Boring Life Rambles

I have pix of things to blog, and other stuff I could write about, but it's not coming together and the laundry is waiting, so I thought I'd just ramble, quick.

I almost took a picture this morning of a pile of spoons and bowls and boxes of cold cereal. Some people (see me not naming names? But you know who you are!) were under the impression that I cook "cool" breakfasts all the time. I don't. I just only take pictures and post the pretty ones. Most of the time we have pretty lame breakfasts. Worse than that, despite all my nutritional beliefs, most of our cereal right now is the name brand sugary stuff. I'm pretending, at this stage in my life, that the "made with whole grains!" blurb on the side of the box means something.

We had some trees taken out last Friday, which was exciting. I took a lot of pictures, once I weed through them I'll post a few.

I also had a library book I wanted to get -- I found it on some blog that I'd surfed into from somewhere, I don't know how I got there, and don't think I could get back again if you paid me. My library had it and I wrote it down on the list when the kids went with mom to the library. Then, when they came home, I threw out the list. But I didn't think to ask if they'd picked up that book. They hadn't. So then I thought what a bummer it was, because I couldn't get back to find the book again. But THEN I remembered I'd actually put it on to my electronic "my list" that the library account has, so I will be able to get it, after all. Phew. Of course, my dream is to get it and read it, but my actual "let's be realistic" plan is that I'll check it out, not read it, it'll come due, I'll renew it, not read it, it'll come due AGAIN, I'll renew it again, and still not get around to reading it, and then it will be too late and I'll return it. And then I'll never check it out again because it will be a discouraging reminder of my inability to follow through on reading things I WANT to read at this stage in life. There are a lot of books in that "discouraging reminder" category.

I'm also toying with the idea of doing a summer project or two, you know, the before and after visible progress sort of project ... only I'm afraid to pick and commit to one because I'm just not really sure I'll do it, and then that project will also become a discouraging reminder of the things I don't do.

Speaking of the things I don't do, I did mention laundry waiting for me, didn't I?