Monday was such a nice day that I walked down to the office to check the drop box instead of driving. I’m not loving my crazy life here lately. I’ve been gloomy and negative so often that George has started calling me Eeyore, you know the gloomy donkey from Winnie-the-Pooh. Anyway, the sunshine and fresh air made me feel a lot better and thankfully spring is near, so maybe this wintertime gloominess will clear from my head soon. I’m just so hyper-focused on all that I can’t do, or do anything about, that I can’t keep up with what I can do. It’s another way my brain annoys me.

Speaking of spring, I can’t wait for the days I can write from the patio and front porch again. However, I am not looking forward to keeping up with the yards. I want it to rain, but I don’t want my grass to grow. Too bad it doesn’t work that way. I also want to paint my house, but I don’t want to scrape it or do any of the other prep work involved with painting. The problem with that is I know if I don’t do the prep work, I’ll be painting it again next year. I hope that my mojo kicks in this spring so I can get some of these seemingly endless tasks completed.

Once upon a time in a job interview, I was asked, “What can you accomplish in five minutes?” I had to think long and hard on that one but answered with “put lunch on the stove, start a load of laundry, and fold a load of laundry while talking with Mom on the phone and keeping an eye on my kid, while not burning the SpaghettiO’s that are cooking on the stove.” That answer got me hired, but what I would like to know is what happened to that chick? I want her back! That girl could do it all, and then some. I miss her. She was as blessed as she was stressed, and still is. Just wish I could still do it all and then some.

There is so much more gloom and doom I could share with you, but I don’t want to drag the whole county down with me, so instead I’m just going to rap it up for the week. Pray for rain, for an early spring, and for me to find my mojo. X’s & O’s.