The simple life

2007-01-05 - 9:28 a.m.

Against all reason, I am here at work again today.

But not for long ---

Anyway. Here are two of my favorite (nondiaryland!) blogs at the moment.

Yarnstorm has convinced me that I want to become a quilter. And to collect odd linens.

Say la vee has convinced me that I want Kevin to stay home from work and start cooking for us. (Well, I could have convinced myself of that, actually.)

I'm thinking about resolutions. It has taken me a while to adjust to its being January. Mostly I think we're all just recovering from the insanity that was last year, culminating in us hosting 9 people for 5 or 6 days. But actually, that went surprisingly well -- we usually visit each of K's brothers once a year, and it was really nice to reciprocate. It actually went really well.

So anyway, here are the resolutions I've thought of so far.

• No more spending money. We do have to buy M skis, and take N on a trip east to look at colleges. But I think that's it. I think we'll just live with what we have for now, which is plenty. Except it might be nice to buy one more stoool for the kitchen, but even that I am willing to wait until next year for.

• Have people over to dinner more. We've actually already started that, and I think it's a nice thing. The corollary to that is -- we can't worry too much about how messy the house is. (Although if we could keep it at a reasonable level of messiness, that would be good.) And also, we can't be too fussy about what we serve them -- I mean, it's actually okay to have pizza, even, if the idea of cooking fancy foods is what's keeping us from having people over.

• Relax. I am feeling pretty unrelaxed, which I think is to be expected after last year. So this year, I am going to let things go a little.

• But, given that, I am going to try to get rid of all the boxes, and the stuff we don't want, and have the house reasonably organized, by this time next year. That's not unreasonable.

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