Getting Things Done

Well, today was truly one of the first days that I have felt really really good since I got pregnant. I’ve had good days here and there, but I would still have a little extra tiredness or nausea. But the past couple of days have started an upswing that I can definitely get on board with.

I guess this is to be expected since this is my last week in the first trimester. And it’s usually the time most pregnant women actually start talking about their pregnancy and sharing it with others. Nope. Not me. I shared early, and you guys are going to have to deal with the looooong wait before you meet this little fall pumpkin.

I think I would have felt completely alone and depressed if I hadn’t had people cheering me on through the morning sickness phase, so I’m glad I shared early. It really did help knowing that so-and-so was going through the same thing or knew how I felt.

And thank you to everyone that has been really supportive in my hiatus from the internet and taking pictures and posting to the blog / facebook / twitter. I pretty much just turned into a hermit for a while, and that’s just what I needed to do to get through the daily nausea.

And THEN I ended up with the world’s worst stomach flu that took off 9 lbs in less than 24 hours. I’ve yet to gain all of that weight back, and that was over a week ago. Luckily, no one else in the family got it, so I was able to recuperate pretty quickly, but all of that on top of the regular sickness I was dealing with just kind of made it really hard for me to function. Paying bills is pretty much the only thing I’ve done at my desk in months, and I’m pretty happy that got done.

But I think the end of THE SICK is here, and I’m looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. Probably not as much as I did before, because while I was offline, I realized that I had been spending WAY too much time online. It was taking away from time that I should have been cleaning or doing laundry, time that I could have used to organize my life more effectively, and more importantly, time with my family.

I didn’t realize how much of a timesuck it was until it wasn’t sucking any of my time.

And I’ve vowed to spend more time with Emma (after all, she’s only going to be an only child for a bit longer) and spend more time cleaning / organizing so that we don’t live in cluttered chaos all the time.

So that’s that.

Along those lines, I have really gotten things organized on my computer this morning. I started out with over 700 emails in my inbox – 70’ish that hadn’t even been read, yet. An hour or so later, I have 33 emails in my inbox – 0 unread. And the 33 that are sitting there are really just waiting on me to tag them and put them into folders.

I also paid bills, planned out the rest of this month and the first half of next month’s bills, billed some clients, started organizing our business paperwork, and sat on the floor playing with Emma.

Over the next few days, I’m going to unsubscribe to emails that I don’t need/want as they come into my inbox to keep spam and things that I just don’t have time to read at bay.

If Emma decides to take a nap today, I’m going to tackle the super duper cluttered top of my desk, but I need to make piles on the floor to do that, and I know better than to do that while a 2.5 year old is awake and within a 5-mile radius.

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So I wrote all of that yesterday and then got busy with other things. And then Emma didn’t take a nap. And then she was sent to bed at 7pm for hitting the tv and throwing the remote control. Good times.

But today has been yet another productive day, and I’m on my way out the door to run some errands before I pick her up from school.

In the meantime, here is a cute cute CUTE recent picture of Emma that my niece took at my nephew’s baseball game. One of these days, I’ll pick my camera back up and take some pictures, but in the meantime, I’ve rather enjoyed the creative break.

You can’t tell me you don’t want to just pinch her little cheeks and pull on her pigtails.

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