog than when I meditate. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just the way I process information or dump information. Being still is great, I do love it, but that doesn't clear my mind. That opens a path for thousands of thoughts to come through. I meditated yesterday morning and started singing a song I haven't thought of in years. Weird. But when I blog I am able to focus and keep my thoughts on one thing - or mostly one thing. Also, yesterday I didn't poop - that's no good - and by the afternoon I had a raging headache and felt generally like crap. I haven't had a headache in a long time. Anyway, I'm blogging and I may blog instead of meditating. Maybe I'll get back to meditation over the summer when I can meditate and blog. Then I can gradually make the transition. I did like it when I meditated and then blogged on the weekends. Maybe I'll give that a shot. All I ...

 Yesterday I was all over the place. I started with working on my hat design in the house here. Then moved to the garage to play with my wood burner. Then has issues with that so ended up getting out my shaping stuff. But that only lasted a few minutes. After that I just went into the house and laid on the couch. I ordered lunch from Panera and took a nap. Finally got back up and went to look at my stained glass stuff. Decided that was what I wanted to do, so I went through the 2 designs I had cut and cut out a couple of pieces that were missing. Then I set up in the garage with my grinder and started going to town. I did that for a while until the garage got too hot. Then I came in and jumped in the pool for a bit and then it was dinner time and I was done for the night. But today taught me that I clearly need to focus to get anything done. Left to my own devices I will not do much of anything. I was really enjoying my grinding time, so I think  I will focus on that today. I ...

 Actually it began last night. On a rare night out, we went to the movies last night. We went and saw Project Hail Mary. It was amazing. I read this book but it was years ago and I really didn't remember it very well. That's okay. It was still really, really good. One I would definitely watch again. It made you laugh, it made you cry, it made you feel all the feels. It was awesome. So we didn't get home until after 9pm but it was worth it.  Today I get to do whatever the heck I want to. I have a virtual meeting at 8am and then we take Hubby's car into the shop. That is it. That is all that is on my agenda. That is all of my have tos. The rest of the day is mine to do whatever I want to. The thing is, there are so many things I want to do that I need to figure out which one to actually do.  I got some felt hats and am looking forward to using my wood burning tool on them. Of course, I need to learn to use my wood burning tool first. I'll probably play with that today...

before I get too far out from the art show, I want to do a recap or a debrief. Kind of like the race reports I used to do when I raced.  We got to the venue a little before 7 am on Friday because we had to set up still. Thankfully, with my new art, setting up is really rather easy. The wire racks. One table. Hang the art and stand the small art up. It worked out really nice. We were done by 8am and Hubby went off to get breakfast. The doors opened at 9am and it was a slow start. Around 10 or so things picked up and there was a pretty steady stream of people. Oh, I forgot to mention that before the show officially opened one of the vendors came around and bought two of my minis. I thought that was a good omen for the show. Anyway, a steady stream of people were coming and going. Everyone absolutely loved my art. They were telling me how great it was and how beautiful and how talented I was. On and on and on. But nobody was buying. Everyone had excuses; I'm a snowbird (they didn'...

 it is Wednesday already. That's amazing. Next week is testing week and that is a week I always look forward to. The kids come in the morning for testing and then are gone by 11 am. We then have the rest of the day to actually get things done. I will have time to get caught up on my grading. I will have time to clean up my room. I will have time to plan out the rest of the year so I don't have to think about what I'm teaching. Yes, it's exciting and I'm really looking forward to it.  I hid from the finances last night. I thought about it and then just ignored it. I can't do that. I have to face it and I have to confront it head on. Time to stop avoiding it.  I just realized that I don't really have much to say today. I am looking forward to the weekend. I have some projects that I want to work on - these are just for fun. I have a rose and pineapple cut out but I haven't finished them. I will work on those this weekend. I also have some books that I boug...