What a week of snow this has been! I was a super slacker on the blog last week because it was so busy, and this week I have been able to get all my posts in! So I decided for a semi-fun Friday blog. I’m going to call myself out on some things that I’m really BAD at…… and you know what, it is ok to be bad at stuff.
1. SPELLING…. honestly I could write an entire blog post about how bad I am at spelling. If you only knew how many times I have to stop mid-post to go google something that I just can’t get that stupid underline to go away after 10 gazillion tries! And I STILL have crazy mistakes and typos all the time. Sometimes I feel really self conscious about it, but most of the time I just say “love me or leave me.” If I’m writing something really important I will try to have someone proof read for me.
2. COOKING…. I have mentioned this many times through out the years…. and I’m not actually a bad cook, I just don’t cook. Huge flaw, I feel like a failure of a wife/mother all the time. BUT at this moment in time it just doesn’t happen. One day I would like to magically turn into this amazing cook (like my friend Connie) and have Mark get all excited about it. He literally eats himself stupid when we go to her house. Eh….maybe its just not in the cards for me lol. Don’t ask me to bring a dish somewhere because I will stop on the way for a veggie tray or cookies.
3. THE PHONE….. I’m pretty bad at keeping up with friends and making phone calls. That got even harder after having Gracie. A simple task like sending a text message even got harder. I know my true friends will be my friends no matter what, but I’m often guilt stricken for not calling on a birthday, or going to see a new baby, or even returning a call sometimes. My friends know I love them, but this is a struggle. I big reason I prefer email is because I have a record of everything I need to respond to or do, if I don’t have a pencil in my hand for a phone call then I won’t remember anything….. oh and thats if I even keep the sheet of paper I wrote on!
4. ORGANIZED CHAOS… I didn’t really know what to label this because I’m organized and unorganized at the same time…. on the business/life side of things I’m extremely put together on the surface…. but really once you go past that it gets crazy haha. For example, I can honestly say that my system is pretty flawless when it comes to client attention, getting images turned around, answering emails, and all that “surface” workflow. But when it comes to the stuff people don’t see like tracking mileage, expenses, general office organization things are all over the place. Just like my desktop on my computer appears pretty with folders, but inside the folders is a hot mess! But hey, it works for me, I’m just not going to have one of those offices you see on HGTV or anything. Mine is made of little stacks everywhere, and my suitcase might still be flopped open from my last big shoot. Or my sewing machine that gets used once every two years…. I just don’t want to put it up… Mark loves to joke me for that one.
5. HOUSE PROJECTS ….. So being the DIY lover that I am, one would think that I’m the master at this stuff. But no, just like so many other “grown up” things, I just let it go. I have so many things in my craft closet right now that I have been wanting to do or hang, and I won’t even say how long they have been sitting there. Now clearly free time is not something I have a lot of, but still. Mark and I have two rooms with no light fixture, two different rooms with out electricity, A guest room with curtains that have not been hung, I mean the list could go on for a while. But the truth is life gets so crazy if I can just maintain dished and laundry for the week it is a WIN.
I hope this brought you a little giggle or maybe gave you a little peek into my perfectly imperfect life! If you know anyone that wants to do some of this stuff for me in exchange for hugs I’m game 🙂
