Another Tool

Here's another tool for learning about the candidates (and a few who aren't candidates so I'm not sure why they are listed).  http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm  I found out about this website from a newsletter type email I get at work.  In other words, fair warning that this is a website recommended by our friends in DC, so I take what's on it with a grain of salt.  Don't know how biased or unbiased they may be.

Carly

For some reason I've become quite interested in the candidates this go around.  I've been (rather avidly) watching the news shows, watching the debates, and now I've really doubled down on the nerdiness and am poking around online watching videos and reading the websites, etc.

So far I find myself most impressed by Carly Fiorina and more and more less impressed with others.  I wish Nebraska played a more important role in the primaries.  If our primary was held this week, I'm pretty sure I'd vote for Carly.  And it's not because she's a female.  I have been watching videos on her website and the more I watch the ones about education and foreign policy, the more I like her.  I think she could spell bad news for my job security, but in a strange way I think I'm okay with that.

Curious like me?  Go to https://carlyforpresident.com/answers/ and check out the videos.

The To Do List

I like lists.  They help me pack for trips, remember what to pick up at the store, and not forget to do things that are important.  But I have a list of things I want to do that seldom gets anything crossed off.  It is the list of things to do that are at the bottom of every list priority wise.  These are the projects that have no immediate impact on my home's functionality.  The accomplishment or not of these things likely will not have a significant affect on my daily life.  However, the long term affect on ones sanity of accumulating projects that don't get done...I didn't go into it with plans to be a case study, but probably could be now.

So what's stopping me from crossing those things off that list?  Good question.  Part of me says logically there's no excuse.  Then I spend a week like this one forcing myself to keep going when every fiber of my being said "go lay down," feeling like crap, working long hours, and spending the whole morning so tired it took me all morning to wake up enough to function.  (Seriously, like after noon before I could see straight.  It was really pathetic.)  Some would say "take a day to relax...it's fine...you deserve/need to rest."  I tend to not allow myself that.  And that's really very likely the reason I was so tired this morning.

But now the day is mostly gone and I'm kinda' sad I've chosen to miss another chance to cross off anything from that list.  The FM has been kicking my fanny a bit the last couple weeks and so I took today to cave to the tired and lack of motivation.  But I did pick the carrots and onions from my garden, take a nice long walk with the dog and now the football game is starting.  Tomorrow I will do my thing at church, go to Bible study, go to the office and have choir rehearsal, so nothing if not a busy day tomorrow.  Maybe tomorrow momentum will keep me going through more than just what is already planned.

I sometimes think that if I were not busy at work or with work plus church I might get more done from that list.  Since church keeps me grounded and work keeps me fed, I can't really walk away from either.  Choir meets a need too.  So what's a girl to do?  Manage?  Certainly, it would be easier to look at those random projects if I wasn't trying to do everything myself.  (Silly doggie just isn't much help with things like yard work and house chores.)  But as assistance physically or financially is not exactly a plan on which to fall back, I guess I'll just be putting off the random stuff and plugging away at the usual "have to" stuff.

Some day I will get to mat my choir posters, complete my sewing projects, sort and file the ridiculous amount of music stacking up on and around my keyboard, so on, so forth, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.  It might be a while before I get to do the random things like those and many others.  I doubt I will get to not be tired very often if ever again, but I do need to do a better job of mitigating that.

Oh well.  Maybe next weekend.