Is it lazyness?or maybe its our culture making us feel this way.

I often think about baking, and it seems like more of a chore then remebering that I "enjoy" it as a passtime.

When I get motivated to do it, I wonder why my mind always resorts back to this thought of it being to tough to do. My first thought of why is LAZINESS or maybe the fact that I don't want to do much when I get home from work, hmmm is that an excuse?!. I'm a girl that works best on a deadline, when I have nothing pushing me to get stuff done, I can lolligag as slow and drawnout as I'd like. But when I'm on a deadline.. aka.. last minute... I can get things done and get them done GREAT no problem.
FOR EXAMPLE here is the scenerio: 'We have guests comin over and the house is a mess, I have the day off but I end up doin the whole entire house clean.... dust, vacumm, windows, floors, dishes, even laundry in the last hour or 2 before the arrival, and it always seems to turn out best minus the worn out part by the time they arrive.'

So my goal (comtemplating wheather to write this on my blog becuz that would mean i am accountable for my actions..) is to think ahead, plan ahead, time managment=less stress!


This weekend I took my FREE saturday and baked up a storm, cleaned my house, plus had a lil relaxation time. It took the whole day, plus sunday afternoon because of tidious things I allow myself to get distracted with, but after I was done, I felt very Productive with the things I accomplished Let's take a look at what got DONE shall we....
HEALTHY "baking" ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- 2 banana loafs for the (NEW) deepfreeze
-banana muffins for the week
-oatmeal almond raisin cookies for the husband
-puffed millet granola(so yummy)
-trying juicing with my girlfriends juicer as a healthy way to comsume veggies-not mention it tastes so dang good.
UNHEALTHY "baking" ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
-oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for
( 4 dozen for our youth camp coming up this weekend, and some were saved to preview on wednesday at our lifegroup-that should get some new comers out ;). )
CLEANING ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
-Vaccumed-which meant changing the vaccum bag- not the funest job-but again not as big of a deal as what i made it out to be in my head.
-winter bedding in place- our house is chilly when there is no fire... fleece sheets make gettin into bed warm anytime. fire or not
-reorganized my spices and tea drawers to make more accessible
-emptied all contents of bagged foods into storage containers-or jars(mice can't get into those ones..hehe..suckers)
-wiped down allll mice infested cupboards..ewwwwwwwwwwww. (I Dont' know why but i have this phobia of mice, and it's come in the past 2 years... pray for me.. haha)
-laundry
-deck cleaned up
-king size mattress which was giving to us, is now inside off the deck and outta the wheather- as an accessory in our dining room -I like to call it lifesized piece of artwork
-cleared all junk from wood house so we can start piling our heat source beside the house this week.
FUTURE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
-Paint living room and kitchen
-file papers
-make pie crusts for freezing
-can salsa with my sister in law- canned peaches already this year.. can't wait to dig into those. :)
-print pictures and make albums-havent' really printed a pic for an album in 4 years.. time to get back to the "old" way of doin things.
I think thats all for this list right now.. lets take baby steps and go from there shall we...

WOW!! looking at all the things on paper I accomplished this weekend is WAY more then what I thot and it doesn't feel like it took to much outta me. This entry can be a reminder for me that I can do alot that can be FUN... and PRODUCTIVE.

I'd have to say the pressures of our society can definatly make a person feel like that don't get a whole lot done in a day, week, month, or year.
Really when you think about it, we can consume our thoughts with these things of NEEDING to get stuff done.... when really we have all the time in the world(sometimes). Time will always be ticking, and things will always come up.

I want to enjoy the small(but major) things in life, and not let them pass me by. Focus on things that matter.. God, , reaching out to those who need GOD,Relationships, Health, and other things, these things.
I'm a work in progress, and excited to get into productive mode with time management in place, that way I can feel organized and not burn out, cuz it's all planned out. :)

Hope you enjoyed The read- it was a lil long.. and NO PICTURES.. but Thanks for takin the time to hear me out. :)