Saturday, 23 August 2008 @ 10:38am.
My grandmother used to joke that instead of a to-do list, you could call it a “honeydew”/”honey-do” list. The only thing is, I’m pretty much the one tackling most of the items on the main to-do list these days, but I am grateful for when my mom has been a help here and there.
In the past week I have learned a tremendous amount, particularly about cars, furnaces, bank loans, and pushing paper through offices. I can’t even count the number of emails, phone calls, scanned documents, seeing people in person, etc. that I’ve had to do in order to take care of business. The semester hasn’t started yet, and I’m already feeling swamped. Part of this is due to the fact that I have been overseas for almost 2.5 years with only a couple of breaks, but I also think that life is busier or a faster pace in the U.S. than other places in the world.
I’m still on the hunt for a decent used car… In the meantime, I am walking and busing everywhere. This stretches out my schedule, but I try to be positive and think about how the walking=exercise and the buses=time to read books.
My mom and I are having a yard sale today. We are decluttering and organizing and it feels good.
