WHY

I have decided to finally start this blog. I've been contemplating it for a few weeks, but I really thought that I had no need to be this self-indulgent. I thought all the time it would take... I could do a lot of things... catch-up on work, laundry, cleaning, reading, etc, but then tonight I thought that I could make this a useful tool to do all the things I need to accomplish.

Cause if I write about things I'll be forced to do them...right? We'll see if it works.

I am on a mission to make 2009 a success. Not that last year was horrible. I gave birth to the most beautiful baby girl, which has been the biggest blessing of my life, but needless to say has enabled me to fall behind on way too many things. The two things that bother me the most is that ALL my bills are always late (and I have the money to pay them) and the laundry is always about 8 loads behind (thank God we have enough underwear). It's all the small things that add up that make me feel like I'm not on top of it like I used to be.

Here's a great example. Josh and I got in a fight Christmas morning about the video camera. I had bought it for him the Christmas before, so that we could record all of Julianna's milestones in life. But on her First Christmas, after about 2 minutes of filming we ran out of space on the memory card. Now it had been a year, but neither one of us had ever taken the time to figure out how to dump the film on the computer or even burn a dvd (which I also bought the dvd maker thing that is still in it's original packaging) So now 24 days after Christmas... we still haven't touched the damn thing and moments that we'll miss keep passing by unrecorded. During our fight Josh promised he'd fix it...but nope....still waiting.

It's the things like this that are driving me crazy and I will fix.

So on my list for tomorrow (besides working a full day)...

1. Pay the electric bill
2. Do one load of my clothes (Josh did his this weekend)
3. Figure out how to make a Julianna dvd

That should do it, I'll start small.