In the next couple weeks, I’m looking forward to…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…exercising daily in the form of long hikes with my dog.

…vacuuming daily. I will be so happy if only for a few moments when I have every book, toy, article of dirty laundry, stray bit orange peel, loose coin, and piece of ephemera up off the floor, and I can vacuum the heck out of all the nooks and crannies in the house. I haven’t had time to do a full-service vacuum in at least two weeks, and I am so disgusted by the state of my own home right now.

…cooking. A lot.

…baking. A lot.

…shelling dry beans (details soon).

…trying out my grandma’s orange marmalade recipe.

…washing the window above the kitchen sink that is so splattered and scummy at the present time.

…bottling up the olive oil we brought back from California.

…grocery shopping in a leisurely fashion.

…drinking coffee. I love coffee, but I’ve discovered in the last couple years that coffee is one contributing factor in a complicated equation that gives me migraines. I don’t get horrifically debilitating ones, but they are unpleasant at best, and so I’ve been abstaining from coffee for at least two months because I just could not afford to have any unscheduled downtime. I don’t get migraines every time I drink coffee, so now that my schedule is a little freer, I’m willing to take the risk.

…drinking alcohol. I’m not really much of a drinker in general. I’m not sure why because it has nothing to do with some kind of moral or nutritional objection to alcohol. Blogging has further decreased my already meager alcohol consumption because I’m such a lightweight that I can’t drink and blog (and most of my blogging is done after kids are in bed at night). Now, however, seems like a good time to celebrate with a few adult beverages. It will probably only be a couple glasses of good Oregon red wine, but something about this cocktail is speaking to me. hmmm…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…mucking out the goat barn.

…repairing one of the doors in the goat barn that the goats busted out a couple weeks ago, and I haven’t had time to fix.

…blogging a little more consistently.

…moving forward on my new job as Gathering Together Farm social media manager by getting their blog up and running.

…bookkeeping. I have a backlog, and I can’t procrastinate because our 2011 taxes are going to be SO complicated (no less than four independent businesses, two kids with all their earned income credits and whatnot, as well as capital gains on some investments that we sold to buy more land). We have to get an early start on them, and though I really don’t dislike bookkeeping, I just have to block out a chunk of time to get it done.

…buying and learning how to use Adobe Lightroom for photo editing.

…hooking up my computer to an extra harddrive so that it stops giving me mean messages about being too full of photos.

…working toward making my husband’s native seed business more legit with a website, business cards, and (of course) a Facebook page. (Details soon.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…scheduling playdates with some of our favorite people.

…giving my four-year-old son a hack-job home haircut and telling him it looks great.

…spending time with my very pregnant sister in law.

…taking lots of photos of anything besides cutting boards.

…squandering small amounts of money buying frivolous things for myself. (Y’all are going to have to help me out with this one because I can’t really think of any frivolous things to buy. I actually NEED a new pillow for the bed, but that’s a little too practical. Any other suggestions?)

…thinking of a way to thank and pay back my husband, parents, mother in law, father in law, and brother in law for everything they’ve done to keep me sane in the last three weeks.