Manic Monday 36 – Cloud

You know what would be nice? To have the time or even just to take the time to really look at a cloud. I haven’t done that in years. Besides looking out the car windshield & seeing the clouds in the sky while driving to work or picking up the gremlins or going to the grocery store. I’m talking about really watching & observing the movement & flow of a cloud.

When Honey bunny was younger we would lie down on the grass & watch the clouds go by in the sky. Now, that is almost an impossibility. How sad is that? VERY. I think I will make this a goal – as silly as it sounds – to take the time with the gremlins to watch the clouds float by. And yeah, even look for formations or animals or airplanes or faces in those clouds. To laugh at the crazy things we’ll find. We are so often running, running, running that this would be a fantastic change of pace. For myself & them!

Sure it will mean letting things slide for a bit. No, the laundry doesn’t have to be finished by a certain time or the world will end. Just let those dishes sit in the sink for another 30 mins. Take some time and do this for yourself & the gremlins. Realize how fast time goes by. It will keep going by as fast if you don’t stop to enjoy something as simple as looking at a cloud.

Enough for now,

Ciao

So pretty soon I’ll be doing a meme every day of the week – Friday Bullets #1

Well like the title of this post suggests, I’m generally doing a meme a day now… Monday – Writing Prompts, Tuesday – Tuesday Toots, Wednesday – Wordless Wednesday, nothing on Thursday yet BUT I am thinking I might start doing Thursday 13, Friday – Friday Bullets.  There you have it. 

I’m thinking that this will be the “I’ve developed a mild case of ADD”

Now on with the bullets:

• Twitter – I stop everything to check what’s happening with everyone, then send my own tweet
• My own blog posts – oh look, I got more gmail… ok I’m back, see I just did it!  DAMN IT!!
• Twittermoms – then I get sidetracked here checking out what everyone’s doing
• Bloglines – because I subscribe to 5,000 blogs (not really but it seems like it) I currently have 406 unread items & 64 saved items – which I saved for “some day” to go back & do the things I read about
• gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail, work email – this is pretty self explanatory
• Books – all the books screaming at me to read them, the book club book that I’m trying to finish ~FYI I’m at page 241 of a 602 page book
• Blogs – this is in addition to the bloglines item. See also StumbleUpon
• Dishes – I’ll start to do the dishes then realize that I could be starting a load of laundry & have it running while I’m doing the dishes  
• myspace – major time suckage but still fun to see what friends are up to, oh look! Shiny Objects!
• Work – the husband & I actually have several business to which I must contribute, then jump to blog
• Children – yeah, we got a couple of kids too and you have to feed ’em, bath ’em, answer their questions
• StumbleUpon – wow is it easy to get addicted to this.  you can just keep pushing the stumble button and it takes you to new and semi random websites.  very cool. More shiny objects.
• Digg – See Blogs.  More randomness to read, then jump back to twitter.
• Magazines – yes, truly glossy paper with photos & words bound together with staples or glue, I get a couple delivered to the office along with 5 delivered to our home

Basically I say that all these things have given me ADD ~if it isn’t clear to you by now~ is because I’m jumping around between them all constantly throughout the whole day.  Seemingly not finishing any one item before jumping over to the next.  It frightens me, frankly. 

Is there help for this?  Does anyone else suffer this?  All right, I’ve reached my limited on this gonna go get the gremlins children.

Enough for now,

Ciao