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Focus Check Friday

June 25, 2010 By Dana White 3 Comments

I’m ready for Friday.  It’s been a fun week of VBS at our church, but I’m glad tomorrow is the last day.

As for my focus this week . . . I’ve survived.  I halted the big weekly cleaning tasks, and I’m okay with that.  I did alright at the daily stuff, though far from perfect.  Once I quit expecting failure, things went much better.

Next week is stressing me.  It begins our Cousins Camp/Vacation/Savvy Blogging Summit time, and I’m not ready.  I have much packing and prepping to do.  I’ve been working on a list.  Putting my must-dos down on paper helps me a lot.

My goal for the weekend is to pack for both cousins camp and our vacation, separately.  This will mean doing laundry early.  Once that is done, I’m hoping to just check things off the list until it’s time to go.

How was your focus last week?  Did you find success or have any big struggles?  What is your focus for next week?  This is your excuse to talk about yourself, to babble about the details running through your head.  It’s your excuse to take a moment to focus.

You can leave a comment, link up a blog post below, or just stop and breathe for a moment.  If you do link up, please say something like, “I’m linking this up at Focus Check Friday over at A Slob Comes Clean” and then link back to this post.

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Filed Under: Focus Check Friday | 3 Comments

Sharpening My Other Senses?

June 24, 2010 By Dana White 7 Comments

I’ve heard that if someone loses one of their senses, their other 4 are sharpened. Hmmmm. According to the eye doctors, I have 20/16 vision. However, not one of those doctors has been able to diagnose or treat my Super Selective Slob Vision. But perhaps this type of blindness has helped me develop what hubby […]

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Filed Under: kitchen | 7 Comments

Really? Well, Who Woulda Thought?

June 23, 2010 By Dana White 2 Comments

Quick post in the 23 minutes I have before I need to start dinner. It was supposed to be a relaxing afternoon at home, but someone called to suggest we go see Toy Story 3 in a little-bit-bigger-town near our small-town. They have a dinky theatre where the matinee is 2.25!!! Seriously, I paid 9 […]

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Filed Under: duh, parenting | 2 Comments

Living Up to My Expectations

June 22, 2010 By Dana White 7 Comments

I’ve been saying for weeks that this week, VBS week, was going to be my undoing.  I expected it to be crazy, myself to make excuses, and order to be unattainable. This is the big struggle I face between being realistic about how I am, and deciding to stop the excuses so I can change the […]

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Filed Under: figuring myself out, My great excuses | 7 Comments

Feeling a Little Better

June 22, 2010 By Dana White 3 Comments

Just got back from a late-night haircut and color. Nothing perks up a girl like getting her roots done. It’s also a biggie checked off the list of things I wanted to do before going on vacation/Savvy Blogging Summit. I worked hard on getting laundry folded, and made a lot of progress. Completing that task […]

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Losing Things . . . Losing My Mind

June 21, 2010 By Dana White 9 Comments

My husband used to know where to find his keys at any given moment. Then he married me. The most frustrating thing about being a slob is my tendency to lose things.  “Tendency” really isn’t a strong enough word.  If I had the brain power right now, I’d think of a word to fit that […]

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Filed Under: a place for everything, failures, figuring myself out | 9 Comments

Two Steps Back, and One Step Forward

June 20, 2010 By Dana White 5 Comments

The kitchen. Oh my. I have had a full-fledged, in-my-face reminder of the fact that I am a slob.  A reminder of how a week of minimal/survival effort followed by two days of full-on neglect can create a kitchen worthy of starting a blog called A Slob Comes Clean. Last night, I had the all-too-familiar […]

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Filed Under: kitchen, Out of the routine | 5 Comments

Menu Plan Monday – The Crazy Week Edition

June 20, 2010 By Dana White 6 Comments

Now that my horrible, terrible, very bad kitchen is clean(ish), I’m determined to get this menu plan done. Somehow, the kitchen is easier to clean when I have a planned menu. I’m not sure how that works, other than that maybe I don’t pull things out as a part of an idea to make something, […]

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Filed Under: Menu Plan Monday | 6 Comments

Watching Clutter Happen

June 19, 2010 By Dana White 3 Comments

My house looks like summer. Not in the fresh-flowers-on-the-dining-table way, but in the flip-flops-everywhere-and-random-junk-piling-up-from-lack-of-routine way. And I’m watching it happen. Sometimes I’m not aware of the clutter happening, but right now I feel very aware. I may not have purposely put it there, but I have purposely left it there. I was motivated on Thursday […]

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Filed Under: honesty | 3 Comments

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