Time flies

It's amazing to me that I am infinitely busier now that I don't have a full-time job.  Working all day outside the home kept me from looking at all of the household duties which are often neglected because there just wasn't time.  

Now, however, I have time to: 

• clean the baseboards 
• vacuum (with no feet in the way) 
• peruse potential gourmet dinner recipes
• wash the sheets and bathroom rugs
• exercise for two hours in utter silence
• get a new tire
• watch a child-inappropriate movie, with the door wide open *gasp*

..... and then before I know it, it's time to pick up the kids from school, which means that the remaining list of chores will have to wait until tomorrow.  I really don't know how I ever fit a job into my schedule!

Happy Groundhog Day

As our nation fondly reflects upon another Groundhog's Day passing, and much of it buckles under the storm of the century, I find myself biting my tongue, and feeling a bit guilty- all from just a few, little words.  I keeping wanting to say these words, to scream them, but frankly, it makes me feel spoiled, or selfish or something, but- I'm cold.

It seems like everywhere but here, in perpetually sunny Arizona, the weather is horribly crippling, debilitating to lives and pocketbooks.  I imagine dark, cold rooms, devoid of electricity due to power outages, where children have only the light of Nintendos and PSPs to guide their way to the bathroom.  Then I think, What am I complaining about?  While I am 'enduring' a sunny, 40 degree forecast, friends and family are suffering in the rain, ice, sleet, and snow.

Just a thought, but why don't y'all move to Arizona?  The weather is awesome...