Until next time
Angela
Friday, August 2, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Sewing time.....
One of the things I promise myself I would do more of is sewing. But I confess it hasn't really happened so far..... I bought these fabric to make a baby quilt for a close friend just before her 12 week appointment - tomorrow is her baby shower and they don't look much different.
So is sewing like riding a bike ? Can you just jump on the machine and whip up a baby quilt in no time flat after being away from he machine for almost eight months - I am about to find out !
Wish me luck and send good sewing vibes my way.
Until next time
Angela aka daisymum
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Weekly checklist...
The recurring theme of this blog since I started full time work almost four years ago has been finding balance. Having it all. Doing everything.
I am a lot less manic than I used to be and now have a weekly checklist - where I track where I am and how I am going... It looks like this....
Contacts with my mentors - goal 3 per week - this week
Family time - 4 per week -
Me time - 3 per week
Focused energetic work time - 4 session per week
Exercise - 5 times per week
Learning time - 2 session per week
Sewing time - I session per week
Couple time - 3 sessions per week
At the end of each day I tick off the things I can categorise as being done - the trick is in each of these activities I have to be present in the moment not marking time waiting for it to be finished so I can move on to the next thing.
This week I have done well - as long as walking to the bottle shop for a bottle of red to have with dinner counts as both me time and exercise - and as I write the rules - it does.
See the one thing I realised was that you can't wait until everything is perfect to do something sometimes you need to shut your eyes to something to open your time for another.
Like today the house really could have done with a once over but as the shopping was done yesterday by the family while I was at work, and there was no rugby today I chose to take an hour off and have a coffee with my sister in law - some very definite me time. Then I came home grabbed the kids and my husband and took them (kicking and screaming) to the beach for a walk - I am ticking it off as family time because nobody said they had to enjoy it - I make the rules remember?
So I have finally found the elusive balance - it isn't about balance at all it is about doing - even if that means doing heaps in a day - and as one of my favourite people on the planet Mat Steinweide said today in his video blog ( mentor contact ) if you don't have enough time create some get up earlier!
Balance is about attacking every day like you won't get another one and not missing the chance to tell the people you love that you love them or are proud of them or need them. Cramming in that 15 minute walk - taking one of the kids with you and ticking it off as family time and exercise - or going alone and ticking it off as me time and exercise.
You see balance is in your own head if you think you have it - you do. Your thoughts are powerful - but a checklist might help until you get your thoughts in order!
Until next time
Angela
I am a lot less manic than I used to be and now have a weekly checklist - where I track where I am and how I am going... It looks like this....
Contacts with my mentors - goal 3 per week - this week
Family time - 4 per week -
Me time - 3 per week
Focused energetic work time - 4 session per week
Exercise - 5 times per week
Learning time - 2 session per week
Sewing time - I session per week
Couple time - 3 sessions per week
At the end of each day I tick off the things I can categorise as being done - the trick is in each of these activities I have to be present in the moment not marking time waiting for it to be finished so I can move on to the next thing.
This week I have done well - as long as walking to the bottle shop for a bottle of red to have with dinner counts as both me time and exercise - and as I write the rules - it does.
See the one thing I realised was that you can't wait until everything is perfect to do something sometimes you need to shut your eyes to something to open your time for another.
Like today the house really could have done with a once over but as the shopping was done yesterday by the family while I was at work, and there was no rugby today I chose to take an hour off and have a coffee with my sister in law - some very definite me time. Then I came home grabbed the kids and my husband and took them (kicking and screaming) to the beach for a walk - I am ticking it off as family time because nobody said they had to enjoy it - I make the rules remember?
So I have finally found the elusive balance - it isn't about balance at all it is about doing - even if that means doing heaps in a day - and as one of my favourite people on the planet Mat Steinweide said today in his video blog ( mentor contact ) if you don't have enough time create some get up earlier!
Balance is about attacking every day like you won't get another one and not missing the chance to tell the people you love that you love them or are proud of them or need them. Cramming in that 15 minute walk - taking one of the kids with you and ticking it off as family time and exercise - or going alone and ticking it off as me time and exercise.
You see balance is in your own head if you think you have it - you do. Your thoughts are powerful - but a checklist might help until you get your thoughts in order!
Until next time
Angela
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Looking back and looking Forward....
Wow - I just went right back to the beginning and read my very first post - and then my second one - Jacqui Jones you have been with me all this time! Thank you !
