Procrastinator? Who, me?

Well, my announcement that I was back was clearly premature. But as always, when I have a million other things to do, I come back to blogging. This week coming up is so busy so of course I'm taking ten minutes to update my sorely neglected blog.

We are all happy to see the holiday season approaching...not just because we love Christmas but because it means 2015 is finally going away. It's been a roller coaster of a year and we are hoping that 2016 might mean some stability. We're heading into the end of two years of upheaval and while Alex and I will appreciate a more settled life, Miss J needs it in the worst possible way! Little C is quite content with her situation but she doesn't remember anything except our current life.

We've been on a crazy ride of gentle climbs with great views of the future that all of a sudden fall into steep drops that leave your stomach hanging somewhere at the top. But as Alex said to me the other day, good things are coming. And he was right. Less than 24 hours later we got some great news and it just kept coming.

This week I have two term papers and two finals and then I'm starting the Christmas baking and decorating and celebrating with my kids. And maybe I'll start blogging again (although I may have lost my readers!)...we are just starting year two of a huge life change and it is pretty amazing, even with all the ups and downs!

Back to the books!

A conversation with Shannon

Shannon, why are you still up and not sleeping? It's past your bedtime and you're exhausted.

Because I need to update my blog. I have lots of pictures of J's birthday party to post.

Ummmm...I don't see your blog updated.

Well, that's because I updated the other one first and now I need to do this one and the photo blog and....

Did that really take an hour? Just one post on one blog?

Noooo...I had to check Facebook and read my RSS feed and make some comments on other blogs and just basically waste time....

So, go to bed!

But...

BED!

Okay. Good night. I'll try to update tomorrow night. Really. Eeep. I need a timer like my kid and I need to be banned from RSS feed reading except for certain windows of time...

Darn. I procrastinate too well for my own good. And why do I have to channel my mother to do what my body's been telling me to do for hours?!?!! WHY?!?!

Sigh. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Procrastinating using the Next Blog Button

Ages ago when my job was one that was insane for weeks on end and then dead for weeks on end, I used to entertain myself in those quiet periods with the Next Blog button up there at the very top on the left.

My job is not like that anymore. No way.

Right now though the project I'm working on, while a big project, is B-O-R-I-N-G. It involves files (and filing is one of my least loved tasks) and it has a very wishy washy deadline. A deadline that is looming, but I know that with the small amount left to do, I could probably do it all in one day. And I have about six weeks. See the problem? And then when this project is done. Well. I'm not sure.

But anyway. Back to the Next Blog button.

I was procrastinating the end of my lunch break away as I have been doing all week. And I've been frustrated with the Next Blog button of late. It used to be that it took you to recently updated blogs (ie in the last few hours). This week I felt like I was lucky if the posts were less than a week old! Today though, I got mostly stuff written in the last week, but it was mostly about jewelry (making it for fun or profit, selling it, historical information) and fashion. It was very strange.

I found a lot of fun blogs through the Next Blog button, but looking back at the last little while, anything new I'm reading regularly, I found either by typing something random into Google and doing a blog search or from a link someone posted on Facebook or from the blog rolls on those blogs.

It's too bad. It was kind of neat to read random blogs!

Enough procrastinating now...back to the files and today's even bigger, more important, special job: business card ordering. Oh I lead an exciting life sometimes!