This Post is Just For Spilling My Thoughts

It’s 7:26 pm, Monday evening. I am most likely going to ramble on about a lot of nothing important but I feel the need to let it out so here goes. 

Today is the first day of our no school week. I had plans, oh the plans. But I’ve sat on my rump most of the day. So here I am going to try to make myself feel better about what I did with myself for today.

I did make myself breakfast, lunch, a snack, and dinner for everyone {the kids thankfully made their own meals today- thank God for the little things!}. Hey, I’ve got to eat, right? Drank a lot of mint tea and some apple cider. No coffee although I thought about it…briefly…this morning.

Oh, I also ran around the living room and kitchen playing with the cat {I have the scratch and bite marks to prove it} and washed a lot of dishes. Way too many dishes.

I wasted a lot of time on FB, waiting for my niece to reply to my comments on her wall posts. And reading what others have been up to. It generally makes me feel so insignificant when I read others’ posts, so generally I don’t read others’ posts on FB. Not liking the feeling of inadequacy that I continually subject myself to, it’s easier to just avoid it altogether.

Unfortunately, I miss the good bits and pieces by doing that. Today though I took the time and read a lot and tried to catch up to where I’ve missed. A lot of time. And I’ve discovered I can’t catch up. Not possible. I did read some really good thoughts from Betty Eisenhour from Peace Creek on the Prairie. I like how she thinks.

I’ve also worked for hours on my paper. I really think I could be done with it in just a couple of days. If only I could extract from my files {in my brain} how to format it in APA style. What and how do I cite the table I put into my paper?? Why won’t word let me change the table number?? When I am done here with this post, I will go back to writing on my paper. I’m on a wee bit of a roll. Just a wee bit.

All those years of college classes- blah. For naught, I tell you! You don’t use it, you lose it. Plain and simple. I was thinking about that today also- my college classes really have taught me nothing. Well, wait, that is not true. They did teach me how to write in a way that others {read: instructors} want me to so that I could get a good grade. Having always been inclined to make my writing grammatically correct and being a wee bit fanatic about spelling, my college classes only intensified that. And it’s not the fault of the institution. Nope. Not entirely anyway. I didn’t take a genuine interest in very many of my courses. Get an A, get a good grade, get it done; that was the mentality.

Fiddled with my blog layout. I need to reword some things on my About Me page. It’s outdated. Wondering if I should do this or that with the blog. But I didn’t come to any conclusions. Just moved a few things and deleted a couple of others. I already have my winter theme picked out for the background…won’t change it though until it snows really good here. I’m determined to keep fall around {even if only in my ‘world’} for as long as I can.

I have 26 minutes until I usually head upstairs to my room for the night so I should close this post now and resume my writing. Yeah, that is what I will do now.

This concludes my rambling. Carry on…