Have you noticed that my lists have been getting longer? This is the hazard of list-making for me: it is such an effective strategy that I overuse it.
This week I did not orchestrate a family gym night and the toddler was the only kid to attend a weekday Mass, an undertaking which may merit its own post. Also, I didn't finish revising my manuscript and it remains to be seen whether I will finish the last part of that Christmas present before tomorrow rolls around -- likely but not certain. I'm still calling it a successful week, because it's always hectic getting costumes + birthday organized and OH HUZZAH the back steps are done. Pictures to follow shortly, because I am planning to do NaBloPoMo again and will need blog fodder. Post topic requests are most welcome, though I apologize in advance for my tendency to be erratic about actually writing the posts people ask me to write.
New goals:
- Give Lectio Divina a whirl. (I've been thinking about rejigging my prayer routine, and this week when the Office of Readings has us in 1 Maccabees (my least favorite book of the Bible) is an especially good time to do it. I'd rather read Leviticus any day of the week.) Figure out babysitting for the adult class that's starting this week at our parish.
- This is the time of year when my sanity begins to ebb, and in preparation for the time change I am working on Good Habits this week -- to wit, eating better (esp. giving up sugar for the trigintillionth time), exercising more, using the SAD-prevention light that my husband brought up unbidden from the basement this week. (Strangely, leaving it turned off next to the couch does nothing to improve my mood. Let us pass by the question of what prompted my husband to bring it up from the basement in the first place.) The purposeful relaxation that I planned last week has been so pleasant -- even when it's just five minutes of sitting down with my Kindle (currently reading Bill Bryson's At Home), it's a good thing. So I'm recycling that plan for this week.
- A few weeks ago I made chore charts for my kids, but they are sitting unused on their dressers. This week I need to work with them on actually marking off the items thereupon, at breakfast, dinner, and bedtime. Making a point of reading each day with each of the three youngest has also been a really good thing, so that's getting re-listed as well. I also need to go through bags of clothes with the 11yo and the 8yo (BLARGH) and get the 5yo on the eye doctor's schedule. And low-expectations family gym night, attempt #2.
- Home: Catch up on paper and spend 15 minutes a day on the Loathsome Basement. (I am greatly encouraged by the Formerly Hideous But Now Thing-Of-Beauty-And-Joy-For-At-Least-Two-Weeks Back Steps.) Upload pictures and make a decision: Snapfish book or prints? Catch up on some knitting repairs-- a pair of socks to darn, two to reinforce, a sweater seam to fix, a moment of bad button judgment on another sweater to amend, and a pretty (albeit fairly loud) skirt to seam.
- Work: really finish editing the ms, beginning with a Tuesday morning push to deal with the procrastination-prompting part about power and effect size. Rough out methods and very very roughly sketch results for new ms, with the goal of sending off a draft by Wednesday evening. Email the woman who writes papers that make publishers unhappy, to inquire about tackling a similar paper. Organize that infernal drift of papers. Take some time to think about the research agenda required for a job application.
- Advent preparation: track down an Advent calendar and confirm or refute the hunch that there's a box of Advent candles in the basement. Play around with pictures in hopes of snapping a painless Christmas card picture. This is about as likely as painless bypass surgery, but a person can always hope.
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