just passin' the time

[saffronhare]

Yesterday was anti-procrastination day, so I have a whole week of procrastination to get a head start on. Ha.

20 Years Ago: I was getting into the swing of academics at USMA after getting through a summer of Basic Training, etc. Discovering the pain of realizing I never learned how to ask questions if I didn't understand (which caused me a lot of trouble in Calculus); and the thrill of of isolated intensity in an atmosphere where the ratio of women to men was one to ten. Also, recovering from my first shoulder reconstruction. Good times.

15 Years Ago: Closing in on my wedding to agrnmn and about to get fired from my job on the Clinton-Gore campaign. Living in Minnesota and grateful not to be doing door-to-door fundraising anymore.

10 Years Ago: Going through a series of biopsies and LEEP procedures for pre-cancerous ICK on my cervix, and prepping for comps for my Master's degree at Boston University. Living in Providence, coping with a full-time class schedule, a part-time teaching schedule, a part-time job, and raising a preschooler in close proximity to immediate family for the first time in many millions of years. Also, slowly getting fat. (Cause and effect will be left as an exercise for the reader.)

5 Years Ago: Starting to feel like the house on Robinson Street was really HOME, and counting the days until Princess PrettySchool (youngest daughter) was due to be born. Fretting over the recent death of the sort-of-basset hound (Logan) and the imminent death of the sort-of-spaniel (Katy). Feeling very, very stressed out about cash flow. Princess !Kaboom had started walking...and climbing...and generally showing signs of early ninja-hood. Princess Boredom was not looking forward to the birth of another sibling.

2 Years Ago: Good heavens. I really don't know. Had to go back on LJ to see what I was writing about back in October of 2005: Labradoodles; frustration at work; innuendo and libido; bad haiku. Work frustration has eased since then (thankfully...or just shifted a bit), but it'd be nice to play with some of that lustiness again. A bit too clamped-down these days, maybe. Or something.

1 Year Ago: I'd finished the Breast Cancer 3-Day and still had blisters healing on my feet. Short hair still surprised me every time I looked in the mirror. Life generally starts going upside-down at about this time.

So far this year... Most of what I can recall is filled with personal upheavals, which I'd rather not go into. Mom's cancer still looms large in my mind (she's in her first of five weeks of radation treatments now). Also, I find myself volunteering for the PTA and being a "gymnastics mom." Finally bought garb. Failed to keep a lot of promises, but mostly kept putting one foot in front of the other.

Yesterday...Remembered to pack running gear, even if I didn't actually manage to go running. Called somebody a "dick" in a board meeting. Phoned in an RSVP to a birthday party, and then made a bazillion other phone calls far less pleasant than that. Balanced my checkbook.

Today... Gave a real estate agent permission to show the house to somebody tomorrow. Fingers crossed. Got excused from a "webinar" that was turning out to be more stoopid than anticipated. Planned dinner already. Whew.

And now, back to work. :)

Comments

[teross50.livejournal.com]

You do the everyday well, in spite of the large levels of energy needed at times. ONe of the many things I admire about you.

[tafl-hols.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting to procrastinate all week and simply haven't had time. It sucks when there's simply so much to do that you don't even have time to avoid doing something.

So today I'm going to take a nap. All the unpacked boxes haunting our new apartment simply don't need unpacked until after a good nap. And maybe a football game replay on the television....

I'm with ya, lady.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Called somebody a "dick" in a board meeting.

What, AGAIN? :-)

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

At least this time it wasn't a CHURCH board meeting.