Putting off my Procrastination

When Jon told me he was giving up fast food and carbonated beverages for Lent, I started thinking about it. Maybe I should give up something too. I thought about if for a couple of days before declaring, “I’m giving up procrastination for Lent!” What? That’s what the Man asked. How do you give up procrastination? Well, I’ll stop NOT doing stuff that I know I need to do. That long list of things that I haven’t done yet (update my blog, read those pregnancy books, sell my wedding dress, get the nursery ready, clean the basement…)- I’ll stop talking about how I need to get them done and I’ll do them, hence giving up procrastination. I mean, surely no one thought at six months pregnant that I would give up some kind of food item. Are you kidding me? By the time Easter arrived, I’d be wearing a dress and my new horns to church.

So yes, I’m giving up procrastination. The Man and I are in Atlanta this weekend. He’s downstairs in the hotel at a Psychology conference while I have the entire day to hang out in the room and finally update my blog and do some reading. I’ll get this posted, then work on some other updates on the site. Right after I finish my lunch from Wendy’s, refill my carbonated beverage and grab some SweetTarts.

A New View

A friend asked me a few weeks ago if I planned to start blogging about pregnancy, babies, and all that family stuff that no single person honestly cares to read about. “No,” I responded. “If I start blogging about all of that, I’ll do it on another venue/blog”… which I had already started creating. But as the days passed, I thought, who am I kidding? I haven’t even written on this blog in four weeks. I can’t maintain two blogs. Half the time these days I can’t remember what I’m doing from one moment to the next. I can’t tell you how many times in one day I will get up to do something, and the very next second can’t remember what I was doing. It happened today at work. I reached to get a Post It and realized it was my last one. I got up to go get a new set of Post Its from the supply room and came back with a blueberry muffin from the kitchen. Go figure.

If I had little else to do with my time, maintaining two blogs wouldn’t feel like such a challenge. But I do… and it is. So, I’m not starting a separate blog specifically for my life as a wife and mother. But, I also have no desire to be so consumed with those things that I lose all other facets of my life. And in the end, I cannot separate the different aspects of my life. All of these things influence who I am and my perspective on life. I hope that in introducing new layers and topics to A Square View, that my perspective becomes more personal and meaningful in some way- to me and to others. If you’re one of my single friends and you don’t want to read about how I sit on the couch at night and watch my stomach as my son kicks me, or how I’ll probably adore my husband more and more as I watch him become a father, then skip those entries. Don’t worry, I’ll still include the shallow, humorous rants and raves you’ve become accustomed to.

So, in the next week, A Square View will be going through a slight facelift as I make some changes, add some features, and update everything. Thanks for being patient with me in the process.