My Productive week

A whole week off of work.
I will get the whole house deep cleaned and organized, everything will have a place and a plastic tub.
I will exercise and cook a lot of healthy food for our freezer.

That is what I thought would happen.  Really I did. I also had some cute decor projects that would make "grandma's house"  a little more chic... but the time old cliche still rings true... "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Right now as I am relishing in my last few hours of freedom I look around our apartment and I can tell you:
I do have a  few projects started, but nothing finished.
I need a million more plastic tubs to organize all of the junk I have
and my freezer has a ton of free space.

This weekend Kyle and I watched Eat, Pray, Love (I wouldn't suggest it) it really was a slow paced, small plot film.  But watching it wasn't a total waste of time, this is what I gleaned:  we need to enjoy our time here on earth, i don't always have to be cleaning something, helping someone or planning my next big adventure.  It's okay to take a moment to meditate, to do nothing, (but really only a moment).  Also I don't have to have  a full explanation of who I am and my cause right now, I can spend a lifetime defining myself, not to prove to someone else, but to discover what I am about.

Also I will say this.  I might not have been productive in my home, but I did spend time with the lonely, help clean other peoples houses, kiss a child's cheek, go thrift store shopping with my grandpa, watch my sisters dance and play sports and held hands with my sweet husband.

Anywho, Kyle and I and the Parentals went to the MoTab Christmas Concert today. It was phenomenal.  David Archuletta sang like an Angel, Mike and Kristen were delightful (and becoming more Wouden-ish, we had a great after concert debate) and Michael York brought a few stories to life!

So this week my plans are to be more productive that last week!

Potato Soup

Remember how I am learning to cook?  Which is fine and all but yesterday was an almost disaster!

I got asked to stay late at work... which I couldn't turn down. 

I stopped at the Grocery store to pick up a few more things to add.

I decided to hurry and put on some makeup so I didn't look so tired.

and i got started really late!

Potato soup isn't hard.  But really it takes longer than 20 minutes.  I forget how long chopping up a ton of stuff takes.   I ended up calling like a dozen girls that live by me to come help.  Liybbie came and she brought her mom.  My kitchen was a war zone.  Onion peels scattered over the counter top, soup sliding down the stove front and bacon grease clinging to the cupboards. 

Those two saved to soup and got me to the party on time... Well almost.  10 minutes late isn't bad is it?  A girl has to be fashionably late!

But I am still working on the cooking thing.  Potato soup didn't get the best of me yesterday.