(Project) Life

I said I was going to do it and I am! I am participating in Project Life this year where basically you chronicle your entire year in one place....as you go. It's a week by week project which does take some discipline. Yet there are no penalities for not keeping up or continuing-except maybe your own conscious. So far, so good. January is almost at an end and I've actually documented the past weeks-though updating my blog is entirely different.

With all that happened in 2012 it would have been a great year to chronicle along the way though there are times I would definitely have been playing catch up. So for now I will settle for working on a 2012 compilation project--lots of ideas running through my head just not enough time for it all. I forsee some mundane, humdrum times ahead but I am quite okay with that and will document them anyway.

Despite the insanity at work January has held a few adventures.

Of course there was the annual trek to Galveston for the Oak Ridge Boys shows. This year marks ten years in a row and I have only missed one performance in that time yet have seen them (there) every year. Unlike past years I did not stay on the island.



Unfortunately this year Richard Sterban did not make the trip. He was recovering from an injury so Gene McDonald from the Gaither group filled in. He didn't miss a beat (or note) but he's just not Richard.



I told the honey he has to take to me a show somewhere else this year so I can see Richard--and he agreed to it. Now I just have to get him home!

As January speeds to a close both our eyes are on the calendar awaiting the end of his commitment to his current employer. We are both anxious to get him home, employed locally and earning a steady, dependable paycheck.

And as I told him this morning, to get him home for yard work!

Speaking of which...the yard was looking a bit rough. Leaves everywhere with weeds springing up. Since the weather was somewhat unseasonably warm I got out early and raked the front yard. Okay, part of it and got most of the leaves out of the flowerbeds and bagged. After that I mowed the front and back. The back was a challenge because the 'yard man' left branches all over from his trimming adventures back in Decmeber. But I did make progress.





There was plenty more about the house that could have used attention but I just didn't have the time or the energy. It's all good though. I can work on things at little at a time because it's all mine!

Happy 2013

Another year has passed and a new one has arrived. 2012 brought things I never imagined a year ago today.....a house and a marriage.....can't imagine 2013 topping that. Of course there were challenges too but thankfully none unsurmountable.

Looking at the blog history it's obvious I got behind--posts were few and far between or totally non-existant. I hope to change that in the coming year. Notice I did not say I reolve. For one I think that term is a bit overused. I also don't like 'making reolutions' because that just seems like an invitation to lack achievement (notice I did not say failure because I don't like the negativity it describes). So, no 'resolutions' but rather as in past years, goals to be attained. And in my true lagging fashion, I am still working on them....

With the new year starting in the middle of the week I interpret that to mean I have a few days to ease into the year and then start full force after a weekend. Sounds good to me! This theory gives me a few days to get back into routine--return to work tomorrow--and work on those 'goals' for the year. And maybe between now and then I will finally narrow down my one little word for 2013........