this woman’s work

I have nice readers. I appreciate that. And many of you write things that make me laugh. I changed my note on my comments to let you all know how much I appreciate them and that I’m sorry that I can’t respond to them all.

I save a lot of them meaning to respond and periodically I go through my “journal” inbox (all comments filter to there) and feel really guilty so I try to avoid doing that.

People ask me how I have time to blog (although this is not technically a blog, it’s a journal and so not as much work since I don’t have to find things to link) and write (when I’m writing much, which I’m not) and homeschool (as unschoolers, it’s much more flexible). Here is my answer:

1. Remember the not-so-clean house;
2. A full year of typing my junior year of high school. I type fast;
3. Multitasking. I do a lot at once;
4. Regretfully neglect incoming mail.

Sad but true. I don’t write people back like I should. And snail mail? I am absolutely awful at snail mail. I’m also pretty bad at returning phone calls (ask my friends, they’ll tell you — I am slightly phone phobic).

Speaking of snail mail, I’m stymied about our holiday cards. They’re here on the bookshelf behind me — I bought them in October — and I should have addressed and stamped them by now but like my overflowing email inbox, I just look at them and declare to myself, “I’m going to take care of that — eventually!” I was thinking I would like to wait and see what happens with the baby because we always send a picture out with them. Either it will be a picture of Noah or a picture of Noah and baby. So I’m waiting on that. But then I think, “What about baby announcements pre-printed? That would save me a lot of writing!” I could do that, it would be nice. We didn’t have the money to do that with Noah and I’d like to splurge this time. Then maybe I should wait to see what happens with the baby before making a decision. But then if we don’t get the baby around Christmas and go back in the pool, people will think we suck for not sending holiday cards. Maybe we should send holiday cards. But then if the baby does come, we’ll have all of these holiday cards that we won’t use because we would rather use announcements.

The truth is, I think I’ve just devised an elaborate scheme not to deal with those damn cards. While I am a fast typist, I am a terrible and illegible writer-by-hand. My mom says it is the handwriting of a serial killer and frankly, it’s gotten worse in the past ten years since the only thing I write by hand is grocery lists. I can’t even always read my own scrawl, which can be embarrassing and ought to teach me a little lesson only it doesn’t. Anyway, just the thought of writing personal notes on all of those holiday cards gives me writer’s cramp. Brett would do it but only if he could write what he wants to say and I am way too controlling for that.

See what a master procrastinator I am? I started this entry with a plan to deal with holiday greetings and have now convinced myself to let it slide a bit longer! I am a champion!

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