I am sitting here with a biog smile on my face for the lovely life I ad before I went back to fulltime work!
Do I miss it - yes some elements of it really tug at my heart strings, the garden the freedom to sit and sew all day if that's what I wanted to do. But most of all I miss sharing my achievements - my baking, my home grown this and that - my sewing projects. Now my version of "sharing" is dropping off the local Newspaper with my work stickers on the front because it has an article about how I sold a home in 7 days and another article about vacant land that I am quoted in.
How my life has changed - for the better? After reading those first few posts I am not so sure.
Until next time
Angela
I am sitting here with a biog smile on my face for the lovely life I ad before I went back to fulltime work!
Do I miss it - yes some elements of it really tug at my heart strings, the garden the freedom to sit and sew all day if that's what I wanted to do. But most of all I miss sharing my achievements - my baking, my home grown this and that - my sewing projects. Now my version of "sharing" is dropping off the local Newspaper with my work stickers on the front because it has an article about how I sold a home in 7 days and another article about vacant land that I am quoted in.
How my life has changed - for the better? After reading those first few posts I am not so sure.
Until next time
Angela
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
That short break and a good friend convinced me that this is a good time to slow down, and embrace the inevitability of the holidays. So for me this week it is casual clothes, low heeled sandals and a relaxed attitude to work.
Does that mean I am not working? No it just means I am not trying to make things happen - I am simply letting them happen. From the amazing things that keep appearing out of the blue I am thinking this isn't a bad attitude to carry through for the rest of the year.
But of course I won't, at some stage I will get too serious about things and I will "forget to wear flats to work".
If you are struggling to get to the finish line that is "Christmas" - take a breath, put on some flats, and a Hawaiin shirt and if anyone asks you why tell them because it is 21 days until holidays and you are starting early.
If I don't get back here to say it in a few weeks - Merry Christmas ! Happy New Year! Happy Summer Holidays!
Until next time
Angela
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Christmas Ghosts...confront yours today !
Really just 78 Days and this year more than most I am counting down the days - for me it is 73 days - that is when we take off for holidays and head to the beach.
It has been a busy year for us all this year and work is particularly busy at the moment. I am working 6 days a week at the moment and some of those days are very very long.
At this point four years ago I would have been panicking that I didn't have the Christmas cake made, or the plum pudding fruit soaking - now it is very cruisy at some stage just before we go I will chuck a cake in the oven and if I have time I will throw a pudding in the crockpot - and if I don't have time I will buy them. Christmas drama is definitely the Ghost of Christmas Past.
The Ghost of Christmas Present however - is still bonbons - I was shopping on Sunday and I couldn't help myself I found some gorgeous "beach christmas" bonbons - which I duly snuck into the house and hid under the stairs - right next to the box I bought last year !!! And if I had had a torch and the will I probably would have found the extra box I bought the year before too....My name is Angela and I am addicted to BonBons.
As for actual presents - they are relegated to the Ghost of the Future - I am about to go and organise a shopping day with the girls from the office like we did last year - so much fun. And a special shopping trip with the kids because we have a dear friend and her family joining us this year and we are all very excited about buying little girl presents!
So have the Christmas Ghosts come out to haunt you yet this year ?
It has been a busy year for us all this year and work is particularly busy at the moment. I am working 6 days a week at the moment and some of those days are very very long.
At this point four years ago I would have been panicking that I didn't have the Christmas cake made, or the plum pudding fruit soaking - now it is very cruisy at some stage just before we go I will chuck a cake in the oven and if I have time I will throw a pudding in the crockpot - and if I don't have time I will buy them. Christmas drama is definitely the Ghost of Christmas Past.
The Ghost of Christmas Present however - is still bonbons - I was shopping on Sunday and I couldn't help myself I found some gorgeous "beach christmas" bonbons - which I duly snuck into the house and hid under the stairs - right next to the box I bought last year !!! And if I had had a torch and the will I probably would have found the extra box I bought the year before too....My name is Angela and I am addicted to BonBons.
As for actual presents - they are relegated to the Ghost of the Future - I am about to go and organise a shopping day with the girls from the office like we did last year - so much fun. And a special shopping trip with the kids because we have a dear friend and her family joining us this year and we are all very excited about buying little girl presents!
So have the Christmas Ghosts come out to haunt you yet this year ?
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