Why procrastinating can be a good thing

Several times in my life I've felt pretty darn stressed. I know I shouldn't call it "really or very stressed" because that should be reserved for soldiers in battle or pregnant moms whose babies are in trouble or something; my life is nothing compared to that. But I still get this tight feeling in my chest that just won't go away because I can't seem to keep up with my mounting "to do" lists. I usually feel this way when both work and home feel out of control, and I've been feeling this way all week. I can't seem to get everything done in a day. Anyway, tonight I was supposed to eat with a friend, and she was sick and cancelled. When I heard that I thought, "that's cool; I'll get caught up on some of my cleaning and/or grading I need to do." Somehow though, I ended up not doing any of that - I looked at a magazine, did some yoga, took a bath and put on a pore-clearing mask, shaved my legs, and didn't really get much done from my work or home to do lists. However, I'm feeling much less stressed now than while I was driving home from work trying to plan out what I would accomplish this evening, while realizing that I could never get all of that done in one night. It goes to show that sometimes just forgetting about your chores is actually better than doing them!

(oh, and maybe I put a dash of rum in my gatorade. That might have helped a bit with the relaxing too. And prayers; I said some of those too.)

The Blizzard of 2010

Well, compared to all my friends who moved up north, we haven't really had to deal with too much wintery weather. But for Texas, we had A LOT of snow last week! It was definitely more snow than I've seen in my humble Texan lifetime. Here are some pictures I took on Thursday (without ever touching foot on the snowy ground).

The golf course across the street from my apt

The tree outside my apartment window (it snowed constantly all day, but my camera couldn't pick up on the falling flakes)

Snow Day

So we were out of school today. Here's what I did with the unexpected free time:

- go back to bed for a few hours and just lay there thinking about how nice it is to not be at work

- graze on snacks slowly all day

- clean the kitchen, including the burner pans from the stove

- vacuum the entire apt

- swiffer wetjet in the bathroom and kitchen

- build a fire and use up the last of my firewood

- make a facebook event for Josh

- text people

- facebook stalk random people I haven't talked to in a long time and contemplate how crazy it is that so many people my age and younger and married and have kids

- grade some papers

- dance around the apt to music

- clean the bathroom - counters, mirror, toilet, and bathtub

- lay on the couch watching basic TV

- talk to my grandma on the phone

- take pictures of snow (without ever stepping foot on the ground level of my apts)

- have a glass of wine because I've run out of entertaining things to do, and I'm somehow always more entertained when I've had a little wine!

So basically I ran out of stuff I wanted to do at like 3pm today, and if we're out again tomorrow, I might just go nuts! Snowdays just aren't as fun when you're completely isolated from everyone else. :-(