My daily dumpster fire

I got a really awesome Valentine's Day present, which I can't wait to use. Seriously. However, this box sitting in my kitchen two weeks later has my unpacked present in it. Why? Because with all the overtime I am working till our annual work event in a little less than two weeks, all I can accomplish is work, and what I hope are attempts that are not in vain to keep my immune system from giving out. So my one present that is one step further to a fabulous Gothic dinner party will remain in storage. For now. And, I'm trying to be okay with it, and to remember that I am not failing, I am doing a lot, and I simply can't do it all at once. #DailyDumpster 

I may not be able to recall with clarity what has preoccupied my week so much, but I do know that every time I walk into my library and see this bookcase I am so happy and content. So it's this week's #SundayChaser #DailyDumpster

I think I am well over a week trying to finish a craft project, that should absolutely not take this long. I just am trying to reuse candle jars to put cotton balls and such in for my bathroom, and it has taken me over a week to get the lids fully pained and sealed. And honestly I couldn't tell you why, I don't really know what has kept me busy, I just know at the end of the day I fall into bed exhausted. Here's hoping this week I can get back to being more present in my life, and maybe have some nice new jars in my bathroom. #DailyDumpster 

This was all clean and washed by Sunday afternoon. Five days later I am still working on folding it and putting it away. If my kids were still little I wouldn't feel so bad about it, but I don't spend my evenings at sports events, and making dinner, and helping with homework anymore. But recently I have noticed that being "busy" is a gas, and your life/time is the container it has to fill. No matter what big things you've got going on, or very little going on, it expands to fill up the space. And boom you are just as "busy" when you get a bunch of time drains off your plate, as you were when they still took up your days. So I am going to make this new year, and this new decade, a time of intention, I am going to carefully decide what I chose to fill my life and time with. And apparently finishing the laundry didn't make the cut. What are you going to fill your life with this year? #DailyDumpster

I have been taking my own advice lately, and putting time into myself and rejuvenating activities. Today's #SundayChaser is one of them. I love to bake, and work on recipes, but I frequently don't feel like I have time. But today I made time, among other things I enjoy, like my new manicure and pedicure. This will be a long week, and I really won't have as much time for me, so I claimed today! Claim your day, and remember life isn't a dress rehearsal, spend time on the things that matter to you. #DailyDumpster

So it's still there...and it's growing. I kind of have just been waiting till I think I have it all then I will haul off for donation. But it looks and judges me every morning before work, and then again when I get home. Some days I can ignore and then other days I give in to the guilt and the feeling like a failure. But there are more good days than bad. So I battle on! And I put more time into me and things that matter (see my #SundayChaser) #DailyDumpster