Not that anyone is looking at this blog, or if you are, I don't know how to tell, but I am really, really bad at keeping up with it. In the morning as I drive to work I think of topics to write about and say them aloud to myself... and during the school day, as I have strange interactions with teenagers, I again think, this is blog-worthy. But at 1:15am, when I am actually here at the computer and on this site, well, now I can barely type, let alone string competent sentences together. Sorry.
But already you might be noticing the repetition in my life. Hence the title of this blog. I am always running late, always behind on my work (teaching or art-making), am am always drowning in laundry or other domestic duties, and it truly feels like the same day over and over. I watch the same tv shows weekly, as anyone does, and eat the same few meals again and again. I wear the same 20 items of clothing constantly (but not at once), and I do my hair the same each day. My make-up has not changed drastically for 15 years, except for that one blue eyeliner I got last year.
God, I sound like I am 50. Not that 50 is old or bad, but in reality, I am 34, and until the last few years my life was up in the air the whole time. For example, I have now lived in my house, my first house-house, with mortgage and all, for four years. In another year or so it will be the place I have lived for the longest in my life. We had a good handful of moves in my youth, and once I moved out at 17, it was a different place roughly every year, sometimes less. Each place different, and with them were often new jobs, and new schedules to live around.
I was in and out of college too, my mother had cancer, a lot happened a lot of the days of my life.
Really I should welcome this repetition. I am healthy, my children and husband are too, and I think they love me most of the time. I have a job that I like most days, that allows me to be creative and goofy, while still earning money. I have a sweet dog and cats and entertaining chickens. I live in a 'foreign' country, which offers it's own delights, and sleep in a cozy house filled with the people and things that I love. And during the summer months, my yard rocks!
Life is leveling on me... staying the course, I guess.
That's good, right? I just have to adjust to the absence of drama and upheaval.
1 comment:
Good blog, alot of shit out there, only new to this myself, the main thing is to enjoy it but dont put so much personal info out there,unless thats what you want, for obvious reasons, if you take a look at my blog, I dont. Get a note book or scraps of paper and jot down ur stories as they happen I find that a good way, atb
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