Find a balance between the things I want to do and the things I need to do

I have been working on my laundry the last couple of days. I am not letting excuses get in the way. My biggest excuse is that other people in the house are doing laundry. I management to get a load of laundry done in between a couple of my oldest sons loads. It felt good to not let my usual excuse get in the way. I am about half-way done catching up.

Today my 1st grandbaby was born. It’s a girl. I visited my daughter at the hospital and took some pictures. When I got home, I had a VERY good excuse/reason to play with my digital photos and website. I ended up clearing up a lot of space on my computer because I had A LOT of duplicate pictures from when I was not as effecient with the camera as I am now.

The above picture is my grandbaby when she was 7 hours old!

Today I did some cleaning. I washed the dishes, cleaned the kitchen counters and cut up three cantelope before they sat on my counter too long. I have not done any cooking for a month. This afternoon I cooked a package of turkey bacon. My children were very grateful.

I needed to make some purchases today: cat food, bird food, and food for the family. But I ended up taking a nap instead. I thought I would do it after I got up from my nap, but it did not work out that way.

You might interpret this as lazy, but I assure you it was not.

Two days ago my youngest cat got run over by a car. The person left a message on the phone # that was listed on her tag. My son woke me up to tell me. It took me an hour to find her. I called the people back. They said they had covered her with a tee shirt to keep her warm. I found the tee shirt and verified that it was the same one. I looked all around but could not find her. Right when I was giving up and headed home, I heard her meow. She had dragged herself into the bush that was closest to where I had found the tee shirt. I pulled her out and took her home.

I woke up my children so they could pet her while she was alive in case she did not make it through the night. They checked on her in the morning and she was still alive. That was yesterday. I took her to the vet after getting the kids off to school. She stayed over night and I picked her up today. She has no broken bones, but she is severely bruised. She is on bed rest and antibiotics for at least 2 weeks. It has been a VERY emotional day for me bringing her home.

That is why I say I NEEDED the rest. I think I will be able to be more active tomorrow. I did get my car smogged and the registration updated on my car before, I picked up my kitty today. Once I picked her up, I did not want to leave her side. Turns out that my children took over that job and I got my much needed nap.

I just relized why I did not do some of the things I needed to do today. I was busy helping my son. There is nothing wrong with helping my son. But I took a lot of time to track down songs he was looking for. A lot of it he could have done himself. But I LOVE being on the computer. I enjoyed doing it. At least until I come to the end of the day and relize that some time would have been better spent hanging up clean laundry and starting some more launday. It would not have really taken that much of my precious time on the computer.

I really do need to revamp my priorities in my head and in my actions.

I made some phone calls concerning my car insurance. I got one of my cars to the shop for repairs. I took my daughter her car registration.

These were all good things that need to get done. I felt great about getting these things done.

I also got to hang out with my daughter all afternoon.

I think 43things is a place that I NEED to go every day. I have been more focused on what I NEED to do since I started going here regulary a couple of days ago.

Thank-you, everybody, for your support!

I severely struggle with this. I have been through a lot of tramatic things. I seem to have lost the since urgentcy to focus on things that are urgent and important as they come up. I am being treated for depression and bi-polar but in the last year I have severely lost my balance concerning acting on what is important.

Is anyone out there similar to me?