I’m a sucker for productivity tips, and was just reading yet-another article in this vein, when it hit me: almost all of my “resolves” for 2014 are really about decreasing my productivity.
I want to:
-sleep more
-cook most of my meals at home
-plant a bigger veggie garden
-fret less about money
-read more books
-take long walks
-write for pleasure
-own less stuff
-do yoga, daily
-go camping, monthly
-be a better friend/neighbor/colleague/family member
-live closer to where I work
What I’m reading right now*:
*Click on the book images to visit the amazon pages for these books.
This past weekend was my first one home in SoCal since the holidays. It felt so good to be able to attack the long list of “to-do”s that were waiting for me, that I kept at it all weekend. Among those was tidying my closet (and making rainbows of my scarves & sweaters):
I planted a few seeds in the garden, enjoyed a long outrigger paddle out on the ocean with my team, spent quality time with Catgirl, ran errands, and had plenty of sleep and homecooked meals. Not to mention the several loads of dirty laundry that are now clean and put away.
And…I got caught up on all of my snailmail and paperwork, including the many (many) financial forms for the kids’ college funds. Then, at lunchtime today I filed both my federal and state taxes(!)–the earliest ever.
Whew. What a great feeling, to have accomplished so much.
As I’ve known for some time, old-timey American privies have a small crescent moon cutout on the door:
But Belgian privies (appropriately called a schijthuis) have a heart instead:
Interesting, eh?
