The Sayer and the Namer

The Grind

Well, my Blog-a-day mission has gone terribly awry...I have to start setting smaller goals for myself, rather than my usual unrealistic ones like "I'll blog EVERY DAY until eternity," or "I'll be as good a housewife/cook as Martha Stewart," or "I'm going to finish one book a week for a year, so that I can read 52 books a year." While all of these things are great goals individually, combined they conflict with each other, and make a scrambled mess of unreached goals.

So my goal for this week....ironic, I know....is to set small goals. I will not be mad at myself if I don't blog with regularity. I will laugh at the notion that I could attain Martha Stewart levels of perfection...she practically invented perfection, and it didn't get her too far, since she's a divorcee and an ex-con. I will not finish a book if I don't like it for the sake of finishing a book - it's a waste of time, and it will make me hate the book even more than if I just quit reading it.

Meanwhile, I've got lots of catching up to do with my class. Taking an online class and going on vacation sounds like a great idea at the time, but in reality, not so great. I had to sit up in a bedroom and read and post a response about a mother who lost her son in Vietnam, while Justin was playing croquet with his family. Not cool. I was hearing screams of laughter and teasing while I was reading screams of agony and proclamations of "I have NOTHING..." it just doesn't work well. (Also, in a mini-movie review, I had to watch Full Metal Jacket and write a report on it...and I hated it. With passion. Horribly sad and depressing, which I know is the point of the movie, but still, that doesn't mean I want to watch it.)

Happy Tuesday in July!

posted by Erin @ 11:37 AM