Give Me Back My Week!

Gah! Where has this week gone? I can't believe I'm already at the end of my first week of holidays. It has just flown by. While I have not been nearly half as creative as I would like this week, I have managed to tick a number of things off my to-do list. Like...

> Going to the dentist - for the first time in ahhhh 3yrs?!?! *Insert shameful face here* I swear, I didn't realise it had been that long!!! As one would expect, I have to go back next week for a filling (or 2)

> Having an eye test - as usual, my eyesight has worsened in the last 12months. But the optometrist did have a super sale on frames - cue new 'casual' glasses :)

> Finally getting myself to the post-office to post my 'important' documents - i.e. birthday card for my sponsor child in Nepal.

> Completing my citizenship application... I think after 22yrs it is time I officially made Australia home.

> Spending the past two days in a (compulsory) first aid training course... learning skills I already hold a degree in and educate people at work on. Go figure. But I did learn a new sling technique, so it wasn't all pointless.

So now that I've made a dent in my to-do list, I fully intend to get stuck into my creating and will hopefully have something to share throughout the week. Right now, however, I am spending my Friday night watching Bridget Jones while knitting a baby gift and wishing my Mr Darcy would soon appear. However, before you think I'm a total saddo, I do have plans for my actual weekend, which include GOING OUT and socialising. Yes. Hold on to your seats peeps, you read that right. I am going out. On a Saturday night. Like a NORMAL 20-something. Ha! Just give me a minute to claw my way out of all my balls of wool and switch the kettle off. And maybe trade the fluffy socks for heels - we'll see, it is winter.

H xxx

New Start, Take 2

I have been meaning to get back to blogging for a while now. I even put reminders into my phone! I have thought of what to write over and over again. Yet I just couldn’t get it together. I use the excuse that life has been busy, but that’s just silly. Life is ALWAYS busy! I’d be worried if it wasn’t. So why am I so slack? I don’t really know. But it’s not just in the blogging sphere. I get lazy with soooooo many things.

At the end of my shift each day I get this wonderful feeling of excitement that I’m going to go home and do so much; scrapping, quilting, writing, errands, exercise – you name it, I intend to do it. But somewhere along the 12km drive (yes! Only 12km) from work to home I lose my excitement and by the time the key turns in the door I’m done. All I can muster the enthusiasm for is to make a cup of tea and sit on the sofa with a good book or surfing the internet. Then I spend an unmentionable amount of time wildly pinning things to my Pinterest boards and stalking my favourite bloggers for ‘inspiration’.

So here I am. Finally sitting down to write… and where am I doing this? Where has the inspiration finally struck and willingness evolved? In a doctor’s waiting room, of all places. It’s rather bleak in here actually, so I don’t know what’s excited me... Actually, why is that? Why are doctors’ waiting rooms always so blergh? It’s the same generic décor – old 90’s office chairs with faded watercolour oil paintings on the wall. Or if you’re really lucky, it’ll be cane furniture and artificial flowers that look like they’ve come off the set of the Golden Girls. Anyway, I digress… I very much doubt you want to sit and read about my thoughts on doctors’ waiting rooms, back to the point at hand.

As with previous years, this year I did not set myself any new year’s resolutions. Instead, I set myself some personal goals and aspirations – regularly blogging was indeed one of them, clearly I’ve excelled at that, ha! These were goals for all areas of my life. Personal, health, career, hobbies, social – everything. But here we are, half way through the year and what have I ticked off that list? Very little. Which sucks. It sucks big time. For me, the less I achieve in something, the less I have enthusiasm. Some people have the all or nothing attitude for winning and getting the job done. I on the other hand have the all or nothing attitude for losing. As in “I’ve stuffed up this much, I may as well just pack it all in”. This is something I’ve struggled with from the very beginning of my existence. Try as I might to keep positive and focused, it just doesn’t happen…

But now I am facing three lovely weeks of holidays, with no set plans and no set commitments. Exciting right? You betcha!!! Now is the time I’m going to cross off those goals on my list, starting with this little ol’ blog. So here’s to another new start and reaching my potential.

H x

Ps This was posted after my appointment... clearly I wasn't at the GP at 10:30pm on a Sunday night!

Pps Just so you know that I haven’t been completely useless the past 2yrs, here are a few scrap pages to enjoy!