Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Wanted: Personal Assistant/Live-in Au Pair

My life feels more out-of-control and busy now than it did when I was commuting four hours a day to a 9-hour-a-day job I hated. I'm sitting here finishing up a crocheted celery bunch when it dawns on me how much I'm trying to accomplish:

Raise my son
Finish my website
Blog more than once every six months
Take down the wall paper in my diningroom
Paint said diningroom
Sand down the spackle and touch up paint the kitchen cabinets
Sand down and spray paint the baseboard heating covers for the bathroom we're remodeling
Remodel bathroom
Learn the guitar
Rake and mulch down 10 acres of leaves in the yard
Try to become an extreme couponer
Crochet a TON of play food for an inventory
Start my own company with said play food and crocheted wares
Develop a business strategy/marketing strategy
Develop website for said company
Laundry
Teach my son to STOP SCREECHING!
Playgroups
Doctor appointments
Knit a pair of 18th century women's mitts for a friend
Learn to knit
Sick husbands
Make breakfast, lunch, dinner every day
Become a piano virtuoso and teach my son
Make Easter dinner

and last, but not least, make my ass look like this:

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Here's to wishing for my fairy godmother to show...

Yankee Doodle Dandy,
–TYG