myjaxon July 17th, 2010
I used to be such a night owl. The focus and concentration one can achieve at 1-2am, in the dark hours of the night, is so productive. I used to love doing things that late at night – grocery shopping, working on my websites, reading, cleaning the house. Everything seemed to get down better and faster. However, today, I’m remembering why I can’t do that anymore.
I’ve been wanting to revamp the layout on Literary Escapism for awhile now and last night I finally did it. It looks fabulous, but it took me until 4am to get it to a point where I could launch it. I haven’t stayed up until 4am in years, at least not willingly, and today I am so paying for it. I slept in until 1pm today and now half my day is gone. Plus all that motivation I had last night, shot to hell. I have nothing. I’m starting to get a little of it back by actually doing things, but it’s the actually doing things that is slow. I was given 24 hours of complete alone time and it’s all going to be shot. I had all these things I wanted to get done and I’m not even sure if I’ll get half of them done.
I’m guessing I have another 4 hours before the chaos ascends again, so I’m going to try and get those things done. Wish me luck.
myjaxon July 13th, 2010
Today is going to be another one of those days, I can just feel it. First I’m kept up all night with this god awful cough and when I run up to Walgreens to get some meds before Jesse leaves for work, I find they don’t open until 8am. WTH Walgreens? Since when are you opening at 8am during the week? I thought you opened at 6am or something. So yeah, then I had to run up to Meijer, which I was trying to avoid. On the plus side, I found out they are having a sale on blueberries and I was able to pick up some fresh muffins (well it smelled like they were fresh). At least that worked out.
However, Ian and I were suppose to go to the fountain park with the mom’s group this morning and guess who forgot to grab his car seat out of the car. *doh!* I can’t believe I did that. I was just talking with Jesse, when I got back from the store, that I needed to grab Ian’s carseat before he left. At least I hadn’t told him that was where we’re going. So I started planning a trip up to Rosies and guess what. It’s suppose to rain this afternoon. Seriously? Are all my plans going to get ruined today?
To make my day even better, Ian has decided he would rather have the wooden Thomas set instead of the trackmaster set he has. I’ve known he’s liked the wooden set better for awhile, but they are so much more expensive and we’ve been holding off on switching his sets. However, this past weekend, while we were at Toys R Us, he found this sweet case for the wooden set on sale and so wanted it. He even carried it around the store until we checked out. So I caved and got it for him on the condition that he had to sell his trackmaster set before he could play with it, which he didn’t have a problem with. Anyway, I’m just now getting around to putting it up on craigslist and what do I do? Delete the pictures I had taken of the pieces before I could move them to my computer or even use them. Yeah. So now I have to unpack all the track and trains and retake some pictures so I can get them posted on craigslist. Argh!
I am really hoping this isn’t a sign of how the rest of the day is going to be. Currently, Ian is happily playing Lego Batman and I’m desperately trying to remember why I can’t close my eyes while he does. Maybe if I did take a little nap, the day will start turning around for me.
myjaxon July 12th, 2010
So yeah, I’ve been totally neglecting my blog for a long time now. LE has been taking up a lot of my time and I’m actually loving it. I’ve been using Facebook more and more, maybe a bit too much, so things are getting out there a little. However, I’ve been thinking of coming back here for a couple of days now. I may not be a regular poster, but why put up long drawn out statuses (not that I do that), when I could do it here.
So what have I been up to lately…..did I mention I’m pregnant? Probably. After all, I’m 8 months along (T-6 weeks and counting!), so it can’t be that new to people. At least I hope it’s not.
Yeah, let’s just focus on today. Today has been really productive. I managed to get all the laundry caught up before noon (well, laundry for the living – I need to get to Simon’s now); managed to get a news post up on LE; realized that the new toy Ian picked up over the weekend wasn’t as cool as we thought it was (you’re seriously going to sell a Thomas Case that gives the impression of a portable track without an engine?!); organized Ian’s Trackmaster set to get put up on craigslist tonight; finished going through all the tubs of baby clothes and now have three separate tubs – one to be washed, one to give to Lori and one for donations. Plus, this includes time to hang out with the monkey and his blocks. Today has been productive.
Ian has totally been cracking us up lately. He’s been a sweetheart (when does the other shoe drop), is going nuts over Lego Batman (he’s currently glued to my side playing it right now) and has been saying some of the greatest one liners ever. I so wish there was a camera set up in my house 24/7 just so I could capture some of those moments.
Speaking of getting caught up, I’ve also been totally slacking on Open Source Cook, but I plan to rectify that soon. Jesse has a new job with a bunch of the guys from EPI and I’ve already heard that my cooking has been a topic of discussion. This is awesome because I have found a recipe I want to try before a shower next week. I wonder when I’ll be able to send something in with him? Do you think it would be odd to make something within the first two weeks?
myjaxon December 23rd, 2009
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything (if you’re on facebook, you know I’m not inactive), but I wanted to share my latest desire…an office. I’m here, attempting to clean my office for the upteenth time, and I keep wishing I had an actual desk where I could store stuff. Then I started picturing the office I wanted. This is what I came up with:
Jill actually has one of these, but I so want this (ALVE Cabinet with doors) to put under the windows in my office. I am seriously getting tired of all the clutter that builds up in my office and this could really help with that since a lot of it isn’t just mine. The closet is filled and I’m starting to pile things everyone.
I could also use at least two of these suckers (ALVE Bookcase with drawer), but in reality, I would probably only be able to fit one in my office. However, that doesn’t mean I could use the second someplace else. Right now, I have three bookcases and two bookshelves filled and I still have more books. And it’s not just books I’m looking to display either. I have a lot of interesting tidbits I’ve collected over the years that are sitting in boxes that I would love to get out. Not to say the least the few photo albums I still have.
However, the ultimate prize would be the ALVE Desk. I want a real desk again. Something with drawers and cabinets where I wouldn’t have to keep everyone on my desk. Right now, my desk is cluttered and loaded down with things simply because I can’t put them anywhere else. Books, pencils, file drawers, everyone you would typically see on a desk is either stashed on top or someplace else in the house where I have to hunt it down in order to use it. All because my current desk doesn’t have drawers. Granted, I’m not a huge fan of drawers simple because it is easy to toss stuff in there and forget it, but there are just some things that should be in a drawer.
Wouldn’t these be pretty in my office though? All of them are from Ikea and there’s one near here so I wouldn’t have to pay for shipping. The chances of me getting any of these though are pretty much nil. I will continue to hope and dream. Maybe for my birthday, after all, one of the bigs ones is coming up…hint hint.
myjaxon September 5th, 2009
So I’m thinking of getting rid of this blog. It was mainly set up as a way to express myself, keep friends and family updated and simply to share a lot of fun things. I’ve been spending a lot of my time over at Literary Escapism (since I love talking about books) and using Facebook for updates and what far more than this blog, so I’m thinking…why am I keeping this blog? Its one more site that I need to try and keep updated (and I’ve been seriously neglecting it), I already have three others that I try to post regularly to (Literary Escapism, Open Source Cook and Ian’s site) and it’s so easy to upload photos, share videos & links as well as keep everyone updated with what I’m doing. It’s almost repetitive to keep using this one.
There’s probably not many out there who care, but you anyone be upset if I start using Facebook exclusively and change myjaxon.com to a placeholder page so I can keep the things I do use it for?
