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Curing My Funk

April 28, 2010 By Dana White 6 Comments

Me and my moods.

I call this a funk. It’s not like I’m down or anything, I just don’t feel like doing anything. I’m tired, run-down, listless . . . maybe I need some Vitametavegamin?

It isn’t that anything is wrong. It’s a normal crazy Wednesday. I discovered while sitting in my discussion group at my Bible Study that I had finished last week’s half-done lesson instead of this week’s lesson. Leaving this week’s lesson . . . half done. I had a less-than-fun trip to the grocery store with my four year old daughter who seems to be suffering from post-birthday-delusions-of-control.

So as I wandered around the kitchen, feeling out of sorts and directionless, I picked up the broom. And then I proceeded to do that crazy thing called “what I’m supposed to do.”

I tidied the kitchen, which wasn’t too bad, putting away the clean pots and baking sheets that have been sitting next to the sink “drying” for the past two to three days. I did a general pick up, taking shoes to their spot, and decluttering the dining room table. I even made my bed, which I’ve done almost every morning since starting this blog, but didn’t today. A sure sign that today was going to be a Day of Funk.

And crazy me even put away the vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner that has been in the master bedroom since last week when I cleaned under my bed. It sat there all this time, including when it should have been used last Friday. I wound up the cord and lugged it to its home . . . EVEN THOUGH it will be pulled out again in less than 48 hours for Dust and Vacuum Day. My slob-brain resisted, but I did it.

The irony is that one of the ugh/blech/blah feelings I was having in my funk was that I had “nothing to write about.”

Well, there you go.

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Accepting How I Learn

April 27, 2010 By Dana White 102 Comments

  First, let me clarify a few things. 1. Flylady is awesome.  When people ask me for advice here, I try to make it clear that I’m no expert when it comes to cleaning, organizing, etc. and I generally send them her way.  If you want to know what it takes to get your house […]

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Filed Under: breakthroughs, figuring myself out | 102 Comments

The Beginning of the End

April 26, 2010 By Dana White 3 Comments

Today I accompanied my son’s kindergarten class to the zoo. It was a gorgeous day, and we had a great time. The weather is beginning to border on “hot” at certain points, and I must say that I was a bit envious of those otters splashing around. I’m so ready for summer. There are now […]

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Filed Under: daily checklist, laundry | 3 Comments

No Magic Formulas

April 26, 2010 By Dana White 6 Comments

Do you ever wish you would just learn your lesson and never have to be taught it again? Tonight, as I de-disaster-ized my home before our home group arrived, I was surprised that I was surprised at how bad it had gotten. What did I expect when I had done exactly nothing to it in […]

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Filed Under: duh | 6 Comments

Standing on the Edge of the Cliff

April 23, 2010 By Dana White 7 Comments

It’s been one of those weeks.  One of those like we all have.  My house has been toward the bottom of the priority list. On Monday, I got all of our laundry done.  On Tuesday, I cleaned the bathrooms quickly since there was a school assembly to attend and a little boy to pick up […]

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Filed Under: Out of the routine | 7 Comments

Some Things are Hard to Part With

April 22, 2010 By Dana White 8 Comments

We love books around here. If there’s one item that I feel completely justified in hoarding, it’s books. Everyone knows that a kid can have too many toys, but they can’t have too many books . . . right? Wrong. They have too many books when the bookshelf looks like this: I worked on the […]

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Filed Under: clear out the clutter, decluttering | 8 Comments

How to Trick Your Slob

April 21, 2010 By Dana White 15 Comments

I’m not a fan of Where’s Waldo? I don’t like those “Find 15 things that are different in these two pictures” type of games.  I have hope when I find 6, but lose focus around 8. When someone asks me to go into another room and get the ____, even if they say exactly where it’s […]

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Filed Under: focus, random stories | 15 Comments

Yes . . . It Really HAS Been That Long!

April 20, 2010 By Dana White 15 Comments

I have deprived my children of a major joy of childhood. Hiding under the bed. If they were to see a television show where kids hid under a bed, they would probably react like my husband did as a child when he saw women’s shampoo commercials. His mother always went to the beauty shop to […]

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Daily Checklist

April 20, 2010 By Dana White 4 Comments

I’m a little antsy/flustered/discombobulated/out-of-my-groove today as my 8yo is having a medical test tomorrow. He is on a liquid diet today, which is hard since he’s officially entered the hollow-leg phase of life lately. Thankfully, he’s a pretty happy-go-lucky kid and thinks it’s cool that I picked him up for lunch and took him to […]

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